The bART Center for Music is a place to awaken the musician within each of us, regardless of age, musical ability, ethnic origin, disability, or inability to pay. The mission of The bART Center for Music is to promote access and excellence in music education.

The bART serves through its three areas of expertise: The Barthelmes Conservatory, which aims to promote artistic and academic excellence and to prepare musicians of the highest quality, serving students who display the potential to pursue music as a professional career; The bART Music School strives to provide superior music education to enhance quality of lives and to promote aesthetic, musical, emotional and creative potentials regardless of ability and age; and The bART Outreach Program, which focuses on providing access to music instruments and instruction at public schools that fall in to the 91st - 99th percentile for free- and reduced lunch programs.