Voices: Kateri Lirio - A Musician and Survivor Finding and Sharing Healing Through Art
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I firmly believe that one of the most important things I can do with this platform is raise up the voices of survivors, giving them an opportunity to share their experiences and perspectives with a broader audience. So, I am truly grateful to have connected with Kateri Lirio, an abuse survivor who is addressing this crisis in a unique way - through powerful personal art. Honestly, I don’t know much about the art scene, but even I can see that Kateri’s list of accomplishments is quite impressive. She is a classically-trained pianist who attended the renown Orange County School of the Arts and graduated Valedictorian in 2006. She continued her studies at Cal Poly Pomona and was named “Outstanding Graduate” at the top of her class in 2010. Kateri has worked as a professional collaborative pianist since age 14 and has also spent time in music ministry within the Catholic Church. She is currently a music teaching artist specializing in piano, voice, ukulele, and songwriting in Los Angeles. Kateri is also an abuse survivor, who has spent much of her life wrestling with the consequences of that abuse. She has given voice to this difficult journey through her art, which has taken form in a one-woman musical,
Voices: Kateri Lirio - A Musician and Survivor Finding and Sharing Healing Through Art
Voices: Kateri Lirio - A Musician and…
Voices: Kateri Lirio - A Musician and Survivor Finding and Sharing Healing Through Art
I firmly believe that one of the most important things I can do with this platform is raise up the voices of survivors, giving them an opportunity to share their experiences and perspectives with a broader audience. So, I am truly grateful to have connected with Kateri Lirio, an abuse survivor who is addressing this crisis in a unique way - through powerful personal art. Honestly, I don’t know much about the art scene, but even I can see that Kateri’s list of accomplishments is quite impressive. She is a classically-trained pianist who attended the renown Orange County School of the Arts and graduated Valedictorian in 2006. She continued her studies at Cal Poly Pomona and was named “Outstanding Graduate” at the top of her class in 2010. Kateri has worked as a professional collaborative pianist since age 14 and has also spent time in music ministry within the Catholic Church. She is currently a music teaching artist specializing in piano, voice, ukulele, and songwriting in Los Angeles. Kateri is also an abuse survivor, who has spent much of her life wrestling with the consequences of that abuse. She has given voice to this difficult journey through her art, which has taken form in a one-woman musical,