Poetica Musica, whom the New Times has dubbed “Good Will Ambassadors”, is a New York-based consortium that is currently serving as Artists-in-Residence at Old Westbury Gardens, a stately mansion located on Long Island, New York. Poetica Musica has toured Europe, the Middle East, South America, and Asia performing at such festivals as the Istanbul International Festival, the Bergen Festival in Norway, the Dark Days Festival in Iceland,   the Sarajevo Festival in Bosnia, the  Janaček in Hukvaldy Festival, the South Bohemia Festival, the Concentus Moraviae Festival, the Česky Krumlov Chamber Music Festival and the Martinu Festival in the Czech Republic sponsored by such organizations as the Martinu Foundation, the Janaček Foundation and the Baroque Theater Foundation of the Česky Krumlov Chateau. They have also performed at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the St-Martin-in-the-Fields and the Holywell Music Room of Oxford University in Great Britain.  They have also presented concerts at the American Days Festival in Bialystok, Poland and at the famous Dziekanka Chamber Music Series presented by the Chopin Academy in Warsaw.  Poetica Musica has toured Slovakia, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Croatia, Rumania and Turkey, Kuwait, Peru, Guyana, Azerbaijan, Israel, Jordan Jamaica, and Tajikistan, Russia, Lithuania, Estonia and Guyana

Poetica Musica also performed at the Weill Hall of Carnegie Hall participating in the Hans Christian Andersen Festival, a worldwide celebration commemorating the Bicentennial of Hans Christian Andersen sponsored by the Hans Christian Andersen Foundation in Denmark and the Royal Danish Consulate General in New York.  They have toured India for the first time participating in music series in Pune, Calcutta, Mumbai, and New Delhi under the aupices of the Mehli Mehta Foundation and the United States Embassy in New Delhi. Poetica Musica also participated in “Grieg Week”, a celebration of the music of Edvard Grieg sponsored by the Royal Norwegian Consulate General in New York performing at Weill Hall of Carnegie Hall. They again performed in Carnegie Hall under the sponsorship of the Royal Danish Consulate in New York. They have also recently performed at the Kennedy center in Washington, D.C. to critical acclaim.

Members of Poetica Musica have served on the faculties of Manhattan School of Music, Lehmann College, SUNY Buffalo, Juilliard, the Belgrade Academy of Music, New York University, the Prague Music Performance Institute, and Brooklyn College.Poetica Musica has performed on live broadcasts from the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, CNN World report, CNN Turk, Radio Baku. Radio Damascus, Radio Guyana, WNYC and has given lectures and master classes all over the world including Israel , Jordan, Turkey, Serbia, Slovakia, Rumania and Peru in music academies, public schools, community centers and hospitals.They have received funding from the CBS Foundation, the New York State Council of the Arts, the Suffolk County Department of Cultural Affairs, the National Endowment for the Arts, American Airlines, the IBM Matching grant Program and the Irene Levoy Foundation and various United States Embassies and Consulates worldwide.

Poetica Musica: Eleanor Valkenburg, soprano, Natasa Mitrovic, piano