MISSION
The Nashville African American Wind Symphony presents a broad range of educational, entertainment, and cultural programs. We aim to be a key regional service as a professional performance ensemble, a key youth instrumental musical training, and a means of preserving the wind band community in Nashville and as an established legacy organization. We aim to achieve this by:
1. Demonstrating the ability to perform high-quality public concerts solely made up of advanced musicians of color.
2. Providing educational programs that share and collaborate with artistic resources to offer unique instrumental music experiences to area inner-city school-aged children and audiences of all ages.
3. Offering enrichment opportunities such as free lessons, materials, resources, and exposure to diverse forms of musical literature and performance.
4. Serving as a community nonprofit organization that meets the needs of a wide variety of area professional musicians, inner-city youth, and other-like organizations.
5. Reinforcing foundational wind band clinical techniques to cultivate a life-long passion for wind band literature and performance.
6. Establishing initiatives that build greater public awareness of the diverse program offerings of NAAWS and its patrons.
7. Facilitating enriching musical leadership opportunities for volunteers and staff of the highest musical caliber.
8. Ensuring that sufficient resources are available to accomplish the mission and vision.