I think it’s important to remember that we are all end users for one another. As we listen to each others’ aspirations, we’ll focus less on the limitations and be inspired to remove barriers to unlock opportunity.
UnitedHealth Group
Janette Cullinan, senior director of learning experiences on UnitedHealth Group’s Talent Development team, shares how she uses her own experience of living with a disability to remain laser-focused on providing the best possible experience for the end user.
Patrick Adams
I knew this song was something special as it was all coming together, especially working with such talented artists as Vivian Fang Liu and Cory Cullinan. Rhythm of Asia won a Bronze Medal in the Global Music Awards — thank you to them for the honor!
Oliver Zurita
The production is completely immersive. Every nuance, every texture, seems to respond to a different emotional state: confusion, hope, anxiety, resilience… And yes, it feels like a generational conversation in musical form.
Lisa J. Curtis
The Orchestra… gives a soaring performance, and they’re more than matched by Grammy-garnering stars… Cullinan, a former high-school music teacher, has sprinkled tantalizing tidbits about orchestration, instrumentation, and music history throughout his lively story. Bravo, Doctor Noize!
Cory Cullinan
The title track of The Bad News album was written decades ago when a film music producer asked if I’d give them Something (For Janette) for a film. I pretentiously said no, ’cause that was my wedding proposal song and belonged to my wife. But I asked if I could record and send ’em something similar. They said sure, and I wrote, recorded, and sent them The Bad News. It ended up in a bunch of major films and TV shows.
Cory Cullinan
Writing for visual productions is different than writing as a recording artist or musical theatre composer. The music organically becomes more introspective, and often instrumental — a supporting cast member to your protagonist. I hope this album serves as a worthy soundtrack to your day.
Cory Cullinan on the Stanford Recording Arts Workshop
I think the best way to tell you what I love most about the Stanford Recording Arts Workshop is just to describe the opening and closing pieces of the 2023 Workshop album, called Evolution and Resolution. They’re really mesmerizing, and they’re a collaboration between a young music professor from South Korea playing the guzheng, a 69-year-old piano teacher from San Jose, CA, a Harvard undergraduate, and a kid who came here straight from high school in Hong Kong… All students at the Workshop that year, who decided to do a song together — two songs together! And I just was thinking the whole time: ‘Where else would these four people ever come together and collaborate on a beautiful work of art?
Cory Cullinan to his Students at the Stanford Recording Arts Workshop’s Final Day Concert
I seriously really admire and love every single one of you, so… I sure, sure as hell hope you keep making your art and your music. And I sure hope you keep sharing it with me.
Cory Cullinan on Cory Cullinan & Riley Max Live
I never posted about the Riley Max & Cullinan Show in my hometown Los Altos, ’cause it went late Sunday night and we launched the Stanford Workshop Monday morning. It was deeply meaningful to me to perform with my daughter at a site dedicated to the grandfather she never knew, where he was Mayor and coach to so many. Three generations of Los Altoans came, from people I’ve known forever to people I just met. Stanford Workshop students came too.We filled the house, raised lots of funds at $45 a seat for the arts in Los Altos, and closed with this beloved singalong song that represents what the Los Altos community did for me when times got tough in my teens and still represents to me and others in so many ways. Listen to this chorus of audience members onstage rocking the house! What a night. A rekindling of the feeling I had there in the 80’s, and a night I’ll never forget. Thank you Los Altos!