The Musical Offering
About[edit]
The Musical Offering is a non-profit music school and performance venue in Evanston, Illinois. The school is known for the high caliber of its teaching faculty, drawn from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Lyric of Chicago, the Chicago Philharmonic, and other Chicago-area orchestras and ensembles. It specializes in chamber music performance, theory, and composition. It was founded in 2001 by Rick Ferguson and Kirsten Hedegaard with a mission to offer accessible music performance to the community. Ferguson is the current Artistic Director.
It has received funding from the Mayer and Morris Kaplan Family Foundation, Romano Brothers & Co Wealth Management, the City of Evanston, Foundation 65, the Evanston Community Foundation, and Niles Township. It is a partner in the Royal Conservatory of Music Certificate Program. In 2007 the Musical Offering won the Evanston Mayor’s Award for the Arts for its contribution as a non-profit arts incubator.[1]
It hosts an annual fall production known as MO Show, written and performed by high school students. In 2020 it launched a collaboration with Justin Roberts (musician), Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter, to offer parent-toddler music classes.
The school is named after the collection of canons and fugues by Johann Sebastian Bach commissioned by Frederick II of Prussia in 1747.
References[edit]
- ↑ Smith, Bill (2008-02-22). "Arts awards featured at Chamber luncheon". Evanston Now. Retrieved 2020-01-02.
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