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Sharing the transformative power of music

Groton Hill supports growth and healing through music.

Donors like you help us to remove barriers so that people from all backgrounds and circumstances can learn and experience music. Our work takes us into public school classrooms and after-school programs across the region every week. We invite families, seniors, and memory care patients into our halls to enjoy free daytime performances. We provide need-based scholarships. And we’re home to one of the nation’s leading Threshold Choirs, whose singers visit bedsides to comfort those in hospice and their families.

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2026 IMPACT REPORT

Community-based Partnerships

Our public school and after-school programs in Fitchburg, Leominster, Lawrence, Lowell, and Clinton provide free weekly band, string, music production, and percussion programs to students who might not otherwise have the chance to learn to play.

Scholarships

Groton Hill is committed to expanding access to quality music education while building an equitable, inclusive space for learning and discovery. We provide need-based scholarships to students from over 70 local communities to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to learn and grow without boundaries.

Bach’s Lunch Concerts

For the past 18 years, our free monthly Bach’s Lunch Concerts have welcomed residents from more than 50 senior living communities, memory care homes, and facilities serving disabled adults. Attendees enjoy a variety of concerts performed by our outstanding professional musicians.

Community Concerts

Our free daytime performances in our world-class Concert Hall offer local residents the chance to share the joy of live music with friends and family.

Threshold Singers

The Threshold Singers at Groton Hill provide comfort through song at the bedsides of the very ill. This ancient tradition is a source of inspiration and renewal for all who participate.

Professional Development for Teachers

Groton Hill Music Center is proud to serve as a DESE-certified community music school, offering PDPs to Massachusetts public school teachers, giving them the tools to raise the bar on instruction, assessment, inclusion, production, and much more.

Why Donate?

Groton Hill donors support enduring programs that impact community members from all backgrounds. Whether we’re giving scholarships, celebrating achievements, or lending a shoulder, our faculty, staff, and volunteers are here for everyone. But we can only do it with your help!

Testimonials

One Alzheimer’s resident just broke out in song, singing along with the performer. These Bach’s Lunch concerts reach far beyond our eyes and ears!

School wasn’t always easy, but my Groton Hill percussion teacher inspired and taught me so much. Now I’m getting a music scholarship and am the first generation in my family going to college!

I finally have the chance to pursue what I love, to play an instrument with no judgement at Groton Hill. I feel empowered and never imagined this was possible!

We give monthly because we want to help provide inspiring music experiences to the next generation.

The students loved today’s workshop. I saw more smiles on their faces than I have in a really long time. Music can do so much for our children – and for us!

Three women were singing for my mother and I saw a transformation take place in my mom. Her tightly clenched hand relaxed. Her shallow breathing became deeper and more regular. They gave my mother a gift.

Music is a big part of our residents’ lives. They move with it physically and the positive emotions it evokes are apparent by the smiles on their faces and the sparkle in their eyes. It is a universal joyful language.

Music has always been so important to me. I've had a few rough years with some physical and mental health issues, and had trouble some days even leaving the house, but coming to Groton Hill has made that a little easier!