What We Do

Guest Artists have included famed American Composer and Conductor, Moses Hogan and regional concert singers appearing with VOICES in collaboration with other choral and orchestral groups. This has provided them with opportunities to sing great masterworks such as Handel’s Messiah and the Mozart Requiem. The program also includes multi-cultural, pop music and original music dramas such as “Mrs. Fezziwig’s Feast “, “A Norman Rockwell Holiday” and this season “ Downtown Abbey” ( a musical spoof of Downton Abbey.)

BENEFITS TO THE COMMUNITY:

Through grants and donations from private and public sources, programs will be added that reach out to more people in the community - bringing the benefits of early childhood music programs to single mothers and children at-risk, drama and drama therapy programs for area youths, and partnership programs with other non-profit organizations to uplift the lives of more people through performing arts initiatives.

“The scope and range of programs which the BCPAI are able to initiate and implement is unlimited. The focus of BCPAI currently, is on the scholarships, instrument donation program and VOICES of Bucks County.”

— Wendy Hellyer, Founder BCPAI

ACTIVITIES OF BCPAI INCLUDE:

  • Providing merit scholarships for exceptional students

  • Providing free instruments for low-income children

  • Providing financial assistance for lessons in music or drama for low-income children

  • Providing programs for in music, dance or drama that utilize the arts to improve the academic skills, social skills and the emotional health of “children at risk”

  • Voices, Jr, a choral troupe for children 8-13 .

  • Providing programs for in music, dance or drama that utilize the arts to improve the academic skills, social skills and the emotional health of “children at risk”

  • Conduct “Voices of Bucks County” , an intergenerational troupe of singers/performers

  • Enrich the quality of life in the region.

  • Supplied both the curriculum and music teachers for YWCA pre-schools and summer camps run by the YWCA and Ivins Outreach Center.

From its inception…

Each year BCPAI has provided local youths with free instruments to give them the opportunity to study and participate in music groups at school and regionally. These include string instruments, band instruments and free pianos.