NFL Hall-of-Famer Ronnie Lott and Oakland musical legend Sheila E. launched the music education program for emerging artists in partnership with Elevate Oakland.

Bay Area icon Sheila E. is part of a new music education and emerging artists program hoping to guide the next generation of Bay Area artists.

ELM was voted as one of the best in Marin County for educational nonprofits.

Jane wrote a piece for the Belvedere Tiburon community newsletter in which she tells how ELM sets the stage for youth orchestrate their own lives.

ABC7 Bay Area news came to visit ELM students rehearsing a special piece called The Mix of the Culturas which combines traditional movements of a symphony with Latin-infused rhythms.

ELM was featured in the December issue of the San Francisco Classical Voice, a nonprofit newsletter for that fosters a thriving arts community.

ELM was featured in this December’s Marin Gives Back feature with other local organizations like Marine Mammal Center, Canal Alliance, and Vivalon.

The inaugural benefit gala featuring Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Sweetwater Music Hall on November 17. The event will have a live auction to raise funds for its new foundation Sweetwater Music Hall Arts Fund. A portion of the proceeds will go to support ELM’s scholarship fund.

Over the summer, Enriching Lives through Music, a 2021 Giving Marin grant recipient, partnered with the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra to co-host their second annual Summer Chamber Music Camp. For two weeks, students met everyday to rehearse in small chamber music groups.

This winter, 14 middle and high school students have been working on a special project, titled Reflections on Resilience. For these students who are on a special track called elmCATS, an accelerated program for select ELM students who exhibit exceptional commitment and talent, this project has been a wonderfully challenging, rewarding undertaking.

ELM got a shout-out in a recent interview with Lucasfilm’s Doug Chiang. Doug and his wife Liz are big supporters of ELM’s work in the community.

It’s been a tough two years on all of us but especially hard on our school aged children.

As concertmaster and first chair of the Marin Symphony Youth Orchestra, 17-year-old Nicolas Lau has not forgotten that most of his growing list of musical accomplishments sprang from one low-key program in San Rafael’s Canal neighborhood.

Dan Jewett of Marin Living Magazine interviews our founder and Executive Director, Jane Kramer, PhD about how ELM started and where we are now.

Marin’s high school seniors start their college applications this fall. Arts equity programs have helped Marin’s low income Latinx immigrant students reach for top colleges. Jane thinks these students will realize their dreams.

Our tutor coordinator (and music education major at NYU), Viviana Garcia was interviewed at WithItGirl, a platform that amplifies the voices, visions, and ideas of women in surf, skate, and art cultures founded by ELM advisor, Marialidia Marcotulli.

ELM was featured in this month's edition of Marin Magazine. It tells our story of being nimble and thoughtful in our efforts to support our community during the pandemic.

Derek Wilson, reporter with Marinscope, wrote a thoughtful piece this month about ELM featuring interviews with Executive Director, Jane Kramer and ELM graduate, Eduardo Mejia.

Last January concert pianist Audrey Vardanega founded a nonprofit called Musiacs of the Bay to present top-tier chamber music concerts to Bay Area audiences and encourage talented music students from less affluent backgrounds to realize that they can have a life in music too.