Febuary 2025
Director and co-producer of “Turtle Island/Abya Yala: Indigenous Lands,” sponsored by the Marian and Charles Holmes Performing Arts Fund of The Claremont Colleges. “Turtle Island” and “Abya Yala” 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 Inglés 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 free verse narrative Farchi tourab – kinah for Peleset
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notated most of the Fantasy for Violin and piano: Un giorno nella vita di borgo
March 2025
Publication release date, “Shanghai Sounds: Austro-German Jewish Refugee Musicians in the City “Above the Sea” from 1938 to 1949” in German-Speaking Jewish Refugees in Asia, 1930–1950: Shelter from the Storm? (Routledge Studies in Cultural History).
April 2025
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.