Buffalo native, Beatrice Anderson began her career as a musician at the age of 11. Music throughout her adolescence continued to play a major part in her development making voice study and practice much more than just a hobby. She graduated in the class of 2000 from the New England Conservatory in Boston, MA with a dual degree in Classical Voice and Music in Education.
She continued her journey as a soloist in Italy where she participated in the Chiari Music Festival. Her interests in various styles of music and her always profound love of jazz landed her a position in 2005 as the first administrator for the Middle School Jazz Academy at Jazz at Lincoln Center. It was there that Beatrice began to see and witness the joy of improvisation and sound manipulation from both the nuanced professional adult perspective and the risk taking creative perspective of her 72 students over the course of five years. Her students constantly inspiring and motivating her to move beyond the walls of European Classical Music and into broader communities of varying musical genres.
This shift in her career allowed for further opportunities: singing for Jazz at Lincoln Centers; Pre-Concert Jazz for Young People Series, the Metropolitan Opera-Opera Guild, teaching music to over 250 students across New York City with the Midori and Friends organization and hired as soloist and supporting vocalist on various CD projects including the internationally released Gospel album for Emanuel Baptist Church.
Spreading the beauty, magic and healing of sound is one the missions most dear and significant to her life's journey. She is currently Co-Organizer for grassroots, Haitian lead organization Ayiti Resurrect, wherein she helps to facilitate skill share between members of the Diaspora with earthquake survivors around trauma healing through art, dance and music therapy in a two month, two week long delegation.
Beatrice is dedicated to Haiti's ability to create sustainability models to further empower a very proud, resistant and brilliant people. She is deeply grateful for the chance to bare witness and to be a part of the brilliant, necessary,cathartic
She also studied at the Negro Ensemble Company. After many years of work as a community organizer and consultant, she's decided to shift her focus to the arts.
Sokhna Heathyre Mabin is a mother, yoga teacher, doula, herbalist, vocalist & performance artist.
As
a designer she has costumed & adorned people & puppets. She
debuted as an actress in Greg Tate’s independent film “Black Body
Radiation” in 2006. Her vocal gift & many talents have taken her
around the world with artists such as Gavin Russom/LCD Sound
System/Crystal Ark, A Guy Called Gerald, Jenny Lynn McNutt, Elisa
Jimenez, & Bill T. Jones.
She has played electronic music festivals
worldwide, & created stages in the caves of southern France, jazz
clubs in Paris, mystic lounges in Turkey, to the all funky Netherlands,
the beaches of Southern Spain under a full moon, the Caribbean Islands,
West Africa & the United States. sokhna has blessed many NYC spaces
such as The Kitchen, Galapagos, The Anchorage, Joe’s Pub, Dance Theater
Workshop, The Painting Studio, Webster Hall, Drom, and the Performing
Arts Library @ Lincoln Center.
Last year she graced Wow Cafe Theater
with her work in progress “Beautiful’s Odyssey - Snapshots from the
Underground Forest.” Sokhna has just returned from performing at the
VIVID Fest at the Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia. She came to
WORK.
Currently Sokhna teaches yoga at Shambhala Yoga & Dance (her class was just
named one of NYC’s best classes online @ yogacity.com/nyc/class picks)
& at her east village home - supporting the practice with herbal
infusions. She premiered her new music to a full temple in May &
life continues to be her source of inspiration.
mamasokhna@gmail.com
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