Gero Pogrzeba, a Frankfurt-based lawyer who serves as Counsel in the Dispute Resolution department at the international law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, is dedicated to supporting a foundation that aims to make piano education more accessible for students in German-speaking countries. The Keys of Inspiration program holds a special place in his heart.

Gero’s professional practice focuses on complex commercial litigation. In addition, he concentrates on financial services litigation as well as internal and administrative investigations in the financial sector. He studied law at the University of Heidelberg and the University of Frankfurt (law degree 2013). His legal traineeship included professional stations at the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) and in the arbitration department of an international law firm in Singapore. Gero is actively involved in supporting the Willem C. Vis Moot, a competition for law students to foster the study and practice of international commercial sales law and arbitration, with students from roughly 90 countries participating. He served as a treasurer for the Alumni Association of the Frankfurt Vis Moot organization.

After discovering the power of the arts at a young age, Ariela Rossberg devoted herself to the pursuit and exploration of creativity.

As a child, she often found herself in the music room at school, exploring the sounds and beauty of the piano. She grew up immersed in the world of theatre, and music always played a role. After earning a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre from The Pennsylvania State University, she set out in the world to make art and make change.

After graduating, she worked at The Metropolitan Opera as a Fundraising Representative. The following summer, a creative workshop with a former professor changed her life. She immersed herself in the study of the creative process, and wrote her debut children’s book, The Gray Days. After its release in September 2012, it maintained a place on Amazon’s Best-Seller List for Children’s Books for several weeks. She began to offer creative workshops in classrooms, and it was there that she discovered her passion for the development and application of creative programming for children.  She designed an Imagination Workshop for students, which she has led in over fifty classrooms and several children’s hospitals.

She then spent two years traveling, writing, and hosting literary events. During this time, she discovered the need for arts education as a means of offering young people an outlet of expression, and of bridging cultural gaps. She is dedicated to providing creative opportunities for children, and believes in the power and universality of music.

Ms. Rossberg is immensely proud to be part of The Lang Lang International Music Foundation, where she can work to make a difference in the lives of children.

After launching and running a successful Keys of Inspiration Piano Lab program in the Boston Public School system, Dan has joined the LLIMF as the Education Associate, bringing many years of teaching and professional development experience from across the country to support our KOI teachers and our students.

Dan became a performing musician at a very young age, and has never looked back. After graduating from Berklee College of Music, he moved to New York City where he took to the rock, country, blues, and jazz recording and touring scenes. After deciding to take on two private students, his roster soon grew to 42, and he realized there was another element to his calling in music; teaching.

After obtaining a Masters in Music Education from Boston University, Dan went on to teach at various schools across the country, most recently for seven years at Dever Elementary in Boston Public Schools. It was here that he experienced what he describes as his ideal music classroom; an LLIMF KOI piano lab. “People would sometimes ask me what my ideal music classroom would look like, and I was able to say “We’re standing in it.”

Dan is bringing over twenty years of music education pedagogy and professional development experience to KOI. He is so very excited to share KOI Lab best practices, curriculum, community outreach and engagement strategies, technology integration, and so much more.

“I used to dream about going out into other KOI programs in Boston to share out best practices, piano and music curricular and pedagogical concepts, and more. To do this for the entire KOI LLIMF network? I could never take more pride in any other opportunity. What a joy!”

Martina Fuchs is TV Anchor, Business Journalist, Event Moderator and Expert on China and the Middle East based in London and Zurich.

She is former CNNMoney Switzerland TV Anchor and worked as Senior Business Reporter for Chinese state broadcaster CGTN (China Global Television Network) in Beijing. Before that, she was Reuters Economy Correspondent for the Gulf Arab region in Dubai and Reuters Financial TV Producer in London.

Ms. Fuchs holds a Master in International Economic History from the University in Geneva, a Postgraduate Diploma in TV Journalism from the American University in Cairo, and a Master of Science in Global Finance (MSGF) from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and the New York University (NYU) Stern Business School.

She speaks 9 languages, including: German, French, English, Chinese, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Swahili.

Ms. Fuchs has hosted many top financial and business events around the world such as the United Nations’ launch of the Principles for Responsible Banking in NYC in 2019, the Women Power Forum 2019 in Hong Kong, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) annual general meeting 2019 in Luxembourg, the CEO Summit 2018 of the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in Zurich, or the opening of the world’s largest bank the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) in Zurich.

She has covered top global news events around the world such as the World Economic Forum in Davos or the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in Beijing and has conducted dozens of exclusive interviews during her career, including with the President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Thomas Bach, Bank of England Governor Mark Carney, World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim, Swiss President Ueli Maurer, or Grammy Award winner and musician Will.I.Am.

Ms. Fuchs is also International Advisor for the St. Gallen Symposium and has been selected as a “Leader of Tomorrow”.

Even though Ms. Fuchs is an absolute piano beginner and only knows to play the flute, she is immensely passionate about helping children around the world gain access to music education and inspire the next generation of musicians.

She first became acquainted with the Lang Lang International Music Foundation® in 2018 during a CNNMoney Switzerland TV interview with Lang Lang and a concert performed by the Young Scholars.

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