Young Musicians Foundation
Walter Zooi has over 20 years of experience in program development, strategic and fiscal planning, marketing and communications. Walter was the founder and prior executive director of South Pasadena Music Center & Conservatory for 12 years, leading it through dynamic growth. Walter also founded and directed the annual South Pasadena Eclectic Music Festival. Prior to that, they worked as the Director of Communications at California Institute of the Arts and as the Director of Marketing and Communications at USC Thornton School of Music. In 2016, they became the Executive Director of Young Musicians Foundation.
Walter Zooi obtained a Master's Degree in Philanthropic Leadership from the University of Denver in 2017. Prior to that, they completed their Bachelor's Degree in Communications with a focus on Cinematography and Film/Video Production from Temple University between 1982 and 1985. No specific information is available regarding their education at Bucks County Community College.
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Young Musicians Foundation
The Young Musicians Foundation’s (YMF) mission is to empower underserved, frequently marginalized students to find creativity, connection and joy through learning and playing music. YMF is fundamentally dedicated to social justice. We believe that every student – every person – should have access to the numerous, profound, and well-documented lifelong benefits that music education provides. YMF annually provides music and media arts education to 5,000 under-served LA students (K-12) through in-person instruction at Title I schools and community organizations. All programming integrates Social Emotional Learning Domains with State Visual and Performing Arts Core Standards. YMF provides foundational skills that prepare students to participate in the creative economy. Students in grades 3-adult receive introductory, age-appropriate instruction in the basics of computer-based music creation. Students in grades 7-adult with an understanding of musical technology basics learn more sophisticated features and tools of production software and recording equipment with practical applications such as songwriting and composition. Young Musicians Foundation recently embarked on an exciting new partnership with Hollywood Community Housing Corporation (HCHC). This partnership will allow us to reach more undeserved youth by creating a uniquely innovative service model on the ground floor of their newest affordable housing project, the Florence Mills Apartments. The new facility will provide the residents of both HCHC’s Florence Mills and Paul Williams apartments and the surrounding community with tuition-free music arts and media arts instruction, a media arts technology lab/recording studio.