Timeline & Milestones

Since our founding, we have been on a journey of discovery , original thinking and invention.

We believe in the arts as a powerful catalyst for change, and in boundary leaping “connectivity” as a key to both creativity and knowledge integration.

We are Associated Solo Artists (ASA) and for more than 40 years, we have been extending the reach of the arts into multiple fields of endeavor, making a difference through the arts in communities and among institutions on five continents. We invite you to peruse our Timeline and Milestones to learn more about our history, projects and partnerships around the world.

  • 2016
  • Keynote Concert of Ideas for Society for College and University Planning, Chicago
  • Creative Leaps Downunder Leadership Tour with QUT plus Outback Education Project
  • Concert of Ideas for US Vatican Summit, New York City
  • Creative Leaps partners with US State Department in Algeria
  • Cimino speaks & performs at Earth Summit in Rio
  • Adirondack Project for Arts in Education 2011–2015
  • Cimino joins Aspen Institute in Rome for Arab Spring Economic Summit
  • Cimino Recounts Resilience Project at Imagining America Conference, New Orleans
  • Oklahoma City University Creative Oklahoma Project
  • Creative Leaps President recruited to United Nations 50 + 20 Project
  • “The Courage to Teach” Organizational Behavior Teaching Society
  • Creative Leaps designated Lead Partner for Arts Entrepreneurship: Partners for a New Beginning, North Africa
  • Resilience Project for American Red Cross, New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina
  • “Homage to Cervantes” premiere: IODA, Guanajuato, Mexico
  • Global Leadership Forum, Istanbul
  • Starbucks Servant Leadership Project
  • 2005
  • Arts & Business Council Conference collaboration with James Wolfensohn
  • Creative Leaps at Castle Borl for European Summit on the Arts and Business
  • “Moments of Being” Conference with Sisters of IHM
  • Ground Zero Concert for Police and Rescue Workers
  • Institute for Learning, The Bank of Montreal
  • Historic Concert at Troy Music Hall
  • Leadership Conference with Harlan Cleveland at Silver Bay
  • GE Leadership and Innovation Training with Steve Kerr, Crotonville
  • Center for Excellence in Municipal Management, Washington DC 1994–2000
  • Icarus Project with Mc Donnell Douglas, Racine, WI
  • IBM Imagination Project for Research Scientists
  • Reinventing Government Conference with VP Gore
  • “Leadership for Turbulent Times”, Center for Creative Leadership
  • 1994
  • ASA Board of Directors approves new Company By-Laws
  • “The Great Dinosaur Rescue” inaugurates New Broward Performing Arts Theater
  • 10 Year Partnership with Center for Creative Leadership Greensboro, NC
  • “The Star Thrower” premiere: Center for Creative Leadership, Greensboro, NC
  • Founding of Creative Leaps International (1992)
  • “Unless the Mind Catch Fire...” premiere at Silver Bay Human Issues in Management Conference
  • The Great Dinosaur Rescue” premiere: New York State Imagination Celebration
  • Historic ASA Concert with Altoona Symphony Orchestra
  • Informally Yours Project with Orange County Performing Arts Center, CA
  • Fascinatin’ Gershwin Concert premiere in San Diego
  • Education Project for New Jersey State Opera
  • The Learning Arts Decade-long arts education project with the Peekskill City Schools
  • Festival of Religion and the Arts commissions “The Creative Spirit”
  • ASA’s The Learning Arts begins multi-year residency in Altoona, PA
  • ASA’s The Classic Apple premieres in New York City with “Manhattan Cabaret”
  • Vartan Gregorian and John Cimino begin their dialogue on knowledge integration
  • 1983
  • Adkins & Cimino win Pavarotti International Voice Competition (1981)
  • Klibonoff & Cimino premiere “Inner Voices: The Music of Chopin and Liszt” at WMHT/PBS
  • Albany Institute of History and Art commissions ASA music for Thomas Cole’s “The Voyage of Life”
  • Adkins, Cimino & Klibonoff Debut at Avery Fisher, Lincoln Center
  • Albagli & Cimino premiere their Stephen Crane Songs at WMHT/PBS
  • Bucky Fuller advises and approves ASA’s first Concert of Ideas “Winged Man - Everyman”
  • Albagli & Cimino at Eastman and Juilliard
  • “The Physics of Music” and “The Music of Physics” premiere in schools and colleges across the Northeast
  • “The Giving Tree” premieres for children at RPI Chapel and Cultural Center
  • Founding of ASA (1972)
  • 1972