Ricky believes that the powerful, emotive medium of music can be the catalyst to convert mere awareness to action.
How a Star Pianist Makes the Remote Thai Jungle a Concert House
Far from the world’s traditional concert halls, Paul Barton plays Beethoven on an upright piano for powerful and sometimes dangerous elephants in a jungle sanctuary in Thailand.
How Art Helps You to Communicate on Nature and Climate
Most of the messages reaching us about environmental degradation and climate change have a looming, threatening rhetoric. Rising greenhouse gas emissions are melting glaciers, the world is experiencing mass extinctions, and extreme meteorological events linked to climate change are hitting communities throughout the world. It is not difficult to understand how people can become saturated […]
Quatuor Ébène performs all Beethoven string quartets
The Beethoven Pastoral Project is delighted to welcome “on board” Quatuor Ebene, one of the world’s leading string quartets and Ambassadors for the Beethoven 250th Jubilee.