Mrs. Garver Solis works with Eddie Galan and Tiffany Thornton!

Columbus Academy Lower School music teacher Amy Garver not only got married this summer (she’s now Amy Garver Solis), she also used one of the school’s Putnam Grants to travel to California to create a song with four-time #1 Hit Billboard songwriter Eddie Galan.

While in Los Angeles, Garver Solis also sang background vocals for a song called “Picture Perfect” on a new album by Tiffany Thornton, who stars on the Disney Channel’s “Sunny With a Chance” and is pictured above with Garver Solis on the left and Galan on the right.

At the beginning of the 2008-09 school year, Garver Solis selected Galan as the first Composer of the Month for her Lower School music classes and posted information about him on her school blog. Galan found the blog while doing a Google search of his name and left a comment for Garver Solis, who contacted him through his MySpace page.

Galan offered to answer questions from students about his life and being a composer. The students, in turn, showered him with homemade “thank you” cards and his favorite chocolate bars. When Garver Solis requested his assistance on helping to create a song for her students, Galan suggested she come to his studio.

To hear Garver Solis’ duet with Eddie Galan – titled “Put Yourself in Their Shoes” – go to http://intranet.columbusacademy.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=2958.

The trip was funded by the school’s Putnam Grant program, which was established to honor the legacy of William Putnam, Columbus Academy Headmaster from 1960 to 1977. The grants are intended to encourage professional and personal growth through a variety of summertime experiences which enhance and nourish the teaching life rather than meet specific instructional needs of the school, a division or a department.

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(Taken from the Columbus Academy Official Website.)