Grantee Database
PACIFIC CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Grant Year
2019-20
Grant Program
Arts Education – Exposure
Award Amount
$18,000.00
Project Description
With support from the California Arts Council, PACIFIC CHAMBER ORCHESTRA will present our acclaimed “Discover Music” in-school educational assemblies to over 12,000 students at 18 schools with an emphasis on Title 1 schools in the Hayward and Livermore Joint Unified School Districts. The mixed quintet and narrator will perform and lead a post-performance discussion. Teachers will receive a study guide with grade level tailored classroom projects on the educational topic of the assemblies.
Organization Summary
PCO is a resident company of Livermore’s Bankhead Theater and also performs in Lafayette and before the pandemic and great recession also served the Antioch, San Francisco and Napa. PCO’s atmosphere is friendly and welcoming to all audiences reaching directly to low-income seniors, families and communities in need, low HPI areas, and through our educational programs title 1 schools introducing students to the wonders of classical music. PCO’s current offerings include:
– four sets of main concerts are performed each season in two locations.
– a fifth set consists of new works by competitively selected emerging composers under the theme Dream American
– a variety of educational programs: elementary in-school assemblies that introduce and teach basic music fundamentals, full orchestra school day matinée performances, and clinics for middle and high school music students that reaches over 6,000 students every year in Livermore, Pleasanton, and Hayward.
Organization
Pacific Chamber Orchestra
Address
2145 Donald Drive #12
Moraga
94556
County
Alameda
Region
Bay Area – Other
Phone
(925) 324-2775
Congressional District
15th Congressional Distrcit
State Assembly District
District 16
State Senate District
District 5
