If you are planning to contribute, now is the time!

Help us get to $7000 and an additional workshop for public school students! Only $436 to go! Please send your donation by March 12 so that we can begin preparing this year’s thank-you gifts!

This year, we have received a surprising number of $500 donations. I’m moved that so many people consider our work worthy of such generous support! I am also very pleased that we have received many $10 and $20 donations. It’s important to me that we ask for support that is within the means of our friends and fans. We’re committed to making music for the long term, and we want you to be with us the whole way. If $10 is what you can afford, $10 is a genuinely useful contribution. We’re stretching every dollar to do more good this year; more music creation, more performances, and more public school education. And every donor gets a copy of the live, audio recording of Taiko 2.0, our biggest, most important concert yet!

If you’ve been meaning to send in your donation, please do it today!

Thank you to everyone who has donated thus far!

Our annual fund drive is currently under way with a host of exciting announcements and thank-you gifts!

Read all about it here!

Please consider making a New Year’s donation to On Ensemble’s InventiOn 2011 program; supporting the creation of new taiko music and public-school educational outreach programs!

Send to:
On Ensemble c/o Kris Bergstrom
2000 W 162nd St #100
Torrance CA 90504

InventiOn 2011 is On Ensemble’s ambitious program of new music and music sharing. Did you know that California is last in the nation for arts funding? Did you know that California students receive 40% less than the national average of arts and music education? We’re trying to change this!

For every $1000 we raise, On Ensemble will provide a hands-on taiko workshop to public school students!

InventiOn 2011 includes creative sessions with exciting artists as On Ensemble ramps up to our biggest performance yet, Taiko 2.0 at Cerritos Center.

Thank you again to all of this year’s donors! I will have updates from the hands-on workshops as they happen over the next few months. Thanks to the generosity of the FoundatiOn Team, On Ensemble is providing eleven taiko workshops to public school students!

Thank you for your generosity!

Chikako Hara
David Wells
Tetsuo Uyeda

Cathy Ginn
David and Kate Cowsky
George Abe
Lloyd Nakano
Michelle Fujii
Mikko Henson
Shira Mendes De Leon

Chris Tin
Dardy Chang
Deborah Laux and Claire Lee
Elaine Ishida
Eric Chang
Johnny Mori
Juni Kobayashi
Leslie Siegel
Louis Laudermilk
Patrick McCabe and Sue Minor
Nicki Bergstrom and Dan Noel
Sharon Sato Dow
Tosh and Teresa Kameda

Thank you, thank you, thank you everyone!

You made Works in Progress, and eight, brand-new taiko compositions possible!

You have also brought taiko to dozens of public school students! As promised, On Ensemble will be providing 10 hands-on taiko workshops, free of charge to Glassell Park Elementary School!  For the past few months, we have been working with the principle to structure the program to provide maximum benefit to the 4th and 5th grade classes.  On Ensemble is extremely excited to help bring more arts education to public schools.  Did you know that California elementary students receive 35% less music and visual arts instruction than the national average?!  Thank you to the FoundatiOn Team for helping us do something about it!

From me personally also… thank you, thank you.  I am extremely moved by the incredible support On Ensemble receives.  Multiple times during the fund drive I found myself choked up, totally inspired by your generosity.  It means the world to me that so many of you value On Ensemble’s music, our efforts in the taiko world, and our work in the larger community.  Thank you, thank you.

Chris and Dan Kubo
Chris Huyhn
Debra Kajiyama
Shane Tzen