Arts Activities Support
ACHF Arts Access
Sundin Music Hall Series of Concerts: Flat Pick Guitarathon, October 26, 2013, 8:00 pm. Rovshan Mamedkuliev, Classical Guitarist, November 16, 2013, 8:00 pm. Duo Tamayo-Montesinos, December 7, and December 8, masterclass. Peter Huttlinger, Fingerstyle Guitar, Friday, January 24. Colin Davin, Classical Guitar, February 15, 2014. Simon Shaheen, 'Oud, March 22, 2014. Cavatina Duo, Classical Guitar and Flute, April 11 masterclass, April 12, 2014. Classical Guitarathon – featuring various Minnesota artists, May 10, 2014; Community Concert Series: Both our flatpick and classical “guitarathon” artists will reprise their Sundin Hall performances at other venues throughout the Twin Cities as part of our new Community Concerts series.We use concert attendance figures as a primary measure of our success. Our goal is to expand our audience at Sundin and at community concerts, especially our youth audience. Last season’s average attendance at Sundin Hall concerts was 146 and community concerts drew an average of 40 listeners. We also evaluate project success by the artistic quality of the performances and the degree of response from our partners and community at our other concert venues. In 2011, we conducted a survey of audience members, newsletter readers, and visitors to our website. We published a summary of the survey results, which provided guidance on scheduling, artist selection, and outreach goals. A follow-up, post-concert questionnaire, will be given to audiences this season.
Our most significant artistic success this year was in presenting a multi-cultural array of guitarists, playing a wide variety of styles, with audiences from many ethnic backgrounds who gave standing ovations at our concerts. We made a positive contribution to increasing the diversity of music presented as well as the diversity of people attending concerts, reaching over 1600 audience members.
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