Intercultural Art and Healing
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Mission Statement
The mission of the project is to promote world peace and understanding through artistic and cultural exchanges between countries, support fusion art forms and provide spiritual and healing support through holistic practices like yoga, meditation and alternative medicine
Artistic and Cultural Exchange Project
The Project plans to set up an Academy for Arts and Holistic practices and sponsor several musical, dance and multi-media events featuring artists, speakers and independent filmmakers from different countries to promote cultural interchange and fusion of art and holistic philosophies of different countries. The events are planned to take place in several countries to facilitate understanding, cultural exchange and world peace.
The first events planned are Music Concerts and Multimedia Presentation scheduled in January 2005 to be held in New York City.
Artist participating in these events are:
1. Director - Angelica Faria , Composer and Professor of Music, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2. Elione Medeiros, First Bassoon at Municipal Theater Symphonic Orchestra and Professor Music, University of Rio de Janeiro
3. Katia Pierre, First Flautist at Municipal Theater Symphonic Orchestra, Rio de Janeiro
4. Fernando Silveira, Professor of Clarinet and Saxophone, University of Rio de Janeiro
5. Anjali George, Independent Filmmaker
Resumes of the participants are attached.
Sincerely,
Angelica Faria
Director
12 November, 2004
ANG탔°LICA FARIA (COMPOSER and DIRECTOR)
Angíƒ ©lica Faria was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and lives at present in New Jersey, United States. She majored in Composition, Musical Education and Conducting at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). She also studied Chorus Conducting with Hemulth Rilling, in Germany. Angíƒ ©lica has a Masterí¢â‚¬â„¢s degree in the Science of Arts, from the Federal University of Niteríƒ ³i (UFF), Rio de Janeiro.
Her professional career includes teaching, composition and research. In Brazil, she taught for twenty years in the most prominent schools of Rio de Janeiro, like Villa Lobos School of Music, Brazilian Conservatory of Music, and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. At present she is teaching in the U.S.A.
In 1985, Angíƒ ©lica was awarded a prize at the National Conquest of Composition, sponsored by the National Foundation of Art, which led her to participate of the Sixth Biennial of Contemporary Brazilian Music. In 1987, she received the Honor Award in the Villa Lobos National Conquest of Composition, with Romaria. Since then, she has presented her pieces in various concert halls in Brazil, as well as abroad, and has participated in many festivals, like the Biennial of Contemporary Brazilian Music, and the Encounter of Latin-American Composers and Performers.
Angíƒ ©lica Faria has dedicated herself to interdisciplinary research and to the study of musical poetry. She is a member of the Brazilian Society of Contemporary Music (Brazilian section of ISMC)
ELIONE MEDEIROS (BASSOON)
Elione Medeiros, Master in Bassoon at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). He was a member of the Villa Lobos Quintet. He is First Bassoon in the Municipal Theater Symphonic Orchestra and in the Petrobríƒ ¡s Príƒ ³-Míƒ ºsica Symphonic Orchestra. He is a Bassoon and Chamber Music teacher at the University of Rio de Janeiro (UNI-RIO).
FERNANDO SILVEIRA (CLARINET)
Fernando Silveira was First Clarinetist of the National Symphonic Orchestra of Rio de Janeiro for seven years. He teaches clarinet and saxophone at the University of Rio de Janeiro (UNI-RIO), and has been requested to play and teach in South America, North America and Europe. He often plays as a guest for the Brazilian Symphonic Orchestra and at the Petrobríƒ ¡s Príƒ ³-Míƒ ºsica Symphonic Orchestra. He is the exclusive artist of Selmer/France and Vandoren.
Kíƒ TIA PIERRE (TRANSVERSE FLUTE)
Kíƒ ¡tia Pierre majored and specialized in flute at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). She was a member of the Villa Lobos Quintet. Currently, she is First Flute Soloist in the Rio de Janeiro Municipal Theater Symphonic Orchestra and is part of the Flute Quartet of Rio de Janeiro.
ANJALI GEORGE (INDEPENDENT FILMMAKER)
Anjali George majored in Anthropology at Barnard College, Columbia University. Since graduating in 2002, she has worked as production assistant and assistant editor on various documentary films some of which include Five Points Mediaí¢â‚¬â„¢s Commune, the Peabody award-winning The Rise and Fall of the Jim Crow Laws, and Collateral Damages, which premiered at the Film Forum in early 2004. She also directed her own short film and in 2003 produced and worked on various Third World Newsreel productions.