With support from the California Arts Council, the San Bernardino Symphony will provide two back-to-back student concerts serving approximately 3,400 economically disadvantaged, traditionally marginalized students. Conducted by Anthony Parnther, one of only four Black conductors of western US orchestras, repertoire will focus on works by living composers of Color.
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.

