EMMA for Peace

EMMA for Peace, or the Euro Mediterranean Music Academy, is an international Nonprofit organization for the promotion of peace through music diplomacy and education in Europe, Middle East and the Mediterranean region.

History
EMMA for Peace was founded by Paolo Petrocelli in 2012. In October 2013, EMMA for Peace was officially launched at the 13th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in Warsaw, Poland.

Italian conductor Riccardo Muti has been named Honorary President of EMMA for Peace.

Activities
EMMA for Peace aims to promote music as a tool for diplomacy through collaborations with international institutional partners such as the UN organizations (particularly UNESCO, UNICEF and the UNHCR) and the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates. EMMA is also active in individual partner countries with the support of national institutions, as well as organizing concerts at major venues and festivals throughout the region.

EMMA for Peace and the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates
Under the patronage of UNESCO and the auspices of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, EMMA for Peace organized in 2013 the inaugural concert of the 13th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in Warsaw, featuring Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra conducted by John Axelrod.

EMMA for Peace and UNESCO
Since 2014, EMMA for Peace is engaged in promoting the International Jazz Day, organizing, co-organizing and supporting many editions initiatives and projects in Italy and abroad.

In 2015, EMMA for Peace participated at the official program for the celebration of 70th anniversary of UNESCO with an institutional concert at Carnegie Hall in New York, featuring the Korean Chamber Orchestra, the UNESCO Artist for Peace Ino Mirkovich, the South Korean violinist Soyoung Yoon and the British singer Carly Paoli.

EMMA for Peace and UNICEF
In 2013, EMMA for Peace joined forces with UNICEF designing a music education program conceived to support Syrian children in refugee camps in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey and promoting solidarity benefit concerts in Europe featuring Syrian musicians.

EMMA for Peace and UNHCR
In 2014, EMMA for Peace launched a joint project with UNHCR in Malta in support of young refugees of the Mediterranean. Musicians from the Malta Youth Orchestra and young migrants came together for a powerful musical experience participating in a number of workshops where improvisation, collective lyric-writing and musical composition were the building blocks culminating in a public performance.

In 2018, EMMA for Peace organized a charity concert for Syrian refugees with UNHCR in Milan, as a result of a collaboration between Italian and Syrian artists.

EMMA for Peace and La Scala Theatre Academy
In 2014, EMMA for Peace facilitated a collaboration for the very first time between Cairo Opera House and La Scala Theatre of Milan organizing an Opera Gala concert in Cairo, featuring the participation of acclaimed young singers of La Scala Theatre Academy. On this occasion, EMMA for Peace presented “Opera for Peace” an educational project with the aim of bringing opera music and its related professions to both conservatoire students and young people in the refugee camps of Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Morocco, Palestine and Turkey.

EMMA for Peace and the European Union Youth Orchestra
In 2019, EMMA for Peace organized the very first concert of the European Union Youth Orchestra (EUYO) in Oman, presenting a special gala concert with Latvian Soprano Kristine Opolais, conducted by Vasily Petrenko at the Royal Opera House Muscat.

Music Diplomacy - Stories from the World
In 2014, EMMA for Peace launched a global campaign for the promotion of music diplomacy.

In 2020, EMMA creates the first blog community dedicated to music diplomacy.

Artists
EMMA for Peace artists include:


 * Alessio Allegrini
 * Hiba Al Kawas
 * Aeham Ahmad
 * Nahel Al Halabi
 * Maias Alyamani
 * John Axelrod
 * Kinan Azmeh
 * Alessio Bax
 * Elisso Bolkvadze
 * Ezio Bosso
 * Franko Bozac
 * Michele Campanella
 * Gautier Capuçon
 * Achref Chargui
 * Zane Dalal
 * Ihab Darwish
 * Yousra Dhahbi
 * Armand Diangienda
 * Zade Dirani
 * Michalis Economou
 * Charlene Farrugia
 * David Fray
 * Andrea Griminelli
 * Jihae
 * Ayyub Guliyev
 * Malek Jandali
 * Ricky Kej
 * Marcel Khalife
 * Rami Khalife
 * Zvonimir Hacko
 * Mohammed Haddad
 * Amir Issaa
 * Tetsuji Honna
 * Miina Järvi (et)
 * The Khoury Project
 * Katia and Marielle Labèque
 * Tasmin Little
 * Malta Philharmonic Orchestra (music organization)
 * Gianluca Marcianò
 * Cristian Marcia
 * Antoine Marguier
 * Aleksandar Markovic
 * Ino Mirkovic
 * Andrea Morricone
 * Nayer Nagui
 * Jamal Ouassini
 * Carly Paoli
 * Oliver Poole
 * Quartetto d’Archi della Scala
 * Alexander Romanovsky
 * Ksenija Sidorova
 * Vladimir Spivakov
 * Markus Stockhausen
 * Luis Szarán
 * Pejman Tadayon
 * United Nations Orchestra (music organization)
 * Miran Vaupotić
 * Karim Wasfi
 * Hirofumi Yoshida
 * Ruben Zahra