Association of Dominican Classical Artists

The Washington heights community conservatory of fine arts has as its mission, to enrich the lives of children in Washington heights, inwood and harlem. These communities have been historically underserved in the areas of music and art instruction. We offer an inclusive culturally sensitive environment founded on the belief that instruction in the arts strengthens academic performance and transform the lives of children regardless of their race or economic background. For this fiscal year, 160 students enrolled in various department under our rigorous 6-years curriculum. We continued to offer our casa project located at gregorio luperon high school. We were given the opportunity to offer a free spanish and english music and fine arts program to students grades pre-k-12. A total of 35 students from gregorio luperon high school were accepted into our program. We also offered our casa project to a new school - community health academy of the heights. We enrolled 30 students. The music program provided private instructions, and theoretical training to these students. Students presented a winter concert at alianza triangle building where they played standards from the Classical music canon and performed latin american Classical works and arrangements from latin american folk music. For the end of year, students were going to have a young talent concert. However, due to the air quality, we postponed the concert.

During fiscal year july 1, 2022 through june 30 2023, adca was able to perform in person in several locations. Below is the list of concerts. October 20th, 2022 at aaron davis hall we presented a magical night of bachata, bolero & nueva trova. The second concert also took place at aaron davis hall on february, 16th 2023 and we named it homage to bienvenido bustamante. The third concert was on april 20, 2023 in aaron davis hall and was called impressionism from paris to latin america. Our last concert for fiscal 2023 took place at the bronx brewery on june 14th, 2023. All the concerts were at full capacity and following covid19 guidance and protocols.