Orchestrate
a Renaissance.
The Foundation for the Future of Classical Music is focused on orchestrating a cultural renaissance for classical music. Through its activities, the Foundation advances public discussion on the importance of classical music, diagnoses the problems facing that sphere today, and seeks solutions that will bring about a cultural renaissance in music.
Orpheus, Cristoforo Stati, 1600–1601
Your support is vital to our cause.
The Foundation for the Future of Classical Music seeks to restore and revitalize the Western tradition of live classical music, multiply its audiences, and meet the challenges and embrace the opportunities that await this singular pinnacle of artistic expression.
Our mission is to orchestrate a renaissance for classical music worldwide.
The response to the COVID-19 pandemic exposed the fragility of classical music institutions, threatening to deprive audiences and children of our beloved art form. Seemingly in tandem, today’s political and cultural revolution has been working to deconstruct the essential value of classical music and the other great institutions of the West. The previously unimagined technological powers of AI will inevitably change advanced societies as we know them and imperil the soul of our civilization. More than ever, society needs the beauty of classical music as an affirmation of true human flourishing and excellence.
Our vision is a world where classical music is viewed as integral to communities, education, and family life. Meritocratic classical music education must again be seen as a higher plane of knowing, as important as reading, writing, and arithmetic. In this future, classical music will continue to renew our spiritual lives, our imaginations, and our moral sensibilities, shaping us as we find greater depth and meaning in an increasingly artificial world.
A New Concert Hall for London
Originally a new hall proposed for the London Symphony, this project was canceled to the dismay of London’s musical community.
FFCM brings together the best and brightest architects to revisit and revive this idea to address this persistent need.
Goals
Reexamine the prevailing diagnoses and treatments applied to ailing orchestras.
Advocate concert hall design that prioritizes the congruent, comfortable, and magnetic.
Develop strategies for transforming orchestra unions into a force for good.
Reframe the way that orchestras understand and communicate their contributions.
Build a bridge from unfamiliarity with classical music to eventual connoisseurship.
Measure the orchestra’s actual and potential audience in terms of internal motivations and psychographic insights.
Recover the crucial role of the orchestra in childhood education.
Provide the tools and support symphony orchestras need to aid in their own renewal.
Watch
Events
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Lecture & Recital at Hillsdale College
A concert of original transcriptions of J.S. Bach by Andrew Balio, principal trumpet of the Baltimore Symphony and the founder of the Foundation for the Future of Classical Music. Bach affirmed that “the aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.” …