PASADENA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
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Mission Statement
PCM’s mission is to educate, advocate, inspire, and share: to educate through a comprehensive music curriculum taught by an exceptional faculty; to advocate for the value of music study; to inspire through performances of traditional and contemporary music; and to share our expertise with a broad spectrum of the community. The central purpose of PCM is to provide opportunities for students of all ages to learn, enjoy, and perform music. Our vision is to provide programs of excellence while maintaining a commitment to access; and to encourage the development of individual musical identity while enriching our musical community.
About This Cause
To deliver its comprehensive music curriculum, PCM is organized into 10 departments: Keyboard, Strings, Guitar, Young Musicians (YM), Chamber Music, Vocal Arts, Theory/History/Composition, Jazz, Woodwinds/Brass/Percussion, and Outreach. Our programs are designed to serve infants to seniors, hobbyists to prodigies. The sixty faculty members are critical to PCM’s success, with nearly eighty percent holding at least a master’s degree in music and over ten percent holding a doctorate degree. Each year, PCM presents more than 100 recitals, concerts, workshops, and master classes to complement the studio and classroom instruction it provides to approximately 1,100 students on campus. PCM’s outreach efforts serve over 3,100 students annually and consist of three programs for which the Conservatory raises all the funds. The Pasadena Showcase House Music Mobile™ introduces over 2,500 third grade students to the symphony orchestra and the world of classical music; Young Musicians at Jefferson Elementary provides a comprehensive, sequential, general music curriculum to approximately 600 students; and Financial Aid and Scholarships provide opportunities for rigorous individual music study at the Conservatory for 75 students. PCM serves a broad geographic area that includes the greater San Gabriel Valley and portions of Los Angeles County and beyond. More than 80 percent of its onsite students reside in the San Gabriel Valley, including a population of 55 percent drawn from the cities of Pasadena, Altadena, South Pasadena, and San Marino; and about 29 percent drawn from neighboring cities such as Arcadia, Sierra Madre, San Gabriel, Alhambra, and Monrovia. The reputation of PCM’s faculty and programs also draws students from as far away as Riverside, Fullerton, Palmdale, Valencia, and the South Bay. Annual on-site enrollment exceeds 1,100, ranging in age from infants to octogenarians; about 80 percent of the onsite population is under the age of 18. The vast majority of our students enroll for the intrinsic benefits experienced in the study, performance, and enjoyment of music, while each year a select few of our students are accepted to the most prestigious music universities. PCM has a significant audience of life-long learners, with around 150 participating in group history and theory classes, as well as individual instruction on musical instruments. Students reflect the broad ethnic and economic diversity of our community. Each year, approximately 3,125 pre-kindergarten through high school students benefit from PCM’s outreach programs. Across the various districts, approximately 58 percent of the students are Latino, 18 percent Asian American, 11 percent Caucasian, 9 percent African American, and 4 percent other or unknown. The outreach program Young Musicians at Jefferson Elementary is emblematic of PCM’s efforts to address a community need: access to music education for children in underserved communities. PCM chose Jefferson Elementary because not only was it PCM’s neighborhood school, but it also serves a high population of children from disadvantaged families. In fact, 85 percent of the students are from socio-economically disadvantaged families, 91 percent are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, and 48 percent of the students are classified as English learners. Key historical highlights are as follows: 1984: Founders open PCM in rented church space in Pasadena with eight teachers and forty students. 1999: PCM partners with the Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts and launches Pasadena Showcase House Music Mobile™, a program introducing primarily underprivileged third-graders to the instruments of the orchestra. 2000: A $3 million capital campaign (concluding in 2003) is launched to acquire a 17,000-square-foot facility in central Pasadena, for which the mortgage is retired in 2005. 2002: PCM’s sequential Young Musicians curriculum is introduced at Jefferson Elementary. 2008: PCM successfully meets the rigorous requirements to achieve national accreditation from the Accrediting Commission for Community and Precollegiate Arts Schools (ACCPAS), one of only sixteen community schools nationwide to achieve this status. 2011: PCM launches a $7.5 million capital campaign to expand its campus. 2014: PCM receives Lifetime Achievement Award from the California Association of Professional Music Teachers for its outreach programs; ACCPAS representatives visit PCM and Young Musicians at Jefferson Elementary, citing the latter as an exemplary program that meets specific needs in the community.