Apogee and Aurience Announce Global Collaboration to Produce Media Technology Promoting Excellence in the Performing Arts



The Apogee Foundation, a New York based nonprofit dedicated to excellence in the performing arts, and Aurience Limited, a London and Los Angeles based media & ; technology group, today announced a global collaboration to promote performing arts excellence around the world through film and television, interactive technologies, recorded media and live event productions.

The two organizations, which each have special expertise in East-West relations and operations, will share personnel, know-how and proprietary programs to develop new synergies between the power of the performing arts and the penetration of electronic media. Jointly branded Apogee-Aurience media & ; technology productions will be designed to foster new levels of appreciation for, and participation in, the life and work of elite performing artists.

Camran Shafii, Apogee'ss Senior Vice President in charge of the Foundation'ss interface with the media & ; technology industries, said This is a historic opportunity to bring together two trailblazing organizations working in naturally synergistic fields to achieve transformations in both.

Aurience CEO Kenneth Schneider, also now serving as President of the Foundation, said Apogee'ss objective is to recreate the future of human creativity's, and it has built a wonderful record of innovation in fulfilling this aim over the past decade. Aurience is delighted to now collaborate with Apogee'ss talented personnel and laureates to advance this record and this ambition to new levels in the future.

For more information on Apogee programs and artists, please visit the Foundation'ss website: http://www.apogeefoundation.org/programs/index.php and http://www.apogeefoundation.org/awards/index.php

For more information on Aurience'ss media & ; technology and arts & athletics practices, please visit the Group'ss website: http://www.auriencemedia.com/index.php/article/media_technology and http://www.auriencemedia.com/index.php/article/arts_athletics

About The Apogee Foundation ®
Now in its second decade of operations, Apogee is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to the development of human excellence in the performing arts. The Foundation provides financial, educational, and promotional support to help gifted artists achieve their full potential and to showcase this potential on the world stage.

About Aurience Limited (SM)
Aurience is an international media & ; technology consulting group focused on developing new forms of East-West market synergies, with particular strengths at the elite levels of the arts and athletics sectors of these regions and industries.

Contacts
Camran N. Shafii
Senior Vice President
The Apogee Foundation
1001 Avenue of the Americas
12th Floor
New York, NY 10018-5460 USA
+1.646.224.6960 or +1.888.APOGEE.8
Fax: +1.646.292.5101
www.ApogeeFoundation.org

Kenneth Schneider
President and CEO
Aurience Limited
CountyMark House
50 Regent Street
London W1B 5RD England
Tel: +44.(0)20.7870.3990
Fax: +44.(0)20.7990.9966
www.AurienceMedia.com





Apogee and Aurience Announce Global Collaboration to Produce Media Technology Promoting Excellence in the Performing Arts