Paul Lehr & GroundUP Music
PAUL T. LEHR, J.D., has been involved in the arts since the age of six, having trained as a classical pianist and worked as a musician, as well as an actor in film and theater. He earned his B.A. from Brown University and his J.D. from the University of Florida. He worked as a law clerk for a federal judge, practiced law, and built and ran a successful for-profit business and non-profit foundation before joining the Arison Arts Foundation/National YoungArts Foundation in 2010.
From 2010-2015, Lehr served as CEO of YoungArts, where he led the transformation of this national non-profit arts organization including development of its first national headquarters through the acquisition and expansion of the landmark Bacardi campus in Miami, working closely with Frank Gehry on the master plan. Lehr also helped to create programming around the country with MoMA PS1, LACMA, PAMM, the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, and the Hirshhorn/Smithsonian; music and television partnerships with Universal Music Classics, Sony Music, PBS, and HBO; performances and exhibitions with Robert Redford, Bobby McFerrin, Shelly Berg, James Blake, Plácido Domingo, Chick Corea, Joshua Bell, Olafur Eliasson, Bruce Weber, Ben Folds, and Marina Abrámovic; and development, branding and roll-out of Emmy-Award winning HBO series YoungArts MasterClass and its accompanying educational study guide distributed across the country.
Lehr now serves as the CEO of GroundUP Music which includes on its roster three-time Grammy Award-winning Snarky Puppy, two-time Rock & Roll Hall of Fame legend David Crosby, and 20 other global artists. Additionally, Lehr also produces the annual GroundUP Music Festival in Miami Beach, with performers including Esperanza Spalding, Béla Fleck & the Flecktones, Michael McDonald, David Crosby, Lettuce, Chris Thile, The Wood Brothers, Shelly Berg, Robert Glasper, and others from around the world, with plans to expand the festivals to South American, Europe, and elsewhere.
Lehr serves on the Board of Trustees for the Robert & Sibylle Redford The Way of the Rain Foundation, and the University of Miami Frost School of Music Visiting Committee. In addition to his work in the arts, Lehr also works in the science/health/medical field, having co-founded a biotech company, HeartGenomics, which developed gene-signature-based diagnostic and prognostic tests for heart failure, and is also one of the leaders at Longeveron, a stem-cell/regenerative medicine company with clinical trials in Aging Frailty and Alzheimer’s Diseases.
— from the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami website.
The videos below are organized by topic and run between 30 seconds and 5 minutes. Click on any video. You must be connected to the Internet to view the videos.
GroundUP Musica Festival 2020: 0:30 sec.
STRONG DRIVE FOR ACHIEVEMENT: 1:06 min.
VALUES FIRST-RATE EDUCATION: 1:13 min.
VALUES FIRST-RATE EDUCATION: 0:48 sec.
CREATES A UNIQUE PERSONAL BRAND: 1:26 min.
SEIZES OPPORTUNITIES: 2:22 min.
OPEN TO CHANGE, FLEXIBILITY: 3:11 min.
PERSEVERANCE FURTHERS: 0:53 sec.
COLLABORATION: 2:23 min.
UNDERSTANDS THE BUSINESS OF ART: 5:05 min.
OVERCOMES CHALLENGES TO SUCCEED: 0:51 sec.
CREATIVE FLEXIBILITY: 2:42 min.
CREATES A UNIQUE PERSONAL BRAND: 3:29 min.
STRONG DRIVE FOR ACHIEVEMENT: 3:21 min.
COLLABORATION: 2:52 min.
UNDERSTANDS THE BUSINESS OF ART: 1:14 min.
UNDERSTANDS ARTISTS’ NEEDS: 0:44 sec.
CRITICAL THINKING: 1:36 min.
SERENDIPITY: 1:15 min.
OVERCOMES CHALLENGES TO SUCCEED: 2:10 min.
EXPOSURE TO BROAD INFLUENCES: 1:13 min.
INSIGHT & INSPIRATION: 2:02 min.
INSIGHT & INSPIRATION: 1:36 min.
