Since its inception the society awarded and collaborated with a number of famous and notable artists like Martha Argerich (the winner of the Japanese Premium Imperiale and 3 Grammy awards), Éric Pénicaud, Nobuyuki Tsujii, The Quartetto di Cremona, Peter Bence (Guinness World Record-breaking pianist with "the fastest fingers on the planet"), Fraguial Francisco Guilherme de Almeida Jesus, Alondra de la Parra (the current Music Director of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra), Marco Minnemann, Tolgahan Çoğulu, Sungha Jung, Silesian Guitar Octet and many others.
Within the society also is active the International Art Academy which is in nature an examination board based on UK and US models. Many well known artist serves as members and honorary professors like Małgorzata Chodakowska (sculpture), Tolgahan Çoğulu, Marios Joannou Elia, Dario Cebić, Pero Šiša, Melissa Studdard (an author, the winner of a Forward National Literature Award and Pinnacle Book Achievement Award), Dimitris P. Kraniotis, Candice James (the poet laureate of New Westminster, British Columbia), Robert Hagan (a painter and the host of the Discovery HD/Discovery television show Splash of Color), Miran Vaupotich and others.
Yorgos Foudoulis is the president of the International Examination Center of the International Art Academy and the director of the Examination Center of Trinity College London.
In addition to these competitions, the International Academy of Arts, with the support of the Directorate for Organizational and Academic Development of the Greek Ministry of Education, traditionally organizes the World Poetry Competition 'K.P.Kavafis'.
In cooperation with the Foudoulis Conservatory, the World Guitar Festival Volos, World Guitar Orchestra Volos and World Guitar Center organize the World Composition Competition 'KITHARA' with an emphasis on guitar (solo guitar, musical ensembles, guitar ensembles, orchestras, etc.).
Book of the Consulate of the Sea
The Book of the Consulate of the Sea or Book of the Consulate of Sea is a 15th-century maritime commercial law treaty. Is a compendium of maritime law that governed trade in the Mediterranean for centuries. Of Catalan origin, it was translated into many languages and served as the basis for current international maritime law.i
The text serves as disclosure of the practice in the sea, commenting on the uses and customs as a manual. Considered an excellent primary source on the customs of the time, it collects a lot of information on the legal systems of the time in Europe. The"editio princeps" is in the Catalan language, and was printed in Barcelona in 1484, reprinted again ten years later. The first Italian translation is of 1519, it is the work of Antonio Blado and the second at Venice by Giovanni Battista Pederzano (1549), and then by Francesco Lorenzini (1564). If there are more than twenty editions in Italian and others in English, French, German, Dutch, and Spanish.
According to Chiner and Chacon, the Ordinances of the Ribera (i.e. seaside) (" Ordianationis Ripairiœ "), written in 1258, did not yet encode the maritime customs of Barcelona, and that the first reference to "Sea consuls" appears in Barcelona in 1282, just one year before the Consulate of the Sea was created in Valencia. Also note that the consuls of Barcelona had no independence assigned later on in the "Book of the Consulate of the Sea". Customs collected in the book would be in part coming from a Barcelona origin, but many would have been created and consolidated in Valencia, from which have been copied to the subsequently created consulates. According to Arcadi Garcia Sanz, the main difference between the consulates of Barcelona and Valencia would be the fact that the latter had from the start a "royal jurisdiction", and therefore has influenced so strongly in the other consulates in the fifteenth century.
Dorothy Dells
Dorothy Emily Dells (July 16, 1928- April 3, 2020) was born on July 16, 1928 in Medford Oregon. Her career began when she was discovered while working at a drive in restaurant on Sunset Blvd. She was immediately signed for the TV series Have Gun, Will Travel. She went on to gain recognition in many TV shows including 77 Sunset Strip, Rawhide, My 3 Sons, The Richard Boone Show, Hollywood Wife"s and Bachelor Father. She appeared in TV movies as well as in segments of Quincy Jones, Chips and Lou Grant. She costarred in the Chuck Norris film, An Eye For an Eye, Sledge Hammer, Death Warrant and The Beach Boys Summer Dream's.
She died in San Luis Obispo on April 3, 2020. She lived a long and prosperous life and will be remembered fondly by many.
Dimitry Dikman
Dimitry Dikman (; born 19 September 1966, Moscow, USSR) is an entrepreneur and philanthropy expert. Member of the Board of Trustees of the .
Dimitry Dikman is a Senior Advisor to the Chairman of the Board of (GPG). Prior to assuming his advisory role in 2014, he served as the Chief Operating Officer (2008–2014), overseeing the operations of the Foundation through several years of growth and coordinating early efforts of launching the .
Dimitry graduated with a master's degree in Management from in 1988.
From 1992 to 1997 Dimitry Dikman was CEO and co-owner of OMNI Consulting Co., Inc., Philadelphia, United States. Within the company, he organized and conducted educational trainings in the field of economics and management in various countries of the world, as well as the development of business seminars for government agencies and enterprises from Russia and CIS countries, the development of targeted educational programs.
Between 2003 and 2007, Dimitry Dikman served as the General Manager of IFC Capital Management Group, where he headed a number of large-scale industrial and real estate investment projects in the Former Soviet Union. Preceding IFC, Dikman managed several firms in the United States and Russia that focused on project management, business education and training programs, as well as IT consulting.
From 2008 to 2014, Dimitry Dikman served as the Chief Operating Officer of the , overseeing the operations of the Foundation through several years of growth as well as coordinating the establishment of regional grantmaking offices in Russia, North America, and Israel. From 2011 to 2013, Dimitry Dikman in his role of significantly contributed to the development and the launch of the , an annual international prize (USD 1 million) created in partnership with the . Under Dimitry’s supervision, the concept of the project was developed and finalized. The first winner of the in 2014 was the founder of Bloomberg, former , Michael Bloomberg.
Since 2014, Dimitry Dikman is the Senior Advisor to the Chairman of the Board of Directors of (GPG) and Chairman of the Grant Review Committee of the foundation. Today, is one of the largest global foundations focused on Russian-speaking Jewish communities operating in North America, Europe, Israel, Russia and the CIS countries.
Since 2014, Dimitry Dikman is the CEO and owner of Group 36, Inc., as consulting firm working with various charitable organizations and NGOs worldwide. Among the clients are non-profit organizations from Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Israel and the United States.
Since 2014, Dimitry Dikman has been engaged in active consulting activities in the field of philanthropy. Created and headed by him, Group 36, Inc. provides its services to non-profit organizations from start-up projects and initiatives to large international foundations.
Since 2015, Dimitry is the advisor to the founders of the Rybakov Foundation, and Ekaterina Rybakov, and since 2017 is the Member of the Board of the Rybakov Foundation.
Also Dimitry is the member of the Board of Trustees of the largest Jewish student organization in Russia - Hillel Russia - with offices in eight cities of the Russian Federation.
Since 2019, Dimitry Dikman is a certified Independent Director (certificate from Institute of Directors in the United Kingdom).