Education

FAMILY CONCERTS

Music lovers of all ages delight in The Knights’ family-friendly performances that celebrate world-class music in an engaging, interactive setting. The Knights perform excerpts from well-known works and contemporary compositions alongside audience participation activities that highlight musical details and showcase the way instruments can tell a story. In these accessible performances, children and their families discover the limitless imaginative possibilities that exist in classical music.

Education partner: USDAN summer camp for the arts

From 2020-2023, musicians from The Knights were artists-in-residence at Usdan Summer Camp for the Arts on Long Island.

In August 2025 Knights musicians returned to USDAN, where they performed for over 1,000 students, workshopped twelve student compositions, and led sectional classes with the string orchestra. 

Rhapsody at USDAN (2023)

Bodies of water (2022)

At their 2023 residency at Usdan Summer Camp for the Arts on Long Island in 2023, musicians from The Knights brought together Usdan students in Composition, Creative Writing, and Painting & Drawing around the theme of Rhapsody. The project culminated in a performance; a rhapsodic quilt of songs, visual art, and poetry celebrating the diverse viewpoints, backgrounds, and imaginations of the Usdan students.

In 2022, The Knights joined forces with Ocean Music Action and choreographer & dancer Maile Okamura to mentor Usdan’s young artists and collaboratively create a project entitled Bodies of Water, which investigated human beings’ deep and visceral connection to water.