The Creative Vision Ensemble (formerly VYO) is a Free music mentoring program and an ensemble for diverse underserved musicians ages 11-19 who are interested in exploring the creative process.
March, 2021 we will begin offering weekly individual music mentoring sessions to young musicians, as well as a weekly group session on zoom. 
In June, 2021 we will host outdoor rehearsals in preparation for a performance in late July at the 25th Vision Festival.
​All of this programming is Free. 
Creative Vision Opportunities: 
  • Beginning with your enrollment, you will receive weekly one on one coaching from master musicians.
  • There will also be a weekly masterclass where you will also discuss these explorations with your peers.
  • Students will receive guidance to develop your own creative approach.
  • Learn to improvise working with other young musicians as well as master musicians.
  • Once the weather and Covid restrictions allow there will be weekly outdoor workshop rehearsals on Saturdays.
  • The Ensemble will be featured at the world renowned Vision Festival in late July in an outdoor safe environment.
Once admitted, students will be expected to demonstrate a high level of commitment to the program, regardless of skill level. This means that unexcused absences may jeopardize a student's place in the program. This will be assessed on a case-by-case basis.

​"The first day I joined VYO, I was surprised that I was in a room of people who truly loved music (unlike my school mates). What I love most about VYO is the loving and encouraging environment that's been created to foster and grow us as musicians and improvisers. VYO quite literally is responsible for making me a better and more comfortable soloist."
-VYO Student.
To learn more about the Creative Vision Ensemble,
email Patricia at info@artsforart.org
Upcoming Events
July 2021
Performance at The 25th Vision Festival​.

Events (Postponed due to COVID-19)
March 7, 2020
Performance at Brooklyn Music Institute​
May 23, 2020
Vision Festival 25 Performance

The Creative Vision Ensemble Rehearsals 
will begin in person as soon as weather and Covid restrictions will allow.  Tentatively in June thru July 2021

2021 Teaching Artists: William Parker, Michael T.A. Thompson, Daro Behroozi

Please Register if you are a young musician Aged 12 through 18.
New York based drummer, percussionist and educator Michael TA Thompson and saxophonist, educator Daro Behroozi, along with William Parker are leading and shaping the Creative Vision Ensemble and mentoring program. 
The Ensemble, VYO began in 2010. to pass to budding musicians the concepts of world improvised music as they discover their unique musical voice. 
William Parker is a bassist/multi-instrumentalist improviser, composer, educator, and author. He studied bass with Richard Davis, Art Davis, Milt Hinton, Wilbur Ware, Jimmy Garrison, and Paul West. He has recorded over 150 albums, had countless celebrated stage appearances, and helped shaped the jazz scene for both his peers and youths. In 2013, Parker received the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award in recognition of his influence and impact on the creative jazz scene over the last 40 years.

MISSION: Arts for Art is dedicated to the exceptional creativity that originated in the African American multi-arts jazz culture that utilizes improvisation to express a larger, more positive dream of inclusion and freedom.
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