Young trailblazers share their inspiring stories and music at
Cross-Atlantic Quarantine Session

Hi,

Our next Cross-Atlantic Quarantine Session welcomes Zarifa Adiba  broadcasting live from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. The session will air on Monday, June 22 at 2pm Eastern Time.

Doing things "not for girls" and therefore often considered a rebel in Kabul, Zarifa's journey from Afghanistan to studying in Kyrgyzstan has been has been met with obstacles and empowerment. Zarifa made her debut on the international stage when she conducted the first all-female orchestra of Afghanistan at the closing ceremony of the World Economic Forum in 2017. Join us on Monday as the 21-year-old activist, musician, composer, violist and TEDx speaker shares her compelling story and how she's helping other girls and women realize their self-worth.
The session will be moderated by Kalena Bovell, an American conductor who Channel 3 News has called "one of the brightest star in the world of classical music." She is currently Assistant Conductor of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, and previously of the St. Louis Symphony. She has ties in Connecticut as a graduate of The Hartt School, and as previous orchestra director at the Loomis Chaffee School.

Would you please let us know if you will be able to attend by registering for free through this link ?

Please feel free to share the registration link with a friend. Bring your questions for Zarifa – a young woman who has already shown tremendous leadership through unimaginable circumstances at a young age, and will surely be one of the great peace-builders and activists of tomorrow.

Thank you from the staff and artists of Cuatro Puntos –
Kevin, Denise, Elsa, Steve, Annie, Aaron, Allan, Miguelina
Cross Atlantic Quarantine Sessions is a virtual music series that runs for 11 weeks – April 20 to July 6. Each week features different musicians compiled from Cuatro Puntos' past and future guest artists from around the world. 
Upcoming Sessions:
June 22
ZARIFA ADIBA
Broadcast from Kyrgyzstan
Zarifa Adiba is an Afghan activist, musician, composer, and violist. While receiving her high school training at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music in Kabul she became a distinguished Yale Global Scholar, coming to Connecticut to study at Yale for a summer. She is currently studying at the American University of Central Asia in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

Now majoring in other subjects as she prepares herself for leading roles in activism and peace-building on an international scale, Zarifa still makes music regularly.

This session will be moderated by Kalena Bovell, an American conductor. As of 2020 Kalena, is the only African-American/Hispanic conductor in the United States. She is currently Assistant Conductor of the  Memphis Symphony Orchestra .

June 29
PANDIT ABHISHEK ADHIKARY,
DR. MURCHANA ADHIKARY BARTHAKUR
Broadcast from India
In the field of Hindustani Music, Sitar Jugalbandi (Sitar Duet) by Pandit Abhishek Adhikary and Dr. Murchana Adhikary Barthakur have earned great eminence and popularity through their melodious performances. They have performed their Jugalbandi in various leading music festivals in India and abroad receiving huge applause.

The understanding and the dialogues between the two Sitars create amazing effects on the Rasikas. Presently the Jugalbandi couple is devoted in the development and promotion of Indian classical music not only through performances on stage but also working as Sitar and Sarod Faculty at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music in Kabul, spreading Hindustani Raga Music among the Afghan young girls and boys and trying to bring peace and harmony through music.

This session will be a live-streamed concert from this couple's home in Kolkata. You can sit back and listen, or chat and ask questions.

July 6
MUCAHIT POYRAZ 
Broadcast from Turkey
Mücahit Poyraz is a singer and multi-instrumentalist from Mardin, Turkey. Mücahit will perform traditional Kurdish music. During this session you will be able to listen to the live music, chat with Mücahit, and see a quarantine video project Mücahit has prepared with Cuatro Puntos Ensemble. This event will be in English and Turkish. 

Mücahit Poyraz, mardin'den bir müzisyen ve çok enstrumantalisttir. Mücahit geleneksel Kürt müziği icra edecek. Bu oturumda Mücahit ile canlı müzik dinleyebilecek, sohbet edilecek. Mücahit'in Cuatro Puntos Ensemble ile hazırladığı karantina video projesini görebileceksiniz.

ABOUT CUATRO PUNTOS

Cuatro Puntos is a multi-faceted, non-profit organization that activates music as a pragmatic and universally accessible stimulus for social change, cultural awareness, and empowerment of the underserved. Serving Connecticut, Cuatro Puntos hosts a mixed-genre concert series in multiple cities as well as music/curriculum alignment programs in school classrooms in Hartford (in partnership with Hartford Performs ) and beyond. Our roster of local, professional musicians, known as Cuatro Puntos Ensemble , collaborate with local, national, and international guest artists to produce genre-defying and culturally significant concert programing and album recordings. Aiming for the highest in artistic excellence while working alongside socially significant artists such as the Afghanistan National Institute of Music and musician activist Ameen Mokdad (Mosul, Iraq), Cuatro Puntos Ensemble has been reviewed by Fanfare Magazine as having a “great depth of sound” and “virtuostic performance”. They have performed extensively throughout the United States as well as in Bolivia, Brazil, England, Germany, the Netherlands, Turkey, and Afghanistan. To date they have produced six albums of varying genres and styles on major international record labels like Métier and Toccata Classics . They have been included on the soundtrack for films produced in England, Australia, and Afghanistan, and have been guest lecturers at prestigious universities such as New England Conservatory (Boston), Columbia University (New York), Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (Germany), and Goldsmiths College (London). Cuatro Puntos' crowning achievement, in equal partnership and co-foundership with Hartford's Christ Church Cathedral, is Music Moves Connecticut. MMCT is a participatory music program building community and a safe space for expression among those living on the streets, in shelters, and in various states of housing insecurity around the state. It includes Music Moves Norwich and the Music Moves Hartford Street Choir. Recently featured by WNPR and NBC, this first street choir in the northeast has been taking the city by storm with its animated performances. All of Cuatro Puntos' programs aim to activate music's potential as one of many relevant, viable, and complementary methods for creating a more just and inclusive society.

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