Elemental Music

Elemental Music celebrates music-making and builds community through music education programs!

05/05/2026

Longtime Elemental Music student Sadie has always felt like music was her community, so she chose to celebrate her 16th birthday in the most fitting way possible: with a concert benefiting Elemental Music. 🥹

It’s so inspiring to see our students channel their musicianship into something bigger. For Sadie, that meant using her artistry to give back and create opportunities for more young musicians to experience our programs. THANK YOU to Sadie and her generous and enthusiastic audience, who raised $1,000 for our programs!

Swipe for moments from the birthday concert and dress rehearsal candids. The evening featured a special performance by the Fire Breathing Rubber Duckies, one of our Chamber Music Institute ensembles!

Follow the link to read about the concert, Sadie’s inspiration for the event, and more 💫: https://www.elementalmusic.org/news/2026/5/4/a-birthday-benefit-concert-for-elemental-music

05/02/2026

Our final Musical Journeys event of the year is almost here! Join us at Elemental Music’s campus on May 6 for a special conversation with Peter Wilson - violinist, conductor, and former Senior Enlisted Music Advisor to the White House.

Over a 30-year career as a Marine violinist, Peter performed in direct support of five U.S. Presidents. 🎻
He is currently the Music Director of the Richmond Philharmonic, the Waynesboro Symphony Orchestra, Artistic Director and Conductor of the American Festival Pops Orchestra. (And he will visit our Academy Philharmonic next week and work with our students as a guest conductor!)

Don’t miss this chance to hear stories from an extraordinary life in music at this free talk! RSVP and save your seat at the link in our bio. 🎶

04/28/2026

You guys...is there anything cuter than a teeny tiny violin being played by a teeny tiny human? Ahhh! We had SO much fun at City of Santa Monica - Government's Arts & Literacy Festival hosting our Instrument Petting Zoo and meeting so many wonderful families!

We are also so proud of our Elemental Strings orchestras. Both Sinfonia and Chamber Music performed on the A&L stage and shared their music with our wider Santa Monica community, inspiring the many young children who were there watching! Thank you to the Arts & Literacy organizers for having us back for another great year at the festival. 💛🎶

04/24/2026

It is really something special to see a spark and passion for music ignited. This elementary schooler had the chance to try conducting the orchestra last week at Elemental Strings. “You did such a great job, maybe you’ll become a conductor someday!” said one of her teachers afterwards.

“I’m thinking about it!” replied the student enthusiastically. 🥹💙
music want to come visit Santa Monica? There are some young musicians here ready to be inspired!

04/21/2026

Our Broadway Chorus and Elemental Choir singers had the chance to perform at the Honor Chorus Festival at the end of March. It was such fun for our musicians to sing with students from around Southern California and share in the joy of making music together. And, we are so proud that three of the four soloists for the performance that day came from Elemental Music programs!

04/20/2026

April is National Volunteer Appreciation Month and we’re still smiling from our Volunteer Appreciation lunch yesterday! 🥰 We are so grateful for this incredible community of supporters. From making our concerts run smoothly, lending a hand around our campus, and helping bring our gala to life, to serving on committees and even guiding our organization as dedicated board members, there are so many ways our families and friends show up for Elemental Music.

🎶 Your time, energy, and care make everything we do possible. THANK YOU for being such an essential part of our community. We make great music TOGETHER!

03/25/2026

Our Elemental @ Westminster students are having fun in the music room! This month, our fourth graders are composing their own rhythms while our third graders are learning about instrument families using Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf. We love that the music room is such a special place at the school. 🩵🎶

03/20/2026

🪘 Join us this weekend for a drop-in Drum Circle experience - no musical background needed! Using the Beat the Odds curriculum, we’ll build rhythm, connection, and community together through play, listening, and self-expression.

Swipe for more info, sign up here (https://forms.gle/YwxaAeZC8i8Qdj5JA), and come make some noise with us!

03/17/2026

Join us this Wednesday for another free event in our Musical Journeys series featuring Rich Capparela, one of the nation’s most beloved and well-known classical music radio personalities! He will regale us with tales from his fascinating career. It will be an evening full of wit and classical music! Click the link to reserve your (FREE!) tickets: https://give.elementalmusic.org/richcapparela

03/10/2026

We are so delighted to have our Blackbird Elementals project featured in the current issue of ! It was an amazing experience to have our Chamber Music Institute students work with living composers and collaborating with members of to bring that music to life.

03/09/2026

Another amazing concert weekend in the books! We even had a world premiere with our Elemental Strings Chamber Orchestra performing a brand new piece written just for them by Los Angeles composer (and Elemental Music mom) !

It is always such a joy to hear the progress of our students between their first concert of the year and the next one. The growth is tremendous, thanks to the hard work of the kids, the dedication of the teachers, and everything that our amazing families do at home to support practice and musical engagement! 🩵

Congrats to all our student performers! 💐

Address

1906 Olympic Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA
90404

Telephone

+13102200349

Website

http://www.elementalmusic.org/

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Elemental Music posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Organization

Send a message to Elemental Music:

Shortcuts

Want your organization to be the top-listed Non Profit Organization in Santa Monica?