Please, accept my congratulations with your so successful mission!
I enjoyed yesterday evening by Russian chamber music, performed with such a great quality and subtle taste. I wish you good luck on the field of your EducationalBridge!
Linda Werbner / Линда Вербнер
11/14/08 Linda Werbner referring to the concert of the Mariinsky Theater soloists, Anastasia Kalagina and Daniil Shtoda, under the direction of Larissa Gergieva, on November 13, 2008
Hi Luda,
I wanted to thank you again for kindly extending the invitation to my friend Leeza. We both enjoyed the concert immensely and were swooning the entire evening afterward. Such cosmic talent and to be so close. Thanks for putting this once-in-a-lifetime experience together for so many others to share
Ja-Nae Duane / Джа-Нае Двэйн
9/23/08Ja-Naé Duane, singer, May 2003 participant
My experience in St. Petersburg and working with the faculty at the Mariinsky Theatre has been one of the highlights of my professional and personal life. I learned so much about who I was as a musician and who I wanted to be. Thank you Educational Bridge Project (and Ludmilla) for allowing me to be a part of such a great program.
Ja-Nae
Ja-Naé is a true success story. Growing up in poverty, working at the age of 13 to support her siblings, Ja-Naé is now an international opera singer and president/founder of the fastest growing women's community: Wild Women Entrepreneurs.
Irena Grudzinska Gross / Ирена Грудзинская-Гросс
2006
Irena Grudzinska Gross, BostonUniversity,
Institute for Human Sciences, Executive Director,
Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures
The exchange program with St. Petersburg was a highlight of my musical experiences at BostonUniversity and in Boston, which is, after all, a city of musicians. I was always very impressed not only by the quality of people and music, but also by the imaginative ways in which exchange was organized. It must have been extremely difficult for Dr. Leibman to secure funds for the program, yet she did it brilliantly.