MISSION STATEMENT
“New Hampshire Symphony Orchestra
advances the art of orchestral music in New Hampshire by
providing our communities with joyful, engaging, and enriching
musical experiences, performed by outstanding professional
musicians.”
VISION STATEMENT
- The New Hampshire Symphony Orchestra's Vision Statement
describes our future structure, physical appearance, size,
services, and the various markets and audiences we look
to support and serve.
- It is the strategic baseline that
sketches out our future, how we will exist in three to four
years’ time. It captures "the dream" of
our musical director, Kenneth Kiesler, and when it is fully
realized, we will have created a different, vital and much
more substantive symphony and performance schedule that
will benefit a much broader audience.
- It is Kenneth Kiesler and NHSO's vision
that our musicians be treated with respect, honored for
their considerable skills and valued as artists and partners.
They will be increasingly involved in all matters having
to do with the Symphony, to include full Board member representation.
- The NHSO will demonstrate solid and
tangible efforts to educate and enthuse people of all ages
about the traditions and innovations, breadth and depth
of symphonic music.
- Staff members, musicians, board members,
the music director and the community at large will be active,
welcome and valued contributors across all facets of our
activities.
- We will demonstrate in every decision,
policy and practice that we seek to enable, empower and
nurture the work of our musicians, conductor/music director
and guest artists so they can achieve the highest possible
standards resulting in the most benefit to our audiences.
- The NHSO will be an orchestra that
meets people where they live and serve communities in every
corner of New Hampshire, whether that is through a full
orchestra, chamber or small ensemble, or through educational,
pops or other programming.
- To fulfill our mandate for growth,
community service and artistic excellence, Kenneth Kiesler
has already created H.E.A.R.T.S., which stands for Harnessing
Energies and Resources Together for our Symphony. His visualization
of how the NHSO will look follows this Statement.
- The NHSO will strive for the greatest,
most powerful and meaningful musical level and audience
experience without compromise. No justification for compromise
will be conceded due to geography, inertia, population size
or any other unreasonable factor.
- Performances of the NHSO will be fresh,
as if even the most frequently played work is being newly
discovered in every performance. In addition to performing
the works of the masters, support, stimulation and recognition
of the creative work of today's composers will be part of
an annual commissioning program.
- To heighten the visibility, promotion
and respect of the NHSO and the stature of the State of
New Hampshire, we will undertake an ongoing process of recording
symphonic music.
- We will be an organization that focuses
on and achieves solid and dependable financial resources
more than adequate to support our Mission and our strategies
and goals.
- We will be an organization that understands
that old wisdom may not always apply to today's orchestras.
When appropriate, we will find new solutions to the issues
facing our orchestra and become a standard-bearer through
innovation.
- The NHSO understands that the value of a cultural institution
is not measured exclusively by numbers and statistics, but
by the lives being touched and by the people discovering
the profound and enabling human possibilities within themselves
and the community.
- The NHSO will tear down imagined and
perceived barriers and proactively endeavor to build and
attract audiences for the greatest creation of the human
spirit, symphonic art music.
- The NHSO is committed to serving the community outside the
orchestra, the community inside the orchestra and the betterment
of the art of music.
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