Programs and Classes
We provide lessons for the following:
- Piano
- Violin
- Cello
- Oboe
- Flute
- Clarinet
- Trumpet
- Saxophone
- Guitar
- Chamber Music Ensemble
- Symphony Orchestra
- Art
- Math
- English
- AP Music Theory
We are also in the process of developing a Children's Choir, Group Science Classes, Group Art Classes, and a Summer English and Music Camp for international students.
IAMS is a member of the Music Teacher's Association of California, and through the association, provides performance opportunities and skills reviews for students. IAMS has also establisehd a name for itself in competitions. Many of the IAMS students receive awards and honors in the Southwestern Youth Music Festival, the Walker Competition, and the Cello Society Competition.
IAMS Youth Ensemble
The members of the IAMS Youth Ensemble will have the great opportunity to be involved in extraordinary musical experience through its orchestral training and performance program.
Through its educational and music activities, including rehearsals to harmonize with others sound and performances in the concert hall, as well as, in the solitary places, such as elderly nursing homes, senior care centers, children's hospitals, the musical experience in IAMS Youth Orchestra will enhance the student's musical skills, and promote the development of the life-lessons needed to become a successful member of society by building cooperation with others, sense of character, discipline, commitment, and maturity.
All orchestra members are required to take private music lessons. In addition, each orchestra member will get credits for extra activity and a volunteer of community service.
The IAMS Orchestra is sponsored by Supervisor Don Knabe Partnership Program Grant
The Concert
Rehearsal and Concert Schedule: To be announced.Community Service Activity by IAMS Youth Orchestra
IAMS Youth Orchestra holds concerts for the people who can enjoy their high-cultured life by listening to fine music. However, we do not only pursue the big applause from the audience in the concert hall. We also perform for the poor, sick, or lonely people who need more concerns, comforts, and consolations in the solitary places, such as elderly nursing homes, care centers, and children's hospitals: the opportunity to perform in these kinds of places will provide a wide range of meaningful experiences to the young musicians. It will also serve as a boon for the less fortunate and ill to enjoy quality cultural music.
Youth Musicians Program
In the last year, we've teamed up with Bellflower Unified School District, specifically Ramona Elementary School located across the street from our headquarters.
Like many schools in the area, it lacks a quality arts curriculum and has a high percentage of low-income students who are unable to pay for private musical lessons (80% qualify for free/reduced federal lunch programs). We've worked in conjunction with the school to identify 12 children who are interested in learning how to play classical music and provided them with free lessons. With 89 % of California school lacking adequate funding for the arts and music program and 61% lacking a full time arts specialist on staff, such partnerships provide students at high-poverty schools access to a valuable arts education.
Given the positive response we've received both from schools and students, we'd like to expand our collaboration with local schools in the Bellflower and Long Beach region. By providing a pathway for schools with limited art resources, our goal is to connect more budding young musicians with a high quality music education that supports the cultivation of their musical talents. We believe that music has the power to not only transform the lives of our students, but also the lives of their families and communities.
We'd like to offer a year of private music instruction for ten students in grades one and five without the financial means to pursue their interest in music performance. Eligibility for programs consideration would include demonstrated family financial need as well as a teacher recommendation. Once enrolled, the students will follow the California Content Standards as they learn artistic perception, creative expression, historic and cultural context aesthetic valuing and connections, relationships and applications. At the end of the calendar year, participants in the IAMS Young Musicians Program will help organize and perform a free concert series for their student peers and community.
We look forward to the expansion of this program as well as new students to spread the joy of music.