MUSIC FOR THE OCEAN
A Live Show for Ocean Conservation
Music for the Ocean is a multimedia concert experience created to raise awareness and funds for ocean conservation - especially coral reefs. The show combines live classical & electronic music with video animations & sound design to create an immersive "nature documentary for the concert hall".
INSPIRING AUDIENCES TO FALL IN LOVE WITH THE OCEAN
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
“I was genuinely moved by the entire design of the concert — the flow, the choice of fish species, and how seamlessly the music, visuals, and lighting came together. It felt so thoughtfully crafted. I especially loved the opening and the final chapters, they stayed with me long after...”
- Momo Wang: Animation Director, Creator of Tuzki
“It was really an incredible experience - like witnessing a cross-genre movie/play/experience for the first time - it blew me away both with the artistry and how heart-centered it was - Got chills so many times! I love and interact with the ocean a lot and this gave me a deeper understanding of the experience ocean animals are having because of us.”
David Neptune - documentary filmmaker, musician, and instrument producer
MEET THE ARTISTS
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Hui Wu
PIANIST
Prodigious concert pianist, praised as “sparkling” by The New York Times. Has creative approach to programming, stemming from a contemporary/classical music duality. Soloist appearances have included Bulgarian National Radio Symphony, Salzburg Philharmonic, Fort Worth Symphony, and New Juilliard. Festival appearances have included Taos School of Music, Yellow Barn, and Beijing International Music Festival. -
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Timothy Rauch
ANIMATION
Co-creator of “StoryCorps: The Animated Series”, which earned a Peabody, 4 Emmy and 2 Annie nominations. Supervising Director on musical anthology series “We The People”, which received an Emmy, a NAACP Image Award, and a GLAAD Media Award while working with President Barack Obama & First Lady Michelle Obama, H.E.R., Janelle Monae, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Brandi Carlile, and more. -
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William Chen
AUDIO/STAGE DIRECTOR
Emmy-nominated audio engineer with credits such as Encanto and She-Hulk and extensive expertise in classical music. Has worked with Camerata Pacifica, Kaleidoscope, and Da Camera Society, with festival work including NY Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and the Emerson Quartet. -
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Evan Murnane
LIGHTING DESIGNER
Lighting director for Camerata Pacifica for 9+ years. Specialist in chamber & experimental music concerts. Theatrical lighting design runs in the family (son of an accomplished theatrical lighting designer in Minneapolis).
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Chad Cannon
COMPOSER-VIOLINIST
Emmy-nominated composer and main featured artist of Music for the Ocean. Recently PADI-certified and completely in love with marine life.
MEASURABLE IMPACT FOR CORAL REEF CONSERVATION
We have a formal partnership with Tela Coral, a nonprofit working to preserve critically endangered coral species in the Caribbean. Tela, Honduras, has some of the last healthy elkhorn/staghorn coral colonies anywhere in the world. These species were declared extinct in Florida in October 2025.
Please consider giving to our Music for the Ocean x Tela Coral gene bank / marine biology lab fundraiser campaign here - so far we’ve raised over $43,000! Funds are already being used to construct the facility on the coast in Honduras, the first of its kind on the mainland of Honduras.
Follow along at telacoral.org for more information!
WHERE WE’VE BEEN
Launched in 2025, Chad and his team have performed this show, or elements of it, for around 4,000 people in the Bay Area, Yamaguchi and Osaka, Japan, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, Los Angeles, Glendale, Austin, Salt Lake City, and College Station, TX. Stay tuned for more shows, and follow along at Tela Coral for the latest info about the show and the marine biology lab progress.
Read about Music for the Ocean in Oceanus Magazine, as well as this feature in the Deseret News (Salt Lake City).
We spent June 2025 with Grammy-winning audio engineer and mixer Matthew Snyder, recording all 22 pieces of Music for the Ocean. Out on Bandcamp now, in high-definition audio (96khz). Features guest artists Niall Taro (cello) and William Hagen (violin). 10% of sales go to Tela Coral!
