Video

Voice of America (5.4.17)
Оркестр беженцев Лидии Янковской (Orchestra of Refugees)
by Victoria Kupchinetsky

​CGTN America (5.4.17)
The Refugee Orchestra Project: Spreading Awareness of Displaced Peoples
by Frances Kuo

​NowThis (6.28.16) 
"This Orchestra Wants to Change the Way the World Sees Refugees"
*Over 107,000 viewers

NowThis (6.20.16) 
​Live Stream - "World Refugee Day Concert"
*Over 84,000 viewers

AFP News Agency (6.21.16)
"Syrian Opera Singer Performs with US Refugee Orchestra"

BNN News (4.25.16)
Refugee Orchestra Project Plans First Concert

Press

Fast Company (12.6.17)
This Video Counters Common Lies About Refugees with Real Stories
by Adele Peters

National Sawdust Log (11.8.17)
Meet the NS Artist-in-Residence: Lidiya Yankovskaya, Activist Conductor
by Samantha London

500 Pens (7.14.17)
The Refugee Orchestra Project and the Music of Inclusion 
by Katie Simon and Erin Kennedy
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​The Boston Globe (5.19.17)
Refugee Orchestra Project Spreads a Musical Message of Inclusion 
by Zoë Madonna

Boston Music Intelligencer (5.17.17)
Refugee Orchestra Project and the Artist as an Activist 
by Lidiya Yankovskaya

WBUR - The ARTery (3.22.17)
Boston Conductor Lidiya Yankovskaya Juggles Many Roles
by Keith Powers

​VAN Magazine (2.2.17)
"Exile Aria: On the Refugee Orchestra Project"
by Zoë Madonna

American Voices with Senator Bill Bradley (9.23.16)
Artistic Director Lidiya Yankovskaya sits down for an interview with Senator Bill Bradley on his weekly radio show on Sirius XM.

Newsweek (6.24.16)
"Refugee Orchestra Project Brings Exiled Musicians to Brooklyn"
by Lucy Wescott

Non-Profit Quarterly (7.1.16)
"The Human Face of the Refugee Crisis on the Concert Hall Stage"
by Sophie Lewis

Refinery29 (7.5.16)
"How this Opera Singer is Raising Her Voice in a Very Different Way"
by Kaelyn Forde

El Norte (7.9.16)
"Refugiados en la música"
by Luiz López

Al Jazeera (6.26.16)
"US: Refugees Set Up Orchestra in New York"
by Gabriel Elizondo

​Deseret News (6.27.16)
"She Fled Russia with Her Family. Now, She Has a Powerful Message About the Refugee Crisis" 
​by Billy Hallowell

HIAS (6.14.16)
"In New York, Musicians Gather for World Refugee Day Tribute"
by Rachel Nusbaum

Al-Monitor (6.21.16)
"Syrian Opera Singer Performs with US Refugee Orchestra"
by AFP

Yahoo News (6.21.16)
"Syrian Opera Singer Performs with US Refugee Orchestra"
by Jennie Matthew

Musical America Worldwide (6.28.16)
"Refugee Orchestra Rallies to the Cause" 
by Musical America 

Notable Mentions

​National Sawdust Log (2.27.18)
Refugee Orchestra Project, Artists as Activists in the Modern Era
by Lidiya Yankovskaya

​Washington Hispanic (4.7.17)
Music to Benefit Refugees at The Fillmore
by Nelly Carrión
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Deseret News (6.28.16)
"Jewish-Iranian Refugee who Fled the Middle East for the U.S. is Now Running for Congress and She Could Make History"
by Billy Hallowell

Awards

2017 Adolf Busch Award (10.15.16)
Finalist

​Spring 2017 Press Materials

4.10.17 DC Area Concert Press Release
File Size: 205 kb
File Type: pdf
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Spring 2016 Press Materials

6.20.16 World Refugee Day Concert Press Release
File Size: 69 kb
File Type: pdf
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Spring 2016 ROP Press Packet (see below)
File Size: 14838 kb
File Type: pdf
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PHOTOS

June 20th, 2016 - Brooklyn, NY
Olga Timofeyev, photographer

May 10th, 2016 - Boston, MA
​Scott Bump, photographer