Kids' Orchestra

Kids' Orchestra Our mission is to build a community of creative, confident, and socially engaged students.

Kids’ Orchestra serves elementary-age students through afterschool music education across East Baton Rouge Parish. We provide children in our community with the opportunity to study music, learn an instrument, and perform for audiences.

Please join us in welcoming Ariel Hunter to the Kids' Orchestra team as our new Chief Operations Officer!Ariel Hunter is...
09/02/2026

Please join us in welcoming Ariel Hunter to the Kids' Orchestra team as our new Chief Operations Officer!

Ariel Hunter is a New Orleans native and has spent her career championing for underserved communities, ensuring families and scholars receive high quality and equitable resources. Throughout a career dedicated to educational excellence, Ariel has successfully managed complex operational functions that enable schools to provide safe, efficient, and student-centered learning environments. We're so glad to have you on the team, Ariel!

2026 marks our fifth year partnering with Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra for the Pathways to Public Performance Art prog...
08/27/2026

2026 marks our fifth year partnering with Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra for the Pathways to Public Performance Art program to provide some of our students with high-quality private music lessons free of charge.

Thank you, BRSO, for helping us to create a pipeline of young musicians that will contribute to the Baton Rouge musical community through performances, education, and advocacy. It has been incredible to see the success of this pipeline as many of these students have earned positions in BRSO's Louisiana Youth Orchestra and Louisiana Junior Youth Orchestra.

Ready to join the Kids' Orchestra team? We are hiring full and part-time staff in Greater New Orleans and Baton Rouge. F...
08/07/2026

Ready to join the Kids' Orchestra team? We are hiring full and part-time staff in Greater New Orleans and Baton Rouge. Full details on locations and positions at kidsorchestra.org/join-our-team or click the link in our bio.

Ready to join the Kids' Orchestra team? We are hiring full and part-time staff in Greater New Orleans and Baton Rouge. F...
08/07/2026

Ready to join the Kids' Orchestra team? We are hiring full and part-time staff in Greater New Orleans and Baton Rouge. Full details on locations and positions here: https://kidsorchestra.org/join-our-team/

👏🏻 🎶 We want to take a moment to shout out our good friends and longtime collaborators – Doug Gay and the crew at Baton ...
07/30/2026

👏🏻 🎶 We want to take a moment to shout out our good friends and longtime collaborators – Doug Gay and the crew at Baton Rouge Music Studios. Doug and his team are thoughtful, creative, and energetic in everything that they do. We love Doug because he is intentional. IYKYK. When he is in – he is all in. KO Harmony Collective and Biscuits and Gravy performed at two major public events and came together for a recording session at the new BRMS Creative Studio. Thanks to Doug Gay at BRMS Creative (Garrett, Trevor, and all the rest of the staff at BRMS who have helped us time and time again) for all that you do to support the young musicians of Baton Rouge! 👏🏻 🎶

🎶🎤 We had a blast performing during the set break of Nathan Williams, Jr., M.M. [Grammy Nominated Producer/Musician]] fo...
07/24/2026

🎶🎤 We had a blast performing during the set break of Nathan Williams, Jr., M.M. [Grammy Nominated Producer/Musician]] for Live After Five BR this past April alongside biscuitsandgravybandbr

Students and KO staff jammed out to some of our favorite tunes: September, Don’t Stop Believing, and Viva La Vida! A huge thank you to JHover with Live After 5, Be Positive Be Positive , Premiere Sound Services Premier Sound Services , and Baton Rouge Music Studios 🎤🎶

🎶 As summer continues, we wanted to take a moment to shoutout a few more events that happened this past Spring! In early...
07/14/2026

🎶 As summer continues, we wanted to take a moment to shoutout a few more events that happened this past Spring! In early May, we held 3 Private Lesson Recitals and a Scholarship Fundraising Reception for our KO@Home students at Broadmoor Baptist Church. 42 students gave extremely polished and musical performances, showing off all the progress they made with their incredible teachers! 🎶

Thank you to Capitol City Produce for sponsoring our fundraising reception, and to our Books & Music facilitators for providing post-recital activities for our students! If you would like to donate to our Private Lesson Program Scholarship Fund, click the “Give the Gift of Music” link in our bio!

🌈 That’s a wrap on Week 4 of Summer Camp: Beyond the Rainbow! Students were given many opportunities to explore each col...
07/06/2026

🌈 That’s a wrap on Week 4 of Summer Camp: Beyond the Rainbow! Students were given many opportunities to explore each color of the rainbow through music and dance, bringing emotions of art to life. What a colorful and fun way to close out our time at camp! 🌈

Highlights of the week include:
• An intro to conducting with the awesome Dr. Travis Higa
• Exploring the music of Fantasia 2000 and playing songs with boomwhackers with Ms. Callie Ancelet
• An opportunity to learn about Color Guard and play color-coded music games with Ms. Ashley Kavanaugh
•A field to the LSU Museum of Art
•One last amazing end-of-week concert!

See you back for camp Summer 2027!

Our office will be closed on July 3 in observation of the Independence Day holiday. Have a wonderful weekend!
07/03/2026

Our office will be closed on July 3 in observation of the Independence Day holiday. Have a wonderful weekend!

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647 Main Street
Baton Rouge, LA
70801

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

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