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| Motto | Connect Minds. Transform Worlds. |
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| Type | Private nonprofit |
| Established | 2013 |
| Founder | Nigel A. L. Clarke (Trustee), Mark Gillespie (CEO) |
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| Website | www |
The Global Leaders Institute (GLI) is an executive education graduate school for social entrepreneurship in the arts [1] headquartered in Washington DC with seasonal offices in Chile and Poland.
The Global Leaders Institute offers a 12-month Executive MBA in Arts Innovation focused on social entrepreneurship, cultural management, sustainable impact, and community development. Courses are co-curated by nine institutions of higher learning: Harvard University, [2] Duke University, Georgetown University, McGill University, [3] New York University, Bard College, [4] Stanford University, The University of Chicago, and The League of American Orchestras.
GLI Cohort Members carry out immersive fieldwork in 40+ countries annually on five continents. [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] Fieldwork site hosts include the Silkroad Ensemble Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Opéra de Montréal, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Lucerne Festival, Carnegie Hall, Charleston Symphony Orchestra, Royal Conservatory of Music, Teatro del Lago, Universidad Austral de Chile, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, New Brunswick Youth Orchestra, Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Chile), Verbier Festival, Chicago Public Schools, Fundación Azteca, National Arts Centre, Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico, Metropolitan Youth Symphony, KIPP, Sphinx Organization, National Batuta Foundation, Fundación de Orquestas Juveniles e Infantiles de Chile, Universidad Catolica de Temuco, Society of the Four Arts, and the Richmond Symphony, among others.
Nigel Clarke, Jamaica's Minister of Finance and Public Service of Jamaica, is co-founding chair of The Global Leaders Institute. In recent years, the GLI has hosted large-scale Innovation Summits in Frutillar (Chile), Panguipulli (Chile), Tuscany (Italy), Bielsko-Biala (Poland), Arequipa (Peru), and Palm Beach, Florida (United States). [11] [12] The GLI was established in 2013 with seed funding from The Hildegard Behrens Foundation. [13]
Claudio Abbado was an Italian conductor who was one of the leading conductors of his generation. He served as music director of the La Scala opera house in Milan, principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, principal guest conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, music director of the Vienna State Opera, founder and director of Lucerne Festival Orchestra, founder and director of Mahler Chamber Orchestra, founding Artistic Director of Orchestra Mozart and music director of European Union Youth Orchestra.
Leon Botstein is a Swiss-American conductor, educator, and scholar serving as the President of Bard College.
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Samuel Hans Adler is an American composer, conductor, author, and professor. During the course of a professional career which ranges over six decades he has served as a faculty member at both the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music and the Juilliard School. In addition, he is credited with founding and conducting the Seventh Army Symphony Orchestra which participated in the cultural diplomacy initiatives of the United States in Germany and throughout Europe in the aftermath of World War II. Adler's musical catalogue includes over 400 published compositions. He has been honored with several awards including Germany's Order of Merit – Officer's Cross.
Augusta Read Thomas is an American composer and professor.
Deborah Borda is a retired American music executive.
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Daniel John Taylor, is a Canadian countertenor, conductor and early music specialist. He is one of Canada's most celebrated cultural ambassadors, known for his warmth and humour and a voice that draws global applause. Taylor directs the Trinity Choir, the Theatre of Early Music and is Professor of Opera, Voice and Early Music at the University of Toronto.
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Alan Emanuel Pierson is an American conductor. His parents are Elaine Pierson and Edward S. Pierson, the latter an engineering professor at Purdue University Calumet. In Chicago Pierson took piano and composition lessons at the People's Music School, graduating high school at Francis W. Parker. Pierson is a 1996 graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with degrees in music and physics. At MIT, he was a timpanist and an assistant conductor with the MIT Symphony Orchestra, and also a composer.
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This article lists major events and other topics related to classical music in 2018.
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