Music Education
Make Music Magic
Kindergarten – 2nd Grade
Season Sponsor: Dr. David and Colleen Dietrich
Designed for our youngest K-2 audiences, our Make Music Magic program helps children develop an awareness and appreciation for music. Through interactive singing, exercises that use motor skills, and imaginative activities, students are guided to listen, react, and share their thoughts about different musical genres. The program helps children understand how music can express emotion and connect them to others.
Discovering Music
Grades 3-5
Season Sponsor: FPL
Symphony organizations have long recognized the need for early music education, which has been shown to improve academic skills, including math, language, and test scores, while also heightening listening abilities and increasing creativity. The Discovering Music program for students in grades 3-5 helps them explore the fundamental ingredients of music. In this program, musicians engage young minds by demonstrating their instruments’ unique qualities and showing how they are used to create a full musical performance through active listening, individual instrument demonstrations, and interactive learning.
Panama City Symphony music education programming is sponsored or grant-funded and available at no costs to schools.
For more information on this program or have your school added to the list for future performances, please contact us.
Panama City Symphony
Music Ed School Partnerships
During the 2025–26 season, the Panama City Symphony successfully launched its new Music Education School Partnerships, establishing vibrant partnerships with two local schools: Rising Leaders Academy and West Bay Elementary School.
Unlike traditional one-off school visits, the core mission of this program is sustained engagement. By returning to the same classrooms multiple times throughout the season, Symphony musicians build meaningful relationships with students and deliver a deeper, sequential music education curriculum.
Artist Leadership
A special thank you goes to Miranda Rojas, Principal Second Violinist, for her incredible work in curriculum development and presentation, and to Ani Mouradian, Pianist, for her vital artistic collaboration. Together, they spent full, high-energy days at each school inspiring the next generation of music lovers.
Looking Ahead
Panama City Symphony is thrilled to announce that Music Education School Partnerships will continue to grow. Thanks to the generous support of Scott Clemons in honor of Barbara Clemons, funding has already been committed to sponsor the program for the upcoming 2026–27 season.
Our Music Education Programs
