Pittsburgh Piano 300 Festival
Attracts 80,000 Spectators. . . . . 2

Kentucky Clavinova Players
‘Take the
S Train’. . . . . 3

Music Education Has
Its Day on Capitol
Hill . . . . . 4

Pennsylvania
High School Expands Clavinova Lab . . . . . 5

Clavinova Festival Participation
Swells to 10,000 in 2000 . . . . . 6

Clavinova Lab Offers Classes
for All Ages . . . . . 8

With Yamaha’s Help,
She’ll Play in
Peoria . . . . . 9

CLP900 Series
is a Smash at Winter
NAMM . . . . . 10

David Benoit Inspires
Students . . . . . 11

elli Szczybor knows the importance of music in a hospital’s pediatric ward, and understands its healing power in a child’s life. “When my son, Ryan, was diagnosed with leukemia, we spent nine months in the pediatric oncology unit at Johns Hopkins,” she says. “We practically lived there. I got to see first hand what it was like for long term patients, and what was needed to make the children’s recovery process easier or better.”

Tyler Nolan, a patient at Johns Hopkins, takes a moment to enjoy the Clavinova

After her son passed away, she and other family members started the Ryan Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing useful and playful items for seriously ill children in the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.

Szczybor contacted Yamaha Senior Vice President Terry Lewis and asked how she could acquire a digital piano for the pediatric ward. The acoustic piano that was in the unit was old and in terrible shape, and a new one was badly needed. Much to Szczybor’s surprise, Yamaha teamed with Oren Music in Perry Hall, MD to provide a new Clavinova CVP107 digital piano for the children’s playroom.

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