SMITHSONIAN JAZZ MASTERWORKS ORCHESTRA WORLD TOUR
BY THE NUMBERS
8 cities visited
10 formal concerts
13 educational events
18 community partners
26 major media mentions
12,000+ live audiences
15,000,000+ digital audiences
As jazz has been one of our nation’s cultural bridge-builders around the world, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History are humbled and honored to tell this powerful, diverse, and culturally rich story through our collections, scholarship, and in-residence jazz orchestra. During this two-year journey, the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra embarked on “Jazz Beyond Borders,” performing, teaching, and building relationships with communities in places such as San Francisco, Houston, and as far away as Hong Kong and Beijing.
City by city
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San Francisco
Venues: Museum of the African Diaspora, SFJAZZ Center
Guest Artist: Kurt Elling
Attendance: 535
Featured in: ABC7 News, KCSM 91.9 Jazz, KPFA 91.4 Public Radio, KALW 91.7 -
Chicago
Venues and Partners: Studebaker Theatre, University of Illinois at Chicago, Jazz in Chicago, Chicago Regional Council
Attendance: 360
Featured in: Chicago Crusader, Downbeat Magazine, ArtVoice, WDCB 90.9 -
Houston
Venues and Partners: High School for the Performing Arts, Houston First, Houston Regional Council, Zilkha Hall of the Hobby Center
Guest Artist: Kurt Elling, Shelley Carroll
Attendance: 735
Featured in: Broadway World, KTSU 90.9 -
London
Venues: Victoria & Albert Museum, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Milton Court at the Barbican Centre, Stratford Circus, Spotlight Youth Centre
Guest Artist: Hubert Laws
Attendance: 1200
Featured in: The Times, The Financial Times, London Live, Live Focus, BBC One, BBC Regional News (Lunchtime & Evening), LBC News, BBC Radio London, Newham Recorder -
New York City
Venues: Jazz Standard
Guest Artist: Kurt Elling
Attendance: 430
Featured in: New Jersey Jazz Journal, Jazz After Hours -
Hong Kong
Venues: Freespace Festival in West Kowloon, Tea House Theatre at the Xiqu Center
Guest Artist: Hubert Laws
Attendance: 8,200
Featured in: Time Out Hong Kong, The Standard HK, The Loop HK -
Beijing
Venues: Blue Note Beijing, The Forbidden City
Guest Artist: Kurt EllingAttendance: 550+
Featured in: Time Out Beijing -
Tokyo
Venues: The International Forum, Kanda Jogakuen Junior/Senior High School
Guest Artist: Kurt Elling
Attendance: 1,270+
Featured in: The Yomiuri Shimbun
MATCH&
FUSE
TOULOUSE | Dublin | Zurich
Match&Fuse runs festivals and tours with the most compelling bands emerging across Europe. Invited collaborations give new angles on instrumental and vocal music. As a roaming festival since 2012 it has brought innovative and cutting-edge music from across Europe and beyond for three-day bouts in London, Oslo, Rome, Warsaw, Toulouse, Dublin, and Zürich.
On this project, I helped produce hard-hitting programs of artists from Switzerland, Germany, Austria, France, Norway, Sweden, Luxembourg, Italy, Ireland, the UK. Each event was multi-day and multi-venue, with logistics including: maintaining vendor relationships, tracking invoices and deadlines, coordinating teams, and communicating expectations for advertising, design, rentals, and press. Pre- and post-event press was secured in digital, print, and radio in the The Guardian (UK), Irish Times (IE), BBC Radio 2 (UK) and SwissMusic (CH).
Other Tours & Events
RAMAN KALYAN
Coordinated visiting tours of artists from India to the Indo-American Academy for Classical Music and managed 40-60 concert dates of visiting artists during the summer season
WORLDSERVICE PROJECT
Produced multi-date tours in: France (Tour Manager), Estonia (Tour Manager), India, Japan, China, United Kingdom (Tour Manager)
JAZZ PROMOTION NETWORK
Created and managed digital branding campaign through social and traditional media and website for cooperative project, “Going Dutch,” between Dutch Performing Arts & Dutch Embassy (NL) and the Jazz Promotion Network (UK) with aim of exporting Dutch Jazz to the United Kingdom