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YOLA provides young people, ages five through eighteen, with free instruments, intensive music instruction, and opportunities to perform on stages in their communities and around the world.

Come Make Music with Us!

Read more below about the areas we currently serve and get started by filling out our YOLA Interest Form:

YOLA INTEREST FORM

“To share music with children — who might not otherwise have access to it — is to share beauty, to share a different way of being. It can change their definition of what is possible for themselves.”

Gustavo Dudamel
Music & Artistic Director, Walt and Lilly Disney Chair, Los Angeles Philharmonic

AT-A-GLANCE

YOLA Sites and Partners

Every success—from its local impact to its national influence—is built on a foundation of partnership. Though all of our sites are guided by this unified philosophy and mission, we design each neighborhood program to serve the specific needs of its community.

Questions? Email YOLA@laphil.org 

YOLA at Inglewood

Location: Inglewood
Established: 2021

YOLA at Inglewood is housed at the new Beckmen YOLA Center, which emerged out of a close collaboration between the city of Inglewood, architect Frank Gehry, and LA Phil Music and Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel.

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YOLA at HOLA

Location: Rampart District
Established: 2010

YOLA at HOLA (Heart of Los Angeles) classes include music creativity, singing and solfège, ensemble rehearsals, and an hour of academic tutoring daily. This holistic approach fosters a sense of community and provides the students with the opportunity to take advantage of HOLA’s exceptional programs and resources.

YOLA at HOLA is a partnership between the LA Phil and Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA).

YOLA at Torres

Location: East LA
Established: 2014

Nestled on the campus of Esteban E. Torres High School, a performing arts magnet school in East LA, YOLA at Torres offers students the opportunity to thrive in an intensive, nurturing musical environment, receiving musical instruction and academic tutoring.

YOLA at Torres receives logistics and infrastructure support from the East L.A. Performing Arts Magnet and Beyond the Bell.

YOLA at Camino Nuevo

Location: Westlake/MacArthur Park
Established: 2017

YOLA at Camino Nuevo is the first in-school YOLA model, allowing the LA Phil to bring rigorous music education into the school day and extend it after school. Currently serving students in grades K-10 at the Kayne Siart and Dalzell Lance campuses of Camino Nuevo Charter Academy.

In Our Community

“Music gave me a life I never imagined I would have, and it made me realize that where I came from had nothing to do with where I can go.” - Marcela, YOLA, Class of 2014

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