AKDN | Music

AKMP’s education activities include teaching and learning methodologies, teacher-training mechanisms, talent-support centres, and performance and artist-in-residence programmes that provide students an opportunity to experience the creative challenges of intercultural music making. Residencies and workshops featuring musicians from AKMP’s artist roster are presented at many academic and cultural institutions throughout the world. AKMP has supported more than 300 music teachers.

AKMP promotes the revitalisation of cultural heritage both as a source of livelihood for musicians and as a means to strengthen pluralism in nations where it is challenged by social, political and economic constraints. Projects have included publication of a comprehensive textbook, The Music of Central Asia (Indiana University Press, 2016), a 10-volume CD-DVD anthology, Music of Central Asia, co-produced with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, a worldwide performance and outreach programme that nurtures “East-East” as well as “East-West” musical collaborations, and a network of music schools and centres that develop innovative music curricula and curriculum materials.

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The Aga Khan Music Awards emerged from the AKMP. They were established by His Highness the Aga Khan to recognise exceptional creativity, promise and enterprise in music performance, production, education, preservation and revitalisation in societies across the world in which Muslims have a significant presence. Laureates share a US$ 500,000 prize fund. They also collaborate with the Music Awards to expand the impact of their work and develop their careers.