Education United States Project #2803

Give In-School Music Classes to Los Angeles Youth

by Education Through Music-Los Angeles (ETM-LA, Inc.)

Give In-School Music Classes to Los Angeles Youth

Project Report | Oct 30, 2015
Celebrating 10 Years of Quality Music Education

By Christine Kim | Development Associate

Mario, Student at partner Guardian Angel School

Education Through Music-Los Angeles kicked off its 10^th year of providing quality music education in schools by adding new partner schools, offering professional development workshops, and presenting community events in our new office space.

Through your support, ETM-LA will serve a planned 20 schools and approximately 10,000 children this school year. We will be expanding our programs in the Burbank, Compton, Pasadena, and LA Unified School Districts, as well as parochial schools across LA County. Among the new schools, we began music programming at Hooper Avenue Elementary, a low-income South LA school in which approximately 96% of 975 students qualify for Free/Reduced Price Lunch. We will also be partnering with McKinley Elementary, a Compton school that is in critical need of a music program. Every child in our partner schools will receive comprehensive music instruction because of your incredible support.

The fall has also brought wonderful community events and learning opportunities in ETM-LA’s new office space. Students and community members attended a special meet and greet with composer Patrick Doyle (Cinderella, Brave, Sense and Sensibility). Mr. Doyle played memorable excerpts of his work on the piano, and took students on a journey behind the music of Cinderella through a lively Q & A. Music teachers also participated in the August professional development workshops at the new office space, and began utilizing the brand new Resource Library to plan lessons for the fall.

Music is changing the lives of students, and motivating them to go to school. Cynthia, a parent of music student Mario shares, “I have seen music impact my child by way of personality, opening up to others, being able to express emotions, participating in school, and having the confidence to answer questions.” Mario is one of 10,000 children who we will be serving this school year, and we are so grateful for your support during this stage of major program expansion. We would love to hear from you on how we can make the greatest impact in serving school communities with the greatest need.

Thank you for joining our mission and providing children with hope for a brighter future through music education!

Music Teachers Participate in Training

ETM-LA Students

Music Teachers Participate in Training

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Aug 3, 2015
A Summer of Community Building and Concerts

By Victoria Lanier | Executive Director

String Students Perform on July 27th

Our summer at Education Through Music-Los Angeles has been a time of community building and cool concerts!

Through your support, ETM-LA Music Teacher Christa Camilleri began teaching two years ago at partner school KIPP Iluminar in East Los Angeles. The music program has helped build a vibrant school community – one in which students have gained life skills such as cooperation and being good listeners. “Music education has helped my students become more aware of their surroundings,” shares Camilleri. We are thrilled to see KIPP Iluminar’s school-wide program flourish, so much so that they are able to sustain their program through hiring Camilleri on full-time onto their staff. “Besides reaching underserved populations of students who may not have access to music education, ETM-LA provides quality professional development for teachers and enables them to grow as well. I am a better teacher now because of my involvement with ETM-LA,” said Camilleri.

The summer also brought a splash of cool concerts which included a special performance on July 27^th featuring ETM-LA violin and cello students from Providencia Elementary, other young accomplished artists and Los Angeles Philharmonic Concertmaster Martin Chalifour. Chalifour, who has held his role as Concertmaster for 20 years, performed two movements from the popular Bach Partita for Violin No.3. Typically only being able to see him from afar at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, the audience cherished the experience of hearing him up close at the First Presbyterian Church of Burbank. Teenager Maya Paredes, a talented pianist and cellist, both produced and performed at the concert. She had mentored the Providencia Elementary students this past year and wanted to support ETM-LA in some way. “I have seen first hand the work Education Through Music – LA does in our local schools and wanted to encourage people to donate and help support music education in public schools.”

This coming school year we plan to expand our reach from 16 to 20 schools serving approximately 10,000 children. We’d love to hear from you on how we can make the greatest impact in serving school communities with the greatest need.

Thank you for joining our mission and providing children with hope for a brighter future through music education!

Students perform at a Compton School Board mtg

LA Phil Concertmaster Martin Chalifour Performs

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May 1, 2015
"When I'm having a hard time I can just practice." - Kaia, Student

By Victoria Lanier | Executive Director

Kaia with her Drums

Kaia, a 4th grader at Rio Vista Elementary, was told that drums are for boys. She was inspired to begin playing the drums because no one was going to tell her she could not. This small step will shape how Kaia sees herself and develops as a young woman and citizen of the world. “I decided to play the drums because a lot of boys said that I couldn’t because I was a girl and I just wanted to prove them wrong.”

“Music makes my life better because it’s really, really fun, and it helps me get motivated for school, and when I’m having a hard time I can just practice,” shares Kaia.

Thanks to supporters like you, children like Kaia can continue to thrive through a robust and well-rounded education that includes music and the arts.

On April 17, 2015, along with over 170 other students, Kaia participated in ETM-LA’s 5^th Annual Music Unites the World Festival bringing together students from all over Los Angeles County – Chinatown to Compton, Burbank to Boyle Heights and Sylmar to Sun Valley. They were excited to play music with peers whom they had just met and to receive coaching from our Music Faculty members, guest artists and educators including Joseph Trapanese (Composer, Insurgent, Oblivion, Earth to Echo), Misha Shtangrud (Choral Director, Colburn School), and Phil Feather (Studio Woodwinds Musician, Jurassic World, Mad Men).

Kaia is currently one of over 7,000 schoolchildren we serve at 16 disadvantaged schools with weekly, yearlong comprehensive music instruction. Our goal for the upcoming school year – and our 10^th Anniversary – is to expand to reach over 8,500 children at 20 schools.

We would love to invite you to visit our music classes in action at anytime. In addition, as we expand our music education programs, we’d love to hear from you on how we can make the greatest impact in serving school communities with the greatest need.

Thank you for joining our mission and providing children with hope for a brighter future through music education!

Kaia with Matthew, Instructor

Music Unites the World Festival

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