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Jivana P. Condak, Founder and Director of\u00a0Fort Greene Music Scene<\/em>, and New York Miami Piano<\/em> teaches Piano, Keyboards, Guitar, Ukulele, beginner Bass, Drums, Percussion including Boomwhackers\u00ae as well as Voice, Music Theory, Ear Training and beginning Songwriting and Performing. Born in NYC, Jivana was exposed to music and art early on. Her mother, from Manhattan was an art director at Columbia Records<\/em>\u00a0and her father, from Brooklyn was a jazz musician and a visual artist who\u00a0taught at\u00a0School of Visual Arts<\/em>,\u00a0Parsons School of Design<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Pratt Institute<\/em>. Both of her parents’ work can be seen on hundreds of album covers. (Look out for a page on that later)!<\/p>\n As a child, Jivana was very influenced by her parents love for music and art. She began her classical piano studies at the age of six, taking weekly private lessons for 10 years, as well as studying guitar in the rock\/folk\/pop genres by the age of 12. She also sang lead soprano in her Elementary, Junior High and High School Choirs, played guitar in the School Ensemble and was tutored in piano in the pop\/rock\/folk styles by the School\u2019s Musical Director. After school hours, she attended classes for keyboard and guitar in the pop\/rock\/blues\/folk styles at the\u00a0Guitar Study Center<\/em>\u00a0in NYC, run by\u00a0Paul Simon\u2019<\/em>s brother. At the age of seventeen, she began writing songs and teaching music lessons to her friends. Jivana spent a summer semester at\u00a0Berklee College of Music<\/em>\u00a0in Boston, and as a senior in high school, interned at major recording studio in NYC.<\/p>\n In 1982, Jivana entered\u00a0Berklee College of Music<\/em>\u00a0 where she majored in\u00a0Performance for Piano<\/em>\u00a0and studied\u00a0Voice, Arranging, Harmony, Sight Reading, Ear Training, Listening Analysis, Improvisation, Ensemble<\/em>, etc. and formed a rock band with fellow students. She also joined a local reggae band with Jamaican musicians and started promoting and producing reggae concerts in New England. She also began studying African Dance.<\/p>\n In 1984, she relocated to Miami, where she joined another reggae band and African dance troupe, then on to Los Angeles for more of the same. She promoted and produced reggae concerts in the LA area for the next three years for local and international acts. Acts included\u00a0Ziggy Marley, Third World, The Wailers, Gregory Isaacs, The Itals, Ras Michael, Israel Vibrations<\/em>,\u00a0Sugar Minott,<\/em>\u00a0Pablove<\/em>\u00a0Black<\/em>, etc. as well as writing and recording her own material and studying voice and dance.<\/p>\n In the summer of 1991, with the recommendation of record executive,\u00a0Bruce Lundvall<\/em>\u00a0 (Columbia, Elektra,<\/em>\u00a0BlueNote)<\/em>, she established a music publishing company\u00a0Maandiko Music<\/em>\u00a0with\u00a0BMI<\/em>. By then, Jivana had moved to Jamaica, West Indies to continue performing, writing, recording and producing. She also taught private keyboard lessons and music in the public schools around Jamaica and encouraged her students to perform in local shows.<\/p>\n Upon returning to New York in 1993, she furthered her studies, attending classes at\u00a0The New School<\/em>. Courses included:\u00a0Advanced Song Writing, The Business of Song Writing, The Pop Music Business, Recording<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Production, Management, A&R, Promotion, Publicity, Publishing & Copyright<\/em>. Jivana also took private voice lessons and studied drums for four years then went on to study and perform middle-eastern dance. In 1995 she opened up a private music studio\u00a0Fort Greene Music Scene<\/em>\u00a0in Brooklyn. In 1996, one of her songs\u00a0Tell Me It’s Safe (\u00a91993)\u00a0<\/em>was featured and performed at a\u00a0BMI Songwriters’ Showcase in NYC<\/em>.<\/p>\n In 1997 she formed the children\u2019s performance group, The\u00a0Koolkidz\u2122\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0then launched an indie label,\u00a0Musicskool Records<\/em>\u00a0while writing\/producing\/directing children\u2019s music and videos. In 2002 her childrens’ group The\u00a0Koolkidz\u2122<\/em>\u00a0performed her song\u00a0Put the Drugs and Guns Away (\u00a91997)<\/em>\u00a0at the\u00a0Million Mom March<\/em>\u00a0in Washington, DC in 2002.<\/p>\n Eager to accomplish more, Jivana completed a course in\u00a0Piano Tuning and Technology in 2003 at\u00a0The\u00a0Museum of the American Piano<\/em>\u00a0in NYC where she received her certificate, then spent five years working alongside Master Piano Technician, the late Kalman Detrich to become a versatile piano tuner and repair technician. Jivana became an Associate Member of The Piano Technician’s Guild, attending weekly meetings and workshops in NYC. In 2005, Jivana was awarded the\u00a0Wall of Tolerance Award\u00a0<\/em>by\u00a0Rosa Parks<\/em>\u00a0and the\u00a0National Campaign for Tolerance<\/em>\u00a0for her public stance against hate, injustice and intolerance. In the same year,\u00a0The Community Education Council<\/em>\u00a0for District 13<\/em>\u00a0awarded Jivana an\u00a0Invaluable Service Award\u00a0<\/em>for her work with children locally.<\/p>\n In 2008, her album\u00a0Songs For Koolkidz\u2122<\/em>\u00a0won a\u00a0Parents’ Choice Approved Award and i<\/em>n 2009 her childrens’ music video\u00a0Positive (\u00a91999)\u00a0<\/em>performed by the\u00a0Koolkidz\u2122,\u00a0<\/em>was chosen as an official selection for the\u00a0Coney Island Film Festival<\/em>\u00a0 in Brooklyn, NY. Soon to release her latest DVD,\u00a0Colors of the World (\u00a91997) A Multi-Language Experience,\u00a0<\/em>Jivana strives to make a difference in the world, through her music and through her message.<\/p>\n To date, Jivana has decades of experience as a piano player, 35 years of experience as a piano teacher, and 20 years of experience as a piano tuner and technician. She has taught hundreds of children, written over one hundred songs and has serviced over 250 pianos. She feels blessed to have had music in her life since she was a child and feels even more blessed that she gets to pass it on. Over the years, she has had the privilege of working with many reggae artists such as Dennis Brown, Judy Mowatt,<\/em>\u00a0members of\u00a0Third<\/em>\u00a0World, Andrew Tosh, Ras Michael, Pablo Black,\u00a0Cedric Brooks,\u00a0Courtney Panton, JJ SanSaverino,\u00a0Junior Jazz,\u00a0Ronnie Butler, Donovan McKitty, Jah Levi & the Higher Reasoning,\u00a0Marijah and the Reggae Allstars, Fantuzzi,\u00a0Laury Webb and Tigerbone, I-Word, Eddie-I,\u00a0Primitive,\u00a0I-Chelle, Moral Minority, Positive Vibrations<\/em>\u00a0and many more.<\/p>\n Jivana is also a retired advanced Iyengar Yoga Instructor and Certified Massage Practitioner, a part-time Nutritional Counselor and Natural Health Educator, and has been a Vegan\/Chef for over three decades. This awareness of the body-mind connection, helps her to incorporate a holistic approach to playing and teaching piano, paying close attention to body language, breathing and posture. She approaches music as a language, as a dance, as communication, as therapy. She believes music should be felt and not just heard and strives to bring out that passion in her students and in her music.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Jivana had lived in the Fort Greene \/ Clinton Hill \/ Bed Stuy community for over 25 years and is pleased to see her students grow up to be professional musicians traveling the world. They are now recording artists, touring artists, actors, writers, directors, producers, dancers, choreographers and teachers. They have won awards and scholarships and are amazing individuals. She has witnessed first hand, how music can change the life of a child, a community and the world. This drives her to continue her work with children into her third decade. Her love for children is matched only by her love for music. The End.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jivana P. Condak, Founder and Director of\u00a0Fort Greene Music Scene, and New York Miami Piano teaches Piano, Keyboards, Guitar, Ukulele, beginner Bass, Drums, Percussion including Boomwhackers\u00ae as well as Voice, Music Theory, Ear Training and beginning Songwriting and Performing. Born in NYC, Jivana was exposed to music and art early on. 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