Southern California, with top-notch conservatory-trained students from USC, UCLA, Colburn, the CSUs in Long Beach, Fullerton, Northridge, Cal Arts, and other excellent institutions, boasts one of the largest pools of competitive, young professional musicians in the United States.

Musicians At Play successfully launched the Civic Orchestra of Los Angeles, a new pre-professional orchestra, to provide world-class training and performance opportunities for young professional musicians in Southern California aged 17 and above. Each of the CO-LA Orchestral Fellows accepted into our program receives a stipend.

The Civic Orchestra of Los Angeles (CO-LA), led by Anthony Parnther, held its inaugural concert on April 28, 2024, in the Sanctuary at First Congregational Church of Los Angeles.

CO-LAs inaugural concert featured soloist Thomas Hooten, principal trumpet of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and included works by Robert Schumann, Valerie Coleman-Page, and Alexandra Pahkmutova.

The concert was free of charge and open to the general public.

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