Born in Flint, Michigan in 1982, and nominated for two Latin Grammys in 2021, violinist, composer, and conductor William Harvey is the first American to serve as concertmaster of the National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico. From 2010 to 2014, he taught violin and conducted the Afghan Youth Orchestra at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music. He conducted that orchestra eight times for President Hamid Karzai and in 2013, on a tour to Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center that received front-page coverage of the New York Times. William has served as concertmaster of orchestras in Africa and North and South America, and appeared as soloist with orchestras in the US, Mexico, Argentina, and the Philippines. He teaches violin at the Universidad Panamericana and has a master’s from Juilliard and a bachelor’s from Indiana University. His compositions have received over 100 performances around the world. As founder and director of Cultures in Harmony, he has led more than 40 cultural diplomacy projects in 16 countries, from Pakistan to Cameroon. He has lectured at the British Parliament, worked as a consultant for the World Bank on Mali, and BN View represents him as a model.