"Cultures in Harmony"

The organization is a significant attempt to correct America's image problem abroad. Please see www.musicforthepeople.org for more information.

Cultures in Harmony conducts cultural diplomacy projects throughout the world.

Cultures in Harmony has taught composition to children with no prior music education. In Zimbabwe in 2006, “Sound of Water, Sound of Hope,” taught AIDS orphans in Harare how to write music inspired by water in order to draw attention to water access issues at their school. In the Philippines in 2007, CiH worked with the Tala-Andig tribe in Miarayon, Mindanao to develop compositions that celebrated their heritage. These workshops, presented with the Cartwheel Foundation, culminated in a triumphant concert in Cagayan de Oro.

In Konya, Turkey, where the whirling dervish ceremony originated about 700 years ago, CiH musicians became the first female musicians ever in Konya to join male musicians in accompanying the ceremony. Cultures in Harmony has partnered with humanitarian organizations such as UNICEF in Moldova, with whom it partnered in a benefit concert that collected 7,000 books for their childhood literacy program. Cultures in Harmony workshops for young classical musicians have served hundreds of students in the Philippines, Zimbabwe, Mexico, and Tunisia.

They have informally collaborated with Amine-Hamza M'RAIHI.

Founded in 2005 by Juilliard School graduate William Harvey under the name Music for the People, Cultures in Harmony has already achieved widespread recognition. Harold W. McGraw III awarded William the McGraw-Hill Companies’ Robert Sherman Award for Music Education and Community Outreach, in recognition of his work with CiH. The Juilliard School gave him the William Schuman Prize.