Sabine
has had a love for music and nature
since studying
classical piano as a young girl growing up under the green forests of
Germany. After earning her PhD in biology, her career as
a scientist brought Dr. Kurz to
the United States, where her heart opened to the beautiful yet
increasingly endangered ecoregions of North America. She now
teaches college level biology in the San Diego area and is a
certified yoga
instructor, helping to open the minds and hearts of her students to
environmental awareness. Expressing herself musically, Sabine
performed with the Latin Jazz band Cadencia on
keyboards, percussion and lead vocals, recording three CDs with that
group. A deeply spiritual
experience in an old growth forest inspired a quest to
find a flute that could better express the deeper realization of Life
that had opened up to her. Having learned about the branch
flutes Jon Sherman
was making, a
very special partnership was born.
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Jon's love for music and
nature was nurtured from an early
age - introduced to the rivers
and mountains of
Idaho by his dad, while his mom encouraged his creative
and musical side. Moving to Southern California in the late
60's,
Jon continued his journey of integration, blending his talents in the
performing arts with the inspiration he finds in staying
connected and in good relationship with the natural community
here. As an eco-musician Jon has
been using a solar
powered sound system since 1989, participating in many local
environmentally conscious
events and completing 3 CDs of original, bioregionally focused music
and poetry. Having
played wooden recorders since the early ''70s and the
Native American Flute since
1993, Jon started hand-crafting branch flutes 10
years ago, his Dryad Flutes highly sought after now for thieir quality
of crafstmanhip, unique natural beauty and ecological integrity.
Meeting Sabine and blending their lives,
talents and intentions together is an ongoing
blessing for
him - each day a new journey of how two souls who love the
Earth,
and each other, might make the world a better place through their
combined creative expressions.
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