The Aga Khan Trust for Culture, the cultural agency of the Aga Khan Development Network, has announced the creation of the Aga Khan Music Programme. Effective immediately, all existing activities of the Aga Khan Music Initiative and Aga Khan Music Awards are consolidated under the new programme, whose headquarters will remain in Geneva.
Since its formation, Trio Da Kali has performed in some of the most prestigious venues in the world.
Few artists in modern times have been able to connect Iranians of different generations as dexterously as Mohammad Reza Shajarian has done.
At the inaugural prize-giving ceremony of the Aga Khan Music Awards in March 2019, His Highness the Aga Khan remarked that “in some parts of the world, the words ‘Muslim’ and ‘music’ are not often linked together in the public mind. But they should be”. The film features performances by all inaugural laureates and tributes from music visionaries and cultural leaders such as Kronos Quartet’s David Harrington, BAM’s Joseph Melillo and Juilliard’s Ara Guzelimian, as well as commentary from Fairouz Nishanova, Director of the Programme.
On 25 January, pioneering ensemble Kronos Quartet returns to Zankel Hall in New York for a programme that reveals the group's remarkable gift for expanding the range and context of the string quartet.
On 19 November at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, over 200 guests, including ambassadors and senior representatives from many countries, attended a cultural event hosted by the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic.
On 21 November at the "Visa for Music" Festival in Rabat, Morocco, Ashraf Kenawy, the artistic advisor of the Aga Khan Music Awards (AKMA) in Egypt and North Africa explained that AKMA was the first music award that encouraged musical projects that had roots in the authenticity of heritage and fo
The arts offer youth a chance to explore, grow and connect with their cultural heritage while creating pathways to promising new futures. Yet all too often young people are excluded from those opportunities for lack of funds or out of fear that they will not lead to financially viable work. In Egypt, the Aga Khan Music Programme helped create two schools that address these issues by cultivating next generation musical talent through inclusive arts training programmes open to all.
Khorog’s (Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast-GBAO) 12th annual international festival “Roof of the World” was held from 26-28 July, bringing together singers and dancers from the Pamirs, and different regions from across Tajikistan, but also from other countries.
The acoustically vibrant concert halls of Lisbon’s Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation provided an exuberant setting for the inaugural celebration of the Aga Khan Music Awards, which took place 29-31 March 2019 in the presence of His Highness the Aga Khan, Prince Amyn Aga Khan and His Excellency Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, the President of Portugal, who joined musicians and music lovers from around the world.