The program attracted significant print and broadcast media coverage, including the airing of the Quintet on public television station CyBC

During June 22-26, Embassy Nicosia’s Bicommunal Support Program sponsored the Chris Byars & Ari Roland Quintet, which included jazz vocalist virtuoso Marion Cowings, to return to Cyprus to carry out the “Jazz Futures” program for Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot musicians. The program included rigorous musical training, jam sessions and public concerts at clubs across the island. The program also attracted significant print and broadcast media coverage, including the airing of the Quintet on public television station CyBC’s (Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation) cultural program “Entechnos,” which featured an interview in Greek with the Embassy’s Bicommunal Support Coordinator, Juliette Dickstein on the bicommunal goals of the “Jazz Futures” program. With a view to establishing sustainable bicommunal networks, “Jazz Futures,” since it began in June 2008, has succeeded in building island-wide musical bridges between the two communities: participants who knew little or nothing about the “other” community are now working together and performing on a weekly basis in venues on both sides of the dividing “Green Line.”