The Los Angeles Alumni Chapter was organized on March 20, 1919. Our members include prominent performers, composers, and music educators from all over the Los Angeles area. Sharing some of the same geographic space with the LA Alumni is the Beverly Hills Alumni, as well as half a dozen other nearby Alumni chapters. The former San Fernando Alumni Chapter has merged with the Los Angeles Alumni Chapter and all scholarships are under the sole management of the Los Angeles Chapter.
The
Los Angeles Alumni Chapter advises and mentors two local collegiate
chapters at UCLA (Phi Nu) and USC (Mu Nu). In addition to providing
guidance on collegiate activities, the LA Alums give annual scholarships
to collegiate members at UCLA and USC. These awards are given
for performance, musicianship and musical potential at both the
undergraduate and graduate levels. For Los Angeles Alumni members,
an annual grant has been established to be awarded and used for
a specific professional project. Past winners have used the grant
to defray costs of travel expenses, accompanying, music engraving
and compositional commissions.
In order to play an active role in supporting music making, education
and creation in our community, the Los Angeles Alumni Chapter donates
annually to various non profit organizations including the
Brentwood-Westwood Symphony, American Composers Forum Los Angeles,
California Junior Symphony, International Alliance for Women in Music,
Westside Music Foundation, and the Palisades Symphony.
The Los Angeles Alumni Chapter was honored by the International
Executive Office with the "Annual Alumni Chapter Achievement Award" for
the Pacific Southwest Province, 2006-7 for our work in service to the
community, creative programming and support for Mu Phi Epsilon at the
international level. The Chapter also received the "Helen Haupt
Chapter Grant" in 2007 to defray the costs of sending six of our
members, including performers and composers, to Bejing, China for the
International Alliance of Women in Music Congress in the spring of 2008.
For more information
about joining the Los Angeles Alumni Chapter, please contact Marie
Brown Curea (Ginger) or Mary
Lou Newmark .
Meetings are held monthly October through June, usually on the second
Thursday of the month at 10:00 AM. A different musical program immediately
follows each meeting featuring both members and special guests. Please
check the Events Calendar section of this
site for details.
