Understand Your creative impact
What We Do
Strategize
FORGE PARTNERSHIPS
ASSESS IMPACT
DESIGN TRAININGS
Sounds That Carry specializes in developing long-term strategy, leading organizational change, and supporting social impact programs for arts organizations.
Through our combined expertise in music, education, and public health, we design and implement creative placemaking initiatives that address community priorities, ensuring that all projects have a meaningful and lasting impact.
We’ll contribute to your organization’s continued vitality by measuring your impact, creating curricula and sharing data-driven recommendations that can increase your organization’s capacity through new funding and new partnerships.
Who we are
Renate Tsuyako Rohlfing
Principal Consultant of Arts and Health
As a pianist and music psychotherapist, Renate Tsuyako Rohlfing is passionate about designing tools for arts organizations to increase their impact. Her expertise in mediation and therapeutic outcomes offers a unique perspective to long-term organizational planning. Her clinical work at NYU focuses on researching the impact of music on grief, anxiety, and memory, and works with people across the autism spectrum. As an Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music, she teaches classes on music, health, and psychology. Renate is a proud native of Honolulu, Hawaii, and a graduate of The Juilliard School and New York University.
Olivia Cosío
Principal Consultant of Education
Olivia Cosío is an educator and singer whose research and practice focus on the role of the arts in contributing to improving educational outcomes. She serves as Sounds That Carry’s Development Director, ensuring that partnerships are sustainable and meaningful. As Director of First-Year Arts Initiatives at Harvard University, she designed and assessed arts programs for first-year students, ensuring that data-driven insights led to a renewed relationship with the arts. She holds an Ed.M. from Harvard Graduate School of Education, an M.M. from The Juilliard School, and a B.M. from The Oberlin Conservatory.
RECENT COLLABORATIONS
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THE WALLACE FOUNDATION
Renate Rohlfing and Olivia Cosio speak about the role of the Wallace Foundation’s Connected Arts Learning Framework in their creative projects.
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CHAMBER MUSIC AMERICA
Read about Sounds That Carry's development of a new sound and music curriculum for 5th and 6th graders at Casita Maria Center for Arts & Education in partnership with Chamber Music America.
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THE JUILLIARD SCHOOL
Sounds That Carry presents at Juilliard’s 2024 Entrepreneurship Symposium. Their workshop focused on best practices for activating creative projects within communities.
Empower Artistic Minds And Your Organization
