EDUCATION
PROGRAMS

What We Do

Our purpose is to provide tuition-free music instruction programs aligned with VAPA standards to support teachers, parents, students and community members in defunded, marginalized communities suffering from systemic racism, the digital divide and racial disparity in education of the arts. The programs are facilitated by accredited educators who are also award-winning professional local musicians in the film, concert hall and recording industries in Los Angeles and globally.

MAP’s career pathway workshops introduce careers and apprenticeships in music-related fields.

Each season, MAP’s Artistic Director, Anthony Parnther, and MAP leaders meet with the youth, school administrators, teachers, and parents to customize a live and virtual concert program designed to meet the individual needs of each youth community.

We donate special music selections to students from popular film music from John Williams (Star Wars, E.T. Home Alone, Jurassic Park), Michael Giacchino (Star Trek, Incredibles, COCO, Jurassic World) and other award winning composers. Through a series of sequential workshops, MAP mentors provide one-on-one, and small group coaching, ultimately culminating in live public performances.

Core Programs and Services

MAP Instrumental Music Mentoring Formats (aligned with Visual & Performing Arts Standards) and our Racial Equity Statement. All programs are provided in a virtual format as well as live in person workshops. Preparation Packages with lesson plans are created with teachers.

• Introduction to Jazz – Targeted at Grades K – 12th for schools with little or no music programs, this is a fun interactive participatory concert designed to introduce students to the instruments and their capabilities.
• MAP Assembly – Live and virtually up to 800 students – a learning and fun experience by preparing the students for the concert and by including their active participation. This is a two(2) part program.
• Jazz Ensemble & Big Band – Live and virtual coaching. 8 – 12 Mentors – Trumpet/Sax/Trombone/Rhythm Section. This 4-6 session program.
• Concert Band / Wind Ensemble Mentorship – Live and Virtual Coaching. Trumpet/Trombone/French Horn/Sax/Clarinet/Flute/Percussion. 10 sequential workshops taught by Seven (7) MAP mentors are provided for a school’s concert band or wind ensemble to assist teachers working with students in the woodwind, brass, and percussion families of instruments, along with the double bass or bass guitar. Additional nontraditional instruments such as piano, harp, synthesizer, or electric guitar may be added.
• Symphonic Orchestra – Beginning to Advanced –Virtual and Live. Trumpet/Trombone/French Horn/Sax/Clarinet/Flute/Percussion/Bass/ Cello/ Viola/ Violins/Piano plus Conductor. 10 Workshop Sessions –18-27 MAP mentors cover all the instrumental families work and perform with students in a public performance.

Who are the Mentors?

Most of the musicians are members of the Hollywood Studio Symphony Orchestra in Los Angeles, California, a rotating group of classically-trained musicians responsible for playing the soundtrack music for motion pictures since the 1920’s. These artists also perform with the L.A. Philharmonic Orchestra and in premiere concert venues throughout the world. In the Hollywood studios, they perform and record the music of award-winning composers, such as John Williams and Michael Giacchino, and can be heard on the soundtracks of thousands of films, including Star Wars, Star Trek, Back to the Future, UP, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Coco, Schindler’s List, Home Alone and JAWS to name only a few.

“Congratulations Musicians at Play Foundation… It has been my honor to have worked with my brilliant colleagues in Los Angeles, and I always appreciate the invaluable contribution they’ve made to my scores and to those of other composers.

LA musicians are a pool of freelancers who constantly come together to form a fabulous orchestra. We don’t celebrate this enough, and we absolutely need to be more vocal about it.”

~ John Williams American composer, conductor, and musician