our mission:
Silkroad creates music that engages difference, sparking radical cultural collaboration and passion-driven learning for a more hopeful and inclusive world.
Sanctuary: The Power of Resonance and Ritual explores humanity’s enduring impulse to turn to music in moments of upheaval, grief, and transformation. Across cultures and throughout history, communal sound-making has served as a refuge and a way to process loss, forge connection, and restore balance in times of uncertainty. In Sanctuary, Silkroad invites audiences into this shared space, examining how ritual, trance, and resonance function not only as musical practices, but as deeply human responses to the challenges of living together in an unsettled world.
Sanctuary: The Power of Resonance and Ritual
The latest program from the Silkroad Ensemble, touring March 2026. Tickets are available now.
At once intimate and expansive, Sanctuary: The Power of Resonance and Ritual is not a retreat from the world in a time of unrest, but a response to it, offering music as a space of refuge, renewal, and connection.
Silkroad’s Global Musician Workshop
A musician training program for globally-minded artists. Applications are open now.
Silkroad's Global Musician Workshop (GMW) is a musician training program bringing together artists from around the globe for a week of cross-cultural musical collaboration. This week-long program includes faculty-led bands of diverse participants, group workshops that teach tunes from around the world, along with topic-based elective classes, nightly jam sessions, and a multi-night performance festival featuring both faculty and participants!
25th Anniversary Gala
Celebrating 25 years of cross-cultural collaboration with Yo-Yo Ma, Rhiannon Giddens, and the Silkroad Ensemble.
Join us for an unforgettable evening \of black-tie festivities at Carnegie Hall, where music, culture, and purpose converge in the iconic Stern Auditorium. Enjoy a pre-concert cocktail reception, unparalleled performance featuring master musicians from around the world, and a post-concert gala dinner with an array of delectable, globally inspired dishes.
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Silkroad Membership
Become a part of Silkroad’s future
Membership offers exciting benefits and empowers this harmonious movement towards a more inclusive and just world. In appreciation for their commitment, Silkroad members enjoy a range of distinctive Silkroad experiences, events, and programs throughout the year, as well as special Silkroad artifacts and recognition opportunities.
our music:
Silkroad’s music is contemporary and ancient, familiar and foreign, traditional and innovative, drawing on styles from around the world to create a new musical language that reflects 21st-century society.
When we create music together, we listen to our differences, connecting and creating meaning from them.
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As a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, your support makes it possible for us to create artistic and educational programs that inspire curiosity, empathy, and collaboration.
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“Every chord struck, every drum beat, every string plucked, every foot tapped sent notes of healing to this abjectly broken world.” – Risa M.
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