I am both a businessperson and an artist, which helps expand my perspective and set my business apart.
How have you or your company leveraged the arts to set your business apart? They also need to understand that our resources are designed to supplement and support them, not replace them. It’s important that teachers who use our resources fully understand and appreciate the power of the Quaver curriculum. We also take training these teachers very seriously. This allows the teachers to engage their students in a way that helps them learn, grow, and experience the world around them as mature, responsible young citizens. Our entire staff is fully dedicated to the task of creating content and resources for teachers. We have a staff of over 100 trained professionals who are fully dedicated to bringing the arts-in this case, music education-to teachers in every state in the nation. We use art to engage and inspire our employees every day. How have you and/or your company integrated the arts into your business to engage, inspire or train your employees? It changes and deepens our experiences, so in this sense, music itself is transformational. Music taps into our emotions and touches our hearts in a way that no other medium can. I mentioned earlier that music is a unifying force people in every culture, in every corner of the world, are touched by it, uniquely and universally. How do you believe the arts are transformational? I can compose a song for one of our curriculum lessons today or this evening that will hopefully be just as meaningful to the students who will eventually hear it in their classroom. What was your most meaningful arts experience?įortunately, I have meaningful arts experiences every single day-with music.
QUAVER MUSIC WORLD PROFESSIONAL
And it will be tomorrow, too, because the use of art-specifically, music-is closely and uniquely intertwined in both my personal and professional life. So, when you ask me to identify my most recent arts experience, I suppose I’d say it was today. We’ve developed a world-class music education curriculum for teachers (preK-8) that’s used in 50 states, 31 countries, and over 8,500 schools, impacting more than three million students. The creation of art-specifically, music-is not just an important part of my personal life, but it also stands at the core of QuaverMusic. What was your most recent arts experience? It acts as a unifier and a creative force. That’s what music does: it creates immediate bonds. From there, QuaverMusic-named for the English “quaver” or eighth note-was born, and that “passenger,” Graham Hepburn, became a co-founder of the company. It was the power of music and the joy of improvisation that created an immediate bond between us: two complete strangers. We started talking about the piece I was composing, and he became very interested. I was on board a cruise ship in the South China Sea, playing a few chords on the ship’s piano, when another passenger happened to hear me and came over. In fact, that’s how QuaverMusic, my current company, came into being.
I enjoy listening to music as well as playing and composing on the piano. What is your background in the arts? Are you currently a practitioner of the arts? Keep reading to learn about this business leader and his connection to the arts!
QUAVER MUSIC WORLD SERIES
The following is part of a new spotlight series that highlights the work of some of our key business partners, including our Business Committee for the Arts members and past Arts and Business Partnership Award Honorees.
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