Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and USC Thornton School of Music have jointly launched the Los Angeles Orchestra Fellowship, a two-year fellowship program for string musicians from underrepresented communities on the verge of launching careers in orchestral performance. The comprehensive program, funded primarily by grants totaling $700,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is designed to prepare fellows to win auditions in professional American orchestras. Applications for the first fellowship class beginning in fall 2018—the positions are for two violins, a viola, and a cello—are due December 31, 2017. In the press release announcing the Los Angeles fellowships, League of American Orchestras President and CEO Jesse Rosen states, “By working together, these three forward-thinking, LA-based organizations are sure to make a great impact in their city and, ultimately, throughout the country. As our recently released Forty Years of Fellowships study confirmed, orchestra fellowship programs can provide valuable benefits for both musicians from underrepresented communities and the organizations working with them.” Information on applying for Los Angeles Orchestra Fellowships will be posted later this fall at LAorchestrafellowship.org. Read the League’s report on fellowships and other diversity resources here.
Posted October 13, 2017
