The San Francisco Symphony provides music education experiences for children, families, and schools throughout San Francisco and the Greater Bay Area. All San Francisco Unified School District elementary schools grades 1-5 participate, free of charge, in the Adventures in Music program. Instrument Training and Support provides free professional coaching to bands and orchestras in San Francisco public middle and high schools. Youth Orchestra is a tuition free pre-professional training program serving talented young instrumentalists ages 12-21.

San Francisco Youth Theatre is dedicated to creating cutting-edge theater for children and youth ages 4-24 throughout the Bay Area. SFYT core values include personal expression through the arts, creativity, inclusiveness and changing the world, one play at a time SF Youth Theatre offers classes and performance ensembles, produces adult-performed productions for young audiences, school residencies and a repertoire of original productions that speak to the unique sensibilities of youth.