(Highwood, Illinois) The March 4, 2014 “Mesirow Financial Presents! Taste of Midwest Young Artists” benefit event, held at the Mesirow Financial headquarters in Chicago raised $25,700 for the non-profit youth music center. Based in Highwood, Midwest Young Artists (MYA) serves over 1,000 students per year through a variety of performing ensembles, summer programs, competitions, and community outreach initiatives.
Mesirow Financial, an independent financial services firm founded and headquartered in Chicago, supports the arts vigorously through their Mesirow Financial Presents! program. Mesirow underwrote the costs of the event, which included a cocktail hour and concert spectacular in their James C. Tyree auditorium. 100% of the proceeds from both ticket sales and raffle will go directly to Midwest Young Artists in support of their programming and scholarships.
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The event was attended by 240 supporters of the arts, among them financial professionals, attorneys, professional musicians, educators, and proud parents. Guests witnessed performances by the VX Studio Vocal Ensemble (directed by Emmy award winner Gary Fry), the MYA Merit Jazz Combo, the I’Solisti chamber orchestra (directed by Chicago Symphony Orchestra principal viola Charles Pikler), and Quartet Fuoco (winners of the 2014 Discover National Chamber Music Competition).
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Information about Midwest Young Artists:
Midwest Young Artists is the premier youth music education and ensemble organization in the Midwest and represents some of the best young musicians in the country. The program offers exceptional training in jazz, choral, chamber and orchestral instruction. Midwest Young Artists was founded in 1993 with just one orchestra. The organization currently reaches more than 1,000 students from over 75 communities in the metropolitan Chicago area, with students ranging in age from 12 months through 12th grade. MYA has eight youth orchestras, more than sixty-five chamber music ensembles, four choral groups, a full jazz program, classes in music theory and composition and an early childhood education program. Students have the opportunity to travel abroad and to perform in major venues throughout Chicago and around the world. Leading the nation in chamber music instruction, MYA graduates are accepted at the most selective conservatories, universities and colleges in the country. Auditions for the 2014-15 season are occurring now until May 5th, visit mya.org for more info.
Visit MYA online: www.mya.org
Contact: (847) 926-9898
Social: facebook.com/midwestyoungartists ; @musicatmya
