Civic Arts Commission Meeting Agenda Packet 030325 FINAL

Powered by ZoomGrants™ City of Pleasanton FY 2024/2025 Community Grant Program - Civic Arts Pacific Chamber Orchestra Clinics for middle and high school string students Requested Amount $ 2,500.00 Official Amount $ 2,000.00 Provide a brief summary of the project for which your agency is seeking funding for (no more than 3 sentences; this text will be used widely during the review and implementation process to describe your project.) Pacific Chamber Orchestra will provide classroom clinics by PCO's master musician for middle and high school music students who play string instruments in their school orchestras. These clinics delve into specific techniques to achieve improved results that the music teachers request. Describe the following:a. The problem(s), need(s), issue(s) or service gaps to support the need for this project in Pleasanton. b. How your project relates to the problem, need, issue or service gap. c. How this relates to the Cultural Plan. The problem that Middle and High School Music teachers have is to bring the string students as an ensemble up to their highest skill levels for fine school and community performances. Like school sports, coaches are needed with specialized knowledge. Pacific Chamber Orchestra with the finest professional musicians is able to fill this service gap in coaching the string students through clinics designed to increase the technical proficiency of all the string ensemble members by providing students and teachers with specific exercises for the techniques covered and augmenting classroom teachers’ presentations of technique with live examples of professional performance, instruction, and mentoring. In this way, Pacific Chamber Orchestra's clinics address Goal 2 of the City's Cultural Plan, which calls for Pleasanton to "Expand arts learning opportunities to match the needs of residents of all ages," and also relate to Goal 1 of the City's Cultural Page 70 of 116