Category: Keynotes & Interviews

It means a lot to me that I get to connect someone who has played a meaningful role in my life to young musicians, faculty and audiences out here. So they can hear from someone who’s really made a dent in their musical world. He really is a legend.

In our modern internet-attention-span culture, we need the arts more than ever to buildour kids’ minds, souls and confidence to prepare them for creative solutions with positive energy.As this Thesis Portfolio will show, the Recording Arts can help build those traits — often inremarkably fast and intensely memorable experiences — in elementary age children, yet arehardly utilized at that age group at all.

We sponsored workshops and training seminars to better engage the increasing minority population at our school. Under Cory’s guidance being involved in student government was perceived as the “cool” thing to do. School Spirit became the norm at Los Altos High School.

I have been in the education business as a teacher and administrator for over 35 years. Twenty plus years ago I had the incredible, memorable experience of working at Los Altos High School in Los Altos, California with a unique, talented group of students as the Assistant Principal of Student Activities. One of my assigned roles in that position was meeting daily with the elected student government officers to facilitate the planning of their various activities and to provide them with the opportunity to learn and exercise various leadership skills. Cory Cullinanwas the Student Body President at that time. At the age of seventeen he was poised, clear thinking, intelligent, and gregarious with a keen sense of insight and humor. Our meetings were fun (sometimes almost hysterical) yet we accomplished a great deal under Cory’s leadership.We established a pattern of week long Homecoming Activities the current student government uses as a template to this day.

When times are hard, I look for the happy stories. I hope this story makes you happy too.

Among Cullinan’s many strengths is self parody and the puncturing of political correctness.

He seeks artistic fulfillment away from the spotlight, music itself being of greater importance than fame and celebrity. Personal integrity, friendship, and the difficulty of farewell are confronted along with myriad other emotions and shifting musical representations of them.

We have a lot of ground to cover, because I’ve been in your world for the majority of the morning here today… And I’m very, very inspired and impressed by the amount that you do.

Cory Cullinan is a busy man, a fast talker, a guy with boundless enthusiasm…

Cullinan signed a 3-year business partnership with an international media firm to form Doctor Noize Inc. (DNI). DNI released a second music album, an interactive animated book, and a mobile app.