With support from the California Arts Council, San Bernardino Symphony Association will fund professional training for members of our office, board, stage, and musician teams at the Association of California Symphony Orchestras annual conference in August 2020. We have never been in a position to be able to afford send all those who would benefit from this training, but as the 2020 conference will be in the Inland Empire (a first!) funds are very cost-efficiently needed for the conference only.
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.

