SIR JOHN KEEN

ARGENTINE, ORCHESTRA DIRECTOR, CHOIR DIRECTOR, PIANIST, MUSIC EDUCATOR, ONTOLOGICAL COACH

He has received and has been shortlisted for more than fifteen scholarships awarded by different national as well as international institutions. During the years 2005 and 2006 he was awarded a scholarship by Maestro Bruno Gelber after taking an exam before him and the Maestro Director Ligia Amadio (Director of the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra and one of the three most prestigious Conductors in the world). He continued his studies in Orchestral Conducting with Maestro Guillermo Scarabino, in the province of Buenos Aires (these events were published in the newspapers: La Nación de Buenos Aires, Río Negro, and TV and radio media). During that same year, he was Director of the chamber music chair of the Instrumental ensemble “Amadeus”.

At present, after more than fifteen years of uninterrupted work by different students and musicians from the Patagonian region, both in the training of musicians, as well as choirs and instrumental groups, he maintains the activity being

Founding President, Musical Artistic Director, Director of the Choir and Orchestra of the non-profit civil association “Amadeus Arte Solidario y Comunitario. In it, he orients all his professional activity to cultural development, integration and social inclusion, as well as to social values based on solidarity and community work.

In addition to all this, he is developing the work of Ontological Coach and Advanced Therapies as a therapist from the perspective of the "artist on stage" "Oratory fear" and "stage fright", and the training in Community Coaching In this year he created the ordinance project municipal and provincial Law of the "Solidarity Bank of Musical Instruments" in partnership with the Legislative State, Companies and Individuals, which was unanimously approved by the Honorable Deliberative Council of the city of Neuquén through Resolution 021/2016, and by the Honorable Legislature of the Province of Neuquén. In November 2018 he was distinguished by the Honorable Deliberative Council of the city of Neuquén as an Outstanding Neighbor of the city of Neuquén for his contribution to Culture, Art and education.

In December 2018 he was named an "honorary member" of the United Nations International Art Council of All Arts. On the other hand. In July 2019 he was distinguished as "Ambassador of Peace in Argentina" by the INSPAD Institute for Peace and Development (Organization nucleated with the United Nations and the European Union).

He is later nominated by the Norwegian Nobel Institute Foundation for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize. In April 2020 he is distinguished by the Gandi Peace Foundation Nepal for the social contribution service against the covid 19 pandemic. In the same month after the creation of an audiovisual production for peace in the midst of Covid -19 between Argentina, Italy, founded the International Orchestra for Peace and the INSPAD Artists for Peace Project in order to integrate, include different volunteer musicians from different cultures and branches of art. In June 2020, he was appointed President of the “International Committee of Art and Culture” of the INSPAD Institute. In September 2020, he received the FUNVIC Europe Award "Books for Peace Prize" for the development of Inclusive Art, UNESCO Christian Life University Foundation. In September 2020 he received the "Icon of Peace" Award issued by INSPAD on its 25th anniversary as an institution for the Development of Peace.

PS: Note written by H.E. Hon Thiago Lamont Couto d` Chandos: "After many years of dedication to music and philanthropy, your work has come to the UK, HE Hon. Thiago Lamont Couto de Chandos, who together with the sovereign council of noble elders of the Royal House MacDonnell Lamont Couto D 'Chandos after careful evaluation he received the title of knighthood. The most amazing thing was to discover within a few months of his appointment that the sovereign order of the united kingdom was conducting a serious genealogical study with his name, being discovered who is a direct descendant of the illustrious:

Sir Thomas Giffard of Chillington (distant grandfather) Sir Robert Giffard, 11 of Chillington (distant grandfather) Sir John Giffard, 12 of Chillington (distant grandfather) After recent discoveries he uses

his stage name as John Keen Fletcher Giffard of Chillington, to preserve the legacy and history of my distant grandparents, who were great lords of the land and respected knights who were trusted men of the great kings of England , Members of the English Parliament ".

Today, after the concession of my knighthood, together with the discovery of my distant noble grandparents, I made a treaty with the Royal Household MacDonnell Lamont Couto d 'Chandos, to support my humanitarian projects and make a better world with less inequality and more culture.

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Sir John Keen's work at Amadeus

Amadeus, Arte Solidario y Comunitario is founded by Sir John Keen as NGOs, more than fifteen years ago. Under his musical artistic direction and the coordination of volunteer artists. From that moment, Comprehensive Art Samples began to be developed under solidarity campaigns. In each presentation, artists from different disciplines of

Art, plastic artists, writers, photographers and musicians who share the same stage with the same objective, which is solidarity and the cultural development of society, met.

During the years 2011/12, Amadeus carried out numerous solidarity campaigns with different objectives; all achieved thanks to effort and coordinated teamwork. In the second part of 2013 "Amadeus is declared of Provincial Legislative Interest by the Honorable Legislature of the Province."

For its part, the Municipal Government joins the idea of supporting the Association through collaboration with the facilitation of physical spaces and resources that make for humanitarian cultural production and development. At the beginning of 2014, it obtained legal personality and became an Amadeus non-profit civil association.

In 2013, Amadeus was declared of Provincial Legislative Interest by the Honorable Legislature of Neuquén, who unanimously approved the bill declaring the work carried out by the civil association "Amadeus, Arte Solidario y Comunitario" of legislative interest. "In declaration 1525 the interest of the work carried out by the Association in the province is established."

Amadeus, Arte Solidario y Comunitario is founded by Sir John Keen as NGOs, more than fifteen years ago. Under his musical artistic direction and the coordination of volunteer artists. From that moment, Comprehensive Art Samples began to be developed under solidarity campaigns.

On May 27, 2014, the Honorable Legislature of the province of Río Negro under declaration number 228/14 Declares of “community and social interest the work carried out by the organization Amadeus, Arte Solidario y Comunitario.

On November 3, 2016, the creation of the “Solidarity Bank of Musical Instruments of the city of Neuquén” was unanimously approved, a project developed and drafted by maestro Juan Keen, which establishes as an objective the alliance between local and provincial companies, people The Non-profit institutions, NGOs and all social support projects through music can purchase musical instruments for this purpose. The same project approved in resolution is presented as a provincial bill so that this objective can be expanded to the entire province.

In December 2016, the development project presented by maestro Juan Keen in conjunction with Amadeus won one of the Jaime de Nevares 2016 edition awards, granted by the honorable Deliberative Council of the city of Neuquén. On July 27, 2017, the bill written and proposed by Master Juan Keen to the Honorable Legislature of the province of Neuquén for the creation of the “Solidarity Bank of musical instruments” is approved, thus expanding the field of work to the whole province.

In December of the same year, the Amadeus Orchestra was declared of municipal legislative interest for its work of inclusion, integration and cultural development in the city. In March 2018, new courses are opened for the training of "Multipliers", people who will be trained as workshops for the opening of nine music education centers in the city.

On the other hand, the other project promoted by Amadeus is that of "Cultural Development" which aims at the integration of already established artists and students through master classes, seminars and cultural exchanges as well as the participation of comprehensive Art Samples to benefit . The activities are aimed at all types of people regardless of social class, creed, race or color.

“Amadeus Arte Solidario y Comunitario maintains the principle of not carrying out partisan policies as well as respecting the integration between people of different religions and creeds. Although Amadeus means “love God” (name given by its founder Juan Keen as a personal objective), it does not point to a specific religious thought”.