With support from the California Arts Council, the San Bernardino Symphony Association will operate a Youth Symphony Orchestra dedicated to the performance of works by systemically underrepresented composers.
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.

