The Colburn School Conservatory and Academy in Los Angeles is celebrating its tenth anniversary this season with two new initiatives: a chamber-music program with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and a rush-hour concert series in downtown L.A. For the first initiative, young conductors in the LA Phil’s Dudamel Fellowship Program will work this season for the first time with students in the Academy, Colburn’s comprehensive pre-college music program established three years ago. Dudamel Fellows will lead Colburn musicians in chamber-music concerts at Colburn’s Zipper Hall on November 14 and April 21. The second initiative—a six-concert series of hourlong concerts in downtown Los Angeles on Thursday evenings—will showcase soloists and small and large ensembles from the Conservatory and Academy. Also announced for this season for Colburn are an expansion of the school’s Para Los Ninos-Academy Partnership, a community engagement program in southern California public schools launched last year; and the Colburn Scholars, an all-scholarship arts-immersion program for fifteen students selected from area public schools and youth orchestras. The latter program includes private music instruction, music theory, voice, rhythm class, and ensemble work by Colburn President Sel Kardan and other members of the Colburn faculty.
Posted September 12, 2012
