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You did an amazing job teaching the class, thank you for everything!

Cory Cullinan — I just have to take a moment to thank you from the bottom of my heart for being the wonderful and inspirational person that you are. This was a trip of a lifetime and we are forever grateful to have been a part of this amazing event!

Cory’s legit — I used to teach with him. He is an all-around nice guy and great with kids.

I thoroughly enjoyed the class. Well done.

An accomplished recording artist and educator.

Cory — that video was absolutely beautiful! Keep up your amazing work and inspiring the musical artists of the future!

You are a great coach… to thousands of young people.

Driven by a vision of making musical education approachable and entertaining, he had produced three albums, two books, and a mobile app. His inspiration for a 21st century successor to Prokofiev’s iconic Peter and the Wolf required resources of a different sort. His vision attracted world-class talent. Grammy Award-winning soprano Isabel Leonard, baritone Nathan Gunn (one of People Magazine’s “sexiest men” in 2008), and renowned symphony conductor Kyle Pickett all agreed to donate their time… for his mission-driven, socially valuable creative project.

Recording Drops Of Jupiter was super fun, because it forced me to get out of my comfort zone a little. I am a naturally pretty shy person who does not want to sing or play piano in front of other people in case I mess up, and I was forced to in that situation because there are a million people in the studio. But they were all super supportive, and it actually made it a lot more fun, because I got to get their opinion on what to add to the song to make it better. I think I grew a little bit as a person — it’ll help me get out of my comfort zone in the future ‘cause I’ve already done it once and I know I can do it again.

I developed asynchronous recording arts content forelementary age kids and the infrastructure to make it accessible, in particular to kids in apandemic, including an entirely new album and curricula for each production. I’ve alsodeveloped educational live content in the form of shows and workshops, both of which utilizeand demonstrate inspiring audience-interactive recording arts, for young kids. To do so, I had todevelop an ideal Mobile Music Production Rig, described in detail in this Thesis Portfolio.Finally, I did extensive testing of both my asynchronous and live learning content, arriving atrecommendations and conclusions I hope will serve two simultaneous goals: to make my workteaching recording arts to kids better, and inspire others to start teaching the recording arts toyounger children as well in their own creative ways. Those kids will, in turn, become the nextRecording Arts students at institutions like CU Denver, and culture-shapers — from localrecording artists in an accessible age of recording technology to Grammy winners.