Grantee Database

SAN BERNARDINO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION

Grant Year

2024-25

Grant Program

General Operating Support

Award Amount

$20,276.00

Project Description

With support from the California Arts Council, the San Bernardino Symphony Association will fund general operations including office rent, office utilities, and a portion of the salary of our Spanish-speaking office assistant who has been so helpful with the preparation of outreach materials and patron services. Since the cessation of federal arts assistance, and with the loss of so many of our senior donors, our 95-year-old organization has been extremely challenged; this grant would make a world of difference.

Organization Summary

The San Bernardino Symphony actualizes our mission through engaging and culturally/artistically relevant programming. We also provide a variety of educational enrichment programs, including concerts for the schools serving over 1,700 students annually, introductory workshops on orchestral instruments for every local third grade class (roughly 5,000 students each year), online educational videos, and our San Bernardino Symphony Youth Orchestra, a 70+ piece orchestra dedicatd to the performance of works by underrepresented composers. We also offer certificated Symphony Teens programs providing job skills training to local high school students. The vast majority of these students are of minority decent and considered at-risk due to economic circumstances. The Symphony also operates the Guthrie Music Rental Library providing low cost orchestral parts to other orchestras, schools, and choral groups.

Organization

San Bernardino Symphony Orchestra

Address

536 W. 11th Street

San Bernardino

92410

County

San Bernardino

Region

Inland Empire

Phone

(909) 381-5388

Congressional District

California's 31st congressional district

State Assembly District

District 40

State Senate District

District 23

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