Antonio Davidson-Gomez
Organization Details
| Name | Antonio Davidson-Gomez |
| URL | https://www.facebook.com/antonio.davidsongomez |
Organization Description
| Mission statement | Antonio is an educator and percussionist focused on musical dialogue between cultures. He has studied, performed and recorded in various styles with emphases on Mediterranean and Afro-Latin music. Tony has produced cultural programming, educational projects and community engagement initiatives for over two decades. A Jubilation Foundation Fellow for music education, he has developed curricula for PBS (Latino Americans) and the EMP Museum/Smithsonian, (American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music), in addition to working as a teaching artist. Tony is a speaker on music and culture for Humanities Washington, offering presentations including Saffron & Honey: Muslims, Jews and Christians in Medieval Spain and Mapping Latino Musical Migrations. He has taught bilingual kindergarten and high school social studies, music and Spanish and led professional development for public television. He now serves as the Education Manager for the Broadway Center for Performing Arts. Recent musical projects include “De México al Mediterráneo,” “The Silk Road: Trade and the Currency of Music” and work with Tango del Cielo, Gary Stroutsos, August Denhard and the Early Music Guild of Seattle. He holds a Masters in Education from UC Berkeley and has conducted study and research trips in Latin America, Europe and North Africa. |
| Service(s) description | Music integrated with social studies, literacy and language (K – 12) Music integrated with math and science (K-5) Hands On Instruction (Afro-Latin, Iberian, Italian, North African) Instrument Building Themes include: music of Latin America (especially Cuba, Brazil, Central America and Argentina), the African Diaspora in the Americas, the Mediterranean , the Golden Age of Islam, the Silk Road (Trade from China to Italy). |
| Program impact | not provided |
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