Voices Within
VOICES WITHIN - Fall 2025
Voices Within is excited to share that we have partnered with a Los Angeles Unified School District school: Walnut Park Elementary School.
Fifth grade students learn the fundamentals of music and become composers as they collaborate with professional teaching artists from the Los Angeles Master Chorale to write words and melodies to six original songs.
Through our Voices Within program, students find their creative voices and become more self-confident and hone their problem-solving and communication skills during an important time of self-discovery. At a culminating event, the students premiere the songs they have written, singing with eight singers from the Master Chorale to a school audience. All are welcome to attend these free events in December 2025.
Walnut Park Elementary School
2642 Olive Street Walnut Park, CA 90255
Songs inspired by the U.S. Constitution & Bill of Rights.
Free public performance by fifth grade students joined on stage by Master Chorale artists.
Tuesday, December 9, 2025
9:50 am and 11 am performances in the school auditorium.
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
The award-winning Voices Within is an artist residency program for fifth grade students who compose words and melodies to create and perform their own original songs. The program curriculum fully integrates Common Core State Standards and uses immersive and imaginative strategies to engage student learning. Three Voices Within teaching artists (a composer, a lyricist and a performer) work with students to combine elements of music composition, writing, improvisational games and collaboration techniques throughout a 10-week residency.
Working in close partnership with teachers and administrators at participating schools, the Voices Within teaching artists foster a safe, supportive environment for the students tomentor them and to boost important life skills, such as critical thinking, creative problem solving and communication. The Voices Within program motivates students to stay in school and have fun while learning.
Voices Within is an educational artist residency program developed for the Los Angeles Master Chorale by Marnie Mosiman in collaboration with Bernardo Solano, Penka Kouneva, David O and Doug Cooney.
PAST RESIDENCIES
VOICES WITHIN - SPRING 2023
San Antonio Elementary School - Huntington Park, CA
Songs about Patterns of Earth and Sky (solar system, gravity, constellations and more)
Huntington Park Elementary School - Huntington Park, CA
Songs of Compassion and Courage (war in Ukraine, climate change, girls' rights and more)
VOICES WITHIN - FALL 2022
Lucille Roybal-Allard Elementary School - Huntington Park, CA
Songs inspired by The Leader In Me program (fairness, courage, sharing)
SUPPORT
The Los Angeles Master Chorale wishes to acknowledge the generosity of the following donors who help underwrite the Voices Within program: California Arts Council, Employees Community, Fund of Boeing California, William H. Hannon Foundation, Marjorie Lindbeck, The Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation, John Perkins in memory of Ann Perkins, PNC Foundation, Rosemary Schroeder, Lon V. Smith Foundation, John and Beverly Stauffer Foundation, Sidney Stern Memorial Trust, Dwight Stuart Youth Fund, Walter and Holly Thomson Foundation, Bank of America, N.A., Co-Trustee
For more information about our education programs, contact:
JOSÉ MEZA
Associate Director of Educationjmeza@lamasterchorale.org
