Charlie and Family Organize Global “Young Artists for Haiti” Event Calling for Continued Support to Haiti Relief - Help Spread the Word!
Feb 17th, 2010 by mingyi
Update: Our “Young Artists for Haiti” project page is up! The Red Cross page established specifically for our project is now up and running at here. Be one of the first to donate and help out the great cause!
Ever since the devastating earthquake in Haiti, Charlie has been searching for ways to help Haiti. He had personally donated and released Youtube videos calling for help after the China earthquake 2 years ago. This time, we had an even better plan to help: Organizing a global collaboration of top young classical pianists to together call for continued support for Haitian children and their families! The message - Haiti relief is a long process, there needs to be continued support effort. Charlie and other talented young artists are all willing to help out! We call this project “Young Artists for Haiti”.
Ambitious? Yes. Difficult? Yes. But Charlie has enough real-life friends and Youtube friends to pull this one off - within days, 9 pianists aged 7-14, from 7 nations and 4 continents, signed up to Charlie’s project - they include world famous young musician and top winners of prestigious national and international competitions. Everyone’s so enthusiastic about the project, there was no persuading needed and no questions asked! The 10 pianists speak native languages that cover over half of world’s population, with a combined Youtube influence that stands at 11000 subscribers, 22000 friends and counting.
This diverse group of kids came together in a virtual collaboration to perform one piece - the Chopin Nocturne in C# Minor. Through this beautiful and healing piece, they call for global attention in their own native languages for continued support for the Haiti Relief effort.
A friend of ours helped us get through to Red Cross and we are in the process of setting up a special Red Cross page for donation. A professional multimedia company (D2Creative) donated their efforts to help produce the compiled video. Our friends are helping to spread the word of the project as it draws near to completion. Everyone involved has only one thought - help raise awareness of continued support for Haiti relief!
I will keep updating the status of the project as it draws close to completion. Thank you for joining in to help the humanitarian efforts!
I just watched The Young Artists for Haiti youtube video. It is excellent and very moving. Thank you for sharing the talents of these young musicians and for reminding us of the continued need to support the people of Haiti and Chili. I composed a piece entitled “Tears for Haiti” and collaborated with Vassar Haiti Art project and also produced a youtube video calling for people to support these efforts. http://tinyurl.com/y2dnygv Music is a wonderful way to reach out to people. You are an incredibly gifted musician I wish you much success.