Sol-La Music Academy

Programs: Sol-la campus programsol-la offers lessons, classes, ensembles, chamber groups, music theory, and early education to over 250 students each year at our santa monica campus, bringing together a diverse student population as a communiity of musicians. Sol-la classes and ensembles run from september to june and are divided into two 16-week semesters. Individual lessons occur year-round. Sol-la supports access to music education for all children as well as high standards of excellence and achievement. We provide tuition assistance to over 50% of students in our on-campus classes. As sol-la is a community school,we embrace children of all levels and we believe that music should be a part of every child's education. Sol-la supports the commitment and talent of particularly high-achieving students and sol-la students are consistent winners at competitions throughout southern california as well as recipients of scholarship awards and acceptances to prestigious university and summer music programs.

st. Anne school programsol-la's satellite program at st. Anne school, the only nonpublic title 1 school in santa monica, ca is flourishing. Sol-la provides music instruction at no cost to students at st. Anna school, where more than 40% of families meet the federal food program proverty criteria. In 2010, sol-la formed a partnership with crossroads school's elizabeth mandell music institute (emmi) and the crossroards community outreach foundation (ccof) to provide music education at st. Anne school. The st. Anne music program began with a fourth grade class of 18 beginning violin students and has grown rapidly to now serve 260 k-8 grade students. In addition, st. Anne school students are eligible to attend string ensemble, music theory, and chorus classes on the sol-la campus with substantial tuition assistance. The esstential aspects of the instrumental program are weekly lessons with a sol-la master teacher in violin, cello, guitar and chorus, as well as bi-weekly practice sessions for string players with mentors from emmi and crossroads school with the support of crossroads school and ccof. In addition, college students from the ucla herb alpert school of music (hasom) act as senior mentors. Instruments are provided to each student, the majority on loan from our community partner, american youth symphony, and many provided through donors. Other satellite programsin addition to our program at st. Anne school, sol-la has satellite programs at two other schools, crossroads elementary school and st. Monica catholic elementary school in santa monica, ca. Both programs offer violin classes to students as part of the school's enrichment program. The crossroads program offers two 60-minute classes each week to 45 students and the program at st. Monica offers one 60-minute class each week to 30 students. Students in sol-la satellite and on-campus programs come together to perform several times over the course of the school year.

sol-la's mentorship program for ucla herb alpert school of music and university music students provides teaching experience and job opportunities, working with highly accomplished leading educators in the field of music and performing arts. Advanced level high school students are given the opportunity to work with sol-la faculty, while mentoring younger students through after school instrumental practice sessions. The role of the mentor is to serve as a practice supervisor, coach, friend and role-model and introduces mentors to the art of teaching.