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Celebrate our Centennial with a gift of $100—one dollar for every year of our extraordinary journey. Your contribution directly supports scholarships, innovative programs, and access to music education for the next generation of musicians.

Here’s how your generosity helps:

• Provides scholarships for students in need
• Supports top-notch faculty and programming
• Sustains CMS’s tradition of making music education accessible to all

Support Our Students

Underwrite the tuition for one student for one academic year:

$500 - $750

Group class | Summer camp | String Ensemble | String Orchestra | Early childhood class | Young People's Concert Orchestra (YPCO) | Young People's Symphonic Orchestra (YPSO)

$1,000 - $2,000

Preparatory program | Beginner and intermediate lessons | Beginner Suzuki

$2,000 - $3,000

Intermediate and advanced Suzuki | Advanced lessons

Build After-School Programs

$10,000

Bring the expertise of the Community Music School and their faculty to an underserved school. Currently the CMS is providing DISCOUNTED lessons to students at McKinley High School in the St. Louis Public School District. We'd like to expand this program into other underserved schools to help build robust orchestra, band, and choral programs. A gift of $10,000 is needed to begin at a new school. Tuition discounts will be supported by the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Fund and the Scholarship Fund.

Will you help?

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives (DEI)

All gifts welcome!

CMS recognizes that DEI encompasses many underserved communities. At this time, we are focused on what we perceive to be the most immediate need — support for musicians of color. Therefore, gifts to this fund will be focused on scholarships, need-based tuition assistance and discounts for musicians in communities of color. As the CMS learns more about the needs in this community and others, additional programs will be developed and funded.

General Operating Support

All gifts welcome!

It may not be flashy, but a gift to support our day to day activities makes a huge impact on our students, faculty, and staff. These funds could be used for video and audio recordings, to tune our pianos, to hire a desperately needed staff person, to bring in extra coaches and master class instructors, to print brochures, invest in computer software to streamline processes, and so much more!