Classical pianist Soyeon Lee made a big environmental statement last year when she wore a dress made from over 6,000 juice pouches to her Carnegie Hall recital. Now, Lee is taking her passion for spreading environmental awareness even further by teaming up with TerraCycle Inc. to release her new album, Re!nvented, with the world’s most eco-friendly CD packaging.
Re!nvented CD cases are made from chip bags collected from millions of school children in North America. The bags are shredded and compressed to provide an alternative to PVC, the material most often used for jewel cases, which is petrochemical-based, difficult to recycle and is linked to elevated cancer rates among workers and people who live near manufacturing plants.
Lee, a Julliard-trained Korean pianist, is a winner of the 2004 Concert Artists Guild International Competition, as well as the Second and Mozart prizes of the Cleveland International Piano Competition and the Bronze Medal of the Paloma O’Shea Santander International Piano Competition. She was featured on the January 2006 cover of SYMPHONY magazine’s annual “Emerging Artists”issue and in the 2008 edition of Musical America’s “More Thrills of Discovery”.
Take a listen at Soyeon Lee’s website. ‘Re!nvented’ will drop on April 21st.
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Photo credit: Re!nvented
