Programming — Public Engagement

NYUAD Peace Fellow Lecture Series and Residency Program

NYUAD Peace Fellow Lecture Series
Faculty Co-convener, Co-PI

• Arn Chorn-Pond, Founder of Cambodian Living Arts, Former Child Soldier
  Talk: “How Music Saved My Life and Transformed My Country”
  (October 2, 2019, NYUAD Institute, UAE)
  Watch the talk.
  • Settling war crimes with music: Former child soldier Arn Chorn Pond on transforming Cambodia’s identity from Killing Fields to living arts
    Karen Ann Monsy | Khaleeji Times | November 7, 2019
    
    
  • PEACE LECTURE SERIES: ARN CHORN-POND AND THE POWER OF MUSIC: Arn Chorn-Pond inaugurates the Peace Fellows Lecture Series with a powerful account of the impact of music in his life.
    Mari Velasquez-Soler | The Gazelle | October 26, 2019
    
    
• Ishmael Beah, Former Child Soldier, UNICEF Ambassador for Children Affected by War
  Talk: “From Child Soldier to NY Times Best-Selling Author”
  (October 23, 2019, NYUAD Institute, UAE)
  Watch the talk
  
  
• Michelle Gelfand, Distinguished Professor in Psychology, University of Maryland, USA
  Talk: “Tightness-Looseness: A Fractal Pattern of Human Difference”
  (February 26, 2020, NYUAD Institute, UAE)
  
  
• Azzam Alwash (Nature Iraq; Goldman Environmental Prize Recipient, 2013)
  Public Talk: “Economic Cooperation: A Bridge Over Troubled Water:
  (NYUAD Institute, UAE: April 17, 2019), earlier NYUAD Institute partnership
  
  

• Arwa Damon (CNN International Journalist):
  Public Talk: “Communicating Conflict: The Changing Nature of Journalism and War”
  (NYUAD Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE: April 24-27, 2016), earlier NYUAD Institute partnership

Distinguished Lecture Series in Music Studies

NYUAD Music Program — NYUAD Institute Partnership Series
Faculty Convener

• Michael Beckerman, NYU
  “What Are the Limits of Musical Expression and Who Says So?”
  (NYUAD Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE: November 27, 2018)
  
  
• Lydia Goehr, Columbia
  “Enraged Musicians, Distressed Poets, and Harassed Painters: How the Arts Make Us Laugh and Cry”
  (NYUAD Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE: Moved to March, 2022)

Keynote Performance-Concert Series

NYUAD Institute — NYUAD Music Program Performance-Concert Series
Faculty Convener-Moderator

• Awadagin Pratt Concert — with internationally acclaimed pianist Awadagin Pratt
  (NYUAD Red Hall-Arts Center: December 5, 2019
  
  
• Awadagin Pratt: NYUAD Music Program Piano Master Class
  (NYU-Abu Dhabi, UAE: December 4, 2019)
  
  
• Awadagin Pratt: NYUAD Institute Talk
  “Haven't I Heard This Before? How Music Is Recycled in Piano Works by Beethoven, Franck, and Liszt”
  (NYUAD Institute, December 8, 2019)
  • Pianist Awadagin Pratt to perform, hold masterclass in Abu Dhabi
    It’s a collaboration between NYUAD’s Music Programme, The Institute & The Arts Center
    Staff Reporter | Gulf News | November 26, 2019
     
• Bicentennial Beethoven Hammerklavier Concert
  Public Concert with solo pianist Yeol Eum Son, “Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata”
  Post-concert discussion with artist Yeol Eum Son (Korea-Germany); Gwyneth Bravo NYUAD), Matthew Quayle (NYUAD); Ljubica Ilic (University of Novi Sad)
  (NYUAD Arts Center: December 6, 2018)
  
  
• Public piano master class with guest pianist Yoel Eum Son
  (NYU Abu Dhabi: UAE, December 5, 2018)
  
  
• NYUAD Cello Ensemble with Guest-Solo Cellist Yan Levionnois
  (Abu Dhabi Classics-NYUAD-Art Center: December 10, 2016)
  
  
• Public cello master class with guest cellist Yan Levionnois
  (NYU Abu Dhabi, UAE: December 12, 2016)