Education Sponsors & Community Partners
Funding for Utah Symphony | Utah Opera’s Education Programs
Performances in schools are funded primarily through a grant from the Utah State Legislature. Utah Symphony & Opera is a member of Professional Outreach Programs in the Schools (POPS) and works with other arts and science organizations to bring enrichment experiences to Utah students.
Since 2001, the Kennedy Center Imagination Celebration of Salt Lake City has partnered with Utah Opera to sponsor an annual spring Children's Opera Showcase, which generally takes place in the Rose Wagner Center for the Performaing Arts in downtown Salt Lake City. Three student operas created by individual classes during the year are featured. In 2005, KCIC increased its sponsorship in order to support our annual summer "Music! Words! Opera!" teacher workshop that guides teachers through a process of creating original musical theatre projects with their students.
In the fall of 2004, Utah Symphony & Opera began a partnership with Ken Garff Auto in its Keys to Success program. US|UO provides vouchers for symphony concerts and opera performances for Ken Garff to distribute to High School Students who have shown Academic accomplishment.
We also gratefully acknowledge the following sponsors: American Express Ashton Family Foundation Richard D. Bass Foundation Bourne-Spafford Foundation R. Harold Burton Foundation David C. Carlebach Castle Foundation Chevron Corporation Citigroup Foundation Clyde Companies Inc. Cumming Foundation Lawrence T. & Janet T. Dee Foundation George S. & Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation Diana S. Ellis Smith Henry W. & Leslie M. Eskuche Charitable Foundation Fidelity Investments Fieldstone Foundation Sterling & Shelli Gardner Foundation Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation Val A. Green and Edith D. Green Foundation The Marion D. & Maxine C. Hanks Foundation, Inc. William Randolph Hearst Foundation Robert D. Huish Intermountain Health Care Emma Eccles Jones Foundation Kennedy Center Imagination Celebration of Salt Lake City The Lehman Brothers Foundation Management & Training Corporation Masonic Foundation of Utah Herbert I. & Elsa B. Michael Foundation National Endowment for the Arts Northrop Grumman Mission Systems PacifiCorp Foundation for Learning Plum Creek Foundation John & Marcia Price Foundation Questar Corporation Arts Foundation Qwest Foundation Junior E. & Blanche B. Rich Foundation Salt Lake City Arts Council Salt Lake Public Library Salt Lake City Zoo, Arts and Parks Program Salt Lake County Scott Machinery Company F. Morris & Helen Silver Foundation Simmons Family Foundation Stewart Foundation Summit County Target U.S. Bancorp Foundation Union Pacific Foundation United Way of Northern Utah Utah Arts Council Utah Families Foundation Utah Humanities Council Utah Symphony Guild Walgreens Company Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation Washington Mutual Wheeler Foundation