Our story
Dedicated to change.
Monique Dacheff founded Artistic Education Company in 2006, driven by "grit" and determination. Spanning 3 decades in the music industry, Monique is a professional recording artist, educator, songwriter, producer, and jazz singer as Monique Daché. Monique holds advanced degrees in music and education. A Boston’s Berklee Alumni (00’), holding a Bachelor’s degree in Professional Music, Music Therapy, a Master’s degree in Education, and post-doctorate in K to 12 Education with an emphasis on music & human learning.
Her work over the years has led us to working closely with under-served communities, historic cultural centers, and school districts giving us a unique edge as a mobile studio. This mobility emboldens our outreach enrichment agenda and turns into our annual concert series called the Austin Jazz Glitz & Glam Concert. Our concert series bring together local musicians, dancers, visual artists from around the world, in support of the company’s mission and in turn we work with the artistic community to promote their work, networking efforts, and augmenting their existing fan base beyond the community.
Between 2015 and 2022, her concerts and youth programming were supported, in part, by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department.
Founding Executive Director, Monique Dacheff.
About us
Our mission is to develop a high-quality musical arts foundation with youth at an early age through immersive multi-form music performance and education and by fostering a love for the Arts through programs and events that empower youth to build self-esteem on the performance stage. Austin’s Artistic Education Company brings together professional musicians, artists, actors, and dancers from around the world to perform. From our holiday events and annual jazz concert series to masterclass pop-ups, the company’s impact extends beyond the stage, serving as an incubator between music forms, cultures, and artists.Providing a platform for young talent to shine while fostering a love of music & the Arts, one student at a time since 2006.
As a resident company of the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center since 2019 and a district-wide fine arts learning vendor with Austin Independent School District’s performing arts center and all AISD schools since 2015, Artistic Education Company is a professional, non-profit 501(c)(3) Austin-based arts organization. Founded in 2006, our mission is to develop a foundation in multi-form music performance and education for under-served youth, teens, and adults in under-served communities comprised of musicians, and creatives in Austin, Texas and beyond. From 2006 to 2022, Artistic Education Company operated as a full-time, salaried music and arts education company. COVID-19 shifted our purpose due to program cancellations during the shutdown, but we are now back stronger, committed, and dedicated.
The organization collaborated with global and Austin, TX creatives, musicians, visual artists, and dancers to continue to share its mission. Artistic Education Company shares the power of the visual, fine, and performing arts to include theater, music, Art, and dance through numerous events and programs sponsored by individual contributors, corporations, Texas Commission of the Arts (2025), the Austin Creative Alliance (2016-2022), the City of Austin Cultural Arts Division (2016-2020), and wonderful audiences and touring sponsors. These programs include seasonal multi-form concert premieres, The annual concert series called the Austin Jazz Glitz & Glam Concerts, Amplifying Voices of Tomorrow Project, community outreach programs like our annual Earth Day Fine Arts Show, pop-up masterclasses, and workshops in music, visual art, and recording studio fundamentals.
Through its global collaborations, podcast, events, programs, and concert series, the company's impact extends beyond the stage, serving as an incubator for innovative music and fostering dialogue between music forms, cultures, and artists.
