Kansas Paraguay Partners Annual Meeting
Event information
April 15, 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Presented By: Kansas Paraguay Partners
Location: Sunflower Room, Overman Student Center
Event details
The annual meeting of Kansas Paraguay Partners will be held on the campus of Pittsburg State University on Saturday, April 15, 2023. The meeting will include a musical performance by Paraguayan PSU alumni Dr. Ramiro Miranda, violin, and Daniel Ayala, piano. Keynote speaker will be the Deputy Chief of Mission, Counselor Oscar Báez, Embassy of Paraguay in the USA.
The meeting will begin at 10:00 a.m. in the Sunflower Room, in the Overman Student Center, and will conclude at 2:00 p.m. All are welcome to attend.
Registration is required and includes a light breakfast and lunch. Register by April 7. Registration is $27 for members and guests, and $7 for students: Online Registration
The president of Kansas Paraguay Partners is Paraguayan PSU alumna Sonia Cox.
Paraguay and the State of Kansas have had an official partnership led by Kansas Paraguay Partners (KPP) and the Comité Paraguay-Kansas for fifty-three years. KPP also collaborates frequently with higher education institutions in the state. Through this partnership, thousands of Paraguayan students have attended Kansas universities, while many Kansas faculty and students have researched and/or studied abroad in Paraguay
Annual Meeting Schedule
Saturday, April 15, 2023
Pittsburg State University, Student Center, Sunflower Room
Studied classical piano with Dr. Reena Natenberg at Pittsburg State University and jazz/contemporary piano and improvisation with Dr. Whitney Ashe at Western Illinois University. He has played alongside important figures of jazz such as Village Vanguard Orchestra, Michael Weiss, Aaron Kipola, Don Norton, Dan Miller and Alan Baylock among others. He has played piano in musicals such as “Working”, “The Drowsey Chaperone” and “Pippin”. Native of Paraguay, his music includes an array of styles that combine jazz with traditional paraguayan music, heavily based in improvisation, he is active in the paraguayan music scene with his quartet playing classic and modern standards rooted in the bebop, post-bop, modal jazz, Latin jazz and swing tradition as well as original compositions. His music is heavily influenced by artists like Kenny Barron, Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea, McCoy Tyner, Cedar Walton, Keith Emerson and others. In 2021, he recorded his first album as a pianist and composer with his quintet (piano, guitar, alto sax, bass and drums) called “Sugestión” available in all music platforms, in which he explores various styles and ensemble configurations, with compositions and arrangements based in the bebop language, modal jazz, Latin and avant-garde.