Javacya Arts Conservatory youth orchestra performing on stage in Tallahassee, Florida
Founded in 1980, Javacya Arts Conservatory (JAC) is one of Florida's premier youth classical music programs — a college-preparatory music institute in Tallahassee, FL dedicated to students ages 3 to 18. As a leading BIPOC arts conservatory, JAC provides rigorous training in a nurturing environment where Black, Indigenous, and people of color are celebrated, not overlooked. Through orchestras, recitals, competitions, and community concerts, our students develop the discipline, artistry, and confidence to pursue music at the highest levels.
Arts-in-the-Heart Concert Series
Past Arts-In-The-Heart Special Guests
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Amadi Azikiwe
Amadi Azikiwe, violinist and violist, past guest artist at Javacya Arts Conservatory Arts-in-the-Heart Concert Series
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Noel Wan
Noel Wan, harpist, past guest artist at Javacya Arts Conservatory classical music concert series, Tallahassee FL
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Darryl Tookes
Darryl Tookes, singer, songwriter, and producer, guest artist at Javacya Arts Conservatory Arts-in-the-Heart Concert Series
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 Matters
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.
Diversity Rule
Noteworthy
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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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