Fundraising & documentation for Peace Notes
Fundraising content and editorial documentation for the South Asian Symphony Foundation's flagship concert Peace Notes — From Gandhi to Beethoven — resulting in a 40-page report capturing the journey from rehearsals to concert hall.
Peace Notes — A Journey for Peace
A forty-page report covering the Foundation's mission, the orchestra's sixty musicians from nine countries, the curated repertoire, audience response, and press coverage from the 2019 Bengaluru concert. Built as a fundraising and partnership document the Foundation could carry into donor conversations.
View the full reportThe brief
The Foundation, founded by retired diplomats Nirupama and Sudhakar Rao, brings musicians of South Asian heritage together to perform across borders — using orchestral music as a form of cultural diplomacy. The 2019 concert at the J.N. Tata Auditorium, Bengaluru, marked Mahatma Gandhi's 150th birth anniversary. The communications challenge was to capture the journey for funders, partners, and a broader public audience.
What I did
Produced the fundraising content and editorial documentation that became Peace Notes — A Journey for Peace, a 40-page report covering the Foundation's mission, the orchestra's musicians (60 of them, from nine countries), the curated repertoire (Beethoven's Fifth, the commissioned Hamsafar suite tracing folk music across South Asia, an original tribute to Gandhi), audience response, and press coverage.
Cultural diplomacy looks like sixty musicians from nine countries, sharing a single stage.From the report · Peace Notes, p. 06
Outcome
The report became a fundraising and partnership tool the Foundation could carry into conversations with donors, cultural institutions, and government partners. It documents what cross-border artistic collaboration looks like in practice — and gives that argument the editorial weight it deserves.