The Concert Truck is a mobile venue for classical music that strengthens communities and fosters a more inclusive, empathetic world by redefining the modern concert hall and making music accessible to all. We engage diverse communities and audiences with thoughtful, timely programming, and to help build a critical presence in the community for the organizations with whom we collaborate.
Impassioned by their love for classical music and belief in its emotional power, pianists Nick Luby and Susan Zhang converted a 16-foot box truck into a fully functioning mobile concert hall, complete with lights, sound system, and piano. Since then, The Concert Truck has presented concerts across the country in city streets, music and arts festivals, schools, neighborhoods, parks... anywhere you can think to park a truck.
In addition to sharing original programming with local communities, The Concert Truck strengthen relationships between arts organizations and the communities they serve. In the Fall 2020 season, The Concert Truck partners with The Kennedy Center’s Washington National Opera, University of South Carolina, Southeastern Piano Festival, Four Seasons Chamber Music Festival, and Dallas Symphony Orchestra to deliver great music to their local communities.
In its early stages The Concert Truck received First Prize of the Creativity in Music Award from SPARK: Carolina's Music Leadership Laboratory, and a South Carolina Arts Commission grant. Since then it has been featured on
Voice of America - VOA, WYPR Maryland, the Baltimore Sun, Minnesota Public Radio, and many local TV news stations and online news syndicates. The Concert Truck also received the
2018 Warnock Foundation Social Innovation Fellowship and an award for Most Original Idea in Social Enterprise in the 2018 Johns Hopkins University Business Plan Competition.
To see us in action, check out this
video about The Concert Truck!
Learn More: http://www.theconcerttruck.org