Soprano and arts administrator Caitleen Kahn is the Executive Director and co-founder of LYNX Project, a nonprofit amplifying diverse voices and connecting communities through art song. She spearheaded LYNX\u2019s initiatives in performance and arts education, including the \u201cAmplify\u201d Series, a collaboration setting the words of nonspeaking autistic individuals as song, and \u201cComposition of a City\u201d, a songwriting curriculum bridging hip hop and art song. She received the Catherine Filene Shouse Fellowship for her work with Musicambia, an organization creating music conservatories in the United States prison system, and was a 2016 Byron Fellow. Caitleen was the 2020 Eastman\/ArtistShare grant recipient for the LYNX\u2019s debut album \u201cbeautiful small things,\u201d and was selected to be a member of the 2022 YNPN Leadership Institute. She is a sought-after presenter and clinician whose recent engagements have included the Eastman School of Music, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, University of Illinois, Ohio University, and Ball State University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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