To educate, equip, and empower youth through music, technology and the arts
RYTMO provides a positive, creative, and professional environment for low-income/disenfranchised youth to express and develop their musical talents, attain greater personal achievement, and gain fundamental occupational skills for the music industry.
Through RYTMO, music provides a sense of achievement and helps to improve coordination, discipline, imagination, and self-confidence. It also has a therapeutic, calming, and ultimately, energizing effect. The creation of an original composition will build self-esteem, awaken creativity and fine-tune listening skills, additionally, an appreciation of teamwork has been shown to improve academic outcomes in other areas of study.
RYTMO provides a positive, creative, and professional environment for low-income/disenfranchised youth to express and develop their musical talents, attain greater personal achievement, and gain fundamental occupational skills for the music industry.
Music education has been proven to improve coordination, discipline, and imagination, and provide self-confidence and a sense of achievement.
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Executive Director
Mark is an award-winning composer for film, television, and advertising and the founder of Cutting Room Music. Mark has worked with some of entertainment’s leading directors on a variety of projects, including video games, full-feature and documentary films, websites, radio, television shows, commercials and advertising, and custom music production. He has composed for Trending Crimes, American Pickers, Catfish, Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Snapped, Murder One, Microsoft Xbox, and Pixar. As RYTMO’s program director, Mark oversees the technology program and offers his expertise as a music consultant.
Controller
RYTMO does not, by policy and/or practice, discriminate against a person and/or groups on the basis of race, color, religion, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital, family or veteran status, in compliance with all federal, state, and/or local laws.