Juliann Ma pursues a passion for revolutionizing world education and lifestyle practices through the arts. Her constant search for new, meaningful ways to communicate with audiences has led her to address global concerns by extending her native language of piano performance through collaborative, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary projects that she writes, directs, and produces. Her 3-year-old initiative, S E A S (Sustainable Environment through the Arts & Sciences), features an expanding team of artists and scientists who bring research-drawn stories about our climate crisis to screen and stage, and has earned the Father Merlet and Marin Alsop Entrepreneurship Awards. Under her direction, they have performed in Carnegie Hall, the Consulate General of France in New York, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, Yamaha Artist Services New York, and released their debut works ‘Rise, Awaken’ and ‘Isostasy’ to the wider public via Youtube. Last July, in collaboration with Zackery Rago of ‘Chasing Coral’, Ma co-lead an open discussion with Kyle Price, Caroga Lake Inter-Arts Symposium Artistic Director, on ecological ethics and the role of performing arts within the climate crisis. Soon after, S E A S was celebrated at ‘Heritage Space’ in Hanoi, Vietnam, as a major feature in Katherina Nguyen’s ‘Art and Technology : Art as Insight’ exhibition. Most recently, Ma shared S E A S's collective experiences in Asian American Arts Alliance’s Earth awareness panel in New York: ‘Art, Environment, and Justice in a Changing World’. Ma is an avid citizen-artist who has enjoyed diverse enterprise, leadership, and teaching roles throughout her career, including Stanford University Arts Academic Theme Associate, Stanford Pre-Collegiate Summer Institute’s Resident Counselor and Creative Writing Teaching Assistant, Juilliard Gluck Fellow, and Avenues : The World School music faculty. For the past two years, she was invited to partake as both multidisciplinary performer and stage manager at Silkroad Ensemble’s Global Musician Workshop, as well as Teaching Artist and Speaker at Caroga Lake Inter-Arts Symposium and Music Festival. Currently, she serves as faculty of ToneRow.com, teaching students worldwide online, and maintains a private studio in Cambridge, MA, and Manhattan, NY. Recently having completed her 200-hour yoga teacher training with Celine Antoine and Caroline McConnaughey, she is developing a unique private practice and studio for performing artists, with specialization on musician care and injury prevention. Juliann Ma completed her studies at Stanford University (B.A. Music, Honors & Distinction, minor in Creative Writing), École normale Supérieure de Musique de Paris Alfred Cortot (Fulbright grant, Diplôme d’Exécution de Piano), The Juilliard School (Master of Music), and Mannes, The New School for Music (Professional Studies). For her contributions to Humanities and Creative Arts, Juliann Ma has been presented with Stanford University’s Robert M. Golden Medal (2011), the Pro Musicis International Award (2016), among other honors. Juliann Ma’s performances, exhibitions, and masterclasses have taken her across Europe, Jamaica, Japan, the U.S., and Southeast Asia, venues including Bing Concert Hall, Konzertsaal Bundesallee, Carnegie Hall, Salle Cortot, Dôme de Grandes Écuries Chantilly, Herbst Theater, Hitachi Systems Hall Sendai, Three Palms Montego Bay, and Schoenberg Center. Ma draws her inspiration from nature and exploration of her (& others') relationship with it, with particular fascination for practicing filmmaking, photography, body movement and sound awareness, gardening and cooking. Juliann Ma is a committed ‘Zero Waste’ citizen, and is researching towards her new ‘Rethinking Waste’ and ‘Repopulation of the Oceans’ projects.