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Susan Williams, soprano and Associate Professor of Voice at The University of Alabama, has been a soloist with numerous orchestras, opera companies, and organizations in the United States and abroad. Most recently she guest lectured at The Royal Irish Academy of Music and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. In 2019, she performed with the President’s Orchestra of Tajikistan through the Pitch Pipe Foundation and gave masterclasses in Kathmandu, Nepal as a grant recipient of the U.S. Embassy. Twice she has toured in Kolkata, India with Kolkata Classics. In 2018 she was a faculty artist with the Bassi Brugnatelli Symposium for Conductors and Singers in Robbiate, Italy. She has traveled to Havana, Cuba three times to teach and perform as part of The University of Alabama Center for Cuba Collaboration and Scholarship. Interested in how body movement systems and virtual anatomy technology can assist in singing, she is a registered yoga teacher at the 200-hour level with an additional 100-hour training in yogic breathwork; her publications can be found in the Journal of Singing. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts from the Cleveland Institute of Music.

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​Pianist Jennifer Heemstra is a high impact performer who has left her mark on classical music, education and underserved communities around the world. She has performed at venues, to include the Kala Mandir (Kolkata, India), Smithsonian National Museum (D.C.), Jazz Conservatory (Kathmandu, Nepal), Aini Opera and Ballet Theatre (Dushanbe, Tajikistan), and the American University (Sharjah, UAE). Heemstra founded two nonprofits, Kolkata Classics in India and the Pitch Pipe Foundation in Michigan, USA. To date Heemstra has organized and performed in over 100 concerts in India, has successfully organized 72 cultural events in the USA and 56 events in the Middle East & Central Asia. Heemstra is expanding her international concert series to Brazil to provide free concerts for the public, master classes for young musicians and social services for those in need. Heemstra worked as a Lecturer at Case Western Reserve University (USA), was the Commencement Speaker for Michigan State University and was a delegate at the Second World Congress Against the Sexual Exploitation of Women & Girls. She earned her Master of Music from The Cleveland Institute of Music and a Bachelor of Music with honours from Michigan State University.

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​Manuela Tomaz Korossy began her studies in music in 2005, in an extension course at the University of Brasília and soon joined the Escola de Música de Brasília, to study classical piano, where she also participated in choral singing activities. After graduating from the basic classical piano course, she began her studies in Classical Singing at the same institution, with Professor Vilma Bittencourt, in 2016. In 2017 she joined the Voice Bachelor at the University of Brasília and in 2018 she became a student of Professor Franklin Sagredo Martins (Brazil-Belgium). During her studies, she had the opportunity to do masterclasses with singers of national and international renown, such as Mezzo Edineia Oliveira (SP-Brazil) and Soprano Rachel Willis Sorensen (USA), and she also performed as a soloist, twice, with Orchestra of the Cláudio Santoro National Theater, conducted by maestro Claudio Cohen. In 2021, she was accepted into the Voice Bachelor at the Juilliard School, where she will complete her studies.

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Jaqueline Marafon is a self-taught artist with a degree in business administration and a post-graduate degree in arts. She has participated in several art competitions, individual and collective exhibitions around the country in the last 20 years of her career. She currently commercializes her work on the internet, conducts painting classes at the Yacht Club, at espaço Ástrea, and online, teaching oil and acrylic free painting techniques. Concomitantly, she is curator of collective and individual exhibitions in Brasilia and organizes workshops with international artists.


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​Susan Williams, soprano e Professora Associada de Voz na Universidade do Alabama, tem sido solista de várias orquestras, companhias de ópera e organizações nos Estados Unidos e no exterior. Mais recentemente, lecionou na Royal Irish Academy of Music e no Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Em 2019, apresentou-se com a Orquestra do Presidente do Tajiquistão, através da Pitch Pipe Foundation e deu masterclasses em Kathmandu (Nepal) como bolsista da Embaixada dos EUA. Excursionou por duas vezes em Kolkata, Índia com o projeto Kolkata Classics. Em 2018, foi artista do corpo docente do Simpósio Bassi Brugnatelli para Maestros e Cantores em Robbiate (Itália). Esteve já três vezes em Havana (Cuba), para ensinar e se apresentar como integrante do Centro de Colaboração e Bolsa de Estudo da Universidade do Alabama. Interessada em como os sistemas de movimento corporal e a tecnologia de anatomia virtual podem ajudar no canto, estudou ioga e é professora registrada, com 200 horas de estudos e treinamento adicional de 100 horas em respiração iogue. Suas publicações podem ser encontradas no Journal of Singing. É Doutora em Artes Musicais pelo Cleveland Institute of Music.

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​Jennifer Heemstra é pianista e uma artista de relevante atuação social, que deixou sua marca na música clássica e na educação de comunidades carentes em várias partes do mundo. Já se apresentou em locais como o Kala Mandir (Kolkata, Índia), Smithsonian National Museum (D.C.), Jazz Conservatory (Kathmandu, Nepal), Aini Opera and Ballet Theatre (Dushanbe, Tajiquistão) e a American University (Sharjah, Emirados Árabes Unidos). Heemstra fundou duas organizações sem fins lucrativos, a Kolkata Classics na Índia e a Pitch Pipe Foundation em Michigan, EUA. Organizou concertos e se apresentou em mais de cem eventos na Índia, setenta e dois eventos culturais nos EUA e cinquenta e seis eventos no Oriente Médio e Ásia Central. Agora está expandindo sua série de concertos internacionais para o Brasil, visando oferecer concertos gratuitos para o público, master classes para jovens músicos e serviços sociais para pessoas carentes. Heemstra trabalhou como conferencista na Case Western Reserve University (EUA), foi a oradora inicial da Michigan State University e foi delegada no Segundo Congresso Mundial Contra a Exploração Sexual de Mulheres e Meninas em Deli, Índia. Obteve seu Mestrado em Música pelo Instituto de Música de Cleveland (The Cleveland Institute of Music) e Bacharelado em Música com honras pela Universidade Estadual de Michigan (Michigan State University).

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​Manuela Korossy iniciou seus estudos em música em 2005, em um curso de extensão da Universidade de Brasília e logo ingressou na Escola de Música de Brasília, para estudar piano erudito, onde também participou de atividades de canto coral. Após graduar-se no curso básico de piano erudito, iniciou seus estudos em Canto Erudito pela mesma instituição, com a professora Vilma Bittencourt, em 2016. Em 2017 ingressou no Bacharelado em canto pela Universidade de Brasília e em 2018 tornou-se aluna do professor Franklin Sagredo Martins (Brasil-Bélgica). Durante seus estudos, teve a oportunidade de fazer masterclasses com cantores de renome nacional e internacional, como a Mezzo Edineia Oliveira (SP-Brasil) e a Soprano Rachel Willis Sorensen (EUA), além de atuar como solista, por duas vezes, junto a Orquestra do Teatro Nacional Cláudio Santoro, sob a regência do maestro Claudio Cohen. Em 2021, foi aceita no curso de bacharelado em voz na Juilliard School, onde concluirá seus estudos.

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​Jaqueline Marafon é artista autodidata com formação em administração de empresas e especialização em artes. Participou de vários salões de artes, exposições individuais e coletivas pelo país nesses 20 anos de profissão. Atualmente comercializa suas obras pela internet, ministra aulas de pintura no iate clube, espaço ástrea e on-line, ensinando técnicas óleo e acrílico de pintura livre. Concomitantemente, é curadora de exposição coletivas e individuais em Brasília e organizar workshops com artistas internacionais.

Program
​Laudate Dominum                                                                  W.A. Mozart    (1756-1791)
                                                 
Frühlingsmorgen                                                                     Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Mondnacht                                                                              Robert Schumann (1810-1856)          
​Die Bekehrte                                                                                    Hugo Wolf (1860-1903)
Ständchen                                                                               Richard Strauss (1864-1949)                                       
Flower Duet from Lakmé                                                         Léo Delibes (1836 – 1891)                 
 
Ouvre ton Coeur                                                                     Georges Bizet (1838-1875)                    
Pièce en forme de Habanera                                                  Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Sérénade                                                                                 Gabriel Pierné (1863-1937)               
Les filles de Cadix                                                                    Léo Delibes (1836-1891)
 
Barcarolle (Duet) from Les Contes D’Hoffmann                      Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880)
 
Healing                                                                                         Rosephanye Powell (b. 1962)
Dying                                                                                             Rosephanye Powell (b. 1962)
Balm in Gilead                                                                                arr. Harry T. Burleigh (1866-1949)
Give Me Jesus                                                                              arr. Moses Hogan (1957-2003)                                                
Chacun le sait  from La fille du régiment                                   Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)         
 
Summertime from Porgy and Bess                                            George Gershwin (1898-1937)
 
Tus Ojos Azules (Duet)                                                                 Ernesto Lecuona (1895 – 1963)



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