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Carolina Borja is a 2021 New Music USA Music Creator Development Fund recepient. Please check out the 52 other creators working at the forefront of new music.

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Carolina is currently a member of the Cleveland based ensembles Kombilesa Asé and Sororii.

She is a new directions cellist, Afro Colombian cantaora, educator and composer that has gathered her eclectic experience from collaborating with folk fusion and world music bands, interdisciplinary groups of artists, dance companies, chamber music ensembles and orchestras.

Carolina holds a masters degree in Cello Performance Pedagogy from Ohio University. She is a Fulbright, Martin Luther King Jr. and the United States of America State Department Fellow, among other distinctions.

Carolina is the founder and director of the Afro Colombian Strings Scholarship and the Tutti Music Program.

Actualmente Carolina es miembro de los ensambles Kombilesa Asé y Sororii. Chelista de las nuevas direccciones, cantaora, educadora y compositora Afrocolombiana que ha reunido su experiencia eclectica de colaboraciones con bandas de folclor, fusion y musicas del mundo, grupos interdisciplinarios de artistas, companias de danza, ensambles de musica de camara y orquestas.

Carolina es magister en la pedagogia de la interpretacion del violonchelo de la Universidad de Ohio. Ha sido becaria Fulbright, Martin Luther King Jr. y del Departamento de Estado de los Estados Unidos entre otras distinciones.

Carolina es la directora y fundadora de la Beca Cuerdas Afrocolombianas y el Programa Musical Tutti.