The Sonad Project, founded by Eric Stumacher in October 2007, was incorporated in November 2007 in California, with an office in New Hampshire. The Sonad Project is an outgrowth of the Apple Hill Playing for Peace Project, founded by Eric Stumacher in 1987 and directed by him for over twenty years.

Our mission is to foster freedom and equality for all peoples through worldwide Sonad Solo, Chamber music, and orchestra concerts, and through artistic performance workshops which inspire profound connections across human divides.

The vision of the Sonad Project is to present concerts and to create artistic, creative, and participatory performance and learning environments, open to all. This process inspires transformational personal connections that transcend political, economic, racial, cultural, ethnic, religious, gender, skill level, education, and generational boundaries.