Community Outreach
Each year, these programs serve approximately 3,200 students, ages four through eighteen, throughout the Greater San Gabriel Valley. They help meet an increasing need for access to arts education, as well as access to opportunities that will nurture each student’s inherent musical aptitude.
Our Programs
Young Musicians at Longfellow Elementary
For 20 years, PCM has partnered with the Pasadena Unified School District to provide free, weekly Young Musicians classes to a Title I school in our neighborhood. That school was Jefferson Elementary until 2020, when the school closed due to declining enrollment. Now, the program is at Longfellow Elementary, where Young Musicians faculty provide weekly general music instruction to K-3rd grade students and twice weekly instruction in choir, guitar, percussion, and class piano to 4th and 5th grade students.
Financial Aid/Scholarship
PCM’s Financial Aid/Scholarship program provides and sustains financial assistance for students who demonstrate continued interest and commitment to music study. Tuition assistance supports their enrollment in a range of activities, including individual lessons and ensemble instruction.
PCM’s outreach programs are supported in part by awards made by the following foundations and agencies:
ACMP Foundation, Adams-Mastrovich Family Foundation, Augustine Foundation, Katharine Audrey Webb Foundation, The Music Man Foundation, RBC Foundation, and the Helen and Will Webster Foundation.
