Project: Music Heals Us was not founded in a musical moment. It was founded in a moment of silence and human connection.
They have performed 1000 free concerts in hospitals, hospices, prisons, homeless shelters, nursing homes, and refugee camps.
Project: Music Heals Us is a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide encouragement, education, and healing through bringing high-quality live music performances and interactive programming to marginalized communities with limited ability to access it themselves, with a focus on elderly, disabled, rehabilitating, hospitalized, incarcerated, and homeless populations.
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The New York Times has hailed cellist Andrew Janss for his "glowing tone", "insightful musicianship", and "sumptuous elegance”. Janss has collaborated onstage with iconic artists such as Itzhak Perlman and Bruce Springstein, and has performed for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Marlboro Music Festival. He serves as Executive Director of Project: Music Heals Us, a nationwide non-profit organization that brings healing and inspiration through music to people and communities with little or no access to live performing arts. For this work, he was recognized as a 2020-21 Emerson Collective Fellow.
Molly Carr is a violist, teacher, nonprofit executive, skier, soccer fan, amateur mountain-biker, chronic introvert, mother of five plants and an adopted sharpull named Billie Jean (that's a Shar Pei + Pitbull in case you're wondering...), and wife to an amazing partner named Oded. She is a member of the Carr-Petrova Duo and the Iris Trio, teacher on faculty at the Juilliard School, Bard College Conservatory of Music, and Musical Arts Madrid, and the founder and artistic director of the nonprofit Project: Music Heals Us. Over the past three decades, her career path has developed into what many would consider outright “non-traditional.” While she has had the great honor of performing around the globe in such revered venues as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, etc, she says "I have had the even greater honor and privilege of stepping behind prison walls to witness “hardened criminals” soften and weep at the sound of Beethoven’s string quartets, of standing at the bedside of hospital ICU patients to hold their hands and offer my best in their final minutes of life, of returning to federal correctional institutions to celebrate the miracle of opposing gang members becoming musical bandmates, of visiting refugee camps to offer the creative space for traumatized children to dance, sing, smile and freely express themselves for the first time in years."
Connect with Project: Music Heals Us at https://www.pmhu.org/