The Winsor Music Outreach Project brings the music students of Walnut Hill School for the Arts, MIT and Boston Conservatory out into the community to perform in retirement communities, recovery homes and shelters. The program aims to fill the spiritual and artistic needs of these communities while giving the students a chance to communicate with an audience through music and conversation. Each performance is followed by a time for listeners and performers to interact, ensuring an important social dimension to the program. These students, aged 12 to 21, have remarkable gifts, performing already to professional standards. They benefit from this project in several ways:

• They are given the chance to bring the therapeutic power of music to people less fortunate than themselves.
• They are given a much needed opportunity to perform and expand their awareness of the communicative power of music.
• They learn to cherish the extraordinary gifts they have been given, and to see their performances as a means to share those gifts with the world around them.