The Miami Music Project is an ensemble ready for the 21st century. The concept is simple: be of value to the community and let the musicians help create the programming and performance. The Miami Music Project Ensemble is not a traditional performance group. Its focus is education, community engagement and out-reach.

The main body of the ensemble's work is an in-depth educational performance program, co-written by the musician/performers which will target the middle school children of Miami.

In each year, there will be a full collaborative arts festival featuring the group in chamber music performances. The ensemble will be augmented by international musicians invited by the Artistic Director for larger symphonic works.

Our inaugural season will see a search for a brass quintet, a string quartet, a keyboard player, and we anticipate enlarging the ensemble annually.

The Miami Music Project was conceived after a commissioned feasibility study by the John S. & James L. Knight Foundation. The study looked to answer the question: Could an ensemble exist in Miami whose focus was education and outreach? From this report the Miami Music Project was born.

As the project grows, many other performance opportunities will be afforded to our musicians. Partnerships and collaborative possibilities are already being made available to our artists from diverse organizations in the Miami area.

The ensemble will be energetic, dynamic and capable of great flexibility in its performance size, its style and the performance venues it utilizes.