Poetica Musica, whom the New Times has dubbed “Good Will Ambassadors,” are a New York-based consortium that has served for many years as Artists-in-Residence at Old Westbury Gardens, a stately mansion on Long Island. The ensemble has toured the world, playing at festivals in Britain and across Europe, the Middle East, South America, Africa and Asia, as well as in the United States at venues including Carnegie Hall, where they participated in the worldwide celebration commemorating the Bicentennial of Hans Christian Andersen. It has also performed at the Kennedy Center, the Library of Congress, and the World Bank. The ensemble has performed live on broadcasts from the Kennedy Center in Washington, CNN World report, CNN Turk, Radio Baku. Radio Damascus, Radio Guyana, WNYC, and has given lectures and master classes all over the world, including Israel, Jordan, Turkey, Serbia, Slovakia, Syria, Estonia, Romania and Peru in music academies, public schools, community centers, and hospitals.
Members of Poetica Musica have served on the faculties of Manhattan School of Music, Lehmann College, SUNY Buffalo, Brooklyn College, Juilliard, the Belgrade Academy of Music, New York University, the Prague Music Performance Institute, the College of New Rochelle, the University of Alabama, and SUNY Fredonia.
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Recipients of the Ambassador’s Award for Cultural Diplomacy from the United States Department of State under the Obama and Biden administrations, Poetica Musica has been awarded funding from the CBS Foundation, the New York State Council of the Arts, the Suffolk County Department of Cultural Affairs, the National Endowment for the Arts, American Airlines, the IBM Matching grant Program, Lockheed-Martin and the Irene Levoy Foundation, as well as various United States Embassies and Consulates worldwide.
[Image: Poetica Musica – Oren Fader, guitar, Barry Crawford, Flute, Eleanor Valkenburg, soprano]
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