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Delaware Division of the Arts

2025 Delaware Arts Summit Performers

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Ananya Goswami

Dancer

Ananya Goswami is a distinguished Kathak and visual artist with over 20 years of experience and recognized for her leadership in promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion through the classical arts. As the Founder and Artistic Director of Srishti – The Kathak Academy in Delaware, USA, and Head of Dance at Udaan, a U.S.-based non-profit, she actively creates platforms that elevate South Asian performing arts in multicultural contexts. Ananya is a 2025 Delaware Individual Artist Fellow in Dance: Choreography.

Portrait of a musician seated at a drum set, wearing glasses and a black suit while looking down in concentration. Warm golden light and softly blurred background details give the image an intimate performance atmosphere.

The Jonathan Whitney Project featuring Jea Street, Jr.

The Whitney Project, led by drummer and composer Jonathan W. Whitney, performs works from his latest jazz suite Cooch’s Bridge: The African American Presence that celebrates the many black bodies that passed through the Cooch’s Bridge Historic Site. Jonathan uses his music to search for spaces to provide understanding. His works often address the many facets of life lived by a Black person residing in America. He is a 2020 Division of the Arts Fellow in Jazz: Composition.

Giampiero Bugliarello, piano

Giampiero Bugliarello

Pianist

Giampiero Bugliarello took his first steps toward music at the age of four, playing with the family piano and learning to play by ear. Soon after, under the guidance of Ketty Teriaca, he began formal study of the instrument. With Alberto Alibrandi, he undertook the study of music theory and jazz, and at the age of eleven, he joined the class of Carmelo Pappalardo at the Vincenzo Bellini Conservatory in Catania, where he graduated with the highest honors. He earned a master’s degree and a doctorate at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., under the guidance of Nikita Fitenko. At the same institution, he was appointed ad-honorem visiting scholar to research Latin American art music, with several articles published by Naxos. He also published his original compositions Ballata and Fantasia with DaVinci Editions.

Today, he is a piano instructor at The Music School of Delaware, where he also teaches composition and music history. He furthered his studies at the Hochschule Sommerakademie Mozarteum in Salzburg, attending courses led by Andrzej Jasinski, Daniel Pollack, and Aquiles Delle Vigne; at the Washington International Music Festival with Igor Lebedev; at the International Russian Piano Festival with Yuri Bogdanov; and at masterclasses held by Vincenzo Balzani and Tamás Ungár. He has won several awards in various national and international piano competitions, including the “T. Benjamin Rome Concerto Competition,” “The Washington International Piano Competition,” “Concorso Pianistico Internazionale Gianluca Campochiaro,” “Concorso Internazionale Musicale E. Satie,” “Concorso Pianistico Nazionale J.S. Bach,” “Concorso Musicale Nazionale Vincenzo Bellini,” and “World Music Competition Ibla Grand Prize.”

He participated in the fifteenth edition of the Trecastagni International Music Festival, and his concert activity includes performances at the Wiener Saal, Ward Recital Hall, Hartke Theater, Heritage Hall, Art Barns, Covington Center for the Performing Arts in Radford, Lyon College, New River Valley Fine Art Center, the University Club of New York, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and Carnegie Hall in New York. In 2021, he was appointed a goodwill ambassador by the Arkansas Secretary of State and received a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service visa for individuals with extraordinary abilities.