OFM_MEN_OF_YEAR_0619_DEPT 5 / 23 / 19 3 : 40 PM Page 4 KYLE BENOIT usic has always held great meaning for Glazer , a longtime studio and touring musician in his native Mon - M J O H N S O N G L A Z E R treal . In 2000 — two years after moving to President and CEO , Founder , Orlando to become musical director for La Lighthouse Central Florida and Timucua Arts Nouba , the Cirque du Soleil show — Glazer and Lighthouse Works Foundation his wife , Élaine Corriveau , were looking for a ohnson was once mired in a corporate place to hear great music on his nights off . So career he found unfulfilling , but when they decided to start the Timucua Arts Foun - J he discovered Lighthouse Central dation , a nonprofit that aims to inspire others Florida and became committed to its mission , everything changed . to create and learn through intimate , personal The nonprofit works with residents of all ages in Orange , Osceola experiences of the integrated performing and and Seminole counties who live with blindness or some level of visual arts . Initially holding concerts in their vision loss , providing services such as education , life skills and home that drew between 20 and 40 people , job placement . Earlier this year , Johnson was elevated to president the concept took off and they invested their and CEO of both Lighthouse Central Florida and its subsidiary life savings into designing a new home with a social enterprise nonprofit company , Lighthouse Works , which is 100 - seat concert hall , which they moved into the largest employment resource in the area for people with low in 2007 . To date , they have held 850 events vision . Together , the companies employ more than 110 Central featuring performers from all over the world Floridians , over half of whom are blind or visually impaired . In in all genres of music as well as theater , poetry , addition to leading the executive team and serving as chief film and visual art . The foundation strives to make the arts accessible spokesperson for Lighthouse , Johnson is also an instructor at the to everyone , and its Sunday night concerts are “ Pay What You Want . ” Edyth Bush Institute for Philanthropy & Nonprofit Leadership at Glazer , who taught jazz band at Boone High School for six years , is a Rollins College and is a member of the advisory board for IDEAS frequent guest speaker and sits on the board of the SoDo District . He for Us , a United Nations - accredited group active in developing has composed many works but considers his greatest achievement to environmental solutions in more than 30 countries . be his three adult children , who play 18 instruments between them . SCOTT ERIC ollings has enjoyed a long ince becoming a teacher in the and successful career as a Orlando area in 1997 , Evans has E V A N S R O L L I N G S real estate agent in the R devoted his career to ensuring S Senior Director , Visual & Founder and Director , Orlando area , but his commitment that arts education is available to all Performing Arts , Foundation for Florida to environmental issues could be children , and in his current role it is Orange County Public Environmental Protection described as a full - time job as well , his goal to give all OCPS students Schools ( OCPS ) even if it is done on a volunteer the opportunity to be moved by the basis . He founded the Foundation for Florida Environmental arts . He strives to give students access Protection in order to spread awareness of environmental issues to the best arts teachers and to impacting the state and to help develop and implement solutions remove all hurdles responsible for to problems affecting Florida’s water , land and wildlife . Three years deviating them from their creative ago , one of the projects that emerged from the foundation was the passions.The district has seen a steady No Foam Zone — an effort to ban single - use foam products , which increase in arts enrollment and an are harmful to Orlando’s lakes , waterways and wildlife . It has since expansion of arts programming expanded to include plastic straws and single - use during his nine - year tenure as senior plastic bags , and Rollings was hopeful of passing director . Evans has also developed the proposal at an early June Orlando City Council strong relationships with organiza - meeting . Since 2017 , Rollings has been a member tions such as the Orlando Philhar - of Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer’s “ Green Works monic , Orlando Museum of Art , Orlando ” task force , and his past accomplishments Orlando Repertory Theater and Orlando Ballet , leading to include initiating a resolution to ban fracking in students attending performances in droves . The school district Orange County that passed unanimously . In 2016 , has twice been named one of the country’s best communities the Sierra Club of Central Florida named Rollings for music education by The NAMM Foundation under Evans ’ an Environmental Champion , and he leadership . Currently the president of the Florida Music Super - recently received the Environmental vision Association , he recently received the Music Leadership Champion Award from IDEAS for US . Award from the Florida Music Education Association . ORLANDOFAMILYMAGAZINE.COM june 2019 ORLANDO FAMILY 33