Artists for the Arts Foundation Benefit Concert Youth Ochestra
Thank you for joining the NYYS 59th Annual Do good!
The New York Youth Symphony welcomed our patrons back to our 59th Annual Benefit on Mon, October xviii, 2021, at 6:30PM - in-person at City Winery in NYC! The music-filled evening celebrated our talented students ages 12 - 22 who participate in our honor-winning programs each twelvemonth, and honorees Jessie Montgomery and Benson Chapman.
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Jessie Montgomery
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Benson J. Chapman
New York Youth Symphony was proud to honor composer, educator, and violinist Jessie Montgomery with the Theodore L. Kesselman Award for Arts Teaching, and NYYS Trustee Benson J. Chapman and the McCutchen Foundation with the Johanna and Leslie Garfield Laurels for Arts Philanthropy.
The evening featured performances past the NYYS Orchestra, led past Music Director Michael Repper, and Amoroso, an NYYS Chamber Music ensemble.
The Benefit is the organization'southward largest and nearly important fundraising effect of the twelvemonth. Funds raised back up the NYYS's innovative educational programs, which educate and inspire young musicians through exceptional training and performance opportunities. More 7,000 students accept participated in the orchestra, jazz, chamber music, composition, musical theater songwriting, and conducting programs since the founding of the NYYS in 1963.
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Jessie Montgomery is an acclaimed composer, violinist, educator, and NYYS alumna. She is the recipient of the Leonard Bernstein Award from the ASCAP Foundation and the Sphinx Medal of Excellence, and her works are performed frequently around the world by leading musicians and ensembles. Her music interweaves classical music with elements of colloquial music, improvisation, language, and social justice, placing her squarely every bit one of the almost relevant interpreters of 21st-century American sound and experience. Her greatly felt works have been described as "turbulent, wildly colorful and exploding with life" (The Washington Post). Her growing trunk of work includes solo, chamber, song, and orchestral works. Some recent highlights include Shift, Change, Turn (2019) commissioned by the Orpheus Bedchamber Orchestra and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and Coincident Dances (2018) for the Chicago Sinfonietta. Since1999, Ms. Montgomery has been affiliated with The Sphinx Organization, which supports young African-American and Latinx cord players and has served every bit composer-in-residence for the Sphinx Virtuosi, the Organization'due south flagship professional touring ensemble. She holds degrees from the Juilliard Schoolhouse and New York University and is currently a Graduate Fellow in Music Composition at Princeton Academy. She is Professor of violin and composition at The New School. In May 2021, she began her date as the Mead Composer-in-Residence with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Benson J. Chapman serves on the Board of Trustees of the New York Youth Symphony and the McCutchen Foundation. A semi-retired CPA, Mr. Chapman was partner in a public accounting firm, and afterward a Vice President with an insurance visitor. He currently works equally an officeholder and on the Board of Directors of a hotel in Washington D.C. Born in Paterson, NJ, Mr. Chapman lives in Wayne, NJ with his wife Marcia. They take 3 children and two grandchildren. He has enjoyed traveling the world, reading, and keeping current with professional developments. He received his Available's Caste from the University of Pennsylvania and his MBA from Northeastern University. In addition to serving on the NYYS board, Mr. Chapman volunteers with diverse organizations including the Daughters of Miriam Centre for the Aged, the Jewish Historical Society of Northward Jersey, the Chilton Medical Center Foundation, the Service Corps of Retired Executives, the Journal of Accountancy and the Revenue enhancement Executives Plant.
The McCutchen Foundation was formed in 1956 by Brunson and Frances McCutchen. The McCutchen family members were long-time residents of Princeton, New Jersey. The guiding principles of the Foundation are to support worthy philanthropic causes throughout the United States and to contribute by and large to the public welfare through the consolation of human suffering, and the advancement of science, pedagogy, and the cultural arts. Brunson and his son, Charles, were inventors who held several patents. Charles received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University and his PhD in physics from Cambridge University. He spent most of his career in research at the National Institutes of Wellness. Later the passing of his parents in the 1980s, Charles was the principal manager of the Foundation until his passing in September 2020 at the age of 91. Over the by 27 years the Foundation has made grants totaling $25.3 million. In 2020 lonely, the Foundation made grants to 51 recipients.
Source: https://www.nyys.org/donate/annual.html
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