Febuary 2025
Director and co-producer of βTurtle Island/Abya Yala: Indigenous Lands,β sponsored by the Marian and Charles Holmes Performing Arts Fund of The Claremont Colleges. βTurtle Islandβ and βAbya Yalaβ are terms used by Indigenous peoples to refer to the American continents. The creative and performing group included spiritual leader of the Gabrielino Shoshone tribal council Javier Ramirez (Lenka, Nawat, Gabrielino Shoshone); Scott Orellana InglΓ©s Scoggins (Pipil, Nawat, Maya); Tina Calderon (Gabrielino Tongva, Chumash); Jessa Calderon (Tongva, Chumash, Yaqui); Ohlone Rumsen Carmel tribe drummers); musicians Jonah Yan-han Huang and Emma Gies.
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completed collage/montage freeΒ verse narrativeΒ Farchi tourab β kinah for Peleset
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notated most of theΒ Fantasy for Violin and piano: U²ΤΜύgiorno nella vita diΜύ²ϊ΄Η°ω²΅΄Η
March 2025Β
Publication release date, βShanghai Sounds: Austro-German Jewish Refugee Musicians in the City βAbove the Seaβ from 1938 to 1949β in Β German-Speaking Jewish Refugees in Asia, 1930β1950: Shelter fromβthe Storm? (Routledge Studies in Cultural History).
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Visiting Lecturer in Music at the Centre for Research on Slavery and Indentured (CRSI) and the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (FSSH) at University of Mauritius and lecture recital on USA piano music in Paul Octave Wiehe Auditorium.