sentences:  She lectured at the IV World Symposium for Choral Music (Netherlands) and was artist-in-residence at the Des Moines Children's Festival (US).In 2000 she was awarded the Robert Edler Prize for Choral Music in Germany, she then was invited to conduct the world première of the “La Pasión según San Marcos" (St. Mark Passion) by Osvaldo Golijov at the European Musikfest Stuttgart, Germany.In this year, she also conducted the Orfeón Universitario Simón Bolívar during the First Choral Olympic Games held in Linz, Austria, where they won three gold medals.