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Ensemble member Dong-Won Kim plays the jang-go on the steps of the Art Institute of Chicago.

COURTESY OF THE SILK ROAD PROJECT

Engaging New Audiences
Silk Road Ensemble member Dong-Won Kim plays the jang-go on the steps of the Art Institute of Chicago. Residencies in museums and universities allow Ensemble members to take inspiration from works of visual art, collaborate on new projects, and share musical traditions with audiences in informal settings.


“Given the contemporary global, political, and commercial environment post-September 11, 2001, the motivating concepts of multicultural learning, artistic exchange and international collaborations that inspire Silk Road Project are even more compelling today than they were at the Project’s inception in 1998.”
- LAURA FREID

Laura Freid

Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director

Laura Freid has more than two decades of leadership experience in top-tier institutions of higher education and as a consultant to not-for-profit, public affairs, and media organizations nationally and internationally. Understanding how traditional concepts and new ideas travel across time and cultures has been a lifelong interest and is the focus of her published articles and interviews.

Prior to joining the Silk Road Project in 2004, Freid was executive vice president for public affairs and university relations at Brown University and served as a research associate for the Futures Project and visiting scholar for the Watson Institute for International Studies.

A magazine journalist and editor, Freid served as publisher of Harvard Magazine and as the first executive director of the Ivy League Magazine Network. Previously she was publisher and editor of Bostonia magazine. A graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, she holds an MBA from Boston University, and an Ed.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.