Kids Play Piano for Hurricane Relief, Sell DVDs of Performance to Raise Money for Victims
When students of Zinn Piano Academy Lab School in the San Francisco Bay Area and suburban Chicago learned of the devastation wreaked by last year's hurricanes in the Gulf Coast, they created a DVD of their best performance pieces to be offered for sale to friends and family and through online marketplace venues. The young musicians, who range in age from 3-year-old preschoolers to 15-year-old high school students, study piano in Zinn Piano Academy studios in Dublin, California, and Batavia, Illinois. They contributed performances of classical, jazz and Halloween-themed pieces to benefit those who continue to be affected by last year's Gulf Coast region hurricanes.
Batavia, IL (PRWEB) September 12, 2006 -- When students of Zinn Piano Academy Lab School in the San Francisco Bay Area and suburban Chicago learned of the devastation wreaked by last year's hurricanes in the Gulf Coast, they asked what they could do to join in the relief efforts.
The answer they discovered, with the help of piano teachers Mark and Marcie Zinn, was to create a DVD of their best performance pieces to be offered for sale to friends and family and through online marketplace venues.
The young musicians, who range in age from 3-year-old preschoolers to 15-year-old high school students, study piano in Zinn Piano Academy studios in Dublin, California, and Batavia, Illinois. They contributed performances of classical, jazz and Halloween-themed pieces to benefit those who continue to be affected by last year's Gulf Coast region hurricanes.
Entitled "Piano Playing for Hurricane Relief," the DVD has raised approximately $350 since its release in early 2006. Proceeds from the sale go to Operation USA, a non-profit Los Angeles-based disaster relief agency in operation for over 27 years.
Video production was sponsored by the Society for Applied Psychological Research in the Performing Arts (SAPRPA). The DVD's running time is approximately 48 minutes.
Priced at $15.00, the DVD is available online through the SAPRPA website, http://www.artspsych.org. Operation USA receives $12.65 (84 percent) for each DVD sold.
For more information, please phone Lanora Mueller at 630-362-0343.
About Operation USA
Operation USA's mission statement: "Operation USA assists developing communities here and abroad in addressing problems relating to natural and man-made disasters and chronic poverty through the creation of sustainable health, nutrition and disaster response programs. We provide essential materials, training, advocacy and financial support for such programs." More information about Operation USA's hurricane relief efforts is available at http://www.opusa.org.
About the Society for Applied Psychological Research in the Performing Arts (SAPRPA)
SAPRPA exists to advance research, education, treatment and professional practice related to applied psychological research in the performing arts. The Society supports researched-based solutions that integrate psychological and psychophysiological techniques into all aspects of the performing arts, ranging broadly from music to theater to dance. A multidisciplinary organization of research and clinical scientists, practicing clinicians, practicing musicians and artists, parents, students and others, SAPRPA seeks to disseminate the products of applied research into the larger community of psychologists and artists so as to be useful in common, everyday practice. More information about the organization is available at http://www.artspsych.org
Society for Applied Psychological Research in the Performing Arts (SAPRPA)
3 East Wilson Street
Batavia, IL 60510
Phone: 630-406-0268
Fax: 630-406-0313
Web: http://www.artspsych.org
About Zinn Piano Academy Lab School
Zinn Piano Academy Lab School, a private teaching and research facility, offers a comprehensive piano program based upon a social-cognitive learning model. The program is designed to promote self-efficacy in students, supporting beliefs in their own ability to learn and perform piano. The Lab School's research explores the cognitive neuroscience of piano instruction and performance in all phases, at all levels.
A recent study looks at how children's brains process stress and applies that information toward helping music teachers manage children's stress in the lesson environment.
Zinn Piano Academy Lab School is operated by ArtsNova Consulting Group, Inc.
ArtsNova Consulting Group, Inc., offers services for music professionals, including workshops in piano pedagogy, a mentoring program for workshop participants and individualized coaching for music teachers who want to implement their instructional paradigm. Also offered are biofeedback training and individualized assistance for musicians, artists, and others in areas including performance anxiety, pain management, technique retraining and mind/body techniques.
Founded by Marcie Zinn, Ph.D., NCTM, and Mark Zinn, P.C., M.M., NCTM, the company is based in Dublin, California, and Batavia, Illinois. More information is available at http://www.artsnova.net.
ArtsNova Consulting Group, Inc.
Zinn Piano Academy Lab School
In the San Francisco Bay Area:
7567 Amador Valley Boulevard, Suite 104
Dublin, CA 94568
In suburban Chicago:
3 East Wilson Street
Batavia, IL 60510
Phone: 630-406-0268
Fax: 630-406-0313
Web: http://www.artsnova.net
Contact:
Lanora Mueller
SAPRPA
Phone: 630-362-0343
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