Personal Docente

Luz Pereira (Directora de Pachamama) dirige las clases de baile de la Costa del Perú. Pereira comenzó su carrera en 1963 despues de graduarse en la Escuela Nacional de Música y Danzas Folklóricas del Perú; habiendo rendido sus exámenes finales ante un jurado, conformado por Rosa Elvira Figueroa, José María Arguedas, Lucha Ego Aguirre y otros. En 1965, fue miembro de la delegación peruana que ganó el Primer Festival Latino Americano de Folklore en Salta, Argentina. Desde finales de los 70, ha participado en muchos festivales, talleres y presentaciones en centros culturales como el Museo de Historia Natural, Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Universidades y otros de los EEUU y Canada, con el grupo Tahuantinsuyo, luego Inkay y finalmente a título personal.

Alisa Orahovac (Assistant Director for Pachamama Peruvian Arts (PPA)).  She has been involved with PPA since its inception in 2003 as a student. For four years, she studied marinera limeña, marinera norteña, festejo, huayno, and many others classes offered by PPA until she went away for college. In college, she studied biology and was president of the Association of Peruvians at Cornell. Throughout this time, she still remained heavily involved with PPA by volunteering at PPA functions and inviting PPA professors to her college to present their work. Upon returning to the city, she volunteered every Friday until eventually becoming the Program Coordinator in 2014 and finally, the Assistant Director of PPA in 2016.

Peter Apaza (Miembro del Comité de Pachamama) aprendió los sonidos indígenas del Peru de su padre. El grupo de su familia, Vientos Andinos (Andean Winds) tocaba mísica tradicional del Altiplano. Después de emigrar a Nueva York en 1988, Apaza lanzó su propio grupo, Peru Andino, el cual consiste de 25 miembros quienes interpretan danzas de carnaval en huaynos de Puno, la marinera (la danza nacional del Perú) y otras danzas tradicionales. Apaza es también un representante de Consultas de Conco, un grupo de diez voluntarios en el Consulado Peruano quienes ayudan a la comunidad peruana de Nueva York a obtener permisos de viaje y hacer giros a Perú.

Rosa María Lazón Egúsquiza (Instructor) Lazon leads instruction in music and singing. She is a Peruvian flautist and a graduate of the National Conservatory of Music of Lima, Perú. She began her musical studies with the piano and the flauto dolce. Thereafter, she entered the National Conservatory to the “Early Artistic Training Program” where she studied the traverse flute with maestros Juana La Rosa, Harmut Steman and César Vivanco.  She has performed as a flutist with the Young Camerata Orchestra of Lima, the National Conservatory Symphonic Orchestra of Lima, the Conservatory’s Wind Quintet, and in the International Flutist Festivals held in Lima between the years 1985 to 1997, and also Santiago de Chile and Rio de Janeiro.  She received a teacher’s degree in flauto dolce and traverse flute, as well as the Suzuki method, to teach children.  She also won a scholarship to Professor Celso Wotzenlogel’s summer course at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Lazon is member of Maderas del Peru, bringing the traditional music of Peru to New York. She is also a music teacher at the Montessori School in Queens, NY.

  Alicia Donnelly

Patricia Martinez Arones

Mayling Salinas

Sofia Carrasco

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