For Juliann Ma, joy lies in transforming experience and drawing new awareness through art. Her lifelong search for meaningful, innovative ways to communicate with audiences has led her to address global concerns by extending her native language of music through collaborative, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary projects, which she often writes, directs, and produces. Her award-winning initiative, Sustainable Environment through the Arts & Sciences ( “S E A S” ), features a team of artists and scientists who expose obscure, complex stories about our climate crisis through film, theater, and educational workshops, to deepen and expand public understanding. Under her direction, they have performed in Carnegie Hall, the Consulate General of France in New York, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, The New School, Yamaha Artist Services New York, and Heritage Space (Vietnam), releasing their debut works ‘Rise, Awaken’ and ‘Isostasy’ to the public on YouTube. Partnering sustainability advocates including Zackery Rago (‘Chasing Coral’), Kyle Price (Caroga Lake Inter-Arts Symposium), & Asian American Arts Alliance, Ma continues to contribute to public discussions concerning ecological ethics and the vital role that performing arts can play to mitigate the climate crisis. An avid citizen-artist, Ma has enjoyed diverse teaching, enterprise, & leadership roles throughout her career, including Gluck Community Service Fellow (New York), Fulbright Scholar (France), Arts Academic Theme Associate, Research Assistant, and Resident Creative Writing Teaching Assistant (Pre-Collegiate Institutes) at Stanford University ; music faculty (K-12) at Avenues : The World School. She is a regular multidisciplinary performer and stage manager at Silkroad Global Musician Workshop, as well as Teaching Artist and Speaker at Caroga Lake Inter-Arts Symposium and Caroga Lake Music Festival. Today, she teaches students music virtually worldwide through ToneRow, maintaining her private piano studio in Cambridge, MA. Also a certified yoga instructor, she offers a unique yoga practice with specialization in musician wellness 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 (Diplôme d’Exécution de Piano), The Juilliard School (Master of Music), and Mannes, The New School for Music (Professional Studies). For her contributions to the humanities and creative arts, Juliann Ma has been presented with Stanford University’s Robert M. Golden Medal (2011), the Marin Alsop Entrepreneurship Award (2015), Pro Musicis International Award and Father Merlet (2016), among other honors. Her performances, exhibitions, and masterclasses have taken her across Europe, the Caribbean, Japan, the U.S., and Southeast Asia, including at 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’s honors are shared with numerous, dedicated mentors, colleagues, friends, and family. Significant teachers include (piano) J.Y. Song, Jerome Lowenthal, Matti Raekallio, Hung Kuan Chen, Erik Berchot, Thomas Schultz, Hans Boepple, Sharon Mann, Jed Galant ; (world music) Silkroad Ensemble, Glen Velez ; (humanities) Shimon Dotan, Philip Lasser, Jonathan Dawe, Bärli Nugent, Elizabeth Tallent, Molly Antopol, Joshua M. Tyree, Charlie Kronengold, George Barth, Jonathan Berger, Mark Applebaum, Johnny B. Selvin ; (environmental studies) Jared Brewer, Gary W. Ernst ; (yoga, Alexander technique, musician/ sports psychology, meditation) Caroline McConnaughey, Céline Antoine, Lori Schiff, Noa Kageyama, Thích Nhất Hạnh, and Eckhart Tolle. Among her supportive network, Ma attributes her artistic roots especially to her mother, her first teacher. For inspiration, Ma enjoys exploring nature and ecological relationships, with particular fascination for sound, movement, filmmaking, photography, gardening and cooking. Juliann Ma is a committed ‘Zero Waste’ citizen, and is researching towards her new projects : ‘Looking through the Ecoglass’, ‘Rethink Waste’, ‘Hear in Birdsong’, and ‘Oceans Reborne’.