About Sea Zoo

LYNNE COX CREDENTIALS:

   Lynne Craige Cox is a native of Marion, S.C. and attended Winthrop College 1962-1964 majoring in music. Married
   Jerry D. Cox, Jr., of Belhaven, N. C. in 1964 and completed her Piano Performance Degree in Music Education at
   East Carolina University in 1966. It was at this same institution that she added a Certification in Public School Music.
   Lynne immediately began teaching piano classes as well as creating programs for different schools in the area.

   Her music teaching has spanned almost 40 years at present and her teaching is much more than just a job to her—it is
   her passion to introduce music to children and carefully tend the ‘learning soil’ she creates to help each and every child
   she teaches develop their unique musical skills.

   After teaching private piano classes in the area for over 20 years Lynne entered public school music in 1991 at Eastern
   Elementary School in Washington, N. C. Here she is employed at the same school and directs many musicals—one
   commemorating 9/11 and had to be presented outside on a flat-bed trailer in order to accommodate approximately
   1,000 people.

   She had another dream come true as she presented 55 of her first graders in a musical spectacular dancing and singing
   the “Sea Zoo” songs in costume to a packed house. Each year Lynne prepares an elementary ‘show choir’ for the
   annual “Steppin’ Out” showcasing the talent in the Beaufort (NC) County School system.

   The most recent honor bestowed upon her was being selected as one of the state finalists in 2003 for the prestigious
   Sarah Belk Gambrell award for excellence in music education sponsored by the Arts Education Coalition/
   NC Alliance for Arts Education.    Lynne was nominated by Beaufort County Schools for this award for her
   contribution to the field of arts education.

Presently Lynne is an Advanced Candidate for National Board Certification in Early Childhood Music. Her specialty area is from
ages 3-8.

CAREER HISTORY:

Music educator/program director at Eastern Elementary School in Washington, N. C.
(Beaufort County Schools)
Music educator/program director at Pungo Christian Academy, 1973-1991
Piano private classes 1966-1991
Music educator/program director at John A. Wilkinson High School, Belhaven, N. C. 1966-1968
Composer of numerous collections for children including “Sea Zoo” collection,
“Dinosaur Collection”, “Singing Rainbow” collection and her most recent “Noah’s Ark” collection
Published composer with Myklas Music Press of Denver, CO.
Founder and owner of Lynne Cox Publications (“Sea Zoo”)
Church organist/pianist 1960-2003 for various churches in both North and South Carolina—most recently
Trinity United Methodist Church in Belhaven, N.C.
Pianist for community programs such as fashion shows, beauty contests, Fourth of July celebrations, community
cantatas, Christmas programs, etc. 1960-present
Adjudicator for piano contests sponsored by the National Federation of Music Clubs, the Greenville (NC)
Piano Teachers Assoc, Beaufort Piano Teachers Assoc., and Florence (SC) Piano Teachers Assoc.
State and Nationally certified by Music Teachers National Association 1991-2001
Presenter of her compositions at South Carolina Early Childhood Association Convention Charleston, SC,
1999; Chowan College, Murfreesboro, NC, 2001, High Point (NC) Music Teachers in 1999, and at
Barnes & Noble of Greenville, NC 2000 and 2001

HONORS:

State and National recognition of her compositions by NC Federation of Music Clubs, National Federation
of Music Clubs, NCMTA, and Piano Review
Listed in “Hall of Fame” by the National Guild of Piano Teachers
Compositions reviewed by national professional music teachers magazines: “The Piano Quarterly” and
“Clavier”
Teacher of the year at Eastern Elementary School, Washington, NC 1993
Teacher of the World nominee in 1992 by Beaufort County Schools
Booster’s Club Award for excellence in teaching, Pungo Christian Academy 1981
VREX Corporation of Elmsford, NY using her lesson plan “Musical Spaceship” for their national advertising
‘user page’
Invited by NC Center for the Advancement of Teaching (NCCAT) to be a ‘Teacher Scholar’ during
week-long seminars for three different years

PUBLICATIONS:

· CD “Favorite Piano Classics” (see button of that name) all easy listening, original compositions
performed on an acoustical piano by Lynne on a concert grand piano. This one is currently in its second
printing.

· CD “The American Eagle” which contains her patriotic ballad as well as complete songs from her
“Sea Zoo”, “Noah’s Ark” and “Singing Rainbow” Collections

· “Sea Zoo” coloring book with lyrics to songs

· “Singing Rainbow” coloring/music book complete with actual printed piano scores plus lyrics for beginners

· “Dinosaur Collection” four late elementary piano solos containing character pieces created to depict
the different dinosaurs. “Pteranodon” was the melody Lynne wrote for this collection 20 years ago that
she used for her “American Eagle” song—the words to her poem commemorating 9/11 fitting like
a glove to this haunting melody. Pieces from this collection have been on numerous NC and other state
contest lists for children

· “Cruising Down the Nile”, a virtual reality project created and implemented in collaboration with
Dr. Veronica Pantelidis of the School of Education, East Carolina University. Published in
VREL’s (Virtual Reality Education Laboratory) papers. At present being used worldwide
in university students’dissertations in obtaining masters degrees in computer science.

· “Musical Spaceship”, another reality project published by VREL and used by VREX Corporation
of Elmsford, NY specializing in virtual reality products for their advertising ‘user page’

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

· National Federation of Music Clubs—life membership

· Music Educator’s National Conference

· Beaufort County Arts Council

· Effie-Raye Arts Society—Belhaven Arts Council

· Marion (SC) County Arts Council

INTERESTS:

Being with my family and friends, composing, sharing my music with others, teaching and being a part of
developing children’s musicianship and self-confidence; as a breast cancer survivor of 8 years helping other
women through this crisis, church and community work, walking, gardening and traveling.

PERSONAL INFORMATION:

Married to Jerry Cox since 1964

Children: sons Trevor and Sean

Grandson: Kirian

MORE INFO ABOUT SEA ZOO:

“Sea Zoo” company (Lynne Cox Publications) is the musical brainchild of Lynne Cox, music educator of almost 40
years. This is a company specializing in music and visual arts for children, although her recent CDs will appeal to all ages.

   Lynne resides in Belhaven, NC, with her husband Jerry on the Intracoastal Waterway. Living beside the water fed her
   imagination of the creatures of the sea in teaching her two sons, Trevor and Sean, about the ocean animals. It started
   with poems set in riddle form that she would say to the younger son, Sean, who was two at the time, while the older son,
   Trevor, would cavort in the water acting out whatever sea animal it was. This was in the early 1980’s.

   This was great fun!! Soon afterward Lynne composed melodies to go along with the poems, scored them for the
   elementary piano student and, voila, “Sea Zoo” was born containing 10 original songs. “The Octopus”,
   “The Shark”, “The Lobster”, and the other seven animals are written as if the sea creature was singing directly
   to the child, giving hints as to what it is (Don’t wade out! Best go in! When you see my dorsal fin”). As the child
   is delighted with the song, he has no idea that Mama has purposely written these in riddle form, which is a
   pre-requisite in elementary language arts curriculum; teaches the child math skills ( Ex. “The Octopus”--One,
   two, three, four, don’t stop now! There are more! Five, six, seven, eight, having eight is just great!); and zoology
   on primary and elementary level.

   They were published by Myklas Music Press of Denver, CO. “The Shark” and “The Lobster” immediately
   were chosen by the National Federation of Music Clubs for their required performing list for children. Many of
   these songs have stayed on this list for years.

Lynne’s “Dinosaur Piano Collection” (see Dinosaur Collection”) and her “Sea Zoo” songs have won many state
cups and have been listed on many required performance lists of many music teaching organizations.

   It was Lynne’s dream to also combine a matching coloring book with the songs. With Kim Dills and Catherine
   Broadhead hired as the visual arts creators, the book was completed with the cartoony picture of the sea animal on
   the right hand side of the book and the lyrics on the left. Having observed closely with the students Lynne has taught,
   she realized that not only was it fun to color and sing at the same time, as she had enjoyed doing as a little girl, but that
   in incorporating visual and performing arts facilitated and reinforced learning.

   Since her new CD, “The American Eagle” is also a sampler of her children’s songs, three of the “Sea Zoo” songs
   are on this CD. This CD contains “The American Eagle” (a patriotic song commemorating 9/11 and is composed and
   published in honor of the military, fireman, rescue workers and just patriotic citizens who love this country. (See
   “American Eagle” on this website.

   Lynne has also expanded her composition skills to include “Noah’s Ark”, this time about the animals that ‘crawl
   or walk on the earth or fly in the sky’. Seven songs in this series have been completed and three are on “The American
   Eagle” CD. “The Singing Rainbow”, a collection of elementary songs complete with coloring book which includes
   actual elementary piano scores as well as lyrics, has “Purple” on this same CD.

   “Sea Zoo” provides fun, innovative, interactive fun for children and adults. Combining visual and performing arts into
   an educational experience for the young child, it is Lynne’s sincere hope that it provides quality time between
   parents/grandparents and children, just as it did for her and her young sons.