Founded in 1984, the W.O. Smith School is a non-profit organization that provides high-quality music education to children from low-income families for 50 cents per lesson. Each year, nearly 400 children receive music instruction from a 100-member volunteer faculty comprised of individuals from all segments of the Nashville music community including studio and symphony musicians, college professors and private instructors. The school offers instruction in all band and orchestra instruments, piano, guitar and voice and provides instruments and music to students at no additional charge.

William Oscar Smith was a professor at Tennessee State University and a member of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra. He always dreamed of a school where children from low-income families could have music instruction of the highest quality made availble to them. This school is a fulfillment of that dream.

For more information call 615.255.8355.