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Ground-breaking milestones in the history of a dynamic organization
Milestones since our founding in 1993
- American Voices has performed in over 100 countries on five continents. Please see the complete list.
- American Voices has conducted workshops and master classes and interactive performance projects in over 100 countries on five continents. Please see the complete list.
- To date, American Voices has made over 75 donations of American music scores to conservatories, municipal and national libraries around the world. Please see the complete list.
- Audiences: Since its founding in 1993, American Voices has reached live audiences of over 200,000 through concerts and festivals in over 100 countries. American Voices has reached millions more through live television and radio broadcasts across the globe. Please see the listing of the highlights of our media appearances since 1993.
- Since 2007. American Voices has brought the first ever YES youth performing arts academy programs to nations such as Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt, Afghanistan and Thailand.
- American Voices has given historic groundbreaking concerts in venues such as Baghdad's Al Rasheed hotel with the Iraq National Symphony Orchestra, the first concert in Iraq by Americans in over a dozen years and in Kabul's Foundation for Culture and Civil Society venue in Afghanistan with the Jazz Bridges program in 2005.
- American Voices has brought the first ever Broadway programs featuring local performers to: Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Vietnam, Moldova, Kosovo, Egypt and Lebanon.
- American Voices has brought the first international Jazz Festivals ever to Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan.
- American Voices has brought the first performances by U.S. Hip Hop artists to Vietnam, Iraq, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan.
- American Voices has brought the first ever Summer Jazz and Broadway Academies to Taiwan (since 2004) and the first youth jazz education projects to Azerbaijan (Baku Big Band since 2003).
- American Voices has brought the first American performers
ever to cities such as:
Aktau, Karaganda and Semey, Kazakhstan
Jalalabad, Kyrgyzstan
Dushanbe, Tajikistan
Erbil, Kirkuk and Suleimaniya, Iraq - Recordings: American Voices has issued four CDs and one DVD:
Jazz Bridges Afghanistan (DVD 2006)
Jazz Mugham Azerbaijan (2005)
American Voices Around the World (2004)
Jazz Bridges Burma (2003)
Caspian Jazz and Blues Festival Highlights (2002) - Orchestras: American Voices has performed with major symphony orchestras in Russia (Nizhny Novgorod and Yekaterinburg), Iraq, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Lebanon, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Albania, Hungary, Latvia, Ukraine, Germany, Malta, El Salvador, Bolivia and Argentina.
- Venues: American Voices has performed in major world venues such as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Theatre de la Ville in Paris, National Museum, Tokyo, National Concert Hall, Taipei, The Capelle, St. Petersburg, Russia, Kunst und Ausstellungshalle, Bonn.
- Festivals: American Voices has provided artistic advice
and/or concert programs to festival such as:
Faqra Festival, Lebanon
Fete de la Musique, Suleimaniya, Iraq
Daniel Pearl Music Festival, Kabul
13 Frames Festival, Adana, Turkey
Summer Jazz Festival, National Concert Hall, Taiwan
Bangkok International Festival of Music and Dance
Festival Internationale d'Echternach, Luxemburg
Jüdisches Kultur Wochen, Berlin
Festival Internationale de Carthage, Tunisia
Oldenburger Promenade Festival – Oldenburg, Germany
Malta Jazz Festival, Valetta
World Music Festival, Bahrain
Kuwait Jazz Festival, Kuwait City
New Music Festivals of Tirana, Albania and Pristina, Kosovo
Gershwin Centennial Festival, Gluecksburg, Germany
Usedomer Festival, Germany, Gershwin 100th Birthday Gala
Altmark Musikfest, Stendal, Germany
A(R)tlantisches Festival, Kaiserlautern
Unbehörte Musik, Berlin
Festival Flaneries de Reims, France - Artist Recordings: American Voices artists have recorded with major labels such as Deutsche Grammophone (Kurt Ollmann with Leonard Bernstein), Harmonia Mundi (Teresa Seidl with Sir Yehudi Menuhin) and EPM (John Ferguson).
- Headline Artists: American Voices has presented headline artists Toots Thielemans, Maynard Ferguson and Jack de Johnette at festivals in Azerbaijan and Taiwan.
