Earth’s Call
Michael Fitzpatrick is the founder of EARTH’S CALL, the forthcoming global broadcast event using music as the medicine to bring humanity together to care for each other and for our common home, Earth. Mr. Fitzpatrick is the recipient of The Prince Charles Award for Musical Excellence conferred by HRH The Prince of Wales. He performed the Musical Keynote within The Vatican Museum to set the tone for the opening of the Third International Vatican Conference–and performed the Musical Keynote (Ave Maria) for His Holiness, Pope Francis’ Blessing of the Conference Attendees in the Paul VI Audience Hall. He has provided the Musical Keynotes for Nobel Peace Prize laureate His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama’s Public Talks and Teachings around the world for the past two decades as part of COMPASSION: Tuning the Planet, the East–West musical convergence produced by Fitzpatrick and recorded inside the largest cave in the world, Mammoth Cave. A virtuoso classically trained acoustic cellist and a 5-string electric cellist raised on rock & roll, he has performed as soloist around the world, including as soloist with The Jerusalem Symphony, at Bethany-beyond-the-Jordan, the Dead Sea, and for His Majesty King Abdullah II at the Royal Palace in Jordan, at the United Nations, the Parliament of the World’s Religions, the National Cathedral, the United States Capitol West Lawn, the Hollywood Bowl and as soloist at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Fitzpatrick is the founder of Millenia Music and the music director of the Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Awards.
EARTH’S CALL, founded by Michael D. Fitzpatrick, is the forthcoming global broadcast event using music as the medicine to bring humanity together to care for each other and for our common home, Earth. EARTH’S CALL’s lead partner is the Cura Foundation, in concert with the Pontifical Council for Culture and its Science and Faith – STOQ Foundation. Gianfranco Cardinal Ravasi, President of the Pontifical Council for Culture, stated: “A global broadcast event designed to awaken a climate of compassion for each other and for the Earth itself fulfills Pope Francis’ statement: ‘It seems clear to me that climate change is a problem which can no longer be left to a future generation. When it comes to the care of our common home, we are living at a critical moment of history.’ EARTH’S CALL provides an unprecedented platform with the potential of reaching billions of beautiful souls.” EARTH’S CALL brings together Messengers and Musicians of Conscience from all the cultures of the world, accompanied by The Earth Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Steven Mercurio, former conductor of the Nobel Peace Prize Ceremonies Concert, live streamed to the world on May 18, 2019, from the high mountains of Aspen, Colorado. The late Sir George Martin, Producer of The Beatles, stated: “Michael Fitzpatrick is beyond a marvelous talent, and I could not agree with him more: Music is the only thing that can change the world.”