Kinan Azmeh Brings The Magic Of Music To Summer Camp For Refugee Children
The acclaimed Syrian clarinetist has performed all over the world, but recently played before a different type of international audience: refugee children at a summer camp in New Jersey.
In Union, New Jersey, celebrated musician and composer Kinan Azmeh is playing for his toughest audience yet: a gaggle of refugee children, five to ten years old and newly resettled in the United States.
Born in Damascus, Syria and a graduate of New York's Juilliard School, Azmeh is a Grammy award-winning musician and member of Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble. This summer, he has partnered with the International Rescue Committee's Refugee Youth Summer Academy. It's the Academy's second year, and
