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Scokendia Project Staff

Scokendia Project Manager, Jamie Munn studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (formerly Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama) in Glasgow and Berlin’s Universität der Künste (UdK), taking masterclasses with artists such as Malcolm Martineau, Ann Murray, Håkan Hagegård, Robin Bowman and Richard Stokes. Whilst at the RCS, Jamie performed as a soloist in opera, oratorio, including collaborations with Scottish Opera, and performances in Germany and Russia. As a recitalist, Jamie has performed around the UK and in Germany, France, Russia, India, Kenya and Tanzania, and on BBC Radio. He is a performer with the late Lord Menuhin’s Live Music Now scheme, which has seen him perform around Scotland, and in Germany, as well as in Mumbai as part of a three-month residency with Creative Scotland.

As an educationalist, Jamie has worked with institutions in Scotland, Kenya and India, such as National Youth Choir of Scotland, Quarriers Scotland, Muktangen, Gateway School of Mumbai, Brett Lee Foundation and Starehe Girls’ Centre Nairobi, and he has been a voice tutor at Kenya Conservatoire of Music and Global Music Institute New Delhi. He will undertake a voice teaching post at the Centre for Musical Arts in Dubai, UAE from September 2013.

He has worked with the European Music Council in Bonn, Glasgow UNESCO City of Music, NOISE Opera, and is an elected member of the Youth Committee of the European Music Council.

Mentor for India, Pattie Gonsalves, heads Institutional Advancement and Research at the Global Music Institute in New Delhi, India. She is also the co-founder of non-profit music programme, Music Basti, which works through the medium of music for community building with at-risk groups of children.

Her diverse background ranging from psychology, development and public health has given her opportunities to work with organisations including UNICEF, The YP Foundation and the International Institute for Sustainable Development.

She studied at the University of Oxford, and her most recent research focused on examining the effects of music therapy on mental and behavioural disorders of children and adolescents. She has a special interest in the arts and health.

Mentor for Kenya, Jennifer Moore, is originally from Scotland but has been living and working in Nairobi, Kenya, for the past two years. She is a brass graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and is currently teaching at Starehe Boys’ School and Centre in Nairobi with the support of the Martyn Donaldson Music Trust.

She also teaches at the Kenya Conservatoire of Music and the is a tutor with the National Youth Orchestra of Kenya (both of which are Scokendia partner organisations), and she plays with the Nairobi Orchestra, and Nairobi Music Society.