Innovation

As Music Director of Chicago Opera Theater, Lidiya Yankovskaya is the only woman to hold that title in a multimillion-dollar opera company in the United States. Under her leadership, COT has established the Vanguard Initiative, a three-pronged investment in new opera that includes a two-year residency for emerging opera composers.

The association INDK Symphonic Collaboration works at strengthening relations and understanding between Denmark and India through culture.  An important cultural encounter will take place in March 2020 when for the first time ever classical orchestra musicians from both countries will work together on a week-long programme of masterclasses, studies and musical workshops, culminating with two unique concerts in Mumbai.

India’s premier cultural institution, the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Mumbai is hosting the programme in collaboration with the Symphony Orchestra of India and the Danish conductor Ms Maria Badstue.

Laura Jackson’s leadership is winning praise from board members, administrative staff, community partners, and musicians alike. She has distilled many of the guiding principles of her leadership philosophy into an interactive Leadership Of Note workshop for current and future business leaders. Featured by such organizations as Arts Enterprise, Amcor Plastics, and the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, Laura’s workshop can be adapted to a variety of settings including business schools and executive training.

Nordic Masterclass for Conductors is an initiative aiming to create possibilities for young conductors to develop through “practising their instrument” as in orchestral leadership, under top level guidance by professor Jorma Panula, assistant teacher Maria Badstue and the South Denmark Philharmonic.

Founded by Lidiya Yankovskaya, The Refugee Orchestra Project intends – through music – to demonstrate the vitally important role that refugees from across the globe have played in our country’s culture and society.  The Refugee Orchestra Project brings together instrumentalists and singers whose friends and families have fled to this country to escape violence and persecution in performances that loudly proclaim these individuals’ importance to our cultural wealth.