Partners

The people who make below-cost possible.

COS charges families less than it costs to teach them. Foundations, businesses, community organizations, and artists close that gap every year. Their names belong on this page.
Foundations & corporate support

Organizations sustaining COS operations.

Gail Alvarez Foundation

Franklin Family Foundation

Kolstein Music Company

Reginald Lewis Foundation

P.L.U.S. Charitable Trust

Syosset Woodbury Chamber of Commerce

Herbert Wolfe Foundation

In the community

Long Island relationships.

Community Church of Syosset

COS relocated to its permanent Long Island headquarters here in 2021, and the program now operates from the church.

Syosset Woodbury Chamber of Commerce

A standing partnership. COS also appeared as a Gold-level sponsor at the 2021 Syosset Street Fair.

Long Island Arts Alliance

A regional arts partnership through which COS performs for civic and cultural organizations.
Mission partners

Where the music goes beyond the orchestra.

Dr. Yeou-Cheng Ma’s parallel work extends the organization’s reach to communities it would not otherwise touch.

Music for Autism

Garden of Hope

ClassACT HR73

Artistic partners

World-class musicians who have mentored these students.

COS has consistently attracted guest artists to work directly with its young players, close up in the rehearsal room.
Become a partner

What a business or foundation gets back.

COS performs at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, and the United Nations, tours internationally, and has been named Best Music School on Long Island by the Long Island Herald. All of its tracked graduates went on to college. That is what a partner’s name goes next to.

Every name on this page bought a child a seat.

There is room for yours.