intercultural music education
creativity
rhythmics
Puro Paju (they/them) is a Finnish educator, musician, improviser and composer. Their main areas of interest are Latin-American and African music traditions alongside with body percussion, singing, rhythmics and global music pedagogy.
Puro works as a lecturer in the Global music department of Sibelius Academy with responsibility areas such as ensembles, global rhythmics, pedagogy and ICE (improvisation, communication and expression).
percussions
art integration
Orff pedagogy
Xavi Rocamora (he/him) is a Catalan music educator specialised in the Orff-Schulwerk approach in San Francisco with a Master’s degree in Interdisciplinary Arts Education (University of Barcelona). His main focus is on creative processes, instrumental percussion ensembles and arts integration in music education. Xavi is currently conducting the school percussion programme La Batuescola, and is part of the pedagogical team of the Orff Catalonia certification courses.