Ancient and Future Music

KuriCharik: flutes, percussion, voice & Naaz Hosseini: voice, violin, movement

KuriCharik and Naaz Hosseini will present a concert of Ancient and Future Music at the Fellowship of Reconciliation in Upper Nyack, New York on Friday, April 27 at 8:00 p.m., imparting traditional and spontaneous healing sounds. Their performance will include KuriCharik’s ancient ocarinas, jade flutes, as well as panpipes and percussion in harmony and dialogue with Hosseini’s voice and violin.

KuriCharik (known to many as Oscar Santillan) is a community leader, music healer, and teacher of traditional Andean wisdom from the Otavalo Kichwa Nation in Ecuador. An active member of indigenous organizations, he educates people about culture as well as sustainable development through Fair Trade practices and micro-financing. A Kichwa speaker with a strong connection to the natural world, he has made many radio appearances to spread ancient Andean wisdom and culture. Along with his family, he has created the Pakarinka Sisari, or Center for Ancestral Wisdom, displaying sacred musical instruments,  pre-Colombian bowls, and symbolic clay hands for guidance and protection. With the majestic mountain, Imbabura as the backdrop, the center is a place to learn about ancient Andean ways and connect with mother nature. He has appeared in two films directed by Iris Brooks and Jon H. Davis. In Languages Lost and Found, he speaks his native tongue and plays a 300-year old condor feather flute and for the new, interactive DVD, Awakening Languages: A Personal Exploration, Sharing, and Questioning, KuriCharik (meaning "gold or sun in the heart") is the subject of name identity in multi-lingual societies. 

Naaz Hosseini is a “SoundShifter”, master vocalist, violinist, dancer, and psychotherapist. She recorded her CD, SoundPath, as a therapeutic journey, freeing her own voice and opening the doorway for her voice healing work with others. As a multi-disciplinary performer she has appeared world-wide with the Meredith Monk Vocal Ensemble, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, and the Laura Dean Dancers and Musicians at numerous venues including Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center. She can be heard in recordings of Meredith Monk, Peter Blum, Andy Teirstein as well as in film scores of John McDowell and Richard Martinez. As composer/performer, she collaborated with Pilobolus, the National Theatre of the Deaf, and Bridgman/Packer Dance. As an educator, Naaz developed the Artistic Learning Method and trained thousands of students and teachers to deepen their thinking and understanding, using body movement and shapes. She currently trains graduate-level counseling students at Columbia University. Certified as a gestalt therapist, Naaz has a private practice in Nyack for individuals, couples, and groups providing psychotherapy as well as voice attunement, empowerment, and healing. For information, see www.soundshifter.com. 

The F.O.R. is located at 521 North Broadway in Upper Nyack. For more information call 845 358 4601.