Mission Statement

As the premier youth ensemble representing the North Georgia community, the North Georgia Youth Wind Symphony at Reinhardt provides positive and transformative musical experiences for talented high school musicians through high-quality instruction and exceptional music-making opportunities.

 

Vision Statement

North Georgia Youth Wind Symphony members will use the musical and social experience gained in the ensemble throughout their lives, in all fields of endeavor: in music performance, through enlightened consumption of and participation in the arts, and beyond.

 

Goals

Realizing this vision will culminate in North Georgia Youth Wind Symphony members:

  • Demanding the highest standards of excellence in their own professional careers and personal lives;

  • Cultivating empathy across the spectrum of cultures, evidenced by a deep care for diversity, inclusion, and equity;

  • Enthusiastically sharing their passion for music, music-making, and musicians;

  • Becoming leaders and collaborators in their life journey, seeking first to understand, then to be understood;

  • Modeling the great music educators that brought them along in their musical pursuits;

  • Living this sentiment from Quincy Jones:

Musicians are addicted to music. They always make, live in, and love music.
They know no other way of living.
— Quincy Jones