The mission of Children’s Concert Society (CCS), a non-profit, educational, volunteer organization, is to educate and enrich the lives of school age children in the greater Akron community by providing access to live high quality performing arts experiences. It is our vision to become the leading provider of fine live performing arts experiences for school age children.

CCS is a presenting organization with programs open to all children in the community. (1) Concert Hall Series, Concerts at the Akron Civic Theatre for all K-8 students (2) Scholastic Composers Contest, An annual Composers Contest for grades K – 12 (3) In-School Concert Series, Free  concerts in the schools for grades preK-12. In addition, 4) Outreach, a collaboration between CCS and the after-school program of the Akron Public Schools.

CCS offers all public, private, parochial, charter and home school groups in the Summit County and surrounding area the opportunity to participate in 3 major programs reaching over 35,000 students.