STAGE TUBE: Matthew Morrison Encourages Arts Education

GLEE's Matthew Morrison works with the Grammy Foundation's Annual Grammy Camp, helping to encourage arts education. Click below to hear what Morrison has to say about the program and the arts.

 Matthew Morrison was a part of the Lincoln Center Theater production of South Pacific. It was at Lincoln Center where he also created the role of Fabrizio in the musical The Light in the Piazza, for which he was also nominated for a Tony Award. His other Broadway credits include A Naked Girl on the Appian Way, Hairspray, The Rocky Horror Show and Footloose. He appeared off-Broadway last summer in the musical 10 Million Miles at the Atlantic Theatre Company. His TV and film credits include Dan In Real Life, Marci X, Primary Colors, Numb3rs, Ghost Whisperer, CSI:Miami, Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Once Upon A Mattress.

Morrison currently stars on GLEE an uplifting series with biting humor that features a soundtrack of hit music from past to present. The show follows an optimistic high school teacher, Will Schuster, as he tries to refuel his own passion while reinventing the high school's glee club and challenging a group of outcasts to realize their star potential.

The Seventh Annual GRAMMY Camp®- the GRAMMY Foundation's signature music industry camp for U.S. high school students - is an interactive residential summer music experience focusing on all aspects of commercial music. GRAMMY Camp provides instruction by industry professionals in an immersive creative environment with cutting-edge technology in professional facilities. Held for the past six years in Los Angeles, the program is expanding to the East Coast to reach a broader range of students. GRAMMY Camp L.A. took place in Los Angeles from July 9-18at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music. GRAMMY Camp N.Y. was held in Brooklyn, N.Y. from Aug. 2-8 with 35 high school students from 33 cities and 21 states at Converse Rubber Tracks, a new state-of-the-art recording studio that provides artists of all genres the opportunity to record their original music in a high quality studio alongside a team of experienced engineers at no cost.

GRAMMY Camp N.Y. offers campers the opportunity to work in integrated industry teamsin three fields: Music Business & Production; Singer/Songwriter, and Performance - Instrumental or Vocal. This real-world, hands-on environment will involve an in-depth look at the entire creative process from the first spark of original material through the promotion of a finished product.