Sonidos De La Tierra performing at the 2008 Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship

Speakers

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  Luis Szaran

  Founder and Director, Sonidos de la Tierra

  LUIS SZARAN Artist for Peace of UNESCO. Conducter, composer and musicologist Musical Director of the Symphonic Orchestra of Asunción. Music studied in Santa Cecilia's Conservatory, Rome Conducted more than 1800 concerts whit noted orchestras in Germany, Italy, France, Spain, USA and countries of South America. In recent seasons the Berliner Symphonikern, the Venice Philharmonic and the Sinfonietta of Paris play his composition’s. In the year 2002 received the Medal Vivaldi of the International Festival of Venice, being the first Latin American composer and recruit in the world in receiving it. He is Official Gentleman of the Italian Republic and of the Science and the Letters of France, National Order of the Merit of the Paraguay. Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship for the Skoll Foundation in 2006. He is member corresponding of the Real Spanish Academy of the History. En 2002 he founded Sonidos de la Tierra, music education program.

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