Christopher Fülling Berlin & Calvi dell’Umbria

American tenor specializing in 17th C music and Gregorian chant, as well as a director of traditional and experimental ritual theater projects. Educated at Princeton and California Institute of the Arts, he moved to Amsterdam on a Beebe Foundation Fellowship in 1999 to study Baroque singing with Max van Egmond and Peter Kooy. With his music ensembles (such as The Pacelli Project) and theater projects (such as Canticum), and as a tenor with conductors including Gabriel Garrido, Eugeen Liven d’Abelardo, and Daniel Reuss, he has explored not only historically informed performance practice in concerts, but also brought to life this music in its original liturgical context through ritual reconstructions. Simultaneously, he has directed avant-garde music theatre pieces from Burning Man to Bali that explore similar issues but in radically creative contexts.

Betsy McCall San Francisco & Calvi dell’Umbria

American visual artist and internationally ranked synchronized swimmer. Betsy’s investigations of sacred geometries in paint and video have been exhibited from San Francisco to Amsterdam. Co-founder of San Francisco Tsunami Synchronized Swimming, McCall was previously Editor of Publications at Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the world-renowned museum of Buffalo, New York, and successfully founded Shizknits, an innovative small business developing knitted accessories and custom sweaters. Garnering degrees from Yale University and San Francisco Art Institute, McCall’s writing and visual art have been featured in publications such as Buffalo Magazine, Readymade, Lucky, Bust, MacWorld, San Francisco Chronicle, Houston Gazette, Knitty, and has appeared repeatedly HGTV’s Crafters: Coast to Coast, DIY’s Knitty Gritty, and CBS’s Evening Magazine, among others.

Nadine Kano, Chairperson

Seattle, United States

American computer scientist, director in marketing at Microsoft, and advisor on corporate retreats

Nathan Rosquist, President

Mia Martin, Vice-President 

Betsy McCall, Secretary

Dr. Pierre Theodore, Treasurer

San Francisco

Van Auken Chair in Thoracic Oncology and Assistant Professor of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery at University of California at San Francisco Medical Hospital, as well as Chief Exective Officer of Osler Properties Real Estate Consulting

Alessandra Prampolini

Rome & Calvi dell’Umbria

Nathan Rosquist

Seattle & Calvi dell’Umbria

A writer and composer from Boulder, CO. Nathan studied Mandarin Chinese and Linguistics at the University of Colorado, and eventually moved to Seattle to get and MBA in Sustainable Business from Bainbridge Graduate Institute. He has been working as a graphic designer and web-developer for the last three years in Seattle, where he helped launch the Northwest Chocolate Festival and Puget Sound Community Change, a "community loyalty program" that gives consumers tools to shop locally and support local nonprofits. As a designer, he has focused on clients involved in socially responsible investment, sustainable food systems, grassroots economics and social justice.

Brittney Williams

Seattle & Calvi dell’Umbria

A versatile artist with a vast array of interests ranging from bizarre performance art noise spectacles to bookbinding, Brittney is currently recording ambient sounds as a form of contemplative listening. After attending high school near Pisa, Italy, she moved to Seattle in and obtained a BA from the University of Washington in Italian and in Anthropology (2004). As a soprano who has performed internationally and across the United States, her musical interests span from early music to folk-jazz alt-country rock infusions. She is also cultivating Santa Brigida's Organic Gardens and Seed Preservation Project, with a focus on permaculture and sustainable organic gardening.

Francesca Ausenda Calvi dell’Umbria

Amber Cady San Francisco

Amber is an interdisciplinary artist whose works employ sound, video, drawing, and performance and have been shown both locally and nationally. Selected exhibitions include Manifest Destinesia at Loft910, NYC, and The Whole Story: A Concordance of One's Life at The Lab, SF. She is a graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute (2008) and has studied internationally in Spain, Italy, and France, where she attended the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. She is a founding member of extradarklightmagic.org, an experimental cross-disciplinary research collective.

Mia Martin Bloomington

American travel guru. She manages Cartolina Tours, a custom tour planning business specializing in Italy. Her background in management and marketing travel make her a key player in forwarding our tourism and hospitality agenda. She has been traveling her whole life and specializing in Italian tourism since 1990. Her long tenure at STA Travel took her to many corners of the planet and kept her engaged with student and budget travel. She is an ombudsman, creative thinker, and a believer in the power of art and travel to change people for the better.

Julia Pond New York & London

American dancer and choreographer. Julia holds a BFA in Dance from The Boston Conservatory and an MA in International Relations from St. John's University in Rome. From 2001 to 2005 she was a dancer with New York's Isadora Duncan Dance Company. There,  she performed and taught the repertory of Isadora Duncan in the US and Europe. She continues to be an International Affiliate of the Company, teaching when she is in New York.  Julia also worked at the Glocal Forum in Rome, an international NGO dedicated to city networking and peacebuilding, while continuing to work as a teacher, dancer and choreographer throughout Italy. She's currently in London developing a new dance and baroque music piece for cloisters and studying yoga while continuing to lend her efforts to programming and partnerships at the Art Monastery.

Francesca Sciandra New York City & Calvi dell’Umbria

American designer and visual artist. Francesca holds degrees from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and Parsons The New School for Design. Following her studies in architecture and design, she collaborated with studios and independent artists in New York City. In the spring of 2008, she traveled to Barcelona to complete graduate study in glass art and art history, exhibiting her work at Article 26 Gallery.

Joining Betsy and Christopher in Italy are a group of outstanding professionals and creative collaborators, whose dedication and exuberance fuel this project daily.

In addition to the on-site team, the project is supported by a group of international artists and specialists.