Biography

http://voxmundiproject.com https://silvianakkach.com/ Musician, Vocal Artist, Educator, Sound Designer, Film Music Composer, Author, Interdiscipline artist. Grammy®nominated composer has been an exhilarating bridge between European and Indian classical musical traditions, and an inspirational leading voice at the intersection of music and the healing arts. Transcending boundaries between different genres, Silvia’s art music draws elements from ambient and contemporary aesthetics on one hand, and the Hindustani poetics of melody on the other. Named by Utne Reader magazine as one of 40 cutting-edge artists that will shake the art world in the new millennium, Nakkach is an internationally renowned vocal artist. For many years, on the faculty of the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), she created the premier certificate program on Sound, Voice, and Music in the Healing Arts offered by a major academic institution elsewhere. Her latest book Free Your Voice (Sounds True, 2012) has been translated into five languages. She has devoted more than 29 years to the study of classical North Indian music under the direction of the late maestro Ali Akbar Khan. She continues deepening her studies of Indian music focusing on the Art of Dhrupad Chant as a disciple of Pandit Uday Bhawalkar (Pune, India), Credentials Highlights: Masters in Clinical Psychology. Music Psychotherapy. Music Composition -More at: http://voxmundiproject.com/silvia-nakkach/