Our Mission: Artistic Excellence!
Our Vision:
Our Core Values:
Our Vision:
- To provide an opportunity for community members to be part of a
community orchestra. - To perform the standard orchestral repertoire.
- To serve as the orchestra for large choral productions, such as The
Messiah. - To expose the community to Northwest musicians and music by
Northwest composers. - To explore relatively unknown international orchestral music from the
far reaches of the globe. - To showcase the various cultures of the world, especially those
represented in our culturally diverse community. - To inspire and educate the community and the schools on orchestral
music as a genre, and bring guest soloists who enrich the musical
life of the community through residencies. - To perform outreach tour programs in Port Orchard and the Key
Peninsula, which are more distant to the big cities of Tacoma and
Olympia. - To help train our talented youth for professional careers in music.
- To encourage the performance of less common instruments, such as
the viola, oboe, bassoon, etc. - To preserve and expose music performed in the form of recordings.
- To employ local musicians.
Our Core Values:
- The show must go on - we do our utmost to keep our commitment to
the concert date announced to the public - Gracious hospitality - Be My Guest - we treat our audience as guests
in our home - Synchronous teamwork - we work as a team with impeccable timing
and self-motivation, helping the person at the bottom climb the ladder - Flexibility to meet changing needs - Blessed are the flexible, for they
shall not be bent out of shape! - Open, honest and responsive communications - we communicate
directly with clarity of purpose and integrity - Financial and organizational sustainability - we are good stewards of
public funds to ensure our continued viability of our funding and
operations, carefully taking calculated risks - Unrelentingly challenging current practice - although we have
established practices, we always ask ourselves if they are the right
things to do and the right way to do them, but also applying
consistency - Community service and partnership - we serve the community and
seek to work with other community organizations as much as we can
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