Philadelphia Orchestra Launches HEAR Program Focusing on Health, Education, Access, and Research

Philadelphia Orchestra's director of collaborative learning, Daniel Berkowitz, has instituted a new program called HEAR, which stands for health, education, access, and research.

Its mission will be to send musicians to Broad Street Ministry as music therapists to work with trauma victims, increase mentoring and coaching with the All-City Orchestra, expand LiveNote app program, and conduct resarch for education programs.

Orchestra president Allison B. Vulgamore hopes that the HEAR programs will attract additional funding. She says that the orchestra's work would "take an investment that isn't here today." She continues, "I want to be off stage as much as we are on stage."

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Renowned for its distinctive sound, desired for its keen ability to capture the hearts and imaginations of audiences, and admired for an unrivaled legacy of "firsts" in music-making, The Philadelphia Orchestra remains one of the preeminent orchestras in the world.

The Orchestra has maintained unity in artistic leadership with only seven music directors throughout its history: Fritz Scheel (1900-07), Carl Pohlig (1907-12), Leopold Stokowski (1912-41), Eugene Ormandy (1936-80), Riccardo Muti (1980-92), Wolfgang Sawallisch (1993-2003), and Christoph Eschenbach (2003-08). Yannick Nézet-Séguin joined this small yet illustrious group in the 2012-13 season, serving as the eighth music director of The Philadelphia Orchestra.

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