Music Projects

UNESCO Jazz Day Relay III Learning for Lasting Peace -SDG 4    The 2025 Jazz Day Relay montage video is here!   Presented by the Music Subnetwork of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network and the London Music Office For the third edition of the Jazz Day Relay organized by the Member Cities of the UNESCO Creative Cities […]

PARK SI YEON TRIO, a young artistic group representing Daegu, a UNESCO City of Music, performed in jazz concerts worldwide for a month starting in June. PARK SI YEON TRIO has no boundaries or concepts, aiming to create “All music for the world!” Inspired solely by pure sound, their music is distinguished by intense interplay […]

A string ensemble from Hanover, a UNESCO Creative City of Music, and a representing ensemble from Daegu staged a fantastic performance on November 22nd in Daegu. This concert was a special event planned to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the reopening of Daegu Concert House as a classical music hall, held in collaboration between the […]

Interconnection: A “Jazz Relay” in Celebration of Life Below Water To celebrate the 2023 International Day of Jazz, the UCCN Cities of Music are working collectively to coordinate a “jazz relay” around the world! On January 28, 2023, Frutillar, Chile (as part of the “Rhythm Between the River and the Lake” Semanas Musicales Music Festival […]

Hannover is a city full of music – and its protagonists have a lot of stories to tell! Hannover is a city full of music – and its protagonists have a lot of stories to tell! We don’t just mean the artists who inspire others with their music on stage we are also talking about […]

An online concert series in solidarity with artists and technicians The coronavirus pandemic and the resulting restrictions for artists audiences and venues are fundamentally changing the music landscape. With the desire to support musicians sound engineers and videographers during this difficult time the idea for this project was born. The participating artists each agree to organize a concert […]

Six artists, 10 months and one challenge: presenting the issues of equality, empowerment and diversity in the UNESCO City of Music Hannover’s music scene in a short film. The result is a short film with a vibrant sound, an exciting story and more than 90 enthusiastic participants – and the overriding aim of inspiring others. […]

hell:wach is a concert experience initiated and organised by a hannover-based orchestra called “Orchester im Treppenhaus” (stair-case orchestra). They have initiated a 29-hour-classical music-marathon with musicians from Hannover and the region. The unique thing in these corona-virus affected times is that they have brought together many musicians from Hannover’s wide classical scene, orchestra musicians from […]

The release of the Love Language EP this week prompted me to look back at our recent collaborative work with Hannover. Since we achieved the UNESCO City of Music designation in December 2015 we have enjoyed a hugely productive relationship with this vibrant and welcoming German city. The UNESCO music office there  is led by the […]