Youth orchestra
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Through Gustavo Dudamel’s Youth Orchestra LA (YOLA) program – inspired by Venezuela’s revolutionary El Sistema – the LA Phil and its community partners provide free instruments, intensive music training, and academic support to students from underserved neighborhoods, empowering them to become vital citizens, leaders, and agents of change.
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It has been a dream to see YOLA grow and to watch how these
students have changed on an artistic level, and also as citizens
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– Gustavo Dudamel, Music Director, Los Angeles Philharmonic
YOLA at HOLA performs at Walt Disney Concert Hall Gustavo Dudamel rehearses with YOLA at EXPO
What
Is YoLa?
YOLA students perform side-by-side with the LA Phil
“
The interdependence of the LA Phil’s artistic and
social imperatives find expression in YOLA, which is altering
the course of young lives through the power of music.
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– Deborah Borda, President & CEO, Los Angeles Philharmonic
Youth Orchestra LA (YOLA) provides students ages 6-18 a strong musical and social foundation through participation in 12-15 hours of programming each week. With sites in South L.A. (YOLA at EXPO), the Rampart District (YOLA at HOLA), and East L.A. (YOLA at LACHSA), YOLA engages students frommore than 200 schools in L.A. County. Intensive music study is complemented by academic support, leadership opportunities, parent workshops, and performances - both in the community and in world-class venues such as Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Hollywood Bowl.
YOLA students join the LA Phil tour to London
Located in South Los Angeles and founded with the Harmony Project in 2007 as the first YOLA site, YOLA at EXPO Center engages over 300 students ages 6-18.
YOLA at EXPO is a partnership of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Harmony Project, and the EXPO Center, a City of Los Angeles
Department of Recreation and Parks facility.
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“
Music is my passion. Music is freedom.
Music is my life.
”
– Samantha, age 14
Performance at the Hollywood Bowl Rehearsal with Juanes at EXPO Center
YOLA at HOLA is located in the Rampart District, one of L.A.’s most densely populated and diverse neighborhoods. Founded in 2010, the program engages over 200 students ages 6-16.
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YOLA has shaped me to be a better leader
and role model, and made me realize that I could
be part of something greater in life
.
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– Raymond, age 14
YOLA at HOLA is a partnership of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association and Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA).
Located east of downtown L.A., YOLA at LACHSA engages over 100 students ages 8-12. High School students at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts act as mentors to their younger YOLA counterparts.
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“
An orchestra is a community where the essential
and exclusive feature is that it is the only community
that comes together with the fundamental objective of
agreeing with itself
.
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– José Antonio Abreu, Founder, El SistemaYOLA at LACHSA is a partnership of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association and Los Angeles County High School for the Arts (LACHSA).
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Thank you for changing our lives. We think differently now;
we act differently. As a result, we want to do more things for
our community and for ourselves.
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– Elementary school parentYoLa
neIghborhood
Project
building communities through Music
With the YOLA sites at its core, the YOLA Neighborhood Project brings music into the lives of over 15,000 community members by creating concentrated networks of musical activity in South Los Angeles, the Rampart District, and East Los Angeles. Thousands of school children experience music through in-class residencies, field trips to Walt Disney Concert Hall and free concerts performed by LA Phil musicians in their schools, churches, and community centers.@ LACHSA
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The LA Phil’s education and community initiatives provide many points of access through which children, families, and concert-goers can engage in the appreciation and creation of music. Serving over 150,000 people from across Los Angeles’ socioeconomic spectrum, programs include specially designed concerts for families at Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Hollywood Bowl, concerts in community settings, in-school residencies, after-school intensive orchestra instruction through YOLA, intensive training for high school composers, ways for L.A.-area youth orchestras to connect to the LA Phil, and pre- and post- concert talks. All of these programs are free or low-cost.
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InvestIng In L.a.:
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A global movement of advocates for music and social change requires new forms of training and avenues for collaboration. Take a Stand, an innovative partnership of the LA Phil, Bard College and the Longy School of Music of Bard College provides pathways for professional development through international symposia, regional workshops and a Master of Arts in Teaching in Music Degree Program, situated in L.A. on the campus of YOLA at HOLA.
take a stand
Supporting Social Change Through Music
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Take a Stand…will provide a platform of regular conferences
and workshops for pioneering classical music educators…
and will develop a pool of artistically accomplished,
socially conscious music teachers.
suPPort YoLa
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Support the future of YOLA and the LA Phil’s education and community programs.
Learn
Find tools to take action in YOLA’s Resource Library.
act
Connect with like-minded individuals and organizations through Take a Stand.
thank You!
Leadership support for the LA Phil’s Educational Initiatives is provided by Peggy Bergmann YOLA Endowment Fund, Anonymous, Lee and Hope Landis Warner YOLA Student Fund, Norma D. Kayser Trust, Max H. Gluck Foundation, Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts, Los Angeles Philharmonic Committee, The Rose Hills Foundation, William Randolph Hearst Foundation, Amgen Foundation, The Walt Disney Company, Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A., Inc., Los Angeles County Arts Commission, Terri and Jerry M. Kohl, Eisner Foundation, Dudley Rauch, and Rosenthal Family Foundation.
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YOLA students have the richness of the arts
in their hands and in their hearts
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