
Sing Sing: Transformative Musical Synergies
Since 2009, men at the Sing Sing Correctional Facility in New York have had the opportunity to learn, create, and perform music in collaboration with renowned visiting artists.
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Since 2009, men at the Sing Sing Correctional Facility in New York have had the opportunity to learn, create, and perform music in collaboration with renowned visiting artists.

My Voice Music (MVM) is a recording studio and creative youth development program in Portland, Oregon, USA. Dedicated to “amplifying young voices and igniting self-discovery through music,” MVM works with youth ages 9–24 with a history of trauma.

The project brings together pregnant women and new mothers with professional artists to write personal lullabies for their babies.

Developing a great idea into a successful business is often attributed to great timing and a lot of luck. We

After a visit to a refugee camp in Greece, arts entrepreneur Anis Barnat noticed that the lives of migrant children lacked structure.

ABA & GLP | Innovation Field Notes Through their innovative online platform, Groupmuse brings professional musicians together with new audiences

World-class music education from some of music’s top artists is now available anywhere in the world thanks to Tonebase, an online platform offering virtual piano and guitar instruction.

Inspired by Venezuela’s FESNOJIV Sistema program, in 2009 Canada’s New Brunswick Youth Orchestra launched Sistema New Brunswick (SNB) in Moncton, New Brunswick. Since then, SNB has worked to inspire children and youth to achieve their full potential through learning and performing orchestral music with a major objective in mind…

Buffalo String Works (BSW) is an after school music education program in Buffalo, NY, with a mission to provide a space for the inclusion and integration of Buffalo’s diverse student community.

Sound Touch is an initiative of the UK-based arts organization, The Amber Trust, which works to provide blind and visually impaired children

Performing artists are by nature often goal oriented perfectionists, pursuing excellence-driven outcomes with clear expectations in mind. While high levels

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? If that tree is anything like the Tokyo White Hands Chorus in Japan, it definitely won’t go unnoticed…

Aliena Haig is the Manager of Online Editorial & Communication at Deutsche Grammophon, with a focus on concert and artist

Community MusicWorks (CMW) creates new roles for musicians as artists, educators, and citizens working to create a cohesive urban community through music education and performance

In the first session of GLP’s 2022 Live Music Industry SubStream, facilitator Aliena Haig from Deutsche Grammophon joined The Royal Concertgebouw’s

Founded in 1997 by Aaron Dworkin, The Sphinx Organization has been addressing the underrepresentation of people of color and the Latinx population in classical music.

In the cities of Camden, New Jersey; Baltimore, Maryland; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the landscape of youth choir is changing. The Sister Cities Girlchoir, founded by Alysia Lee, has a primary focus on girls inspired by the girl effect

Tim Kraft is the director of the Operational Excellence module of the Global Leaders Program. He is an Associate Professor

There are hundreds of Global Leaders Program alumni across the globe working in the arts, education, and entrepreneurship sectors, and

The initiative was born out of the global pandemic and social unrest in the United States at a time when the Arkansas-based organization RefleXions was forced to reimagine its activities away from in-person gatherings.

Eric Booth is the Module Director of GLP’s current module, Teaching Artistry for Communities. In 2015, Eric Booth was given

The Global Leaders Program has co-produced a number of innovative webinars and online events, especially since the pandemic began. This

In São Paulo, Brazil, a new window of opportunity has opened for young musicians at EMESP Tom Jobim, one of Brazil’s leading institutions for music education.

The 15 Leaders-in-Residence organizations have been a feature of the GLP curriculum since 2020, and offer valuable insight into what

PanNotation is a digital platform launched in October 2021 that offers steelpan educational resources online.

In the early days of COVID, the confinement caused by lockdown transformed homes into offices, schools, gyms, movie theaters, restaurants, and much more.

Stanford Thompson has been a Global Leaders Program Module Director for the past six years, and has just finished teaching