NOVEL VOICES

DISTANCE LEARNING

With the Novel Voices: Distance Learning program, PMHU is launching the next phase of The Novel Voices Refugee Aid Project - a project which was created in 2018 by the Carr-Petrova Duo (now an Ambassador Ensemble of PMHU) with the aim of giving voice and visibility through music and film to the lives and struggles of both local and international refugee communities, and to encourage audiences and artists alike to become connected and involved. From 2018 to 2020, The Novel Voices Refugee Aid Project brought free, interactive classical music concerts and workshops to displaced populations while increasing awareness of and raising support for both U.S.-based and international refugee-aid programs.

With Novel Voices: Distance Learning, PMHU has reconnected with many of the people and places the original Novel Voices team visited by now offering digital music lessons, masterclasses, and teacher-training workshops these young musicians and community music organizations who lack access to all of the resources, both human and financial, required to fully realize their potential.

In just under two years, this re-imagined program has already connected world-class faculty from the Juilliard, Curtis, and New England Conservatories - among others - with community music schools and organizations in the Middle East, Kenya, and El Salvador, resulting in over 700 student interactions.