Kaufman Center News Blog
New Gift Funds Pianos
Thanks to a generous $1 million gift from William and Karen Ackman and the Pershing Square Foundation, Kaufman Center has been able to purchase 19 new Steinway and Boston pianos for its studios and classrooms.
A mixture of uprights and grands, the pianos started arriving at Goodman House on October 22 and are a welcome addition to the extensive resources available to the center’s students and faculty. Executive Director Lydia Kontos says, “I am very excited about this gift, which benefits the Kaufman community enormously and will have a positive impact on our future as a great center of learning and performance.” The gift will also be used to refurbish three of Kaufman Center’s currently-owned pianos as well as to strengthen the brass and wind program at Lucy Moses School with new instruments. For the first time, some of these pianos and other instruments will be available to students through a new loan program made possible by this gift.
