A4 Welcomes 2025 Anjeli Jana Memorial Intern Adeline Baban
A4 is thrilled to welcome Adeline Baban as our 2025 Anjeli Jana Memorial Intern.
Filipina American violinist Adeline Baban is a leading advocate for community-building in the arts, spearheading initiatives that unite artists and audiences through collaboration and creative programming. She serves as executive director of the Westside Chamber Players, a nonprofit chamber orchestra based in New York City. Now in its fourth season under her leadership, she has launched multiple initiatives including an annual Call for Scores, a monthly chamber music concert series, and the Young Composers Lab, a school curriculum debuting in 2025–26 academic year. She is currently pursuing her Master’s of Music in Violin Performance at the Manhattan School of Music.
About the Anjeli Jana Memorial Internship:
Anjeli Jana, the daughter of two immigrant physicians from India and the Philippines, lived the dream of many AAPI artists within the A4 community: pursuing the arts full time. She did so in a variety of fields: acting, music, and documentary film. A graduate of San Francisco State University and the American Conservatory Theater, Anjeli was the lead of an all-girl band that played numerous venues in the Bay Area. After relocating to Los Angeles she wrote about culture for LA Splash magazine, and entered in and won numerous beauty pageants. While living in LA, Anjeli was accepted to Santa Monica College, from which she graduated with honors with an Associate’s Degree in Computer Business Applications.
She wrote, produced, directed, scored, and starred in a short film, “My Marina,” about her neighborhood, Marina del Rey. The film won numerous international awards not only for the writing, but also for the original song, “Stranger Star.”
This internship is funded by the Jana-MacAdam family to honor Anjeli’s life. It provides a college/university student of Asian-American descent to work with A4 for an entire school year, so that the student may help support, and learn from, AAPI artists like Anjeli who courageously pursue their creative passion and build a life devoted to the arts.
