California Symphony Orchestra
For General Operating Support
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Amount$120,000
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Program
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Date Awarded9/25/2020
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Term1.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Organization
Strategies
Overview
California Symphony Orchestra is a regional symphony that commissions and presents orchestral music performances and provides educational programming to students in Contra Costa County. The symphony’s annual season reaches an audience of 8,800 people, and its school-based programming provides free, intensive music instruction to 100 students each year. This grant to California Symphony Orchestra aligns with the Performing Arts Program’s Continuity and Engagement strategy through the Traditional Works component.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.californiasymphony.org
Address
100 Pringle, Suite 540, Walnut Creek, CA, 94596, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
California Symphony Orchestra, the only professional symphony orchestra serving Contra Costa County, produces a four-concert subscription series at Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek, alongside its Young American Composer-in-Residence program, free community performances, and a Music-in-the-Schools assembly program reaching 3,000 K-5 students. The past two years have seen major leadership transitions, with the hiring of a new executive director and the controversial board dismissal of the founding music director; financial vulnerability has dogged the organization for a number of years. Renewed funding would allow the orchestra to stabilize and chart its future course. Particular attention will be paid to the organization’s financial stability and its ability to navigate transitions in executive and artistic leadership.
