Outreach Program

2025 Community Outreach Events

This season Ziggy and Miles are the Skaneateles Festival’s 2025 Emerging Artists in Residence. As part of their week-long residency the duo will be performing a series of outreach events in the CNY area.

Ziggy and Miles are actively involved in community engagement and have a passion for providing education and music to people without access to live performances or high-quality music education. They have collaborated with organizations across Australia and the US including Melbourne Recital Centre, The Juilliard School, and Project: Music Heals Us. One highlight for the brothers was their Music Always tour, partnered with Melbourne Recital Centre. This 2-week 12-concert tour saw the brothers travelling across their home state of Victoria to aged care facilities, community centers, medical facilities, and psychiatric wards. Ziggy and Miles regard this as one of their most emotionally challenging yet rewarding experiences as musicians to date.

2024: Searching for Home

This season Searching for Home invites performers, composers, and audiences toreflect on the nature of home and consider what it means to those who must search out a new one, as well as how to support those who do so. Searching for Home will highlight performers, musical traditions from among those who have resettled in Central New York: Syrians peoples from East and Central africa, Afghans and Ukrainians. The Festival recognizes this population of CNY refugee communities with a world premeire by young Afghan composer Arson Fahim and performances by Syrian clarinetist Kinan Azmeh, including a new work commisioned by the Festival. 

2023: Following Harriet

Harriet Tubman touched the lives of many who fought for freedom.  Yet the journey continues today as American society debates what freedom means for individuals and society at large. In 2023, the Following Harriet outreach project invited composers, performing artists, longtime and new listeners to learn from Tubman’s vision, courage, fortitude, and civic responsibility. This is a critical juncture as we emerge from the pandemic with focus, clarity, and vigor about the potential for music to move the needle towards wholeness and inclusion in the Central New York region and beyond.