Accent on Access Violin Program

We are partnering with the Fresno County Office of Education and the Bonner Family Foundation to offer an El-Sistema-inspired violin program at Edison-Bethune Charter Academy near downtown Fresno. Twenty-seven second- and third-graders meet after school four days a week, 90 minutes a day, to work with interns Erin Scofield and Caleb Sandersier, under the supervision of Youth Orchestras of Fresno Executive Director Julia Copeland. 

Want to know more about El-Sistema-inspired programs in the US? Click to read the newsletter of the US El Sistema Movement.

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