The Harmony Program trains college and graduate student musicians to teach music to economically disadvantaged young people. Harmony's student-instructors receive professional development training, classroom observation and evaluation, and hourly stipends for their teaching services. Harmony's beginner musicians receive musical instruments, music instruction, books, supplies, and tickets to cultural events, all entirely free of charge.

The dual objective of the Harmony Program is simultaneously to develop a new generation of music students and music instructors. In doing so, Harmony seeks to fulfill the larger social mission of expanding access among under-served communities to music education and the creativity, self-confidence, discipline, and teamwork it engenders.