Harmony is a not-for-profit organization that trains college and graduate student musicians to teach music to underprivileged young people. Harmony’s student-instructors receive professional development training, an hourly stipend for their teaching services, and often course or work-study credit from their partnering schools. Harmony’s beginner musicians receive musical instruments, music instruction, music books, supplies, and tickets to cultural events, all at little or no cost.

The dual objective of Harmony is simultaneously to develop a new generation of music students and music instructors. In doing so, Harmony seeks to fulfill the larger social mission of expanding access among under-served communities to music education and the creativity, self-confidence, discipline, and teamwork it engenders.