A Cathedral for Sound & Spectacle.
Rising on the Olympic corridor of Downtown Los Angeles, Chateau Noir is being assembled as the largest performance, hospitality and cultural destination of its kind on the West Coast, a single address built to hold a thousand stories at once.
An American Art Form, Carried Forward.
Jazz is the only major art form America gave the world, improvised, communal, defiant, alive. Chateau Noir exists to make sure the next generation of musicians, listeners, and storytellers inherit it not as a museum piece, but as a living language.
Terrace Martin
Grammy-nominated producer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist, collaborator of Kendrick Lamar, Dr. Dre, Herbie Hancock, and Snoop Dogg. As Music Director, Terrace ensures the artists who shaped this music, and the ones still inventing it, find a home at Chateau Noir.
Become a Patron of The Future.
Chateau Noir Art Institute is a 501(c)(3) public charity. Gifts from your donor-advised fund directly underwrite the conservatory, the scholarship program, free community programming, and the long-term preservation of jazz as a living art form.
Make Your Gift
Recommend a grant directly to Chateau Noir Art Institute from your fund at BNY Mellon, Fidelity Charitable, Schwab Charitable, and other participating sponsors.
501(c)(3) Public Charity · EIN 99-1357943
All contributions are tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law.
One hundred percent of donor-directed gifts are applied to the educational and preservation mission of the Institute. No funds are commingled with for-profit operations. An annual statement is provided to every contributing donor.
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