protect our future
A Sound Planet Youth Ambassador is someone who wants to use their music to make a difference. By attending one of our ambassador workshops, participating students explore how professional artists and scholars around the world are fighting climate change and the biodiversity crisis through performance and advocacy. Sound Planet Youth Ambassadors will be provided with resources and a peer network to build creative sustainability projects in their own communities. See the festival schedule for upcoming Youth Ambassador events.
A look back at our 2022-2023 ensemble project…
Middle and high school bands and orchestras from throughout the New Jersey area were invited to perform Cait Nishimura’s Beneath the Canopy and Frank Duarte’s Song for Mother Gaia in Spring 2023 (separately, at our own schools). Rowan University Director of Bands, Dr. Joseph Higgins, provided free sessions scheduled during each band’s regular rehearsal to discuss the role of musicians in creating a sustainable future – how to be an effective artist citizen. Interested directors were provided access to performance materials.
