OMEA 2002 Conference:
Building Community Through Music
January 25-27, 2002
 Laurie Schopp
Clinician
Laurie Schopp is the Music Education Specialist and Program Manager at VH1. Ms. Schopp's work includes developing VH1's Cable In The Classroom initiative "VH1 Music Studio," which provides commercial free educational programming for use in the music and cross-curricular classroom as well as managing the VH1 Save The Music Foundation's initiatives throughout the United States. The VH1 Save The Music Foundation restores music education programs in public schools and raises public awareness about the importance of music education. Ms. Schopp has taught in the orchestra, chorus and classroom music settings on the K-Collegiate levels. In addition to her work as an educator, Ms. Schopp performed in numerous professional theater productions including the Broadway Musical "Cats," where she played the role of "Jellylorum." Ms. Schopp received her Bachelors Degree in Music Education with a concentrate in violin and voice from the University of Michigan and Masters in Voice Performance from Ithaca College.
The VH1 Save The Music Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of education in America's public schools by restoring music programs in cities across the U.S., and raising public awareness about the importance of music participation for our nation's youth.
Through partnerships with affiliates and advocates, as well as corporate and national sponsors, VH1 Save The Music purchases new musical instruments to restore music education programs that have been cut due to budget reductions. The Foundation also conducts awareness campaigns, musical instrument drives, and fundraising events in conjunction with public schools to help restore instrumental music programs. Since VH1 Save The Music was created in 1997, more than $17 million worth of musical instruments has been donated to 750 public schools in 70 cities, improving the lives of more than 250,000 children. The Foundation's ten-year plan is to bring music participation to one million children in public schools.
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