Classical Movements: Moving the Music, Changing the World

The Premier Concert Tour Company for Orchestras & Choirs

Orchestras Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra at the BBC Proms

Our Services Travel Airfare, Transportation, Hotels, Meals, Insurance, Tour Directors, Security, Crisis Management

Concerts Venue Bookings, Important Invitations, Top Festivals, Prominent Presenters, Instruments, Trucking, Cargo, Ticketing, Marketing, Promotion, Public Relations

Cultural Diplomacy Meaningful Collaborations, Life-Changing Exchanges, Immersive Experiences, Special Events

Our Clients Include

Professional

Atlanta Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Boston Symphony & Pops, Buffalo Philharmonic, Cincinnati Symphony & Pops, Cleveland Orchestra, Dallas Symphony, Dresden Staatskapelle, Iraqi National Symphony, London Philharmonic, Minnesota Orchestra, Moscow Chamber, National Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Orchestre National de France, Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar, Philadelphia Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, Royal Concertgebouw, Seattle Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, Wiener Philharmoniker, YouTube Symphony Orchestras

University Bard, Carnegie Mellon, Colburn, Curtis, Harvard-Radcliffe, Juilliard 415, Kentucky, Peabody, Rice, Sibelius Academy, Smith, Stanford, St. Olaf Concert Band & Orchestra, Yale Concert Band & Symphony

Youth American Youth Philharmonic, American Youth Symphony, Boston Philharmonic Youth, California Youth, Cleveland Orchestra Youth, Greater Dallas, Greater Miami, Greater New Orleans, Minnesota Youth Symphonies, New York Youth Symphony, Philadelphia Youth, Portland Youth Philharmonic, St. Louis Symphony Youth, Youth Orchestras of the Americas

“The Minnesota Orchestra’s five-city tour to South Africa with Classical Movements was one of the most important musical and emotional experiences of my life.”

Osmo Vänskä Music Director | Minnesota Orchestra

Morgan State University Choir in Muscat, Oman

Choirs Adult

Anchorage Concert Chorus, Atlanta Symphony Chorus, Cathedral Choral Society, Calmus Ensemble Leipzig, Choral Arts Society of Washington, Cincinnati Symphony May Festival Chorus, City Choir of Washington, Dallas Symphony Chorus, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Grace Cathedral Choir, Imilonji KaNtu Choral Society of Soweto, Latvian Voices, Lexington Singers, MasterVoices, Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, Minnesota Chorale, Musica Viva of New York, Smith College Alumnae, St. Louis Symphony Chorus, VocalEssence, Washington Chorus, Yale Alumni Chorus

University Australian National, Dartmouth, George Washington, James Madison, Kentucky, Manitoba, Maryland, Michigan, Morgan State, Mount Holyoke, Smith, Stellenbosch, St. Olaf, Temple, Trinity, Vassar, Virginia, Wellesley, Westminster, Witwatersrand, William and Mary, Yale

Youth Anima/Glen Ellyn, Atlanta Young Singers, Australian Children’s, Brooklyn Youth, Children’s Chorus of Washington, Children’s Chorus of Sussex County, Choate Rosemary, Colburn Children’s, Drakensberg Boys’ Choir, Escolania de Montserrat, Gondwana Chorale, Groton, Hong Kong Children’s, Hopkins, Ithaca Children’s, Jugendchor Konservatorium Winterthur, Los Angeles Children’s, Miami Children’s, Musyca, Pacific Boychoir, Philadelphia Boys, Phillips Exeter, Princeton Girlchoir, San Francisco Girls and Boys, Seattle Children’s, Shanghai Children’s, St. Paul’s, Texas Boys, Toronto Children’s, Voices of Namibia, Voices of New Zealand, Windsbacher Knabenchor, Young People’s Chorus of New York City

Since 1992 145 Countries 6 Continents

We are the Premier Concert Tour Company for the World’s Great Orchestras & Choirs

Every Year 200 Concerts 60 Tours

“The global reach of Classical Movements is unparalleled.”

Dr. Jeffrey Douma Director | Yale Glee Club

IHLOMBE! South African Choral Festival Ihlombe! Choirs at Table Mountain in Cape Town

“Ihlombe! changed our lives forever, giving us all memories that will last a lifetime.”

Dr. Eric Conway Choir Director & Fine Arts Chairman | Morgan State University Founded in 2009 with a special focus on collaboration and service, the Ihlombe! South African Choral Festival features a true diversity of ensembles exchanging cultures through shared workshops, side-by-side rehearsals and outreach projects throughout the Rainbow Nation—all while performing for enthusiastic crowds in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Soweto and numerous communities across South Africa.

Hailed as “the largest international choral gathering in South Africa” by the Cape Times, over the past decade Ihlombe! has highlighted more than 150 choirs from across the globe.

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Washington, D.C. Choral Festival

Serenade! Choirs at the Kennedy Center

“Serenade! showcases choirs from around the world. The goal is to educate both singers and audiences about different cultures.”

All Things Considered Established in 2011, and lauded by the Washington Post’s Anne Midgette for “the most genuinely international ensemble I’ve ever heard, apart from the Olympic Games,” the Serenade!

Washington, D.C. Choral Festival is an exuberant celebration of international choral music, offering unforgettable experiences for both singers and audiences alike.

With freewill donations collected for local non-profit charities, Serenade! has showcased almost 100 choirs from over 40 countries at storied venues such as the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the Music Center at Strathmore.

Iconic

Mstislav Rostropovich with Choral Arts Society of Washington & National Symphony Orchestra RUSSIA

1993 Andrea Bocelli & Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra NORTH AMERICA

Youth Orchestra of the Americas NORTH CENTRAL SOUTH AMERICA

Dmitri Hvorostovsky & Moscow Chamber Orchestra U.S.A. CANADA MEXICO

1998

2001 2003

Iraq National Symphony Orchestra & Yo-Yo Ma WASHINGTON, D.C.

2007 Gustavo Dudamel with Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar U.S.A.

2007

Tours

Philadelphia Orchestra & Lang Lang CHINA KOREA JAPAN

2008

2009/11

2012 Morgan State University Choir DUBAI ABU DHABI QATAR OMAN

Michael Tilson Thomas with YouTube Symphony Orchestras U.S.A. AUSTRALIA

2015 Osmo Vänskä with Minnesota Orchestra CUBA

2017 Yale Schola Cantorum & Juilliard415 INDIA

2018 Minnesota Orchestra & Chorale SOUTH AFRICA

Prague Summer Nights Young Artists Music Festival

Don Giovanni at the Estates Theatre

“Prague Summer Nights is much like taking lessons within a living, breathing music-history museum. If you think it sounds both dreamy and intense, you’re 100 percent correct.”

Prague Summer Nights: Young Artists Music Festival offers aspiring operatic and orchestral professionals the opportunity to perform in some of Europe’s most historic venues, including fully-staged opera productions and professionally-directed opera scenes, symphonic concerts led by guest conductors and starring internationally-renowned soloists, standing room-only programs of new music, chamber music, jazz, cabaret, as well as both vocal and instrumental competitions.

Beginning with its inaugural season in 2015, Prague Summer Nights has also offered intensive programs for conductors, stage directors, coaches and arts administrators.

Press

Colburn Children’s Choir in Spain

“Music is the universal language, and Classical Movements speaks it around the world.”

“The Minnesota Orchestra’s tour organizer, Classical Movements, had 110 days to make Cuba happen.”

Classical Movements Moves the Music Around the World “Classical Movements brings together top-tier choirs in a bid to show music’s universality—how the joy of singing transcends cultures.”

Agence France-Presse

Classical Movements Celebrates 25 Years of Cultural Diplomacy

“Classical Movements is the go-to company for ensembles planning concert tours.”

Classical Movements Practices 24-Hour Musical Diplomacy

“It took two and a half years for Classical Movements, a Virginia-based company with intimate knowledge of South Africa, to finalize the details of the Minnesota Orchestra’s tour. I describe the 14 members of the staff as miracle workers.”

New Music

Eric Daniel Helms

Program

Inbal Segev, Neeta Helms, Anna Clyne, Marin Alsop, Joan Tower at a CM World Premiere

The Eric Daniel Helms New Music Program was endowed in 2005 to assist our non-profit clients in the creation of brand-new orchestral and choral music, while also supporting the craft of contemporary composition worldwide. 75 works—several by Grammy, Oscar, Pulitzer, Grawemeyer and MacArthur-winning composers—from some 30 countries have premiered everywhere from Carnegie Hall, Disney Hall, Kennedy Center, Teatro Colón to Regina Mundi RC Church in Soweto by ensembles ranging from professional orchestras to children’s choirs. At the time of printing, over 25 additional works are being written by composers from all over the world.

Alumni of Classical Movements’ Eric Daniel Helms New Music Program Include Kinan Azmeh | John Corigliano | David Del Tredici | Paquito D’Rivera | Oscar Escalada | Ēriks Ešenvalds Reena Esmail | Michael Gordon | Sydney Guillaume | Mokale Koapeng | Lori Laitman | Libby Larsen Tania León | Stephen Paulus | Christopher Rouse | Greg Sandow | Caroline Shaw | Bright Sheng Christopher Theofanidis | André J. Thomas | Joan Tower | Therese B. Ulvo | Bernat Vivancos

Cultural

Diplomacy

A thriving, for-profit business—yet imbued with the heart and soul of a non-profit—Classical Movements has set ourselves apart from every other concert tour company in many and unique ways.

Ever since our founding in 1992, we have “organically incorporated elements of cultural diplomacy into most of the 60 tours and 200 performances produced each season” (Washington Business Journal). Winner of Americans for the Arts’ BCA10: Best Businesses Partnering with the Arts Award, as a truly global enterprise, we choose to be responsible corporate citizens, not only through the organization and implementation of our clients’ participation in cultural diplomacy at large, but through our own exchanges and donations, education and service.

Kevin Fox, Classical Movements’ India Choral Fellow

Exchanges Ongoing collaborations between touring ensembles and local performing arts groups in 145 countries.

Donations Continuing contributions to a variety of organizations and causes that are important to all life on Earth.

Education Ever-expanding workshop and masterclass opportunities with internationally renowned conductors, clinicians and ensembles.

Service Dedicated direct action in myriad preservation, rebuilding and outreach activities across 6 continents.

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Dominican Republic Haiti Jamaica Mexico

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Moving the Music, Changing the World

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