Principal Investigators
Sona Dimidjian;听Anne Fritzson;听Laurel Hicks;听Grace Law;听Jeffrey Nytch
Funding
Entrepreneurship Center for Music; Ren茅e Crown Wellness Institute; CU Boulder Office of Outreach and Community Engagement Community Impact Award; Beverly Sears Grant through CU Boulder
Collaboration + support
Carnegie Hall; Boulder Community Health Birthing Center; Children's Hospital of Colorado
In Spring 2020, an ambitious partnership brought together the College of Music鈥檚 Entrepreneurship Center for Music, CU Boulder鈥檚 Ren茅e Crown Wellness Institute, Boulder Community Health, Children's Hospital of Colorado and Carnegie Hall.听
The Lullaby Project paired new parents with student composers to create a personal lullaby for their baby. When the pandemic put in-person meetings between patients and composers on hold, organizers saw an opportunity to make the project even larger. Via Zoom, undergraduate and graduate students worked with more than 30 families from across the country to brainstorm ideas for the lullabies and record the original works at a distance.听
Researchers will now measure the effects of the interactions on parental loneliness, sense of belonging, depression, anxiety and self-reported parent-child connection.