Music for Life International and American Pakistan Foundation present
Beethoven for the Indus Valley
The Concert / The Conductor / Past Concerts / The Presenters / Honorary Advisory Board
Singaporean-born Indian conductor, George Mathew, started the global humanitarian concerts at Carnegie Hall in 2006, which would grow into Music for Life International over the next few years. The first three concerts were held under the auspices of independent presenters and fiscal sponsors. With Beethoven for the Indus Valley, Music for Life International begins a new tradition of transformational concerts for the most pressing issues of our time.
mahler for the children of AIDS

Gustav Mahler
Third Symphony
For Pediatric AIDS and the Prevention of
Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV Worldwide

January 12, 2009
Carnegie Hall
www.mahlerforthechildren.org
Partners: Catholic Medical Mission Board

Musicians: 120 instrumentalists, 130 singers

Key personnel: Principal musicians from the New York Philharmonic, MET Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Emerson Quartet and others

Speakers: CMMB CEO John Galbraith, George Mathew

Key Advisory Board Members: Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Sir Colin Davis, Zubin Mehta, Zarin Mehta,

Media Coverage:
Voice Of America Urdu TV throughout South Asia; New York Times worldwide, NY Daily News, Radio Open Source, Radio France International throughout Africa, The Indian American
requiem for darfur

Giuseppe Verdi
Requiem
For the Victims of the Darfur Conflict

January 22, 2007
Carnegie Hall
www.requiemfordarfur.org
Partners: UNICEF, Refugees International, American
Jewish World Service, National Council of Churches USA

Musicians: 100 instrumentalists, 148 singers

Key personnel: principal musicians from the New York
Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Philadelphia
Orchestra, MET Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony

Speakers: Mia Farrow, Jan Egeland

Key Advisory Board Members: Archbishop Desmond
Tutu, Sir Colin Davis, Zubin Mehta, Senator George
McGovern, UN USG Jan Egeland, Mia Farrow, Ken Bacon

Media Coverage:
New York Times worldwide, National
Public Radio, Radio Open Source, BBC radio/PRI, Kurier
beethoven’s ninth for south asia

Ludwig van Beethoven
Ninth Symphony
For the Survivors of the October 2005
Pakistan Earthquake

January 23, 2006
Carnegie Hall
www.beethoven9forsouthasia.org
Partners: Doctors Without Borders

Musicians: 100 instrumentalists, 148 singers

Key personnel: principal musicians from the New York
Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Philadelphia
Orchestra, MET Orchestra, Emerson Quartet

Key Advisory Board Members: Fareed Zakaria, Sir Colin
Davis, Zarin Mehta, Farooq Kathwari, UN Ambassadors

Media Coverage:
BBC WORLD TV, National Public Radio,
Radio Open Source, NY1 TV, Daily Times Pakistan, DNA
India, The Indian Express