Six months ago, San Antonio was a city without an orchestra; now it has 2
, stepped in to provide musicians for performances by Ballet San Antonio and Opera San Antonio, which the symphony previously had done.recently retired Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff.
While neither group is a large-scale orchestra, as was the San Antonio Symphony, they both are focused on growth and have big plans for the future. "You almost can look at it like a Möbius strip," Montalvo said. "Performance is serving education, but education is serving performance." Classical Music Institute also appealed to individual donors, asking them to match that money, Montalvo said. And last month, it also scored its first grant — $350,000 — from theThat infusion of funds has allowed CMI to accelerate the timeline for its long-term goals. The group had been looking at expanding gradually in the next few years, adding staff positions so it could offer education programming year-round and also present more concerts.
Within a decade, he added, the organization hopes to employ 30 to 40 faculty artists, who will live in San Antonio. The size of the ensemble depends on the work being performed. Chamber concerts might call for four to 13 musicians, Montalvo said, and for orchestra performances, 22 to 48. For the 2023 fiscal year, which runs through Sept. 30, that work is being done on a budget of $1.5 million, 87 percent of which already has been raised.
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