January 10, 2022
We were honored to have been invited to contribute to the Opening Day of WEP2022 at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia on January 9th. Sharing the stage with world-renowned economist Jeffrey Sachs, ClimateMusic shared videos of two of its compositions, Climate, and What If We…? and then participated […]
December 21, 2021
Weren’t able to make it to our concert Live! From Vienna and San Francisco: A Musical Call for Climate Action? You can now access the concert recording by registering with this form.
October 12, 2021
We are honored to contribute through music to this vital conversation! This event is open to the public–click here to register.
June 8, 2021
We are delighted to announce that Amy Quirk, a distinguished attorney and environmental advocate, has joined our Leadership Council. A former complex business litigator, Amy coordinated a team of Bay Area environmental organizations to address potential impacts of proposed runways into San Francisco Bay and to examine sustainable alternatives. She was an awardee of San Francisco Tomorrow’s […]
April 27, 2021
Join us with the University of Toronto’s Massey College on April 27th at 4PM as we take an extraordinary musical journey through time to explore three human drivers of climate change. We will be featuring the three movements of Icarus in Flight by composer Richard Festinger, punctuated by conversation around the music and climate science […]
April 19, 2021
We are excited to announce two ways that you can celebrate Earth Day with us this week: On Earth Day itself (April 22nd) starting at 10AM Pacific we are participating in an event hosted by The Brooklyn Rail. This online event, The Sound of Science, will be a mind meld of scientists and artists around the topic of […]
March 25, 2021
We are delighted to announce that we just launched this year’s annual collaboration with the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s Technology and Applied Composition Program (TAC). Now in it’s fourth year, this collaboration provides a crash course on climate science for a classroom of young composers. The students then work with one of our scientists […]
March 17, 2021
Our team is made up of highly diverse, creative, talented, and energetic individuals, like Executive Team member Fran Schulberg. Fran is an attorney who has worked on issues related to international environmental policy for her entire career. Most recently, she was the Executive Director of a non-profit organization that focused on energy efficiency in China. […]
January 5, 2021
We are honored to be one of 109 projects in 54 countries to have been included in the 2020 Music As A Global Resource compendium. This resource documents and promotes music initiatives connecting communities and addressing critical sustainable development needs on international, national and local levels. The inception of Music as a Global Resource began […]
December 9, 2020
We were delighted to have been invited on December 7th to engage online with members of the venerable Rainier Club in Seattle. The evening event included the screening of a short video version of Climate, a composition by composer Erik Ian Walker in collaboration with The ClimateMusic Project. Erik joined from San Francisco to answer […]
November 17, 2020
Last year a student at the Conservatory of Music in Amsterdam, Beatrice Miniaci, contacted us about performing one of our portfolio compositions, Icarus in Flight by composer Richard Festinger. Of course, we were delighted by this proposal, since our goal is to engage musicians all over the world to perform ClimateMusic. Beatrice pulled together a […]
September 21, 2020
The ClimateMusic Project is excited to announce the launch of a new campaign to inspire climate action: Play for the Planet! We invite musicians of all stripes–amateur as well as professional–to participate by providing a brief musical answer to the question: What do you want the future to sound like? And we invite non-musicians to view, share, and be […]
August 20, 2020
Are you a young singer who wants to use your voice to speak out on the climate crisis? If so, grab a parent or guardian and read on! The ClimateMusic Project is joining together with the band COPUS to create a video montage for “What If We…?”, a musical and spoken-word composition that tells the […]
August 4, 2020
We are thrilled to announce the launch of our new podcast series, Climate Vibes, a series of conversations at the intersection of art and climate action. Join us on Spotify, YouTube, or SoundCloud as we explore human creativity sparking action on and solutions to the climate crisis. Our first episode features artist Alisa Singer and […]
July 20, 2020
The pandemic may have postponed our live performances, but we have been as busy as bees, working to expand our digital presence, enhance our public communications, launch exciting collaborations with two remarkable composers, and set the stage for a very impactful year ahead. To help accelerate this work over the summer, we’ve added six talented […]
May 27, 2020
Our Solutions Partners provide pathways to action in order to help our audiences to learn more about the climate crisis, take action at home and locally, and to build community around the issue to accelerate action nationally. This month, we are delighted to shine the spotlight on Interfaith Power and Light (IPL), which inspires and mobilizes […]
April 8, 2020
Please join us on Wednesday, April 22, 3:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m. EDT for a free online event with The National Academy of Sciences that will explore the intersection of music, climate science, and community action. The program will feature clips and a discussion of a previously recorded performance of Icarus in Flight, an original chamber work […]
April 1, 2020
Art by Alisa Singer