In Harmony: the Kaufman Center Newsletter
News Highlights: Summer / Fall 08
News highlights include the Arts Management Award for Kaufman Center Executive Director, Lydia Kontos, and announcements about the launch of the new Kaufman Center website and more.
Lydia Kontos Receives Arts Management Award
Kaufman Center Executive Director Lydia Kontos was recently given the Excellence in Arts Management Award by the Arts and Business Council at their annual Encore Awards ceremony on June 2. Kontos is pictured here with Kaufman Center Chairman Bethany Millard (left) and Arts and Business Council presenter Harold Burson.
Log On, Stay Connected
The online face of Kaufman Center—kaufman-center.org—has received a major overhaul and will be ready for business this summer. Visit us online to order tickets to the 2008–09 Merkin Concert Hall season, register for fall classes at the Lucy Moses School, download applications and other useful information about the Special Music School and make a gift to the Kaufman Campaign. Enjoy our new calendar of events, which you can now sort according to your personal preferences. Most importantly, please sign up to receive our monthly e-newsletter, other useful news and occasional special offers. Joining our e-list is also an eco-friendly way to stay connected while saving the Center postage and mailing costs.
Face the Music On Air
The Special Music School ensemble Face the Music was recently heard on WNYC Radio’s Evening Music program. Excerpts from their May 2 Wordless Music series concert were broadcast in June, and the entire concert is available for streaming at wnyc.org.
Student Notes
Lucy Moses School pianist Stella Wong (student of Golda Tatz) won the Young Artist Award and the first prize for groups I and II at the Piano Teachers Congress of New York Honor Recital Audition. Special Music School pianist Luiko Yoshimoto (10-grade, student of Golda Tatz) won the Josephine Fry Award and first prize for Group III, IV at the same event. Both girls performed at the Greenwich House Music School in April.
Lucy Moses School violinist Alice Ivy-Pemberton (student of Nurit Pacht) and Special Music School pianists Jeremy Cohen and Lilian Finckel (both 8th grade students of Golda Tatz) were chosen by The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center for its “Young Ensembles Program” and performed in The Rose Studio at Lincoln Center in May.
Lucy Moses School theater student Luke Rosen was recently cast in a professional production of a new musical called Shlomo, which played at the Museum of Jewish Heritage this spring. Luke was also cast by the Kaufman Center’s Poppy Seed Players last season in the title role of The Adventures of Mottel, the Cantor’s Son.
Lucy Moses School theater student Sabrina Edelman was recently cast in aproduction by the Opera Company of Brooklyn of a new opera about Janusz Korczak called Korczak’s Orphans. It was performed at Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in May.
Lucy Moses School violinist Monica Martin (student of Christiane Pors) was a winner in the La Guardia High School Orchestra Solo Competition and appeared as a soloist with the I.S.O. orchestra in May at Lincoln Center’s The Rose Studio. She is a graduate of the Lucy Moses Suzuki Program.
Special Music School violist Rosemary Nelis (8th-grade, student of Viktor Basis) received a scholarship from the New York Viola Society that was awarded in May.
Special Music School pianist Jangho Lim (3rd grade, student of Irina Morozova) won 2nd prize in the 11th New York Music Competition. Jangho also won 3rd Prize in the Third Annual Connecticut International Young Artist Competition.
Special Music School flutist Nadira Navruzov (kindergarten, student of Valerie Holmes) was given a Certificate for Distinguished Accomplishment in the New York Flute Club Young Musicians Contest.
Faculty Notes
Special Music School / Young Artist Program composition faculty member Eric Schwartz was chosen by Forecast Music to have his work presented in From Around The Block––a concert of contemporary American Chamber Works. The ensemble performed his work The Short Sad Story of the Guinea Pig (Who Died)in May at New York’s Pianos. Schwartz was also featured in the podcast of the Orchestra of Southern Utah as a highlighted composer.
