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Swiss Wealth Planning In association with Swiss Trust AG 55

Outstanding in every aspect Swiss Trust AG

5 min. with Josef Meyer 1. Please tell us a bit more about your company and what makes you so special? Swiss Trust AG was founded to serve not only as a trustee of Josef Meyer UHNWI’s, but to really focus on the structuring of assets in times when tax transparency became reality for all our clients! We were Founder & Partner SWISS TRUST AG extremely keen to associate the name of our company with Switzerland, understanding and anticipating that Switzerland has 4. What services do you offer your international HNWIs seeking tons of undiscovered advantages despite exchanging financial to protect their assets for their next family's generation in an information of clients with most tax authorities world-wide! increasingly complex tax landscape ? Wealthy families must find solutions for very complex questions in the financial area and without a guide this is almost impossible. As already mentioned just before, we think that a relocation to We strive to analyze the situation of our clients and prospects Switzerland has many tax advantages in combination with keeping strongly focusing on all tax aspects, tax risks as well as giving the privacy that seemed to be lost through the exchange of them the most confidentiality still available in the era of full tax financial information. We do prefer stand-alone trusts as the transparency! instrument of our choice, but we offer foundations as well! We see a strongly rising demand for Swiss companies, we incorporate and 2. Structuring wealth for UHNWIs is always a delicate matter, manage them for our clients. Again, we believe strongly in which requires excellent skills, solid background, good network, Switzerland as a jurisdiction from many angles! Once a pure good infrastructure, and the flexibility to be ready at short offshore solution for the holding of financial assets is almost notice - wouldn’t you agree ? impossible by now, we try to do the best of both worlds; protect assets through trusts and assist with creative solutions for What an excellent description, indeed I fully agree! Yet, I would like corporate assets! to stress that structuring has become so much different since the CRS or the automatic exchange of financial information (AEoI) has Finally: What’s the best piece of advice given to you? hit the market! While before a lot was allowed and most mistakes could be corrected by simply liquidating the structure, now a trace I think the world is constantly changing and irrelevant of where will always remain and therefore the advice has to be different, one stands, it is best to remain flexible, vigilant and dynamic! more sustainable and hopefully is benefiting the client in the long run! Or as we always say; with the regulations and laws becoming increasingly difficult, we must simplify the structure! 3. What has been your experience so far with wealthy Arab We thank you for the interview. families ? Unfortunately, I must admit that so far, my experience with wealthy Arab families is very limited! Our “home” market is Russia, where we have a perfect feeling for the financial needs of our clients! However, we have by now helped many Russian families to relocate to Switzerland to profit form our lump-sum taxations. I feel pity this taxation regime is not so well known in the Arab world and would love to change that! In my honest opinion this taxation has so many advantages with a perfect combination of privacy, quality of life and overall financial freedom! And I truly hope that this edition of Skylounge will help us to attract wealthy Arab families!

Company Portrait SWISS TRUST AG SWISS TRUST AG S wiss Trust AG is one of the leaders in the fields of forming and delivering Swiss trust companies to global high net worth society. Swiss Trust offers its clients innovative trust structures with unrivalled flexibility, privacy, and tax transparency. Their team consists of highly skilled accountants, trustees, consultants and auditors with extensive expertise in the field of accounting, taxation, fiduciary services, asset protection, and, crucially, incorporation and administration of trusts and foundations. As a result of their client focus, extensive expertise and respect for their international high net worth clients' privacy, Swiss Trust has consistently, delivered on their core mission - to provide fidelity, trust and certainty in an uncertain world. Swiss Trust AG Tel. +41 44 209 70 50 www.swisstrust-ch.ch Bleicherweg 45 [email protected] CH-8002 Zurich Member of SAAM Swiss Association of Asset Manager

 Swiss Trust exists to guide families like yours, helping you every day to achieve your goals. Our strong relationships with Switzerland’s oldest banks, our adaptability to the changing landscape, and our experience set us apart. Our Team JOSEF MEYER Josef has over twenty years of financial services experience, working in asset Founder & Partner management, portfolio management, private banking, and export and trade finance. Prior to founding Swiss Trust AG, Josef was a director at Renaissance Capital in Moscow, SERGEJ SCHMIDT a client advisor at UBS in Zurich, and the founder and owner of Meyer & Partner Asset Chairman of the Board Management. Josef’s experience with Russian high-net-worth individuals extends more than twenty-five years, starting with his work as a consultant, in 1993. As of 2017, he has TATIANA DAUMEC provided valuation assistance to thirty companies, and since 2015 has helped eleven Trust Officer offshore companies domiciled in Russia move onshore. Josef was raised and educated in Switzerland, studying Eastern European History and ALINA BLATTER Russian Literature at the University of Zurich. He is fluent in German, English, and Middle Officer Russian, and is skilled in French. Sergej brings over a decade of experience in trust and multi-family office services. Prior to joining Swiss Trust AG, Sergej worked in Principality of Liechtenstein, being a partner in a local trust company and dealing on a daily basis with the demanding requests of UHNW-clients all over the world. Sergej has studied law at Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz and has his admission as accredited EEA Lawyer (Germany) in Liechtenstein in cooperation with Müller & Partner Rechtsanwälte GmbH. He is member of the Liechtenstein Chamber of Lawyers and Koblenz Chamber of Lawyers. Sergej is fluent in German, Russian and English. Tatiana has over twenty years of financial services experience, working in trust companies in Switzerland for the last fourteen years. Tatiana has studied in Moscow an has a master degree in finance. She holds TEP qualification (Trust and Estate Practitioner) from 2013. Tatiana speaks fluently in Russian and English. Alina has over 5 years international experience working in trust and corporate services in Dubai, Cyprus and Switzerland. In her past positions she was strongly involved into business consulting which was mainly focused on financial consulting, immigration and legal issues, management of the companies in Switzerland and abroad. She has a bachelor’s degree in law and speaks fluently in Russian and English.

‫الخدمات الائتمانية والثقة‬ ‫خدمات‬ ‫‪Services‬‬ ‫خدمات تشكيل الشركة‬ ‫خدمات النقل‬ ‫‪Trusts‬‬ ‫‪Company Management‬‬ ‫خدمات مكتب الأسرة‬ ‫مؤسسة‬ ‫‪Relocation to Switzerland‬‬ ‫مكتب العائلة‬ ‫‪Foundations‬‬ ‫‪Family Office‬‬

 Experts in investment, trust administration, compliance and reporting. Trusts THE TRUST IS A COMMON LAW INSTRUMENT TO ACHIEVE THE FOLLOWING GOALS: • Set up the succession • Protect the assets • Secure the economic future of the beneficiaries, e.g. members of the family or other close persons • Hold the bankable, corporate and private assets • Hold the art collections and other similar assets • Achieve charitable purposes • A trust is established by assignment of assets from a settlor to the trustee, subject to the condition that these assets will be administered by the trustee in accordance with the wishes of settlor as laid down in the trust deed and other documents of the trust. Stand-alone trust with a Swiss based Trustee is our choice for bankable assets • In the new CRS environment, the stand-alone trust provides clients with one of the highest levels of privacy and tax transparency. As a result of their place of effective management as well as the OECD’s Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) initiative, legal entities are becoming more vulnerable in terms of tax compliance. A stand-alone trust mitigates these risks, at the same time offering far more privacy. • You can direct your revocable stand-alone trusts, change their jurisdiction, their beneficiaries—even their trustees. It is favourable for holding bankable assets. Unlike the legal entities you are in full control of distributions, investments, estate planning and personal information. Swiss Trust AG deals with the CRS reporting, which offers an additional layer of comfort. In this set-up, only the total trust asset size and eventual distributions will be reported – as opposed to the detailed reporting conducted via banks. Moreover, CRS reporting takes place only on the level of the Settlor or beneficiaries, minimizing the flow of sensitive information.

We always strive to be one step ahead, looking for the best routes in an ever-changing landscape. To reach the top, you need more than your determination, you need a guide. TRUSTS IN THE CAYMAN ISLANDS Why Cayman? Trust law in the Cayman Islands is based on English statute and common law principles, supplemented by innovative local legislation. Cayman trust law for example allows settlors to reserve powers to do certain things to meet settlors’ objectives for asset protection, estate planning or tax mitigation without compromising the integrity of the trust. PRIVACY FLEXIBILITY ASSET PROTECTION RESERVED POWERS TRUST



Relocation to Switzerland • Family Relocation To Switzerland • Lump-sum Taxation (or Tax forfeiture) • Through a tax ruling with a certain canton, a family can move to and live in Switzerland paying a pre-agreed amount of income tax based on their annual expenses. • The family will not be taxed on its world-wide income, which is a huge advantage for wealthy individuals. • It is not allowed to work in Switzerland; however, the family member can keep mandates or can keep being a board member of companies abroad. • In general, this taxation offers the biggest privilege in the era of tax transparency: privacy. • Swiss Trust AG possesses a huge expertise and network to support families with their relocation to Switzerland.

 We are licensed by Swiss regulators (SAAM) and supervised by FINMA Company Management ▪ Incorporation and administration of the companies in various jurisdictions ▪ Selection and appointment of appropriate directors and other company officers ▪ Statutory compliance, including maintaining corporate records and making statutory filings ▪ Tax compliance and reporting ▪ Accounting and the management of company assets Swiss companies COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY • (AG or SA) is one of the mostly common corporate forms in • (SARL or GmbH) is another common corporate form in Switzerland. Switzerland • GmbH can be used as an active business company or as a holding • AG can be used as an active business company or as a holding and must be registered in the canton where the company is based. and must be registered in the canton where the company is based. The stockholders of a GmbH are visible in the public registry of the The shareholders of AG (one or more legal or natural person) are companies. not visible in the public registry of the companies. The bearer shares are still allowed but the owners shall be registered within the • A GmbH has a minimum capital requirement of CHF 20,000 that internal register of shareholder, kept by the directors. should be paid in the course of incorporation according to the share of each stockholder. The responsibility is restricted to the • An AG has a minimum capital requirement of CHF 100,000 that capital of the company. should be paid in the course of incorporation. The company’s responsibility is restricted to its equity. • The main government document of GmbH is articles of association. The articles shall include information on the company’s purpose, • The main government document of AG is articles of association. governing procedures and the details of founding directors, The articles shall include information on the company’s purpose, stockholders and their shareholdings. The articles of association governing procedures and the details of founding directors. The can be tailored according to your specific needs. articles of association can be tailored according to your specific needs. • An GmbH requires at least 1 director. The signature right shall remain possible within Switzerland, which means that at least 1 • An AG requires at least 1 director. The signature right shall director shall be resident of Switzerland. The appointment of remain possible within Switzerland, which means that at least 1 further (executive) directors is possible at any time. director shall be resident of Switzerland. The appointment of further (executive) directors is possible at any time. • For a GmbH, meeting certain criteria, a regular audited review is necessary. Small and medium-sized companies are allowed to have • For the AG’s meeting certain criteria, a regular audited review is the limited audit only or opt it out totally in case all shareholders necessary. Small and medium-sized companies are allowed to have approve this process. the limited audit only or opt it out totally in case all shareholders approve this process.

 Allied with Switzerland’s top banks, helping you open and maintain your accounts. FFaammilyilOyffOiceffice • Family succession and estate planning • Financial and tax planning • Investment strategy • Risk management: CRS compliance, etc. • Lifestyle (non-financial) services • Family governance • Family education

Foundations FOUNDATION IS A CORPORATE INSTRUMENT FOR: • Set up the succession • Protect the assets • Secure the economic future of the beneficiaries, e.g. members of the family or other close persons • Hold the bankable, corporate and private assets • Hold the art collections and other similar assets • Achieve charitable purposes • Unlike corporation, a foundation is not allowed to directly conduct a business. • The foundation is established by a founder dedicating assets to a specific purpose in favor of a specific or specifiable beneficiary. Once raised to the status of a legal entity, these assets no longer form part of the private assets of the founder but form the foundation assets. • The foundation has no members or owners – its assets shall be distributed among the beneficiaries, whereby the payment of distributions to beneficiaries may also be made subject to conditions or rules. The beneficiaries are named by the founder, usually in separate by-laws, resembling a last will and testament. The founder can appoint himself as a beneficiary. • The founder can reserve the right to amend the articles and by-laws, especially the beneficiary regulations. • The governing body of the foundation is the foundation board, which is regulated by the provisions of articles and the by-laws. The foundation board can have the authority to execute the founder’s will with free and absolute discretion, e.g. regarding distributions to beneficiaries (discretionary foundation). The basis of this free and absolute discretion is always the founder’s will, determined in the articles and by- laws of the foundation. • Further advisory and controlling functions can be executed by other bodies of the foundation – an advisory board, a board of trustees, protector or similar.

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6300G - GRAND COMPLICATIONS MANUAL WINDING NEW BLUE DIALS FOR THE MOST COMPLICATED PATEK PHILIPPE WRISTWATCH The most complicated Patek Philippe wristwatch unites accomplishment and elegance in a new white gold version, boasting a front and back blue opaline dial. The reversible case, adorned with a hand- guilloched hobnail pattern, is notable for its patented reversing mechanism. The 20 complications include five chiming modes, two of which are patented world firsts: an acoustic alarm that strikes the preselected time and a date repeater sounding the date on demand. WATCH Manually wound mechanical movement. Caliber 300 GS AL 36-750 QIS FUS IRM. Strikework isolator indicator. Second time zone. Second time zone day/night indicator. Day, date (on both dials), month, leap-year cycle by hands. Four-digit year display in an aperture. 24-hour and minute subdial. Crown position indication (R,A,H). DIAL Time side: blue opaline, gold applied Breguet numerals, hand-guilloched hobnail center. Calendar side: blue opaline. 18K solid gold dial plates. CASE White gold. Humidity and dust protected only (not water resistant). Diameter: 47.7 mm. Height: 16.07 mm. STRAP Alligator leather with square scales, hand-stitched, shiny navy blue. Fold-over clasp. 69

300 GS AL 36-750 QIS FUS IRM MANUAL WINDING Grande Sonnerie, Petite Sonnerie, minute repeater. Strikework mode display (Silence/ Grande Sonnerie/Petite Sonnerie). Alarm with time strike. Date repeater. Instantaneous perpetual calendar. Movement power-reserve indicator. Strikework power-reserve indicator. Strikework isolator indicator. Second time zone. Second time zone day/night indicator. Display of day and month. Date display (on both dials). Leap year cycle. Four-digit year display. 24-hour and minute subdial. Crown position indicator (winding [R], alarm setting [A], time setting [H]). Moon phases. Diameter: 37 mm. Height: 10.7 mm. Number of parts: 1,366. Jewels: 108. Movement power-reserve: 72 hours. Strikework power-reserve: 30 hours. Balance: Gyromax®. Frequency: 25,200 semi-oscillations/ hour (3.5 Hz). Balance spring: Spiromax®. Hallmark: Patek Philippe Seal.

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The Dolder Grand Hotel Located high above Zurich with breathtaking views of the lake, it has been Zurich’s most prominent hotel address since the completion of its four-year renovation in 2008. Starchitect Norman Foster’s new design combined a new pair of contemporary curved wings (spa and golf wing) with the existing Belle Epoque fairy-talesque towers of the former 119-year-old Kurhaus, neatly fusing past and future. Today, the hotel (now complete with golf course and ice rink during winter) is a place where heritage meets modernity, where the customer still comes first and where innovative architecture and design only underline the importance of top-notch service. The hotel is now a remarkable blend of atmosphere and architectural distinction, with its restored ceiling and antique fireplace in the lobby. The traditional look sits comfortably alongside modern touches. 74

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One of the hotel’s most popular attractions is without a doubt its unique collection of museum-worthy art, hung along its corridors and showcased in the foyers. Be stunned by an ubersized Warhol piece above the reception counter, a giant Murakami mushroom sculpture in the hallway, and a Dalí in the restaurant. Keep your eyes open for more works by Niki de Saint Phalle, Keith Haring and Henry Moore. The views of the lake and city are breathtaking. There’s nothing quite like waking up in the morning in this modern version of a fairy-tale kingdom, especially during winter, when the first rays touch the frost that still lingers on the trees and their leaves.

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‫مقابلة مع‬ ‫دارلين كولدينهوفن‬  A master in the truest sense of the word. In conversation with Darlene Koldenhoven

Sixty minutes interview with Darlene Koldenhoven SKYLOUNGE sat down with Darlene in Los Angeles talking music, life and more… 1. A GRAMMY® Award winner, inductee of the Indie Darlene Koldenhoven Music Hall of Fame, a vocalist, pianist, voice teacher, song writer, sonic therapist, speaker and author, you are truly a multi-talent how does a usual day in your life look like? My typical day begins before I rise early in the morning with On weekends when I’m home, I enjoy making a new gown for an thoughts of gratitude - 3 things I’m thankful for. Then my mind upcoming show or daytime and traveling clothes. When the moves to what I get to look forward to accomplishing that day. pandemic first broke out, I made about 100 masks from left over Read the news a bit, followed by the cartoon section. Important fabric I had and distributed them to health care workers who to laugh. Next is warming up my voice while preparing a healthy were unequipped at the time. Then my friends started asking me breakfast, eat, power walk with my dogs, light weight work-out, to make masks for them. So somewhere out there, people have shower, and dress in the appropriate clothing, colors and style a mask that matches one of my outfits! Of course I’m still for the day’s activities – usually something I’ve made, as I sew making my own outfits with matching masks! But there is and sometimes design my clothes. Next stop is my studio in my always some music every day; that keeps me sane. guest house where I vocalize 10 - 20 minutes daily and run some scales on the piano. I try to tackle the important jobs of the day 2. You also played in Hollywood movies e.g., Sister Act and Sister first, then I approach the morning emails and social postings. I Act 2 beside Super Stars like Whoopi Goldberg, how do you see move on to rehearsing for my shows or composing and the movie industry has changed today? recording for my albums. Sometimes it is singing on, arranging, or composing for others’ paid projects. The biggest change in the movie industry today is because of COVID. So much has been cancelled and if the big studios or Usually there’s some kind of promotional activity I need to take independents are trying to actually get a project filmed, there is care of because, as an independent artist, I do all the work so much extra to do now to keep the working environment and myself, along with an assistant who helps out one day a week. its inhabitants virus free. A film project that I acted in last year Some days it’s teaching my voice students. Sometimes it’s being and for which I wrote all the vocal arrangements, hired, coached interviewed. Next, I prepare and eat a healthy lunch - all meals and recorded the singers, is a really great, upcoming, indie film are dairy free and gluten free, low carb, high protein meals. I about a high school big band in the 1940’s titled “Knights of enjoy cooking, so some days I’ll make a huge pot of my ten- Swing,” that deals with race relations and how music brought vegetable soup and then get back to work. people together. Finally, I’ll prepare a healthy dinner; I have a great Moroccan That was before vaccines so it was all about getting tested, chicken dish that I love. If there’s time left in my day I will spend wearing masks until the director said “action.” Crews who it working on climate change projects. I begin relaxing around worked on the set were tested every two or three days. Everyone 8pm by watching comedies on television or improvising on kept their distance and sanitized hands and surfaces constantly. piano or playing a little Chopin or Debussy until bedtime around (This year in March I became fully vaccinated and am looking 10 pm. That said, all bets are off if I wake up with a song in my forward to a booster if necessary in November, so I can keep head. In that case, I get started as a written musical sketch or a working with others.) Normally we are a very close bunch quick record with piano and voice in my studio. Sometimes I just working together sometimes 8 - 12-hour days; but, this time have to spend all day to finish it because I get so into a new that close camaraderie was missing and that was sad. Never- piece of music. During touring season, there’s days of packing the-less the show must go on, as they say. We all were grateful and unpacking mixed in along with flights, hotels and so forth. to have the work. 86

I’m sure the studio executives having to deal with protecting Most singers have ranges of two to three octaves, especially in creative property, streaming versus in-theater is very stressful popular music. I also work very hard on maintaining a healthy as well. Big stars are taking legal action because some of the vocal apparatus with a full range. big studios are allowing streaming at the same time as in- theater which will significantly reduce the actor’s income. Now, The sound of the voice comes from the resonance through the changes in the music business, my main vocation, are even neck and nasophrarynx areas as the vocal cords themselves do more extreme. Sadly, we all do not get paid what we used to not make any sound, they just vibrate from the air moving past get paid for our creative work, not even close. For example, them. It is the ear that is the master controller. The sound YouTube pays only .0006 cents USD per stream. We used to originates in the mind’s musical ear in two or three ways. First, collect on the left side of the decimal point. Now we are shoved the voice can only produce what the ear can hear as proven in over to the far right of that decimal point!!! Many independents the research done by French Otolaryngologist Dr. Alfred have to return to the days of Mozart and Bach who had their Tomatis (1920-2001). So for example, if you are not listening to royal patrons supporting them, by using various funding the high frequencies, you won’t necessarily have a high voice or platforms or having a donate button on the Spotify page or a brilliant color to the voice. Depending on the physiology you websites. So it is difficult for many to make a living out of music are born with, with proper technique one may extend to the full now, especially since the pandemic has halted our live range of the vocal instrument, knowing that the vocal performing, our last source of musical income. I hope that apparatus you are born with has certain limitations. Hearing is changes but alas, I don’t see it happening any time soon. automatic and basic to our survival in the world. However, I have found that the more skills one can develop, the happier and safer they will be when life presents these Listening, however, is a conscious choice and great singers (and unforeseen changes. musicians) listen intently within the frequency range of 1,000Hz I’m glad to see TV and Film projects becoming more diversified. to 4,000Hz even up to 8,000Hz where that angelic brilliance That’s one of the things I love about living in Los Angeles and comes into play. My studies for certification as a sonic therapist working in Hollywood. I seriously enjoy all the different races, trained in Tomatis audio-psycho-phonology or APP helped me languages, expressions of appearance, genders, opinions, belief to understand what I had already experienced as a classically systems, and so forth. It keeps life interesting, and I love the trained vocalist and a studio singer; namely, how to listen and inclusivity of it all. That’s probably what I love about getting to what to listen for. Secondly, one must learn how to produce the tour the world performing. Observing humans and their tone properly to achieve the desired sound. When done cultures, music, food, and practices are so interesting. I really correctly, singing is effortless, which is what many people have enjoy it and have been missing live performances because of the told me they hear in my voice. Thirdly, it certainly doesn’t hurt pandemic. Regardless of the current situation, we creative types to know how music is organized, as in music theory, and be able find ways to do the best we can with what we have. to audiate or hear music theory in your head, so to speak, and then produce, vocally, what you just heard in your musical 3. Coming back to music. Your outstanding performance with brain. In the interest of sharing my knowledge and extensive Yanni in Greece “Live at the Acropolis” is none of its kind, other experience from singing and teaching I have written a book with vocalists like Lauren Jelencovich or Lisa Lavis have also 7 instructional CDs and downloads titled, “Tune Your Voice: performed alongside Yanni for the song Aria/Ode to Humanity Singing and Your Mind’s Musical Ear.” TuneYourVoice.net. but no one comes close to your performance. Allow us the Within the book is a marvelous method I developed to help compliment: It's like an angel‘s voice masterfully hitting the high pitch challenged individuals to be able to match pitch and sing octaves in its purest form - wouldn't you agree? in tune with others. I call it the Listening Eye Technique. When one understands that the ear is the conductor of our entire Thank you for the kind and wonderful compliment. Of course, brain, body, voice orchestra, one can understand why this type inside, I’d have to agree with you. All the other women who of sonic therapy also improves the voice as well as a range of sang it after me did very fine versions of it. But if I may, I’m challenges like ADD, ADHD, PTSD, dyslexia, anxiety, depression, going to explain this from the credentialed voice teacher side of speech challenges, foreign accents and much more. More me to answer this question. Each person’s voice is unique, just information is at my website ListeningMatrix.com. like a fingerprint. The physiological aspect of the vocal instrument is something you are born with. That’s why we have (high to low) sopranos, altos, tenors and basses; the basic four ranges of voices. The German’s call it the Fach, a method of classifying singers, especially opera singers, that includes not only the range but the weight and color of the voice. My mother and her father sang to me all the time starting when I was an infant. By the age of three I could hold my own harmony part in a group and sang my first solo in church on Easter Sunday morning. I have been blessed with a 5-octave range which is quite rare in the scheme of human voices. (Sometimes my voice teacher would vocalize me 6 octaves but I have used 5 of them in recordings and performances).  When done correctly, singing is effortless, which is what many people have told me they hear in my voice.

I hope this explains the difference in the different singers you have heard 4. Your new album “The Grand Piano Spa” is out now, please tell us a bit with Yanni singing “Aria.” I was the first to perform it live. I loved that the more about that. original aria that “Aria Ode to Humanity” is based upon, from the French opera Lakmé by Léo Delibes. I won a competition in college singing that On “The Grand Piano Spa” and the upcoming sequel, “The Grand Piano duet and I’ve sung it in the Richard Dreyfus film “Once Around.” My bank Spa: Legacy,” I have given my voice to my piano. These are my first solo account wishes I was the one singing it on the British Airways piano albums. Last year at this time I was composing and recording the commercials though! But in September of 1993, with Yanni and the Royal music on a daily basis. I figured it would be appropriate to offer solo piano Philharmonic of London, at the Herodes Atticus Theater of the Acropolis in music, reflecting the isolation factor of the pandemic and especially, to Athens, it was the thrill of standing on that stage that opened in 161 AD comfort and soothe the listener during their own isolation or fear of where many great orators, actors and musicians performed, that to this having to go to work in spite of it all. Without being able to book live day was worth more than gold to me. concerts and workshops as I usually do, I had so much time to create that I had enough music for two albums. So this year in May, I released the first I have had the privilege of singing in many great halls with many amazing of the series, “The Grand Piano Spa” and performed several concerts musicians for amazing people, starting as featured soloist at Orchestra using Zoom with my cherished Baldwin grand piano live from my studio. I Hall (now Symphony Center) with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at age had people viewing from Australia, Germany, England and all over the 19; as soloist with David Byrne at The Royal Albert Hall in London as part USA all at the same time. We had a “back stage” chat afterwards too. of an Amnesty International Concert with the Royal Philharmonic; with Turned out to be really fun! I’m looking forward to October 22 when the local musicians in Sierra Leone West Africa; as a soloist for Indian sequel, “The Grand Piano Spa: Legacy,” will be released. I’ll be doing more humanitarian and recording artist, GRAMMY® Winner Ricky Kej at the streaming concerts; but so far, I am excited about an actual live Queen’s Palace in Bangalore, India for his climate awareness “Shanti appearance in San Diego, California on October 23 & 24. I wish I had a live Samsara” concert where I was presented with flowers from the beautiful appearance every night! I so love performing and interacting with the Queen herself during the concert; with the “Sister Act” Choir Nuns for audience. President Clinton at the Irvine Amphitheater in California; from small salon or parlor audiences to singing the national anthem at a Dodgers There are 8 pieces on the first album and 10 on the second. Some are baseball game in Los Angeles for over 38,000 people. But the largest live composed, some improvised. Some are more pianistic, and some are audience was with Yanni - for 40,000 in Dallas, Texas. I have been blessed more as a song for piano without words. I do love good melody and to have sung live before over a half a million people in my career and on interesting harmonies and even odd rhythms and meters. The first track over 1,000 recordings on movies, records, television shows, films and has a 13/8 meter, for those interested. Each piece has its own unique commercials. story, but the overall effect is peaceful. Whether one would like to use it as background music for dining, working, studying, yoga, massage, That performance with Yanni in Greece was to 1.5 billion viewers putting the kids to bed, falling asleep, healing a broken heart, releasing worldwide in over 65 countries as it was one of the first satellite physical pain, or just taking pleasure in the simple things of life, I wanted broadcasts! To this day it remains his biggest selling release and it is the the music to be elegant and healing, as well as satisfying musical second best selling music video of all time behind Michael Jackson’s curiosity, while gently rejuvenating spirits. “Thriller.” True funny story here: once when I was staying at a hotel in Lake Cuomo, Italy, the television did not work. When the hotel tech fixed I’m thrilled to say “The Grand Piano Spa” was my first album to have a it, the TV came on with a close up of me singing “Aria” and the very Hot Shot Debut at #4 on the prestigious Billboard Magazine’s Classical startled young man jumped back and fell down in shock from the TV! We Crossover Albums Chart week of May 29, its first week out. The Billboard all had a good laugh. Charts reflect sales. Now I’m hoping my fans will debut the new album, “The Grand Piano Spa: Legacy” at #1. The first album won a Gold Medal All that said, the one performance that has stood out all these years, in from the Global Music Awards in August for Best Classical Crossover terms of being moved with emotion during my performance and having Composer and was awarded Best Classical Album from the Akademia moved others with that performance, is with Yanni at the Acropolis. Now, Awards in May. I just learned this morning that the Akademia Awards has his “Aria Ode to Humanity” is on YouTube and everyday I enjoy also bestowed the Best Classical Album Award upon my new album, “The responding to all the fans who comment about my performance. This Grand Piano Spa: Legacy” in August. “The Grand Piano Spa” did does my heart good. I hear from people all over the world about it. There amazingly well for a self promoted album on many radio charts is a great story about a US AirForce Major, now Colonel, who served in worldwide - #2, top 5 and top 10, and received many great reviews Afghanistan and Iraq. He would return to his quarters everyday to play my globally. There’s lots of interesting things on my website version of “Aria” repeatedly just to maintain his sanity. We became great DarleneKoldenhoven.com about both albums and the previous 10 albums friends over this and he made a commemorative Shadow Box that hangs on my own TimeArt® Recordings label, how to help get the new album on in my front hall in honor of my late father, Richard A. Koldenhoven who the top of those Billboard Charts and much more! I’m already excitedly received America’s second highest medal of honor, the Distinguished planning a new vocal/instrumental album and looking forward to delving Service Cross for heroism in South Korea, a Silver Star and two Bronze into that next year. stars, one with Valor. (Dad died when I was 14 from complications of malaria he contracted during the wars.) Details are on my website 5. Finally: What's the best piece of advice given to you ? DarleneKoldenhoven.com. I am honored to have had that opportunity to sing with Yanni and to have given so much comfort and pleasure to so The best piece of advice given to me is to love my neighbor as I love many who enjoy my rendition. May I say thank you. myself. Although I may not like everything my neighbor may do, I certainly can love them as part of the human tribe we all belong to. If I may, there are a few others I’d have to toss in here. Love is an action word. (I wrote a song with that title.) Do the best you can with what you’ve got. Be prepared and persist. Listen more than speak. And everyday act in a way that when meeting people, they feel good after meeting you. We thank you for the interview. 88

Darlene Koldenhoven performing alongside Yanni - “Aria” Ode to Humanity Live at the Acropolis, 25th Anniversary  What sets GRAMMY® Award winner and three-time GRAMMY® nominee Darlene Koldenhoven apart from the rest? 1.5It could be her worldwide billion viewing audience on PBS as the memorable soprano soloist in Yanni, Live at the Acropolis; her work in the war-torn jungles of Sierra Leone where she coached musicians and singers whom she took on tour in the US and Canada; production vocal coach/music director/tambourine-waving choir nun in both Sister Act films with Whoopi Goldberg; or her recent donation of time and performances in 3 tours to India with U.N. humanitarian ambassador and GRAMMY® Winning-composer Ricky Kej, for his concerts, videos, TEDx Talk, Shanti Samsara, to raise awareness of climate change and animal cruelty causes she holds dearly. Or, her Hot Shot Debut at #4 on the prestigious Billboard Classical Crossover Albums Charts (week of May 29, 2021), with her first solo piano album; or being the first ever inductee into IMC's Indie Music Hall of Fame presented at the GRAMMY® Museum (4/28/19) and winning COVR’s 2019 Music of the Year a month later. In 2020, Darlene received official certification from the Indie Music Channel for Performing Before Over 500,000 People and for having multiple #1 Ranking on Top 100 Radio Airplay Charts. Darlene Koldenhoven performing alongside Yanni - “Aria” Ode to Humanity Live at the Acropolis, 25th Anniversary

It is my sincere wish to make the world a better place to live in harmony with and within. “ The phenomenally gifted songbird is equally talented on her piano. It's fitting that Darlene's The Grand Piano Spa (5/14/21) album created during the long isolation of the pandemic was her first Classical Crossover/New Age Solo Piano album. Nine beautiful, original, piano pieces created to sooth the soul and heal the spirit are rich in luxurious sound and melody, from improvised to structured, for attentive listening or background for relaxing, reading, massage, yoga, dining, putting the kids to bed, healing a broken heart, releasing physical pain, or enjoying the simple pleasures in life. The sequel, The Grand Piano Spa: Legacy, will be released October 22, 2021. Darlene’s TimeArt® Publications has released coordinating downloadable sheet music titled Darlene Koldenhoven Solo Piano Collection from The Grand Piano Spa and also later this year, the music from The Grand Piano Spa: Legacy album. 90 Ode To Our Orb by Darlene Koldenhoven



Album ten is Chromatones, debuted #1 on the New Age Guide Charts (6/20/18,) won Gold in Visionary Music and took the 2019 Music of the Year from COVR Coalition of Visionary Resources, a trade award voted by retailers and the public. Here, Darlene rests her voice to reveal the instrumental soul of a true artist manifesting itself in every nuance of her album. Darlene produced, composed, arranged all the music, played piano, keyboards & solos, Native drums & shaker, programmed, and engineered. The culmination of years of deep devotion to her craft and association with some of the world’s greatest musicians and recording artists including the 19 for whom she wrote all the arrangements; some are GRAMMY® Winners Tom Scott, Wouter Kellerman (South Africa), Charlie Bisharet, Brent Fischer, and GRAMMY® Nominees Rocky Dawuni (Ghana) and David Arkenstone … This album was produced from a place within Darlene to create beautiful music that is inspirational and healing, integrating her sonic therapy principals, which has resulted in its own sound. Album 9, Color Me Home, debuted #1 on the ZMR radio charts worldwide 2017; the broadcasters voted it “Best Vocal Album 2017” at the ZMR Awards in New Orleans 2018. Color Me Home won a stunning 20 awards and 35 nominations in various international and USA competitions! Infinite Voice went to #1 on the radio charts and was voted by Broadcasters worldwide as Best Vocal Album 2007, with Heavenly Peace debuting #2 and winning Best Holiday Album. Tranquil Times, instrumental, went to #1 and won Best New Age Album from the Independent Music Awards and a nomination for Best Piano Album with Instrumentation by the Broadcasters with several tracks featured in the C.A.R.E. Channel Network and in Don Campbell’s music therapy sound systems, both played in hospitals and hospices nationwide along with Chromatones. Solitary Treasures was Nominated Best Vocal Album. Angel on Ivories was Finalist Best Classical Art Song Vocalist – pro division by The American Prize. Darlene Koldenhoven's first two albums are her debut Keys to the World (an adult contemporary pop work with an emphasis on positive lyrics, both humanitarian and for the environment), and Free to Serve, an eclectic gospel soundtrack, commissioned by the Christian Reformed Church of North America and lifted from a World Missions multi-media concert that she co-directed, wrote all the music for and performed in, featuring musicians and singers she brought back from the impoverished Sierra Leone, West Africa. Harkening back to the days of her GRAMMY® winning work as lead soprano in GRAMMY® winner Clare Fischer’s 2+2, Darlene released a single awarded Best Jazz Song and Best Jazz Video 2020 by the IMC titled The Butterfly Samba, (11/2020) where she sang and wrote the lyric to his music, produced the video and co-arranged the track with Brad Cole, Phil Collins’ music director/keyboardist. Her TimeArt® Recordings label, has also released two artists in 2020: oboist Earle Dumler’s award- winning Best Classical Singles trio of Neo-Classical duets for oboe and piano that Darlene wrote, played piano and produced titled A Single Trine and a new original 80’s rock artist she produced, Denoven Rock’s Retrofuturism. 92

Darlene performs internationally with her concerts Darlene Koldenhoven on Film Set for Sister Act and workshops. She has sung on over a thousand recordings, for and in films, television, albums, commercials and charitable causes. Highlights include singing with Robin Williams on the 2000 Academy Awards®; in three American Idol specials; the 2010 Academy Awards®; and her role as the tambourine-waving choir nun and real life vocal coach/musical director for Disney in both Sister Act films with Whoopi Goldberg, leading to singing for President Clinton during his final election stop in 1992. Because of the film, Darlene now has photos with both Bill in 1992 and Hillary Clinton in 2017 taken when Darlene was performing on The View for the 25th Sister Act reunion. Darlene sings her tribute song “Remember Me” and the National With Sec. of State Hillary Clinton, Whoopie Goldberg and Sister Act nuns Anthem in Burbank, CA for Memorial Day Service Darlene’s voice has graced a plethora of albums from pop giants Barbra Streisand, Whitney Houston, Celine Dion and Rod Stewart to jazz legend Ramsey Lewis to progressive rock icons Pink Floyd and rockers Neil Young and Kenny Loggins to soloing for David Byrne with London’s Royal Philharmonic at the Royal Albert Hall and debuting at age 19 with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Chicago's Orchestra Hall/Symphony Center. A sampling of her vocal contributions include, solo vocal improvisations on films and popular TV shows such as Surrogates with Bruce Willis, 2012, Internal Affairs with Richard Gere (a commemorative CD soundtrack was recently released); Dances with Wolves with Kevin Costner, a Halloween episode of TV’s popular Grimm; a song with her ethnically diverse children’s choir (Young Vocal Artists of Los Angeles) working with composers/rappers/producer will.i.am and Common for the soundtrack Freedom Writers; her soaring vocals on the popular video games Baldur’s Gate (for Sony PlayStation II) and Harry Potter: Chamber of Secrets. Recently, Darlene completed working on an upcoming independent film, Knights of Swing, where in addition to acting in the film, Darlene arranged, recorded, and produced all the vocals for the singer/actors that she contracted for the project. 93





In addition to her career as a recording artist, Ms. Koldenhoven is a credentialed teacher by the state of California with two degrees from Chicago Conservatory College: Masters in Voice, magna cum laude and Bachelors in Music Education cum laude. Ms. Koldenhoven was hired by McGraw-Hill Publishing as a producer, vocalist, vocal contractor & coach for over 200 children's songs in multiple languages for their PreK-8 curriculum series, Spotlight on Music. Darlene is an internationally renowned, credentialed sonic therapist and lecturer. Her own blend of sonic therapy practice focuses on the ear, voice, and health connections. Darlene is certified in iLs audio-psycho-phonology from Integrated Listening Systems USA and was invited to speak as well as studied & performed in Belgium at the Tomatis headquarters, the Atlantis-Mozart Brain Lab in 2015. Darlene writes a column for In the Key Magazine titled \"The Prescription is Music,\" exploring all the many benefits of sound and music. In the vein of empowerment for all as a way to express oneself and improve physical wellness through music. Ms. Koldenhoven has created a music education program incorporating a 94-page book with 7 instructional CDs and downloads with thousands of worldwide sales titled Tune Your Voice: Singing and Your Mind’s Musical Ear that has been endorsed by faculty and students from The Juilliard School of Music, New York University, Berklee School of Music to American Idol. Darlene is an active member of former Vice President Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project, personally trained by him and certified in Los Angeles 2018. It is Darlene’s sincere wish to make the earth a better place, to live in harmony with and within. Is it any wonder that Darlene has been inducted to the Indie Music Hall of Fame?





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