Link Up Education Concerts

LINK UP EDUCATION CONCERTS

The Rhode Island Philharmonic has presented annual education concerts to area students since 1946. In the 2011-2012 school year, the Philharmonic began partnering with Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute to provide Link Up, a music literacy curriculum and interactive concert series. the 2011-2012 school year, the Philharmonic has partnered with Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute to provide a music literacy curriculum and interactive concerts based on Carnegie Hall’s highly successful Link Up series. Designed for students in grades 3-5, Link Up works in a three-year cycle with different themes each year: The Orchestra Rocks (Rhythm), The Orchestra Sings (Melody) and The Orchestra Moves (Movement).

Welcome back! Our 2024-2025 program is The Orchestra Moves! A wonderful way to celebrate learning in the music classroom, tickets are just $5/student & $5/chaperone for this joyful and highly engaging program. Financial aid may be available to schools that receive Title I supports. Register today!

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Link Up is a music education program conceived to connect classroom with concert hall. It is designed for students in grades 3-5, but may also be appropriate for older or younger audiences, depending on musical interest. No prior music experience required. Every participating school receives a class set of student workbooks, a quality soprano recorder for every student, and all teachers receive content-specific professional development. Teachers implement the curriculum throughout the year and the program culminates in a celebratory interactive concert at The VETS each May.

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LINK UP 2024 PROGRAM EVALUATIONS

TEACHER EVALUATION SINGS 2024

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THANK YOU TO OUR GENEROUS SUPPORTERS

Link Up brings music education into schools across Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Massachusetts with thanks to the partners listed above and also Deborah and Charles Royce and the Royce Family Fund, the June Rockwell Levy Foundation, the David C. Isenberg Family Fund, the Friendship Foundation, the Norman and Rosalie Fain Family Foundation, the Otto H. York Foundation, Joan Sorensen and Paul Sorensen, the O'Hanian-Szostak Family Foundation, The Meehan Foundation, the City of East Providence, the Frederick C. Tanner Memorial Fund, Bradford and Kim Dimeo.

We continually review and evaluate new ideas for partnerships. For more information about partnering with the Music School to provide music education and performance opportunities to your organization, contact Hannah Ross, Associate Director of Community Partnerships, at 401.248.7008 or hross @riphil.org.

THE STORY BEHIND: Billy Childs' Violin Concerto No.2

By Danielle Meath • April 7, 2025

On April 12, conductor Radu Paponiu and the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra will present SAINT-SAËNS THUNDERING ORGAN SYMPHONY with violinist Rachel Barton Pine.

THE STORY BEHIND: Gabriela Ortiz's "Kauyumari"

By Danielle Meath • April 4, 2025

On April 12, conductor Radu Paponiu and the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra will present SAINT-SAËNS THUNDERING ORGAN SYMPHONY with violinist Rachel Barton Pine.

MEET THE SOLOIST: Rachel Barton Pine

By Danielle Meath • April 2, 2025

Violinist Rachel Barton Pine performs Billy Childs' Violin Concerto No.2 April 12 at 7:30PM

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The Rhode Island Philharmonic is funded in part by a grant from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, through an appropriation by the Rhode Island General Assembly, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and private funders. Financial support is also provided by the Providence Tourism Council.