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Nature of <br />Organization <br />Arts Organization <br />Organization <br />Description <br />Mission/Vision/Values <br />MYCO is a pre-college community music program focused on chamber <br />music and conductor-less chamber orchestra performance under the <br />mentorship of distinguished professionals. Music-making with MYCO <br />cultivates creativity, empathy, collaboration, discipline, artistry, and most <br />vitally, a love of music — skills and attributes that will serve our <br />participants throughout their lives. MYCO is committed to being a <br />welcoming, inclusive, and safe community for students and families of all <br />races, genders, cultures, religions and circumstances. <br />During the school year, MYCO offers a program on Sunday afternoons at <br />UNC-CH for intermediate and advanced musicians between the ages of 10 <br />and 18. MYCO also offers an intensive summer workshop program hosted <br />at UNC-CH for one week in June. <br />MYCO students enjoy a positive, challenging environment with ambitious <br />performance standards. Students are regularly coached by high caliber <br />professional musicians from UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke and beyond, and also <br />have frequent opportunities to work with artists from nationally recognized <br />chamber music groups such as the Juilliard Quartet, The Sebastians, A Far <br />Cry and Horszowski Trio. <br />Performance is at the heart of what we are about at MYCO, and creating <br />meaningful and dynamic performance experiences for our students is <br />always a particular focus. In addition to regular student concerts in Moeser <br />Auditorium at UNC-CH, MYCO has recently brought student groups to <br />perform at: NC Symphony’s Ovation Series; Chapel Hill's Community <br />Dinner; Carol W oods' concert series, FRANK Gallery, The Cedars, and <br />various other venues throughout Chapel Hill. In May 2024, one of MYCO’s <br />groups, the Passera Quartet, was selected as one of ten semi-finalist <br />groups at the National Fischoff Chamber Music Competition in South Bend, <br />Indiana. The Passera Quartet also won first prize and audience prize at the <br />2024 U of SC Chamber Music Day Competition and was a semi-finalist at <br />the Coltman Chamber Music Competition in Austin, Texas. <br />MYCO has a small part-time staff: Co-Artistic Directors Mimi Solomon and <br />Nicholas DiEugenio as well as registrar Caroline Polito. Regular chamber <br />music coaches for MYCO include professional musicians from the Triangle <br />area Clara Yang, Teddy Robie, and Jonathan Bagg, as well as the Co- <br />Artistic Directors. Guest coaches this year included distinguished chamber <br />musicians and pedagogues Mari Sato and Raman Ramakrishnan. <br />MYCO's Board of Directors includes arts leaders within the community, <br />parents of MYCO alumni, diverse alumni representatives, and ex-officio <br />artistic advisors. <br />This past year, about sixty pre-college students from Chapel Hill and <br />beyond participated in MYCO. MYCO's student body is diverse ethnically, <br />economically and culturally. Racial demographics for the 2023-24 students: <br />Docusign Envelope ID: F72C8FCD-001E-42EF-9838-C92A0ECDE2DA