8th Grader uses piano skills to raise money for clean water charity

Tyler Schwartz '30 helped raise over $3000 for Global Clean Water Efforts through a benefit concert at Blair School of Music.
This summer, two students from the Blair Academy for Music at Vanderbilt, Priscilla Park and Tyler Schwartz '30, turned music into meaningful action through a benefit concert supporting the global nonprofit charity: water. Held at the Steinway Piano Gallery in Nashville, the student-led event raised more than $3,000 to help bring clean, safe drinking water to communities in need. 

Read the full article on the Blair School of Music website here.
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