Youth Japan Trip

Our Goal is $50,000. 00.  

Currently, we reached to $35,145.12  (total of PayPal, GoFundMe, cash and checks) on May 11, 2024.

Help Create a Lifetime of Memories: 

                       Send Youth Artists to Japan 

Hadano city, Kanagawa, Japan is celebrating 60 years of sister-city friendship with Pasadena, Texas in 2024.


Our youth ensemble has the opportunity to visit Hadano, in June 2024 - to collaborate with local musicians and perform in a prestigious concert hall, Hadano Culture Hall, on June 23.


Please help us to make this Japan trip possible for our youth artists!!


2024 Summer Youth Ensemble Members

Fund-Raising Concerts

April 12, Mequan WI

April 27, Brookfield WI

May 4, Suffolk, VA

2023 Youth Ensemble Members

Youth Ensemble Rehearsal

Concert at Space Center Houston

Thank you very much for your support!!!

Our donors


Ron Griffin Petosa Accordion Accordion Renaissance

Alice Dunkun, Mark Greathouse Brooke Jones Michael Apiag Leonardo Santos Edward Estes

Dave Berardino Roland Santos Daria Chi Irina Hotin Anthony Pacumio Robert D. Herridge

Murl Allen Sanders Charlotte Peck John Simkus Peter Kenyon Gail Campanella Roberta Ferrero

Susana Gumpel Brian Money Jim Rice Julie Urech Dale Wise William/Annie E. Lewis

Zarifa Aliyeva Anjelika Dilbazi Zakiya Dilbazi Linda Smith Fuad Ramazanov Salva Rezaie

Yousef Taghipoor Binh Phan Nasser Alikhani Mohammad Abbasi Mary Radspinner Elnue Aliyev

Gelaney Wyder Thomas R Carter Vahid Tayyar William Lewis Shawn Frye Narmina Mufidzada

Mary Mertes Thomas Hines Jr Grace Workman Carolyn Turner Leah Anderson Marietta M Ayers

Ashley Frye Michael Duncan Barbara Faison Leslie Daniel Mary Avery Hye Suk

Dana Peck Minako Nishioka Molly Ness