After 20 years, Elemental Music now has a home on Olympic Blvd, where hundreds of youth from across the westside come to make great music together.

Play It Forward launches us into an exciting new chapter, expanding our ability to deliver excellent and accessible music education. Our new home will host our Encore lessons, our Chamber Music Institute, many of our large ensemble programs, our music library, and our leadership offices, all in one space. With this renovated space, we can better serve more students, launch new programs tailored for the youngest music makers in our community, and further enhance our impact on the musicians of tomorrow.

Play It Forward is a $400,000 campaign to support:

  • Build-out and set up costs for renovating our rehearsal spaces, including construction, acoustics, and furnishings

  • Program costs for new Academy-level and Early Childhood programs

  • Ramp up costs to support the new space

This new space will help hundreds of students flourish with high level music education programs. As a 501c3 nonprofit, we rely on charitable donations from families, friends, and the community to provide these musical opportunities to students of all backgrounds. A gift to Play It Forward will not only bring our new rehearsal space to life, but it will also strengthen our community and help nurture the next generation of artists.

We need YOUR help to set the stage for another 20 years of music-making and community!

There are a number of exciting opportunities for Play It Forward donors, including naming opportunities for our campus spaces as well as donor benefits. And, every donor who makes a gift of $2,500 or more to this campaign will have their name added to our campus donor wall!

Donor Benefits

Donor benefits are cumulative. All donors will be acknowledged on our website and in our annual donor roll.

$10,000 and above

Donors will have an exclusive briefing with the Executive Director and be invited to VIP donor events.

$5,000 and above

Donors will be invited to our ceremonial groundbreaking event!

$2,500 and above

All donors at this level will be included will be included on our campus donor wall. For gifts at $2,500 and above, you can designate your listning on the donor wall to pay tribute to someone (ex. “In honor of…” or “In memory of…”).

Join us as a Play It Forward donor today and bring our new campus to life for the next generation of young musicians!

In addition to donating through our online campaign page or by mailing a check to 1906 Olympic Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90404, there are many other ways to give, including:

  • EFT and wire transfers

  • Stock donations

  • IRA Charitable Rollover Gifts.

  • Corporate matches

  • Give through a Donor-Advised Fund (DAF)

  • Multi-year pledges

Please contact our Executive & Artistic Director Josephine Moerschel at josephine@elementalmusic.org if you are interested in taking advantage of one of our exciting naming opportunities or would like to donate via one of the options in the bulleted list above.

 
 

Thank you to our Play It Forward donors:

Foundation Builders ($25,000 and above)

Santa Monica Westside Legacy Fund for Women and Girls
Janie & Daniel Docter
Office of Sheila Kuehl
Ron & Pat Lebel


Cornerstone Contributers ($10,000–$24,999)

Mary Alice Fortin Foundation
Anonymous

Brick by Brick Supporters (up to $9,999)

Ali Howell & Alex Kohner
Rotary Club of Santa Monica
Charles & Terri Stern
Brigitte Saidiner