world music conference 2023

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“Antonella Di Giulio is a pianist and music theorist. She holds a Ph.D. in Music Theory and Historical Musicology from the University at Buffalo. With educational roots in Italy and Germany, she is the founder of Musica IQ, a semi academic online magazine for music professionals. She is very active as a music pedagogue and has contributed extensively to the development of music programs and professional development workshops.  Antonella has presented her research in several conferences worldwide, with her main interests being in music cognition and semiotics.

A capable, result oriented AI Professional with a solid reputation on delivering corporate growth objectives within shifting business needs, with a positive leadership providing strategic direction, an experience of leadinghigh-performance teams, capable of improving organizational efficiencies and sustainable revenue whilst reducing cost. Proven operations strategist and Senior Business Analyst with a track record in leading complex improvement initiatives and applying solid technical, research and analytical abilities (Qualitative/Quantitative). Additional areas include: 

• -  Strategy, Vision & Mission planning  
• -  Sales & Marketing Leadership  
• -  Human Resource Management  
• -  Profitability and Cost Analysis  
• -  Technology Management
  

- Finance, Budgeting & Cost Management
- Customer services
- Team Building & Performance Improvement - Contract Negotiations & Strategic Alliances
- Launch of New Products and Services 

Dr. Vinod Vidwans is currently a Professor at the FLAME University, Pune. He was the Chair of FLAME School of Fine and Performing Arts previously. Before joining FLAME University, he was a Senior Designer (Professor) and an Ex-Vice Chairman (Research) at National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad. He also headed the Departments of New Media and Software User Interface Design at NID. He has been a visiting faculty & resource person at many prestigious institutes including IIM Ahmedabad, IIT Kanpur, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore and Central University of Hyderabad.

Currently he is engaged in research on AI and Indian Music. He has designed and developed a Creative Intelligent Expert System for Indian Music. The software generates a Bandish (a musical composition) on its own without any human assistance in a given Raga and renders it in traditional classical Indian style. The creative software system uses principles of artificial intelligence (AI).

Dr. Vidwans is a cognitive philosopher, a designer and a portrait painter. He has done his Ph. D in Cognitive Philosophy and Master of Design from Indian Institute of Technology, Powai, Mumbai. His doctoral work postulates a paradigm called `Design Intelligence’ and characterizes creativity from a holistic perspective. He holds a Post-Graduate Degree in Fine Arts from Nagpur University where he topped. He is a recipient of Junior Research Fellowship in Fine Arts from University Grants Commission (UGC), India.

He graduated at the Corfu Conservatory, holding diplomas in choral 

conducting, wind band conducting and instrumentation, composition, and music 

theory. He also holds a Diploma di Direzzione from the Academy of Fermo (IT) and has graduated the two-year Corso Superiore di Direzione di Banda of the Istituto 

Superiore Europeo Bandistico (ISEB). He received a Postgraduate Diploma in 

Musicology, MA in Music, from the Open University of London. 

As a guest conductor he has collaborated with many bands, orchestras and musical 

organizations and his works are often performed by orchestral and vocal ensembles in Greece and abroad  

He is one of the Honorary Conductors of the Korean K-Orchestra. 

He is a member of the coordinating committee of the Hellenic Philharmonic Society, acting as a member of the organizing committee and rapporteur of international conferences

He works as a Conductor and Music Director of Philharmonic 

School of Pallis in Cephalonia, Greece. He is also band conducting and advanced 

theory professor at the Conservatory of the Holy Metropolis of Peristeri in. Athens, 

organizing for the first time in Greece an international band conducting training 

program. 

Dr. Islah Ali-MacLachlan is an Associate Professor at Birmingham City University 

and is course leader of two undergraduate degrees, Music Technology and 

Sound Engineering & Production. He leads the audio research group and works 

in the areas of computational analysis of sound and music, acoustics and 

soundscape design. His PhD studied computational analysis of playing style in 

traditional Irish flute playing and he continues to develop research into different 

aspects of musical practice. 

  Dr. Pallavi Vedantam is a passionate immunologist along with a strong background in microbiology and food and nutritional sciences. Currently She is a Senior Expert Science & Technology - Analytical Platform Development, BX-CGT/Technical R&D GDD, CAR-T Cell Therapy, Cancer Immunotherapy

Apart from this she is an avid hiker with deep rooted interest in music, culinary sciences and theology. 

Wajdi Samir Abou Diab, composer, musicologist, and music educator, draws inspiration from his dual cultural background in Arabic Levantine and Western classical music. born in Lebanon in 1991 and graduated from the Lebanese National Higher Conservatory of Music (LNHCM) in Piano and Music Composition, and currently pursuing his Master’s degree in “Musicology of tradition” in the Antonin University. He has been recognized by the international music community through numerous accolades from several competitions, as well as receiving honorable mentions and being selected for various calls for scores. Wajdi's publishings include three music books and many articles and research papers in the domain of Middle Eastern music theory and ethnomusicology of the Middle Eastern music heritage. His composer’s residencies include residencies at Cite Musicale De Metz and Cite Musicale De L'abbaye Aux Dames De Sainte.

Diamond Duggal is a music producer, composer and AI consultant inspiring a diversity of music with future technology through collaboration, licensing, mentoring and international public speaking. A world class music producer with over two decades experience with multi-platinum selling music artists from Shania Twain to Apache Indian. Diamond’s music features in Hollywood films, AAA video games, BAFTA winning and hit Netflix streaming TV shows..

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 He's a Neuroscientist, Pianist, Educator, Writer, He works as a  Full Professor at  University Anhembi Morumbi and a  Member of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), title that grants you to sign FRSA postname, granted by the British Crown. United Nations Ambassador. Commander by the Ministry of Culture of Brazil. Full Professor at Laureate Universities. Artist of the largest piano factory in South America - Fritz Dobbert. Founder of the Samuel Quinto Academy of Music. Musical director of Igreja Batista Nações Unidas in São Paulo.
 

AWARDS Royal Society of Arts, London. Immortal Academia de Letras e Música do Brasil. Castro alves trophy for literary excellence. Grand'Ambassadeur, Divine Académie Française des Arts, Lettres et Culture, Paris. Doctor in Universe Philosophy - Phi Immortal Philosopher, Brazilian Academy of Letters. Honorary Consul, American Diplomatic Mission of International Relations. Commander, Ministry of Culture of Brazil. Professional Member, American Council of Piano Performers, EUA. Senior Member Pennsylvania Federation of Music Clubs, EUA. Medal of Honor to Merit Maestro Carlos Gomes, State of São Paulo. Researcher Member, International Council for Traditional Music - UNESCO. Fifty-year Medal of the UN Peacekeepers in Brazil. World Academy of Human Sciences

Pudipeddi Radha Krishna Sastryhails from a family of music connoisseurs from past 4 generations. He has his postgraduate M.Tech in Systems and Signal Processing from JNTU Kakinada and PG Diploma in Embedded systems design from C-DAC Hyderabad, currently he is working in C-DAC Hyderabad, contributing in various R&D activities related to Cyber Security.

He has a great love and devotion towards Classical Music, he hosts online weekly concerts in a Facebook page called Hamsadhwani5 every Sunday providing an online platform for upcoming talents in the field of classical music. Apart from this, he is a volunteer for SPICMACAY where he assists in "Great Master Series" program, where a veteran musician/dancer is featured and their legacy is being shown to the school children by their disciples. He has gained a knowledge on various aspects of music via listening to the concerts and by regular interaction with multiple artists and musicologists/ music critics.  He has written wo articles for Sruti magazine, He is very much interested to explore the lyrical as well as the musical beauty in the compositions. He believes the knowledge of musical notation to be very superior. 

Ramya is a Physician-scientist and digital health innovator with a passion for leading strategy for designing, evaluating, and deploying digital health solutions (AI-based risk prediction tools, clinical decision support tools, smartphone applications for chronic disease management, population health management solutions) to improve access to care, efficiency, clinical outcomes, patient outcomes, and provider satisfaction.
 

Expertise: Artificial intelligence application in care delivery and clinical trials, telehealth implementation, human-centered design of digital health technologies, digital health strategy & transformation, advanced research and evaluation of health technologies and AI-based solutions, advanced data analytics Physician-scientist and digital health innovator with a passion for leading strategy for designing, evaluating, and deploying digital health solutions (AI-based risk prediction tools, clinical decision support tools, smartphone applications for chronic disease management, population health management solutions) to improve access to care, efficiency, clinical outcomes, patient outcomes, and provider satisfaction. Expertise: Artificial intelligence application in care delivery and clinical trials, telehealth implementation, human-centered design of digital health technologies, digital health strategy & transformation, advanced research and evaluation of health technologies and AI-based solutions, advanced data analytics