What is Paving the Way?

The vision of Paving the Way is to "bring to life" music through discovery and exploration; providing an educational, collaborative, and interdisciplinary approach to concert curation in order to inspire a deeper appreciation of music with performers, collaborators, and audiences.

Paving the Way is an open-ended project, where each iteration is unique and catered specifically towards its goal. By working with a range of musical and non-musical fields to build a series, each area brings their own voice and strengths to make the series succeed.

Why Paving the Way?

The result of Paving the Way is building a more educated base of performers and community members; going beyond a DEI statement on a website and following through to elevate, and strengthen platforms for marginalized communities.

These interactive collaborations allow performers, audiences, and community members to engage with historical, theoretical, and cultural, aspects of musical genres and specific composers. When putting together a Paving the Way project, Hardwick will help lead an orchestra to collaborate and build tangential conversations with areas such as film, visual arts, musicology, race and gender studies, and Western and non-Western history.