This holiday season, you can help us continue to give the gift of learning, music, and community to the students in our programs.

Elemental Strings, DBA Elemental Music, serves the Santa Monica community. Our mission is to inspire, train, and nurture young musicians in Santa Monica, to help build and strengthen their musical and personal skills through a weekly ensemble training program.

Since Elemental Music started in 2009, over 800 students have gone through our programs, and we have grown to offer programs for nearly any elementary student learning an instrument or taking choir. Nearly 40% of our students receive need-based financial aid, with more than $25,000 awarded for just this season.

By supporting our programs, you are supporting students in the Santa Monica community. According to an Elemental Student, “Because of this amazing opportunity, I am able to perform much better on my auditions and playing tests. I am able to face these challenges in my musical career with much more confidence than I had when I was self-studying my music. As a result of your generosity, I would just like to share with you that as an outcome of my most recent playing test, I am now concert master of my school orchestra.”

Love and appreciation of music is a gift that lasts a lifetime. With your help, we can continue to grow and support this wonderful group of young musicians in the Santa Monica community.

A gift of $25: pays for a two-hour ensemble rehearsal for a student
A gift of $50: purchase one set of sheet music for one of our ensembles
A gift of $100: provides a month of rehearsals for a scholarship student

ELEMENTAL STRINGS

Inspiring, training, and nurturing young musicians in Santa Monica

Fundraising Campaigns

Elemental Strings Holiday Challenge

Academy Strings

Prelude Program

Elemental Guitar

Elemental Choir

Elemental Band

Elemental Strings Sinfonia

Elemental Strings Chamber Orchestra

Multiple Teams Campaigns

2016 Practice-a-thon