Sound Diplomacy

To keep a music program running these days, it’s not enough to just believe in the work. We must be able to demonstrate our impact.

Sound Diplomacy is looking carefully at how music, culture, and economic development are in close dialogue with one another.

Why is music almost entirely absent from global development conversations, outside of staging benefit concerts?

This is one of the questions that led me to launch two organizations in recent years, Sound Diplomacy and the Center for Music Ecosystems. I realized that in the key conversations that drive development decisions across the world, there is little understanding of the value of the music ecosystem and what it can bring to human development.