Supporting the arts, education, and innovation.
Founded in 1980, Javacya Arts Conservatory (JAC) is a college preparatory institute for ages 3 to 18. A leading advocate for diversity and inclusion in the performing arts in the States and abroad, JAC consistently provides life developing opportunities through formal training and discipline through music.
Javacya exists to provide a safe space for Black, Indigenous, and students of color to take advantage of quality music education.
Arts-in-the-Heart 2023-2024
A Season Dedicated to Black & Asian Composers
Noel Wan, Harp
In concert April 12, 2024
St. Peter’s Anglican Cathedral
Prelude: 7:15 pm Concert: 7:30 pm
4784 Thomasville Rd., Tallahassee, FL
Javacya’s Arts in the Heart concert series broadens exposure and appreciation for the arts by increasing the diversity of musical offerings. Javacya is committed to presenting works by new, undiscovered, under-recognized and under-performed composers through the Arts in the Heart series. These concerts expand the cultural life of our community, and also benefit our youth and adult performers, giving them an opportunity to develop their talents by performing solo with an orchestra.
Amadi Azikiwe Violin/Viola
In concert January 19, 2024
St. Peter’s Anglican Cathedral
Prelude: 7:15 pm Concert: 7:30 pm
4784 Thomasville Rd., Tallahassee, FL
"We provide quality music education supported by grants, individual donors, and supplemented by net income from individual and group music instruction."
Arts-in-the-Heart Concert Series
ORCHESTRAS
FLORIDA SOCIETY FOR YOUTH ORCHESTRAS (5-9)
LEANDER A. KIRKSEY YOUTH ORCHESTRA (10 AND UP)
JAVACYA ELITE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA (YOUTH AND ADULT)
JAVACYA SYMPHONY (ADULT)
SOUTHSIDE ORCHESTRA & CULTURAL ARTS PROJECT
About
Javacya endeavors to use the arts as a tool to facilitate the development of high self-esteem and self discipline. Through the mastery of their musical talents, students develop an appreciation of the fine arts and a strong application of music theory, so that they can analyze and interpret the music that they perform.
Students participate in All-State, Javacya recitals, private recitals, concerts, and competitions on a local, state, and national level. Students are also encouraged to attend national and international music camps and provide outlets for performance year-round. Javacya students are heavily involved with the Sphinx Music Organization.
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Diversity Matters
Black players make up less than 2% of the nation’s orchestras, and the Metropolitan Opera existed for 138 years before it presented its first opera by a Black composer in 2021, “Fire Shut Up in My Bones” by Terence Blanchard.
Diversity Rule
Because of the exclusion of people of color in classical music from the 19th century through the present, Javacya exists. We, the Javacya Board of Directors, believe that artists' diversity within classical music should be the rule and not the exception.
Through education and performance, Javacya, standing on numerous other leaders' shoulders, has taken a commanding leadership role to support professional classical Black, Indigenous, and people of color in classical music's professional field to champion their value, historical contributions, and relevance.
Our end goal is to enlighten modern societies about the normalcy of high-caliber professional people of color in classical music. A catalyst for change, the artists represented in the Arts-In-The-Heart Concert Series reflect the communities in which we live. Diversity is the rule.
Noteworthy
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Javacya Elite Chamber Principal Violist Hope Ward set out to raise $20,000 for students requiring assistance to attend Javacya Arts Conservatory and I-9 Sports Academy. The campaign began in August 2020. Thus far, she has raised over $8,000."
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As a child, concert violinist and professor Elwyn A. Adams was a musical prodigy of some notoriety in the African American community of Cleveland, Ohio, where he was born on August 3, 1933. At age five he gave his first violin recital at East Mt. Zion Baptist Church, and at age seven he could be heard on local radio.
ELWYN ALBERT ADAMS (1933-1995)
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Violist Meredith Harris conducted a masterclass via Zoom on bow usage and vibrato for students at Javacya Arts Conservatory.
