🎶Musician | ✍🏽Writer | 🔥Performance Artist | 👄Translator & Interpreter | ♥️Educator ☮️ 🍉☮️ Citizen of the World ☮️ 🍉☮️ ARTISTIC COLLABORATIONS: 🔹Maestro Essa-Pekka Salonen, Conductor, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra 🔸Waldemar Bastos, Singer/Songwriter, Angola (Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal; University of Texas, Austin) 🔹Lalo Guerrero, Father of Chicano Music (Notre Dame University; John Anson Ford Theater) 🔸Juán Tejeda, Tejano Accordionist and Music Director, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center (past, San Antonio, Texas) 🔹Patssi Valdez, Visual Artist (L.A.) 🔸Steve La Ponsie, Artist, Sound Design (L.A.) 🔹Willie Herrón, Artist; Punk Rock Musician, Los Illegals (L.A.) 🔸Peter Sellars, Opera Director, Soldier’s Tale - Igor Stravinsky (Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, L.A.) 🔹Studied with Césare Pascarella, Joseph Schuster and Gabor Rejto 🔹🔸🔹🔸🔹🔸 CREATOR/PERFORMANCE AWARDS & ASSOCIATIONS: ♦️Sor Juana Lifetime Achievement Award, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, Illinois ♦️Anonymous Was A Woman Award (USA) ♦️Phenomenal Woman Award, California State University Northridge, Women’s Studies ♦️Ford Foundation (USA) ♦️Rockefeller Foundation (USA) ♦️Meet The Composer (USA) ♦️Arts International (USA) ♦️Artist In Residence, Headlands Center For The Arts, Sausalito, California ♦️Los Angeles Public Library ALOUD Series, featured artist ♦️Coleman Chamber Music Association Award, CalArts Trío, California Institute of Technology ♦️Board Member, National Performance Network, (USA) (past) ♦️Board Member, Plaza de La Raza (Lincoln Heights, East L.A.) (past) ♦️Vice President, Los Angeles County Board of Education (LACOE) (past) ♦️California Institute of the Arts, School of Music ♦️Dominican Writers Association ENGLISH-SPANISH TRANSLATION & INTERPRETATION: 📌 Pioneer in Community Interpreting: court/legal, education, medical, governance, labor, environmental, transportation, housing, arts and banking 📌 Pioneer in SAP (Second Audio Program) 📌 Conference Interpreter and Escort Interpreter for elected officials/diplomats/international personalities, including author Ray Bradbury and Nobel Laureate Rigoberta Menchu 📌 Pioneer in Cultural Competency/Cultural Humility 📌 Pioneer in Interpreter Self-Care 📌 National Subject Matter Expert in Healthcare Interpreter Certification (USA) 📌 Subject Matter Expert in ENG/SPAN translation of idiomatic expressions, slang and profanity Writing @ MEDIUM: CholaConCello.medium.com