{"id":1259,"date":"2025-09-16T01:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T05:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whco.music\/?p=1259"},"modified":"2025-11-11T07:05:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T12:05:40","slug":"karen-birch-blundell-community-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whco.music\/es\/people\/karen-birch-blundell-community-engagement\/","title":{"rendered":"Karen Birch Blundell - Admin"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Directora de Vinculaci\u00f3n Comunitaria<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-34b4b604 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-right:3.5vw;padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-left:3.5vw\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-e8b0e0b2 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p class=\"wp-container-content-9e2f13cb wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Karen Birch Blundell<\/strong> aporta a la WHCO m\u00e1s de 25 a\u00f1os de experiencia en el compromiso con la comunidad. Ha formado parte del cuerpo docente del Eastern Music Festival durante m\u00e1s de dos d\u00e9cadas, incluso como Coordinadora de Participaci\u00f3n Comunitaria, y anteriormente ocup\u00f3 el cargo de Directora de Participaci\u00f3n Comunitaria con la New World Symphony, donde cre\u00f3 programas que llegaron a miles de personas en toda el \u00e1rea metropolitana de Miami. Como artista docente, Karen ha trabajado con la Hartt School of Music, la Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic, la New York Philharmonic, Rotary International, Road Scholar, Sister Cities Essex\/Haiti, Sarasota Orchestra, University of North Carolina at Greensboro y Young Audiences Houston.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large single-prof wp-container-content-e16604df\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"300\" width=\"300\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/whco.music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Karen-Birch-Blundell-oboe.png?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Defensora de la comunidad neurodivergente, Karen supervisa toda la programaci\u00f3n familiar de la WHCO, incluida nuestra serie de conciertos familiares de \u201cformato relajado\u201d y nuestras actuaciones en la organizaci\u00f3n asociada M\u00fasica para el Autismo. Su desarrollo del programa\u00a0<em>Hora de cuentos con la Sinf\u00f3nica<\/em>\u00a0fue reconocida con una prestigiosa Beca Azul de la New World Symphony por fomentar tanto la alfabetizaci\u00f3n como el amor por la m\u00fasica entre el p\u00fablico joven y sus familias.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Karen curs\u00f3 estudios completos de educaci\u00f3n musical en el Conservatorio de M\u00fasica de Oberlin, donde trabaj\u00f3 como asistente pedag\u00f3gica en el distinguido Laboratorio de M\u00fasica Preescolar de la instituci\u00f3n. Realiz\u00f3 estudios de posgrado como miembro de Performance 20\/20, el innovador conjunto de la Hartt School centrado en la comunidad. Tras su formaci\u00f3n acad\u00e9mica, obtuvo una beca para tocar el oboe con la New World Symphony, donde desarroll\u00f3 y actu\u00f3 en m\u00e1s de cien programas de compromiso con la comunidad. M\u00e1s recientemente, fue seleccionada para participar en el Foro de Verano del Lincoln Center, una cumbre exclusiva de tres d\u00edas que re\u00fane a distinguidos artistas docentes de todo el mundo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Entre sus afiliaciones profesionales figuran la International Double Reed Society, la Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity y la International Coalition of Teaching Artists. Karen vive en Washington Heights con su marido, su hija y su gato, bastante cascarrabias.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director of Community Engagement Karen Birch Blundell brings over 25 years of community engagement experience to WHCO. 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