The aim of the Nassau Music Society is to promote and encourage the art of music by organizing concerts and other musical activities and to provide financial and other assistance to students of music.
It is run by a volunteer Committee and a part-time Administrator.
The Nassau Music Society has offered their Members and the Bahamian Community the opportunity to listen to good quality classical and jazz music since the 1960's. The Society was officially incorporated in 1961 and the first President was Clement Bethel. Since then the fortunes of the Society have fluctuated over the years but it has always managed to persevere with successive Committees providing the impetus to organize concerts. It has been involved in a variety of different events and, for example, in recent years, artists auch as Yuri Bashmet and the Moscow Soloists, Natalia Gutman, Dmitri Berlinsky, Igor Raykhelson, Ekaterina Astashova, Vilija Poskute, Tomas Daukantas , Mark Drobinsky, Polina Leschenko, The Scottish Chamber Soloists, The Howard Fishman Quartet, Collen Lee, the Albek Twins and Alberto Nose have all performed for us in the Bahamas...
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