Symphony Storytime

Introduce younger children to music with Symphony Storytime, a short story-based music program to engage children, especially ages 3-5 through music. Encouraging a love of music, literacy, and discovery, Symphony Storytime exposes children to a diverse selection of stories, cultures, authors, narrative styles, readers, instruments, music, and musicians. Each engagement gives children the opportunity to participate in a dynamic, fun, and entertaining Storytime and get up close to a musician and an instrument. The Bozeman Symphony is thrilled to collaborate with community partners to bring Symphony Storytime to Montana children: Bozeman Public Library, Human Resource Development Council, Montana Shakespeare in the Parks, the Montana School for the Deaf and Blind, MSU School of Music, Random Acts of Silliness, and the World Language Initiative.

Children and adults seated on the floor and chairs in a room watching a musician playing an accordion.
A woman shows a group of young children, mostly girls, how to play a shiny brass trumpet. The children are attentively watching and touching the instrument, inside a room with carpeted floors and wooden cabinets.

Upcoming Symphony Storytimes:

  • Wednesday, August 13, 2025 (10:15 am - Bozeman Public Library)

  • Wednesday, September 17, 2025 (10:15 am - Bozeman Public Library)

  • Wednesday, October 8, 2025 (10:15 am - Bozeman Public Library)

    • Wednesday, June 4, 2025 - featuring guitar

    • Wednesday, May 14, 2025 - featuring French horn

    • Wednesday, April 23, 2025 - featuring trumpet

    • Wednesday, March 19, 2025 - featuring contrabassoon

    • Wednesday, February 19, 2025 - featuring special guest Kishi Bashi and Music Director Norman Huynh

    • Wednesday, January 15, 2025 - featuring clarinet

    • Saturday, November 9, 2024 - ASL program featuring percussion

    • Wednesday, October 9, 2024 - featuring violin

    • Wednesday, September 18, 2024 - featuring English horn

An animated drawing of children sitting behind a pile of books. Two children are looking at a book that has colorful music notes coming out of it and the other child is looking up and pointing to the music notes