Education Through Music-Los Angeles (ETM-LA) will host its 19th Year Benefit Gala at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles on Friday, December 6, 2024. Supporters from the music, film, business, and education communities will join ETM-LA’s annual fundraiser to keep the music playing in local under-resourced schools. The festive event will honor Shining Star Awardees Blake Neely (ETM-LA Board Member & Emmy-Winning Composer; Masters of the Air, The Flight Attendant), Music Educator & Award-Winning Composer/Conductor Dr. Zanaida Stewart Robles, and GameSoundCon (Corporate Partner & Leader in Video Game Music/Sound Design).
Hosted by Actor/Singer/Songwriter Karen David (The Irrational, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, Galavant), the celebration will feature exclusive performances and appearances by special guests Greg Berlanti (Screenwriter/Producer), Suzanna Guzmán (Mezzo-Soprano & Emmy-Winning TV Host), SYML, Harvard-Westlake Jazz Singers, ETM-LA student ensembles, and more. Honorary Chair Members include Stephen Amell, Christophe Beck, Alvin Chea, Sherri Chung, Victor Garber, Sara Gazarek, Grant Gershon, Michael Giacchino, Suzanna Guzmán, James Newton Howard, Julianne Jordan, Tony Kanal, Mike Knobloch, Christopher Lennertz, Tom MacDougall, Julia Michels, Rickey Minor, Randy Spendlove, and more.
Prior Gala champions include Debbie Allen, Bryan Cranston, Kristen Bell, Chris Columbus, Alan Menken, Judith Hill, Ed Helms, John Debney, Sebastian Krys, Christophe Beck, and Joshua Bell. Dr. Robles shared, “To be able to expose young people to the possibilities of music is something our whole society benefits from; [ETM-LA] is the organization that is providing the resource that is desperately needed, in order to provide students with this essential tool that is music.”
Major corporate sponsors include BTW Productions; Cow On the Wall Studio; 8DIO; Amazon MGM Studios, Bandrika Studios; BMI; GameSoundCon; Gelfand, Rennert, and Feldman LLC; Gorfaine/Schwartz Agency, Inc.; Sonic Fuel Studios, and Warner Bros. Studios.
