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INNER CITY YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF LOS ANGELES INCORPORATED
Grant Year
2025-26
Grant Program
Arts and Youth
Award Amount
$20,500.00
Project Description
The Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles (ICYOLA) requests your $25,000 partnership to support our comprehensive ICYOLA Academy, providing intensive music education to 60 underserved string students across violin, viola, and cello. Students receive weekly individual lessons plus ensemble instruction, ensuring personalized attention while building collaborative skills. Your contribution represents significant investment in our $115,200 annual budget, supporting five exceptional instructors delivering 1,680 individual lessons and 780 ensemble hours yearly. Beyond musical development, students gain discipline, confidence, and college preparatory experience. Many alumni receive full university scholarships, crediting their transformational orchestral experience. Your support creates pathways to brighter futures, ensuring zip code never determines access to musical excellence.
Organization Summary
ICYOLA offers five programs: the ICYOLA Orchestra Program; the ICYOLA Academy; the South Los Angeles Music Project; the Los Angeles Orchestra Fellowship; and the ICYOLA Drum Corps. Through the ICYOLA Orchestra Program, we present an annual Concert Season that features both the standard orchestral repertoire and contemporary music that resounds within the community that ICYOLA serves. Through the South Los Angeles Music Project, we offer introductory and diversionary music programs to young people who are at risk of entry into the juvenile justice system. Through the Los Angeles Orchestra Fellowship, we train emerging professionals to take and win auditions with American orchestras. The ICYOLA Drum Corps trains young musicians how to play drums and march in step. All ICYOLA programs instill the ancillary values of music into their members. Those values include self-respect, respect for others and property, chain of command, and the pursuit of excellence in all things.
Organization
ICYOLA
Address
6820 S La Tijera Blvd Suite 106
Los Angeles
90045
County
Los Angeles
Region
South – Los Angeles & Orange
Phone
(213) 788-4260
Congressional District
California's 43rd congressional district
State Assembly District
District 61
State Senate District
District 35
