Jennifer Zulli

Jennifer Zulli is a composer, musician, singer, educator and explorer of sound and its effects on consciousness.

Jennifer has had a deep love for music for as long as she can remember. One of her first musical memories was at the age of three, dancing around the living room to “I Feel Pretty” from West Side Story with her mother and sisters. Caught up in her sheer happiness, Jennifer tripped and had her first head-on, teeth-first introduction to the family piano. Aside from that unfortunate encounter, it was then she knew she would always be moved by music. At the age of five, Jennifer started studying piano, and by seven years old she began composing and creating her own pieces which brought her an amazing sense of freedom and a profound passion to express herself through composition and performance.

Being behind the piano and singing always felt like home for Jennifer as she found solace every day after school practicing for hours the works of great composers, as well as her own compositions. She continued to study piano and voice throughout High School and upon graduation was the first recipient of the B’nai Brith full scholarship award. Jennifer studied classical and contemporary voice and piano, and in 1997 received her BA in Music Education, and then soon after started teaching music in the NYS public school system. Although it wasn’t her true heart’s desire, she listened to the advice of others and gave her full attention to teaching. Jennifer continued her studies in Manhattenville College; she attended The Julliard School, and later received her MA in Music/Education in Western Connecticut State University. She continued her post graduate studies in World Music, Orff Shulwork, but focused most of her attention on Dalcroze (a mind, body, spirit) based pedagogy.

Since 1997, Jennifer has taught thousands of students in the public school system as well as privately. For the past 15 years, the core of Jennifer’s curriculum has been focused on teaching creative composition to children, movement and singing, music history and theory, directing musical plays and revues and conducting large choruses.

For the past three years Jennifer has introduced meditation into her classes as a way of guiding her students to let go, relax and focus, connect to themselves, create, and tune into each other on a deeper level. The benefits were extraordinary. This was initiated in 2007 when Jennifer was struck with a deadly combination of a chronic Lyme disease infection, Erlichiosis infection, and Mononucleosis four months after her first daughter was born via a medically induced cesarean.

In 2007, Jennifer’s life was changed forever. Not only was she a new mother, she was traveling to more doctors than she can recall just to hear them tell her that the myriad of symptoms (i.e. neurological symptoms, chronic joint and muscle pain, lethargy, ear/eye pain, headaches and many other seemingly unrelated symptoms) were all in her head, or cause by postpartum depression. After seven months of dealing with the pain and suffering brought unknowingly on by a combination of tick infections, Jennifer started praying and meditating as a means to deal with every painstaking moment when all she really wanted to do was curl up into a hole and give up. She then found a MD who was willing to treat her as if she had Lyme regardless of what the blood tests said. A diagnosis finally came back and her long road to recovery and healing began.

Jennifer continued meditation which was a tremendous aid in helping her through the roller coaster recovery for chronic Lyme. And what she find out through this journey was that it was a way for her to finally reconnect to her true self after so many years of not being truly in touch with who she was, what she wanted and what made her soul truly sing. She started to feel alive again after so many years of being asleep; and started researching works on meditation, sound healing and great ancient mystics. It was at that point that Jennifer started composing music again and for the first time in many years she felt her purpose and passion were somehow linked. In 2009, she released Diamon a long overdue CD about the awakening experience of chronic disease. In that year she won VH1 song of the year and placed in ISC songwriting competition. Although, the singer-songwriter style of music wasn’t going to be her focus musically for her future, it proved to be very cathartic and necessary in the ending of the old and beginning a new.

Since then, Jennifer’s main mission has been to be true to herself; to follow her true heart’s desire while growing beyond the “tick ~tock” of everyday life and truly wake up to the Divine essence within. With that intent, she studied hundreds of works from well known metaphysical and spiritual writers and teachers such as Stuart Wilde, Wayne Dyer, Gary Zukav, Sonia Choquette while also studying sound healing with world renowned sound healer Jonathan Goldman and continuous researching and experimenting with sound and its effects on consciousness.

At that point, her whole view of teaching and the system had changed. “Instead of telling children what they should do, how they should behave, teaching them to test and to regurgitate; I felt the whole system was completely backwards. Rather than allowing the child to become who they were meant to be and innately are by support and guidance, and nurture the student to pay attention to their own unique guiding system and to hear their own inner voices, they are being trained to be someone else. They are being taught to be more competitive, that the increasing amounts of standardized tests and test grades are an accurate assessment of who they are... which is absurd!”

Along with teaching in the public school, Jennifer composes music of her own unique blend of New Age Classical and Ambient and music for healing and guided meditation. She’s has created The Sonic Journey Experiment which is a unique 45 minute sound healing symphony incorporating many aspects of music, sounds and silence and can be performed live as an interactive concert and intimate workshops.

On December 15, 2012, Jennifer opened SOUND ( A Center for Music, Creative Arts & Mindfulness) in Newtown, CT. SOUND is a holistic educational and healing arts center that fosters arts and spiritual awareness for conscious evolution. Located in the historic Hawleyville Chapel in Newtown, Sound provides a sacred space for awakening the human spirit through positive experiences in the healing and creative arts. SOUND's mission is to hold the space for exploring and connecting to each other and our truest Self.

For more information about SOUND and workshops, classes, events or the The Wellness Center at SOUND please visit

www.soundcenterarts.com

Her latest albums "Opening" and "Earth Lullaby" continue to be played internationally and nationally.

On January 29th 2014 Jennifer Zulli's long awaited New Album "Goddess Rising" recorded in 432hz (the light frequency) will be released. Beautiful Sacred Sounds and Texts and featuring artwork of English Fantasy Artist Josephine Wall

Find The SOUND of your Soul!