Sara LUENGAS

Violin, colombian gaita

Age: 37 years old

Country: Colombia

Violinist and cultural outreach specialist with 10 years’ experience at different social, artistic and educative organizations in Colombia and France. She holds a Master’s diploma in Cultural Outreach of Arts at Aix-Marseille University and an undergraduate Diploma in Music Studies, with a specialization in violin performance. She has worked in France and in Colombia teaching music and leading social – artistic projects with different kind of population (migrants, handicap, people in risk of prostitution, refugees, children and elderly). She worked between 2016 and 2018 at Aix- Festival coordinating some participatory projects. Between 2019 and 2020 she directed the educative service of the Ibague Festival, Cartagena Festival de Música and Cartagena Symphony Orchestra in Colombia.
She has a special interest in Colombian traditional music as in the development of inclusive projects for different kind of publics in Latin America. Currently, she leads the outreaches projects of the Colon Theatre of Bogota,  one of the most important concert halls of Colombia.

Photo credit: Schirin Senger