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Published on: 8/15/2007
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WILLIAM HARVEY, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
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In December 2007, William Harvey made his Carnegie Hall debut with the New York Youth Symphony, playing with "fire and assurance" according to the New York Times.Previously that year, he gave the Filipino premiere of the Elgar Concerto with the Manila Symphony and toured Qatar with the Juilliard Jazz Ensemble.
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William founded and directs Cultures in Harmony, a non-profit that promotes international cultural understanding through music.In Konya, Turkey, where the whirling dervish ceremony originated, William negotiated the inclusion of women in the group of musicians accompanying the ceremony, which is the first time this happened in the ceremony's 700-year history in Konya.Cultures in Harmony has helped AIDS orphans in Zimbabwe write music about water in order to call attention to water access issues at their school, and has also helped the Tala-Andig tribe in the Philippines create compositions in celebration of their indigenous heritage.Workshops for young classical musicians in the Philippines, Tunisia, and Mexico have benefited hundreds of students.
A firm believer in outreach concerts, William famously performed for members of the Fighting Sixty-Ninth regiment on September 16, 2001, as they recuperated from a long day of rescue and clean-up work at Ground Zero.
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Born in 1982, William grew up in Indianapolis with his father Jay Harvey, a journalist for the Indianapolis Star; his mother Susan Raccoli, a church musician; and his brother Theodore, recently named associate principal cello of the Dallas Symphony.