Musical Bridges reaches over 50,000 students annually in Title I schools through Kids to Concerts, a free community educational outreach program. Many guest artists of the 5th International Music festival also performed for San Antonio school children as part of this initiative. During the festival we also had Pingtan artists from our Friendship City – Suzhou, China perform at two festival concerts, as well as for 2000 students during Kids To Concerts. The two beautiful Pipa players did not speak English. In order to accommodate them, Jason Tatman a Chinese translator from Seattle joined us and shared: When we went to Criwald Road...

Our annual fundraising event “D’s on Keys” took place on 26 January at the Empire Theatre and exceeded all expectations! We want to thank Honorary Chairs Francisco & Graciela Cigarroa for their leadership. We are also grateful to our brilliant board members Awilda Ramos and Jaime Waltman for their tireless effort as co-chairs. This event is a resurrection of a doctors’ recital we produced when Musical Bridges was just founded, 20 years ago. Many physicians, students of Anya and Valery came together to show their talents and raise funds for a young organization to produce school concerts. Many of the original doctors are still...

Last summer the San Antonio International Piano Competition merged with Musical Bridges Around the World. The competition was renamed after it’s longtime supporter Ruth Jean Gurwitz and will henceforth be known simply as “The Gurwitz.” In preparation for the next competition in 2020, Hexameron was the first performance highlighting the recent union between the two organizations. We are thrilled to make The Gurwitz one of the most prestigious competitions in the world! The San Antonio Symphony will include the final round of the 2020 Gurwitz into the Symphony’s Classics Season. We are also proud to announce that Maestro Sebastian...

Our 5th International Music Festival was held 27 January – 4 February 2018 with a lineup of amazing guest artists from 23 countries. The festival offered eight culturally diverse productions handcrafted into world-class masterpieces by Artistic Director, Anya Grokhovski and presented in the Empire Theatre and historic San Fernando Cathedral. San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg delivered remarks during the festival highlighting the power of the arts to bring people together by building bridges of understanding and collaboration. The pièce de résistance of the festival was the International Sister City Ensemble. Jazz musicians from San...