Since 1959, WMC’s annual competition has provided recognition, cash prizes, and music camp scholarships to over 370 of central Virginia’s most accomplished music students.
For more than 50 years, WMC has provided tuition assistance for private music lessons for qualifying families.
For almost 60 years, WMC has sponsored community recitals for students – youth and adults.
In 2016 WMC extended its support for music education to public-school music programs. WMC has awarded over $136,000 in total to over 30 elementary, middle and high schools in the region.
Beginning in 2017, WMC volunteers have devoted hundreds of hours to weekly coaching sessions with beginning band and orchestra students in the city of Charlottesville.
Since 2015-16, WMC has provided 30 scholarships to 23 music majors at three Virginia universities . Scholarship awardees are the featured performers in WMC’s January MUSICAL INTERLUDE fundraising event.
Since 2015-16, WMC has covered the full cost of a year of private instrument lessons for up to four university student members of the Charlottesville Symphony.