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Global Impact Musician program brings East African players to Madison

Music educator and violinist Zeynep Alpan believes music is more than entertainment — it teaches “life.”

Alpan, who works on music education programming with the New York Philharmonic and Lincoln Center, is the co-founder of Global Impact Musician (GIM), a nonprofit based in New York and partnered with the University of Wisconsin-Madison that works with young professional musicians in East Africa.