Volunteers enthusiastically advance the VSA mission by contributing their time, talent, expertise, resources, and ambassadorship. Volunteers help at concerts and promote and represent the VSA within our communities. We’ll find a wonderful fit for your talents. Join in, make friends, and have fun while helping the VSA bring classical music to life.

Volunteers Make the Music Possible

When audiences listen to the VSA, they most likely have no idea how much work goes on to make the music happen. Oh, they may understand that the musicians have to rehearse, but they probably don’t realize that, for the last 50+ years, every single VSA musician has been a volunteer.

Pulling back the curtain for a peek might help audiences understand just how much goes into our music making. Here are just a few of the thousands of details:

• Around 18 months before the season starts, the music committee selects themes music for the next season.
• Then comes all the work of visually branding each of those concerts—creating visual ideas to convey those musical themes—to use for posters, concert programs, our website and Facebook, ticketing, and so much more.
• As a non-profit organization, the VSA is entirely reliant on the donations of advertisers, organizations, and sponsors, so we spend a great deal of time reaching out for new or continued support from season and concert partners, advertisers, sponsors, section and individual musician underwriters, and generally fundraising all year long.
• We secure and reserve rehearsal space and establish concert dates
• Conductors select music and prepare for rehearsals.
• Music is distributed. Musicians practice on their own. Ensemble rehearsals begin.
• Then comes the work of selling tickets to the community and administering those sales.
• Marketing and advertising materials are circulated regionally. Posters are printed and distributed. Radio advertising and interviews are scheduled and recorded. From ensuring accurate advertising updates to revising musician rosters to gathering concert notes to capturing the concert order, all concert program and slideshow particulars and acknowledgements are addressed, edited, proofed, and printed on time to present to our audience.
• At the final rehearsal, the stage is set up with chairs, music stands, risers, and equipment. At dress rehearsal the day of the event, photographs are shot during the dress rehearsal just before the doors open, when we happily and gratefully greet concert goers.
• On concert days, our lobby volunteers prepare for the event and help us in myriad ways, acting as greeters, ticket salespeople, and ushers.
• Then, the hall fills, the lights dim, the baton falls, and we all revel in making the music possible!

From this simplified list, you can see just how much work goes into a single concert. We can certainly use your help!

The VSA is proud to be celebrating over 50 years as a regional, all-volunteer performing arts organization composed of musicians who live and work in our midst. There are so many more things the VSA would love to accomplish, so many ways to weave music into our regional communities. To do that, the organization needs your support.

Volunteers enthusiastically advance the VSA mission by contributing their time, talent, expertise, resources, and ambassadorship. We’ll find a wonderful fit for your gifts and skills. Join in, make friends, and have fun while helping the VSA bring classical music to life.

Volunteer! Contact the VSA today!

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