BOARD OF DIRECTORS Connie Fortunato
Founder and Director of Music Camp International Connie has spent her entire adult life in music: teaching, conducting, writing curriculum, training, and doing research. Connie began working in Romania in 1992 doing music therapy with orphans after the fall of the brutal Ceausescu regime. Through the encouragement of a colleague, she piloted the first Music Camp in a small village south of Timisoara in 2002. And the rest . . . is history!
Anya Bazilo Anya has been with Music Camp International for 17 years, since the first time she attended Music Camp in Kyiv in 2003. She later became an administrative assistant to the MCI Director helping in implementation of music camps all over Ukraine. She is now works in various EU institutions and projects –most recently – in the EU Advisory Mission to Ukraine. One of her most unforgettable MCI projects was a concert “Ukrainian Children – European Recognition” in Strasbourg, France during Ukraine’s Chairmanship at the Council of Europe in October 2012. Deanna Gardiner-Garcia Deanna, our newest member to the Board of Directors, received her BA degree from Corban University in Salem, Oregon and General Elementary Teaching Credential from California State University, East Bay. Deanna taught in public school for 10 years. In addition to education, she has a passion for travel and helping those who are marginalized and vulnerable.
Dr. Sarita Kwok The former director of the undergraduate lessons program at Yale, Sarita served for eight years on the faculty of the Yale Department of Music. She currently holds the Adams Endowed Chair in Music and serves as Professor of Music and Chair of the Department of Music at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts. In August 2019, Dr. Kwok brought a team of 11 students from Gordon College to participate in a Music Camp International project in Zhytomyr, Ukraine.
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