Group of young Dominican musicians performing a pre-concert at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo.
Concert for neighborhood kids in a church in Gualey, an area of extreme poverty in Santo Domingo. Many of them had never heard or seen a classical instrument before.
Picture of me and to my left with grey hair is Jorge Aguirre (Traveling Notes Artistic Director) with musicians from different nationalities during the Music Festival of Santo Domingo where the idea of Traveling Notes originated.
Group of Dominican musicians at the intermediate level during a pre-concert rehearsal.
15-year old Paul Watrobski and 13-year old Samantha Merrill from Rochester, NY playing as soloists during a concert for press and sponsors.
Concert for press and sponsors in Santo Domingo directed by Diego García.
All US participants of the Traveling Notes Festival 2007 on a beautiful Dominican beach at the Wyndham Resort in Bayahibe.
Post-concert visit to the community of Gualey to interview the neighborhood kids about how they experienced the concert. I am on my knees in the foreground with sunglasses in my hair.
Full group rehearsal in Lima.
Peruvian, Dominican and American music students of the cello section during a rehearsal in Lima.
US and Dominican students practicing the pan flute and posing with some kids from a school in Manchay, an area of extreme poverty in the outskirts of Lima where people from the mountains settled after fleeing the Shining Path terror in their villages.
Concert in church of Manchay in honor of all the teachers of the village.
Group picture of US, Dominican and some Peruvian students on the entrance steps to the church in Manchay with the Traveling Notes faculty in the foreground. I am in the beige sweater standing on the left hand side of the picture.
Benefit concert in the theater of Newton College in Lima, proceeds were donated to Grupo Vida, a local charity that supports adolescent mothers and their children.
Cello section during benefit concert at Newton College.
Detail of orchestra during benefit concert at Newton College.
Benefit chamber music concert in the Country Club Hotel in Lima with musicians from Peru, Dominican Republic and US. The proceeds were donated to Caritas Graciosas, a local charity that provides training to school teachers in under served areas.
Chamber music concert in a private residence.