Clara Barbier Serrano

I am Clara Barbier Serrano and I started studying at the Royal College of Music, London, classical singing in September last year and I was told there that my scholarship was to be co-funded by the Andrea Bocelli Foundation and Community Jameel –  and that’s how I found out about those organizations, which I didn’t know before.

Later on, I found out a bit more about what they do and who they are and I even got the chance to sing with Andrea Bocelli last December for a Christmas concert.  I was asked to sing these concerts with Andrea Bocelli one week before the concert, so I really was not prepared, mentally, or about what I was going to sing and I was very nervous at that time I was in Germany for another project and I received an inquiry to have a phone call with Mohammed Jameel and his two sons, in order to wish me good luck for the concert.  And I was very surprised!  I thought okay, you will . . .  it’s just calling me for wishing good luck it’s really nice, but I didn’t know what to expect at all because I had had one letter, I think, a very official one, from RCM, but I had no personal contact with Mohammed Jameel, or anyone in Community Jameel.

I would like to say thank you for your help to me as an artist and student, but also everything you give for the arts.  I think this is crucial and wonderful how involved you are in these things .  And congratulations on 75 years of philanthropy  – and I hope you can enjoy many more, and this Community Jameel keeps doing wonderful things.

 

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