Maestro Zubin Mehta lends support to European Children’s Festival

ICAF e.V. is pleased to announce that Mr. Zubin Mehta has agreed to be a patron of the European Festival of Children’s Creativity & Art to be held at Olympia Park in Munich on 27 May – 1 June 2006.

In a letter to Mrs. Elena Janker, Executive Director of ICAF e.V., Mr. Mehta wrote: “My congratulations to you on your wonderful activities. Today it’s more important than ever to connect children from around the world through art and creativity to establish the fundamentals for peace. With the project Children Take a Stand the International Child Art Foundation finds a way from one to all for more openness and tolerance. With art, children and music it is really possible to overcome all limits and to create a better world. I like this idea and wish you great success.”

On March 21, 2006, a few of the children associated with ICAF in Munich accompanied Mrs. Janker to meet with Mr. Mehta. Below are the photographs of the meeting:

Mr. Zubin Mehta is Music Director of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. Born in Mumbai, Mr. Mehta initially studied medicine. At the age of eighteen, he abandoned his medical career to attend the Academy of Music in Vienna. Seven years later, he conducted both the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics. The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra appointed him Music Director for Life in 1981. His many honors include the Padma Bhushan (Order of the Lotus), India's highest cultural award for outstanding accomplishment in the arts and sciences.

The International Child Art Foundation is the only international non-governmental organization that promotes children’s creative development and cross-cultural cooperation through the arts. To learn more about the European Festival, click here