| The Ensemble workshopped new music by Michael Ward-Bergeman and Ljova, mentored student musicians, and gave a surprise performance. |
| We celebrated our Silk Road Connect program with a free performance at SummerStage in Central Park, and the Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma played in Newark and New Haven.
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| The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma performed in Texas, California and British Columbia.
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| The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma performed to rave reviews at summer concert venues in the United States, including the renowned Tanglewood, Ravinia and Blossom music festivals.
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| "Connect Live!" culminated the first year of Silk Road Connect, our pilot program for sixth-graders in New York City public schools, with performances at the American Museum of Natural History.
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| The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma performed in South Korea, Macao, Taiwan, Thailand and Singapore.
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| The pilot year of our educational program in New York City has encouraged middle school students to connect with their studies in new ways.
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| A residency at Harvard focused on passion-driven education. Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Project received the Thelma E. Goldberg Arts in Education Award.
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| The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma performed in London, Ghent, Brussels, Cologne, Lucerne and Bucharest
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 | The Silk Road Project held an introductory workshop for teachers in the pilot program of Silk Road Connect, a multi-year, multidisciplinary educational initiative. |
 | The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma gave two concerts at Alice Tully Hall and a free performance at Damrosch Park, broadcast live on PBS. |
 | The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma performed for RI high schoolers; RISD students got a look behind the scenes of a new multimedia work.
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 | Yo-Yo Ma, storyteller Ben Haggarty and indigo expert Jenny Balfour-Paul shared an idea for passion-driven education with New York City teachers.
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 | The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma performed for the opening of the Museum of Islamic Art. |
 | The 63rd United Nations Day was celebrated with a concert by the Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma in the UN General Assembly Hall. |
 | The Silk Road Ensemble developed five new musical works and invited the public to an open rehearsal at Tanglewood Music Center in Lenox, Massachusetts.
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 | Silk Road Ensemble members visited RISD for a final performance with students in the “Folk Tales in the Digital Age” class. |
 | Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensmble traveled to Matsumoto, Nagoya, Tokyo, Osaka and Okayama for a whirlwind eight-concert tour. |
 | The Silk Road Ensemble presented a storytelling concert at RISD. |
 | Silk Road Ensemble members began a semester-long collaboration with students in RISD’s “Folk Tales in the Digital Age” class. |
 | Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble shared programs about the classic Central Asian love story of Layla and Majnun. |
 | Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble traveled to Shanghai, Suzhou, Hong Kong and Beijing to present concerts and cultural exchange workshops. |
 | Silk Road Project staff traveled to Delhi and Rajasthan in preparation for a Silk Road Ensemble cultural exchange. |
 | The Silk Road Ensemble was in residence at the Museum Rietberg in Zurich. |
 | Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble performed two concerts at the acclaimed Lucerne Festival. |
 | Yo-Yo Ma and Silk Road Ensemble members developed new works at the Academie Musicale de Villecroze. |
 | Silk Road Project staff traveled to Hong Kong and Beijing in preparation for a concert tour in China by the Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma. |
 | Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble were in residence in Baku, Azerbaijan, collaborating with Azerbaijani musicians. |
 | Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Project received the Dan David Prize, and the Ensemble performed in Tel Aviv, Israel. |