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Your Contribution Plays A Very Important Part

At the heart of the Santa Barbara Symphony’s mission lies our goal to be an indispensable partner to our community, providing enrichment through inspiring concerts, music education programs, and access for everyone. Ticket sales and other earned income cover less than 30% of our total operating budget, leaving the remaining gap to be filled by contributions. The Santa Barbara Symphony relies on the generosity of contributors to continue the outstanding quality of performances audiences have come to expect. Your gifts and the generosity of all of our donors it make for us to provide you with artistic excellence, educational programs and much more.

Celebrate the special experience of symphonic music with us by becoming a Classical Works Club or Baton Society member. By becoming a member, not only will you support magnificent artistic and educational programs, but you will receive fantastic benefits that make your Santa Barbara Symphony experience even more enjoyable.

The Santa Barbara Symphony is a Four Star rated charity on CharityNavigator.org:

The Many Ways Your Contribution Helps the Santa Barbara Symphony

• Pay our talented musicians who feel so fortunate to play for you
• Keep our amazing maestro, Nir Kabaretti, on our podium
• Rent the composition scores, and sheet music for our musicians to play
• Purchase acoustical shields so our music sounds wonderful and the musicians can keep their hearing from being damaged on stage
• Rent The Granada hall for our concerts and two rehearsals for each concert weekend
• Rent Hahn Hall for two of our rehearsals each concert
• Pay The Granada staff so the hall is safe for you and our musicians, and so we can continue to present our music in this acoustically perfect hall
• Keep our staff available to you 5 days a week and who make our concerts possible, plus design and coordinate our adult education programs with Ramon Araiza and our children’s music education programs
• Promote your Symphony throughout our community and beyond to ensure a full hall of supporters and ensure the future of the Symphony
• Provide special live symphonic concerts for kids in the 4th, 5th and 6th grades who may never have another chance at experiencing this wonderful music
• Give hands-on-instruments experience to 3rd graders by driving our Music Van to their school where they learn about the instruments of a symphony and then get to play actual instruments! (Many kids decide they want to play an instrument right after that experience!)
• Present to you and our community our concert events with a full, live, orchestra, where our musicians have hundreds of accumulated years of practice and passion and want you to enjoy each and every concert
• Plus so much more!

Annual Fund Donors

To view a list of our current Annual Fund donors, click here.

Benefit Levels

Benefits are our way of saying thank you for joining the Santa Barbara symphony family! Memberships and benefits are valid for one year from the date of your last gift. Augment your association with the Symphony and the music with your member benefits and privileges.

To view our benefit levels, click here.

More Information

Lisa Holzman
Director of Development & Patron Services
(805) 898-0107
lisa@thesymphony.org

Christine Hollinger
Development Associate
(805) 898-0316
christine@thesymphony.org

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