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Working with the Boston Pops, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Houston Symphony, LA Philharmonic, and North Carolina Symphony, this program creates a unique educational opportunity that spans the school year and provides students with new opportunities to explore and expand their interest in music.

Students have an opportunity to participate in in-school and out-of-school activities, including:

instrument donations
field trips to symphony performances
mentoring by professionals
symphony musician demonstrations and performances
opportunities for student ensembles to play in public forums

Watch a video about the Fidelity FutureStage program or see photos and videos from recent events.

The participating schools for the 2010 Music Competition in Boston, Chicago, Houston and LA have been announced:

Boston:

Boston Arts Academy

Boston Latin Academy

Cambridge Rindge and Latin

Roland Hayes School of Music

Chicago:

Jones College Prep

Kenwood Academy High School

Pritzker College Prep

Lincoln Park High School

Houston:

Cesar E. Chavez High School

North Shore Middle School

S.P. Waltrip High School

Ross Sterling High School

Los Angeles:

Foshay Learning Center

Renaissance Arts Academy

Roosevelt High School

James A. Garfield High School

Fidelity FutureStage salutes its partners, who help to make this program possible.

Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation supports music education and its many benefits by donating musical instruments to underserved schools, community and individual students nationwide. The organization — inspired by the 1995 motion picture, Mr. Holland's Opus — was founded by Michael Kamen, who composed the music for that movie and countless others. In the last ten years, new and refurbished instruments with a value of well over $7 million have been donated to 920 school and community music programs and soloists across the country.

The Boston Pops Orchestra was founded in 1885 as a subsection of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, founded four years earlier. Keith Lockhart currently is in his fifteenth season as conductor of the Boston Pops and was named the 20th conductor in February 1995. The Boston Pops, "America's Orchestra," performs for an audience of nearly 900,000 people annually in Boston, across the country, and around the world, and reaches millions more through its recordings and television broadcasts.

Community Music Center of Boston was founded in 1910 and focuses on delivering exceptional music classes and experiences at their location in Boston's South End and at public schools and community organizations. For 30 years, CMCB has supported the Boston public schools, bringing CMCB's exceptional faculty into city classrooms. Today, CMCB serves 4,000 students in nearly 25 schools each week.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO), founded in 1891, is consistently hailed as one of today's leading orchestras. Currently under the direction of two of today's preeminent musicians Principal Conductor Bernard Haitink and Helen Regenstein Conductor Emeritus Pierre Boulez, the CSO performs well over two hundred concerts each year in Chicago and serves as its city's ambassador in frequently sold-out tour performances across the country and around the world.

Merit School of Music provides high-quality music education in metropolitan Chicago. Its goals are to help young people achieve their full musical potential, to remove economic barriers to participation, and to stimulate personal and educational growth through music. Merit links its professional team to more than 84 sites offering weekly instruction at schools and community organizations. Merit has reached approximately 45,000 students in grades K-12 over the past 20 years.

Houston Symphony was founded in 1913 and is one of the oldest performing arts organizations in Texas. Maestro Hans Graf, who took the podium in September 2001, is the Houston Symphony's 15th music director. Each year the Houston Symphony performs more than 170 concerts attended by an estimated 350,000 people.

Los Angeles Philharmonic has been hailed as Southern California's leading performing arts institution each year since its founding in 1919. Today, under the dynamic leadership of music director Gustavo Dudamel, the Los Angeles Philharmonic is recognized as one of the world's outstanding orchestras, performing for enthusiastic audiences at two iconic venues: Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Hollywood Bowl.

Founded in 1932, the North Carolina Symphony performs over 185 concerts to adults and school children. The orchestra travels extensively throughout the state to large and small communities in over 50 North Carolina counties, playing in concert halls, auditoriums, gymnasiums and outdoor settings. Under the artistic leadership of Music Director and Conductor Grant Llewellyn, Resident Conductor William Henry Curry and Assistant Conductor Joan Landry, the orchestra employs 69 professional musicians.

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as of: 1/4/10

Donated more than 1,000 new instruments — valued at over $1.4M
Collected more than 125,000 signatures on the Fidelity FutureStage signature wall in support of music education
Boston students performed on stage at a Boston Pops Concert at Symphony Hall
10 Houston students wrote and performed their own compositions
LA students performed at the Hollywood Bowl

Students learn firsthand from industry professionals about acting, playwriting, directing and all the behind-the-scenes production.
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Fidelity FutureStage was created in 2006 by Fidelity Investments to support arts education in local communities.
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