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Inaugural Music Fest 2023

Tuesday, May 23, 2023

Music Fest at Ruby Diamond

Featuring Southside Orchestra & Cultural Arts Program, FAMU DRS Orchestras, Darryl Tookes and Mary Bush Smith

Ruby Diamond Concert Hall, Tallahassee, FL 7:00 pm

Welcome to Javacya

Founded in 1981, 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.

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 The Rule

What is Javacya?

Javacya exists to provide a safe space for Black, Indigenous, and students of color to take advantage of quality music education.

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Noteworthy

Kenneth Hills, Jr.

A 20 year old violinist/composer had the honor of having pianist Joe Williams, cellist Khari Joyner, violinist Mariana Green-Hill, violinist Amyr Joyner, violinist-violist Kyle Dickson, and bassist, Portia Lundy-Dunkley perform his Sextet (Her new book is called Auri Hears Music Everywhere)

Samantha Crawford

Samantha Crawford continues to perform locally as a violin soloist in advancing her musical interests alongside her graduate studies.  In addition to pursuing a master’s degree in Literature, Media, and Culture at Florida State University, Samantha performs at local and civic events in North Florida and South Georgia, most recently at the Abolitionist Emancipation Ball and…

Phillip Rumlin-Bond

Phillip Rumlin-Bond is a prodigy violinist and has a beautiful spirit. He is a student of violinist Patrice Floyd at Javacya Arts Conservatory. He had master classes with esteemed violinists Rachel Barton-Pine, Amadi Azikiwi, and members of the famous Sphinx Virtuosi, a chamber orchestra. Phillip is age 15, a 10th-grade gifted student at the Florida…

ELWYN ALBERT ADAMS (1933-1995)

Armenta and Elwyn Adams Fair use image   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…

My daughter was with Javacya from age 5 until she graduated high school. The comprehensive music theory curriculum helped Sarah master math. Having studied piano, violin and double bass at the Conservatory, I believe it is the reason why she will become a neurosurgeon…I recommend Javacya to everyone…the discipline and effect of high expectations last for a lifetime.”

-Selina Darling-Reed, Ph.D.
Associate Dean and Associate Professor
Pharmaceutical Sciences
Florida A & M University

Meredith Harris

Violist Meredith Harris conducted a masterclass via Zoom on bow usage and vibrato for students at Javacya Arts Conservatory

Hope Ward

Javacya Elite Chamber Principal Violist Hope Ward set out to raise $20,000 for students requiring assistance
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