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M SM SY MP HO N Y ORC HESTRA George Manahan (BM ’73, MM ’76), Conductor Yan Li (BM ’17, MM ’19, DMA candidate), piano Winner of the Dora Zaslavsky–Koch Piano Competition Friday, February 7, 2020 | 7:30 PM Neidorff-Karpati Hall
Friday, February 7, 2020 | 7:30 PM
Neidorff-Karpati Hall
MSM SY M PHO N Y O RC HEST RA
George Manahan (BM ’73, MM ’76), Conductor
Yan Li (BM ’17, MM ’19, DMA candidate), piano
Winner of the Dora Zaslavsky–Koch Piano Competition
PROGRAM
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 16 (1909 version)
(1874–1951) 1. Vorgefühle (Premonitions)
2. Vergangenes (The Past)
3. Farben (Chord Colorations)
4. Peripetie (Peripeteia)
5. Das obligate Rezitativ (Obbligato Recitative)
ALEXANDER SCRIABIN Poem of Ecstasy (Symphony No. 4), Op. 54
(1872–1915)
Intermission
LUDWIG VAN Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major, Op. 73
BEETHOVEN (“Emperor”)
(1770–1827)
Allegro
Adagio un poco mosso
Rondo: Allegro
Yan Li, pianoMSM SY M PHO N Y O RC HEST RA
George Manahan, Conductor
VIOLIN 1 Yihan Zhu Esther Seitz
Vlad C. Hontilă, Shanghai, China Edinburg, Texas
concertmaster Man Yin Yeung Eliza Fath
Cluj-Napoca, Romania Hong Kong, China Fairfield, Connecticut
Yuna Jo Ally Cho Gisoo Kim
Seoul, South Korea Melbourne, Austalia Seoul, South Korea
Maïthéna Girault Elizabeth Beck Rei Otake
Montréal, Canada Oil City, Louisiana Tokyo, Japan
Dennis Lee Jaycee Cardoso Clara Cho
Seoul, South Korea Huntington Station, New York Ulsan, South Korea
Jeehyun Park Fang-chun Hsieh Paul Moskalew
Seoul, South Korea Tainan City, Taiwan Muncie, Indiana
Jeeyoon Kim Luxi Wang
Seoul, South Korea Guangyuan, China DOUBLE BASS
TaTan Huang Logan May, principal
Tainan, Taiwan VIOLA Lagrangeville, New York
Maomao Huang Joshua Gomberoff, Ryan Sujdak
Wuhu, China principal Gainesville, Florida
Carlos Martinez Vancouver, Canada Royal Mitchell
Arroyo Zhen Huang New Orleans, Louisiana
Cordoba, Spain Hangzhou, China David Lester
Yujing Ming Mookun Jang Frederick, Maryland
Shenzhen, China Busan, South Korea KyungWon Park
Yunjung Ko Hao-yuan Hsu Seoul, South Korea
Seoul, South Korea New Taipei City, Taiwan Tyler Vittoria
Selin Algoz Toby Winarto Eden Prairie, Montana
Bursa, Turkey Los Angeles, California
Yerin Kim Tal McGee FLUTE
Bucheon, South Korea Spring, Texas Francesca Leo*
Kiley Rowe Pleasant Ridge, Michigan
VIOLIN 2 Goshen, New York Bethany McLean
Taihi Chin, principal Ella Bukszpan Ontario, New York
Kobe, Japan Giv’atayim, Israel Yeji Shin+
Wing Yan Kwok Dudley Raine IV Ulsan, South Korea
Hong Kong Lynchburg, Virginia Can Xu
Corinne Au Nanjing, China
Short Hills, New Jersey CELLO Samantha White
Hajung Cho Jinn Shin, principal Saint Charles, Illinois
Seoul, South Korea Portland, Oregon Shannon Vandzura~
Amos Lee Hyeunji-Jenny Lee Minotola, New Jersey
Astoria, New York Seoul, South KoreaOBOE HORN Logan Reid
Andres Ayola~ Andrew Angelos~ Orlando, Florida
New York, New York Seattle, Washington Tommy Urich Urich
Yawen Guan Marlena DeStefano Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Beijing, China Pompano Beach, Florida
Aaron Liana Hoffman+ TUBA
Haettenschwiller Coral Springs, Florida Emerick Falta~+
Baltimore, Maryland Constance Mulford New Rochelle, New York
Rajan Panchal + Setauket, New York
Los Gatos, California Kevin Newton TIMPANI
Joel Roches* South Boston, Virginia Mitchell Vogel*
Puerto Cortes, Honduras Eli Pandolfi * Oviedo, Florida
Ashley Shinliver St. Louis, Missouri Cooper Martell~+
Missouri City, Texas Emma Potter Albany, New York
Christian Tran Surprise, Arizona
Las Vegas, Nevada Kevin Saum PERCUSSION
Valley Cottage, New York William Chinn~+
CLARINET Shengmu Wang Irvine, California
JuHyun Lee+ Taoyuan, Taiwan Gabriel Costache
Seoul, South Korea Denver, Colorado
(David) Jung Woo Lee ~ TRUMPET Will Hopkins
New York, New York Sean Alexander Dallas, Texas
KyoungMin Lee Washington D.C. William Richards
Seoul, South Korea Changhyun Cha~ Wheaton, Illinois
Alexander Parlee Busan, South Korea Evan Silberstein
San Diego, California Brandon Eggert* Sparta, New Jersey
Spencer Reese Sarasota, Florida
Dallas, Texas Caleb Laidlaw+ HARP
Freya Spence * Bridgewater, New Jersey Anna Mitton
London, United Kingdom Arieh Soferr Provo, Utah
Shogo Urahata Boston, Massachusetts Dominique Moreno~+
Tokyo, Japan Jesdelson Vasquez Houston, Texas
Brooklyn, New York
BASSOON KEYBOARD
Wenchao Fang TROMBONE Emily Frederick,
Qingdao, China Seth Birrell piano~+
Cheryl M. Fries~ Austin, Texas Malvern, Pennsylvania
Red Creek, New York Ramiro Cortez ~
Matthew Pauls Houston, Texas
Simi Valley, California Julia Dombroski
Pinghua Ren+ Ontario, New York
Shanghai, China Brass & Wind Principals
David Farrell+
Cyd Scott* West Footscray, Australia * Beethoven
Carmel, New York ~ Schoenberg
+ ScriabinP RO G R AM N OTE S
Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 16
Arnold Schoenberg
Schoenberg’s output between 1907 and 1909 was astounding not only in
quantity but in its earthshaking ramifications for his own style and for the
course of Western music. With these works—his Second String Quartet,
Three Piano Pieces (Op. 11), Two Songs (Op. 14), song cycle The Book of the
Hanging Gardens, Five Pieces for Orchestra, and monodrama Erwartung—he
broke from tonality and triadic harmony by adopting a free chromatic style,
exploring what he called “the emancipation of dissonance.”
In 1908 Richard Strauss turned down Schoenberg’s opera Pelleas und Melisande
saying he’d be interested in some short orchestral pieces “if I could find
something among them which I could serve to the Berlin Opera House
public, which unfortunately is madly conservative.” With nothing to send
then, Schoenberg began composing the Five Pieces for Orchestra in May
1909 but was not about to bow to conservatism. Having completed three
and almost the fourth, he wrote to Strauss: “I am expecting colossal things of
them, sound and mood especially. That is all they are about: absolutely not
symphonic—precisely the opposite—no architecture, no structure. Merely a
bright, uninterrupted interchange of colors, rhythms, and moods.”
After receiving the first four pieces, Strauss returned them on September 2 with
bad news: “Your pieces are such daring experiments that for the present I dare
not perform them.” It took three years for any of the Five Pieces to be heard
in public: Nos. 1, 2, and 4 were performed in a two-piano, eight-hands version
in February 1912 in Berlin, and finally all five in their orchestral version on
September 3, 1912, in London under the open-minded conductor Henry Wood.
According to Ernest Newman, perhaps the least hostile of the English critics,
a third of the normally staid audience hissed, one third laughed, and the
remaining third “seemed too puzzled either to laugh or to hiss.” He wondered
whether the apparently chaotic tonal relations would one day seem clear.
Even Schoenberg’s 1948 statement that “the pieces are relatively easy to
understand today” may have been premature. Now, more than a century after
they were composed, the Five Pieces for Orchestra hold an honored position
in the repertoire, and yet many listeners still consider them avant-garde.
In 1912 Schoenberg reluctantly devised programmatic titles at the urging of
his publisher, saying in his diary that he had found some that were general
enough not to divulge secrets, technicalities, or poetic content. Everyone
6has “Premonitions” and a “Past,” he said, and “Peripetie” (from Greek drama:
reversal of circumstances) was likewise general enough. He suggested “Chord
Colorations” for the third piece (shortened to “Colors” in 1912 copies of the
score) and, for the last, Obbligato Recitative, though he thought “Extended”
or “Unending” Recitative might be better.
The first edition did not contain the titles, but they were published in
Schoenberg’s 1922 revision. The addition of “Summer Morning by a Lake”
to the third title first appeared in a 1920 program for a performance he
conducted in Salzburg and remained in his son-in-law’s 1925 chamber-
orchestra arrangement. Schoenberg’s 1949 reduction of the original’s
gargantuan scoring is the version most often performed.
The mercurial, atonal gestures that launch the first piece had to have
stunned the first audience. Nor would those listeners have been reassured
to know that Schoenberg draws on this material for the remainder of the
piece, transforming his motives using all manner of canonic devices over
a succession of ostinatos and a sustained chord. Despite their kinship,
these manipulations range in expression from explosive climax to piquant
marching.
In the gentle second piece, a recurring dissonant chord helps to delineate the
form—roughly three parts—and ostinatos again play a role. His nod to “the
past” may lie in using material from the opening section in the last, though he
combines it with material from the contrasting middle. Delicate instrumental
sonorities abound, highlighted by muted solo strings, celesta, and harp.
The slow-moving chords of the third piece offer a constantly changing palette
of instrumental timbres. This famous and influential movement may have been
the seed for Klangfarbenmelodie (tone color melody), a concept he named in 1911,
referring to melodies that progress by means of timbre rather than pitch.
The fourth piece’s upward ripping motives and patterned snippets shatter the
quiet, though this brief expository section ends in calm. The remainder of the
piece, despite its surface diversity—raucous clamor, poignant solo gestures,
and brash ending—is all carefully derived, as before, through transformation
of the opening materials.
The last and most radical of the Five Pieces—together with the third of
the Opus 11 pieces and Erwartung, which were composed just before and
after—explored a new “athematic” method of construction in which a stream
of newly conceived ideas, each its own little development, progresses from
7one to another by sheer momentum and drama. With no repetition or
traditional structural devices, this fifth piece was so incomprehensible to early
conductors that Schoenberg developed a system, later used by many others, of
indicating what was the most important musical material. A quiet beginning,
several surges, and an intense climax shape the whole, but the return to an
introverted atmosphere is no recapitulation. Schoenberg’s material is ever
new—an “unending recitative” as he suggested in his diary.
Poem of Ecstasy (Symphony No. 4), Op. 54
Alexander Scriabin
In 1905 when Scriabin began composing the Poem of Ecstasy he was gaining
widespread recognition both as a gifted and unpredictable pianist—he
always played to full houses—and as a composer who had composed three
symphonies and more than 100 works for piano. He was temperamentally
susceptible to many of the circulating philosophies and was considered
something of a mystic philosopher himself. He had studied Marx and
Nietzsche, identifying with the “superman” and Zarathustra; he had absorbed
the theosophical teachings of Helena Blavatsky and the quasi-religious
mysticism of Vladimir Solovyov; and he identified with the concept of Man-
God as taught by Prince Trubetskoy, who also preached the oneness of erotic
love with God.
In 1904 Scriabin began writing “a short exposition of my doctrine to be
published as a booklet,” which he called Poème orgiaque (Orgiastic poem).
By May 1906 he was still working on the more than 300-line poem, which
he now called Poem of Ecstasy, and he had also begun a musical version of the
poem. Scriabin considered the music and the poetry as separate, but parallel
creations. Boris de Schloezer, one of Scriabin’s early biographers, wrote: “He
did not dare work on a musico-poetic unit. He feared losing the independence
of his poetry. When he began working on the music, he was not concerned
with matching the text precisely or strictly. The words did not comment on
the music, and likewise, the music was not an illustration of the words.” Later
Schloezer wrote, “Scriabin and I worked together comparing text and music.
I remember the pleasure and surprise he felt when the music was fully free yet
followed the development of the text.”
Scriabin loved his textual Poéme and delighted in reading sections of it to
friends even after his philosophy had changed. He insisted that copies be
distributed for the first performance, but he decided not to print the text
with the score, saying, “Conductors who want to perform the Poem of Ecstasy
can always be apprised that it has such a thing, but in general I would prefer
8for them to approach it first as pure music.” The lengthy poem makes difficult
reading. The opening lines, variants of which recur throughout the poem, give
an idea of its style (translation by Scriabin scholar Faubion Bowers):
Spirit
Winged with thirst for life,
Is drawn into flight
On the summits of negation.
There, under the rays of his dream
Emerges a magical world
Of heavenly forms and feelings.
Spirit playing.
Spirit desiring.
Spirit creating all with a dream.
Surrenders to the bliss of love.
Scriabin saw himself as Man-God the creator who gives the world his ecstasy and
liberation; in the poem, “Man-God” became “Spirit.” The Spirit experiences a
wide variety of feelings in its search for ecstasy, a blending of sexual and religious
ecstasy. The music has also been characterized as sexual and erotic, which no
doubt would have pleased Scriabin. Its themes are intended to represent yearning,
aspiration, victory, and so on, by means of harmonic progressions of suspended
dominant-ninth and eleventh chords and ever-erupting colors from the huge
orchestra he requires. Scriabin also used performance directions in the score
such as “avec un volupté de plus en plus extatique” (with a voluptuousness becoming
more and more ecstatic). Without knowing the text of the poem or Scriabin’s
performance directions, one is still struck by the uniquely haunting and intense
emotional expression of Scriabin’s music.
Structurally the Poem of Ecstasy freely follows sonata form—introduction,
exposition, development, recapitulation, and coda. The overall impression,
however, is not one of structural manipulation of themes, but of mood
patterns created by intensifying and relaxing the harmonic progressions and
textural layers. Harmonically Scriabin’s Poem of Ecstasy comes at the stage of
his development in which he uses less explicit tonal resolutions and no key
signature but before the advent of his harmonic systems built on intervals
of a fourth and his famous “mystic chord.” He had become enamored with
juxtaposing dominant chords at the interval of a tritone since they could
resolve in different ways, thus obscuring the tonality. The work ends in a
blaze of C major, not arrived at by traditional harmonic progression but
employed sheerly for its color. Scriabin was always concerned with translating
sound into color; in his next large work, Prometheus, the Poem of Fire, he even
envisaged a color keyboard that would project the colors he associated with
the sounds in his head.
9Scriabin’s skill as an orchestrator has often been overlooked among the
various fascinating aspects of his music and personality, but he was a master
at handling an enormous orchestra. In the Poem of Ecstasy the writing for solo
violin, viola, and trumpet particularly stands out, as does the use of eight
horns, the frequent divisi writing for the string sections, and the detailed
figural writing for all the instruments that contributes to an overall opulent
texture.
Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 73
(“Emperor”)
Ludwig van Beethoven
Beethoven’s Fifth (and last) Piano Concerto was the first that he did not
introduce himself as soloist, having become too deaf by this time. He
completed it in Vienna in 1809, the year Austria was defeated at Wagram and
Napoleon had invaded and occupied Vienna. Beethoven wrote:
Since May 4th, I have brought into the world little that is connected;
only here and there a fragment. The whole course of events has
affected me body and soul. . . . What a disturbing, wild life around me;
nothing but drums, cannons, men, misery of all sorts.
Worried about protecting what was left of his hearing, Beethoven took refuge
on at least one occasion in the basement of his brother Carl’s house and
covered his ears with pillows. Far from “fragments,” however, he managed to
compose such impressive works as this concerto, the Harp Quartet, and the
Opus 78, 79, and 81a piano sonatas.
As in several of his “invasion year” works, Beethoven employed E-flat major,
a key he favored for noble and heroic sentiments (as in the Eroica Symphony),
imbuing the Concerto with a remarkable aura of grandeur. Nothing would
have infuriated him more, however, than the nickname it received. According
to one story, a French officer at the first Viennese performance acclaimed it as
“an emperor among concertos.” Beethoven’s antiauthoritarian opinions and
celebrated removal of Napoleon as the dedicatee of the Eroica confirm the
impossibility of his having celebrated imperial grandeur.
The successful premiere in Leipzig in November 1811 by Johann Friedrich
Schneider put the large audience into such “a state of enthusiasm that it
could hardly contain itself with the ordinary expressions of recognition and
enjoyment.” Yet the first Viennese performance in February, with Beethoven’s
brilliant pupil Carl Czerny as soloist, earned such unfavorable commentary as:
“He [Beethoven] can be understood and appreciated only by connoisseurs.”
10Since it’s hard to imagine such a difference in the quality of the two
performances, these conflicting reactions must simply reflect the different
tastes of the critics or of the two cities.
Introduced and punctuated by full orchestral chords, the majestic work
begins with a solo cadenza that firmly establishes the home key. Beethoven
later recalls his introduction to set up the recapitulation. Toward the end, he
prepares for a traditional solo cadenza, but then astonishes by ingeniously
turning it into an extended coda involving yet another recapitulation.
Beethoven leads his tranquil slow-movement theme through three variations
at a gloriously unhurried pace, whereupon he presents one of his most
dramatic and thrilling coups. The bassoons sustain the home pitch, then
gently lower it a half step. The horns sustain and the piano joins tentatively,
whispering what will erupt as the finale’s main theme. This sonata-rondo,
colored by the upward-bounding main theme with its energy-charged
syncopation, makes an exultant conclusion to this heroic work.
—Program notes ©Jane Vial Jaffe
11AB O UT T HE A RTI STS
George Manahan (BM ’73, MM ’76), Conductor
George Manahan is in his 10th season as Director of Orchestral Activities
at Manhattan School of Music, as well as Music Director of the American
Composers Orchestra and the Portland Opera. He served as Music Director
of the New York City Opera for 14 seasons and was hailed for his leadership of
the orchestra. He was also Music Director of the Richmond Symphony (VA)
for 12 seasons. Recipient of Columbia University’s Ditson Conductor’s Award,
Mr. Manahan was also honored by the American Society of Composers and
Publishers (ASCAP) for his “career-long advocacy for American composers
and the music of our time.” His Carnegie Hall performance of Samuel Barber’s
Antony and Cleopatra was hailed by audiences and critics alike. “The fervent and
sensitive performance that Mr. Manahan presided over made the best case for
this opera that I have ever encountered,” said the New York Times.
Mr. Manahan’s guest appearances include the Orchestra of St. Luke’s,
Atlanta, San Francisco, Hollywood Bowl, and New Jersey, where he served
as acting Music Director for four seasons. He has been a regular guest with
the Curtis Institute and the Aspen Music Festival and has appeared with
the opera companies of Seattle, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Chicago, Santa
Fe, Paris, Sydney, Bologna, St. Louis, the Bergen Festival (Norway), and the
Casals Festival (Puerto Rico). His many appearances on television include
productions of La bohème, Lizzie Borden, and Tosca on PBS. The Live from
Lincoln Center telecast of New York City Opera’s production of Madama
Butterfly, under his direction, won a 2007 Emmy Award.
George Manahan’s wide-ranging recording activities include the premiere
recording of Steve Reich’s Tehillim for ECM; recordings of Edward Thomas’s
Desire Under the Elms, which was nominated for a Grammy; Joe Jackson’s
Will Power; and Tobias Picker’s Emmeline. He has conducted numerous world
premieres, including Charles Wuorinen’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories, David
Lang’s Modern Painters, Hans Werner Henze’s The English Cat, Tobias Picker’s
Dolores Claiborne, and Terence Blanchard’s Champion.
He received his formal musical training at Manhattan School of Music, studying
conducting with Anton Coppola and George Schick, and was appointed to the
faculty of the school upon his graduation, at which time the Juilliard School
awarded him a fellowship as Assistant Conductor with the American Opera Center.
Mr. Manahan was chosen as the Exxon Arts Endowment Conductor of the New
Jersey Symphony the same year he made his opera debut with the Santa Fe Opera,
conducting the American premiere of Arnold Schoenberg’s Von Heute auf Morgen.
12Yan Li (BM ’17, MM ’19, DMA candidate)
Praised by critics as “a musician of integrity and depth” (New York Concert
Review) after her Carnegie Hall performance in 2017, pianist Yan Li has
been recognized as a rising star on many competitive stages. The gold medal
winner of the International Virtuoso Competition, Ms. Li has also been a
top prizewinner in the New York International Music Concours, National
Artists Competition, and Rondo Forma Young Artists Competition, among
others. She was also a prizewinner in the Metropolitan International Piano
Competition, New York International Artists Competition, Bradshaw
& Buono International Competition, New York Artists International
Competition, Five Towns Young Musicians Competition, and Young Classical
Virtuosos Competition. Ms. Li has given recitals around the United States,
including performances at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall and Bruno
Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center.
Music festivals and master classes Ms. Yi has appeared in include the
International Keyboard Institute and Festival and the Manhattan in the
Mountains Summer Music Festival. In 2017, she was chosen through a
competitive audition process to participate in a master class taught by pianist
Yuja Wang at Manhattan School of Music. She has also gained professional
guidance from other piano virtuosos such as Alexander Kobrin, Emanuel
Krasovsky, Gerald Robbins, Tatiana Goncharova, Ilja Scheps, Inesa Sinkevych,
Jeffrey Swann, Jonathan Klibonoff, Marian Hahn, and Ming-Qiang Lee.
Born in Shenzhen, China, pianist Yan Li began her piano studies at the age
of 6. She received her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from
Manhattan School of Music and is currently a candidate for the Doctor of
Musical Arts degree under the tutelage of Dr. Joanne Polk. Ms. Li is the
recipient of the Roy M. Rubinstein Award at Manhattan School of Music.
13O R C H E ST RA L STU D I E S AT MSM
George Manahan, Director of Orchestral Activities
Katharine Dryden, Managing Director of Instrumental Ensembles
Alejandro López-Samamé, Manager of Orchestral Operations and the
Orchestral Performance Program
In the tradition of the classical music conservatory, the orchestral studies
program at MSM forms the heart of the performing experience for classical
instrumentalists. All students, placed by competitive audition, participate in a
variety of orchestral projects under the guidance of George Manahan, Director
of Orchestral Activities. Students play in a variety of orchestral formats, giving
them ample opportunity to develop their audition and ensemble technique,
broaden their knowledge of orchestral repertoire, and perform at New York
City venues such as Carnegie Hall, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine,
and Merkin Concert Hall. Winners of the School’s annual Eisenberg–Fried
Concerto Competition perform with the orchestras as soloists.
In addition to Maestro Manahan, the orchestras work regularly with Leonard
Slatkin, Distinguished Visiting Artist in Conducting and Orchestral Studies,
and guest conductors such as Jane Glover and Perry So.
14The Centennial Project
Manhattan School of Music’s Centennial Project was an ambitious program of improvements to the School’s
architecturally distinguished campus coinciding with MSM’s 100th anniversary. The centerpiece of the Project
was the renovation of Neidorff-Karpati Hall, MSM’s principal performance space, which has been transformed
into a state-of-the-art venue to showcase our talented students. Built in 1931 and designed by Shreve, Lamb
& Harmon, the architects of the Empire State Building, the hall has been called “one of the Art Deco treats in
the city” by the New York Times. The Project also included a dramatic and welcoming new campus entrance
on Claremont Avenue, new practice rooms, and an expansion of the main entryway and lobby.
Anchor Gift $10,000 to $24,999 Dorothy Strelsin Foundation
Michael and Noémi K. Neidorff/ Joyce Aboussie Yorke Construction Corporation
Centene Charitable Foundation Joan and Alan Ades-Taub
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City of New York Chartwells Dining Services Nick & Melissa Borkowski
Bill de Blasio, Mayor Sharon E. Daley-Johnson Jeff Breithaupt† and
Evco Mechanical Corporation Shelley McPherson
$250,000 to $499,999 Capt.Kenneth R. Force, USMS (ret.) Bright Power
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Maria and Guillermo F. Vogel George† and Mary Lou Manahan Christopher Breiseth
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Ted† and Lesley Rosenthal Dr. Solomon Mikowsky† Lee Middlebrook Moore
Bette and Richard Saltzman Dr. John Pagano† Farida Paramita
Cynthia D. and Thomas P. Sculco Dr. Kariné Poghosyan† Tobias Picker
Sound Associates Jesse Rosen Christopher Preiss
Richard W. Southwick FAIA Dr. Eduardo Salvati Kelly Sawatsky† and
Sterling National Bank Laura Sametz† Dr. Jeremy Fletcher
Richard Stewart/ECS Enterprises Paul Sperry† Sybil Shainwald
Adrienne and Gianluigi Vittadini Donna and James Storey
Nina Baroness von Maltzahn $100 to $499 Christine and Rob Thorn
Ronald G. Weiner Karen F. Baer William Vollinger
Peter Winograd† and Caterina Szepes Mary Ellin Barrett Jason Wachtler
Joel Chatfield
Manhattan School of Music Donors
Gifts received in FY 2019 (July 1, 2018–June 30, 2019)
Manhattan School of Music is deeply grateful to the community of generous donors who support
our commitment to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity and to the cultural
enrichment of the larger community.
For more information about giving opportunities, please contact Susan Madden,
Vice President for Advancement, at 917-493-4115 or smadden@msmnyc.edu.
$1 million and above The Arthur and Mae Orvis Estate of Harold and Ruth Stern
City of New York Foundation Twiford Foundation
Bill de Blasio, Mayor Estate of Harold Schonberg
ELMA Philanthropies So-Chung Shinn Lee and Tony W. Lee $10,000 to $24,999
Michael and Noémi K. Neidorff / Melody Sawyer Richardson Joyce Aboussie
Centene Charitable Foundation Maria and Guillermo Vogel Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation
Estate of David Wells Margot Alberti de Mazzeri
$250,000 to $999,999 The ASCAP Foundation
Estate of Rosalie J. Coe Weir $25,000 to $49,999 Alex Assoian Music Project
Gart Family Foundation An Anonymous Donor The Barker Welfare Foundation
Ed Annunziato Luisa Guembes-Buchanan
$100,000 to $249,999 Augustine Foundation Anna Bulgari
Joan Taub Ades Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation Dr. Alejandro Cordero
Ilene and Edward Lowenthal Estate of Elizabeth G. Beinecke EALGreen
Maecenata Foundation / The Frank and Lydia Bergen The Enoch Foundation
Peter Luerssen Foundation Evco Mechanical Corporation
Eric Gronningsater and Amy Levine Carla Bossi-Comelli Capt. Kenneth R. Force, USMS (ret.)
Bill and Patricia O’Connor Fred J. Brotherton Charitable The Eric and Margaret Friedberg
Lorraine Gallard and Richard H. Levy Foundation Foundation
The Starr Foundation Delin and Abelardo Bru Dr. James Gandre† and
Ann Ziff The Chisholm Foundation Dr. Boris Thomas
The Baisley Powell Elebash Fund The Fred Ebb Foundation Charles & Carol Grossman
Susan Ennis and Dr. Owen Lewis Family Fund
$50,000 to $99,999 Donald and Marcia Hamilton Dr. Alan and Mrs. Lori Harris
Alfredo and Mita Aparicio Nancy Freund Heller and Hyde and Watson Foundation
Dr. and Mrs. Raul M. Gutierrez Jeffrey Heller Jephson Educational Trusts
Dr. David G. Knott and Ms. McKinsey & Company Ruth M. Knight Foundation
Françoise Girard Joe and Lauren Pizza A. L. and Jennie L. Luria
Linda and Toby Mercuro The Rochlis Family Foundation Foundation
Dr. Solomon Mikowsky† The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Robert and Amy McGraw
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Foundation National Endowment for the Arts
*Deceased †MSM Faculty/StaffNew York City Council Gemzel Hernandez, MD Ruth Harf
Susan and David Rahm Holzman Moss Bottino Architecture Sylvia Hemingway
Allen H. and Selma W. Berkman Robert and Susan Kaplan Peter Horvath
Charitable Trust Phillip N. Kawin† Maureen D. Hynes
Paul and Joanne Schnell Han Jo Kim, MD and Regina M. Kim IBM
Dorothy Strelsin Foundation Judith Klotz Ilse Gordon and Neil Shapiro
Yorke Construction Corporation Susan A. Madden† Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman
Office of the Manhattan Borough Jack and Helga Katz
$5,000 to $9,999 President Millen Katz
An Anonymous Donor Mary Moeller Sungrim Kim and Wonsuk Chang
The Hilaria and Alec Baldwin Philippe Muller Sidney Knafel and Londa Weisman
Foundation Barbara and Dermot O’Reilly Michael J. Kokola
The Theodore H. Barth Foundation The Presser Foundation Patinka Kopec† and Dr. Jay Selman
Elizabeth A. R. & Ralph S. Brown, Jr. Saul D. Raw, LCSW Dorothy Lewis-Griffith
Teresa Bulgheroni Kathleen Ritch Paulus Hook Music Foundation
Chartwells Jimmy Roberts Dr. Alan Lurie
Nelson DeFigueiredo Lois Roman Lynford Family Charitable Trust
Samuel M. Levy Family Foundation Alfred and Jane Ross Foundation Carolyn Marlow and William Teltser
Mark and Kerry Hanson Israel Schossev Doris and Charles Michaels
Israel Discount Bank of New York Irene Schultz Foundation
J & J Flooring Richard Stewart / ECS Enterprises Middle Road Foundation
Warren Jones† Christopher W. Welch and Drs. Aleeza and Dimitry Nemirof
Dr. and Mrs. Henry A. Kissinger Katherine L. Hosford Dr. and Mrs. James A. Newcomb
Harry Tze-Him Lee Carol Wincenc Mary Ann Oklesson
Lemberg Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Adolfo Patron
The Arthur Loeb Foundation $1,000 to $2,499 Bennett Pologe
The Louis Armstrong Educational Anonymous Donors (2) Dr. Jonathan Raskin
Foundation Richard E. Adams Robert and Regina J. Rheinstein
Marquis George MacDonald Emilio Ambasz Jesse Rosen
Foundation American Elevator & Machine Ted† and Lesley Rosenthal
Linda McKean Corporation The San Francisco Foundation
The Clement Meadmore Pamela Averick Yolanda Santos
Foundation Gabrielle Bamberger Chiona X. Schwarz
James Petercsak Michael A. Bamberger and The Dr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Sculco
Allen H. and Selma W. Berkman Honorable Phylis S. Bamberger Rich P. Seufer
Charitable Trust Carl Baron Gloria Shafer
RIK Electric Corporation Karen Bedrosian-Richardson Karen L. Shapiro
Milena Roos Beekman Housing Ventures Dwight and Susan Sipprelle
Maria Elvira Salgar Barbara and Tim Boroughs Annaliese Soros
Carl and Aviva Saphier Botwinick-Wolfensohn Family Richard W. Southwick FAIA
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher Foundation John Sweeney
& Flom Margaret A. Boulware Nickolas and Liliana Themelis
Mari and Kenneth Share The Barbara Brookes Trust Winifred Thrall
Arthur T. and Beverly Shorin Blake Byrne Dace Udris
Robert Siegel Dr. Robert J. Campbell MD KCSJ Jill F. VanSyckle
Robert and Victoria Sirota and Sir Cesare L. Santeramo KCSJ Mallory and Diana Walker
Leonard Slatkin† and Cindy McTee Dr. Sophie Christman Elizabeth V. White
Epp Sonin Kanako and James Clarke Keith L. Wiggs
Monica and Angel Sosa MMC Charitable Trust Shirley Young
Jane E. Steele and William Sussman The D’Addario Music Foundation
Dr. Michael G. Stewart For The Performing Arts $500 to $999
Dona D. Vaughn† and Ron Raines Glenn Dicterow† and Karen Dreyfus† An Anonymous Donor
Shelley Deal & Claude L. Winfield Paul and Delight Dodyk Aggressive Energy
Eagan Family Foundation Ralph and JJ Allen
$2,500 to $4,999 Epstein Engineering Roslyn Allison
Bellet Construction Lance A. Etcheverry Orren J. Alperstein
Matt and Andrea Bergeron Cecilia A. Farrell Dr.† and Mrs. Arkady Aronov
Sarah Billinghurst Solomon Tatyana Feldman and Leonid Sean Bae
Bloomberg Tomilchik The Bagby Foundation for the
Bond Schoeneck & King Ruth Golden† Musical Arts
Bright Power Allen and Ellen Goldman Charitable Susan Barbash and Dr. Eric Katz
Michael R. and Nina I. Douglas Gift Fund Paul J. Beck
Patricia Falkenberg Charlotte Gollubier Laurie Beckelman
Richard Gaddes David Goodman Etty and Jacob Bousso
General Plumbing Corporation Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Gottschalk Alison P. Brown
Hans Gesell Joanne Greenspun Ronald and Mary Carlson
Kimberly D. Grigsby The John and Marianne Gunzler Fund Xilun Chen
Jane A. Gross Hansoree Jill and Bob Cook 17
*Deceased †MSM Faculty/StaffMichael R. Douglas Charitable Fund Dr. Vincent Celenza Peter Winograd† and Caterina Szepes
Mignon Dunn† Steven Connell Earle Yaffa
Laura Falb Stephanie R. Cooper, Esq. Elda and Eduardo Zappi
Jonathan Feldman Edward and Annette Cornelius Noreen and Ned Zimmerman
Dianne Flagello Toby and Les Crystal
Judith Friedman James J. Dale $100 to $249
Patti Eylar and Charles Gardner Allan J. Dean Anonymous Donors (7)
Loraine F. Gardner Dr. Susan E. Deaver Peter Abitante
Larry and Diane Hochman Gwendolyn DeLuca Eileen C. Acheson-Bohn
Susan Anne Ingerman Gale Epstein Charitable Fund Lauren Aguiar
Herve Jacquet Dr. Renee C. Epstein Meg Lowenthal Akabas
Cecile R. Jim Daniel Epstein Donald Albrecht
Dr. and Mrs. Peter K. Kang Everest Scaffolding Philip Anderson
Harriet Kaplan Mr. and Mrs. Aldo Fossella Giorgio Poma & Family
Chung Nung and Bik-Lam Lee Allan Dodds Frank and Lilian M. King Ronald and Gail Asinari
Jeehyoun H. Lee Jerry and Leah Garchik Dr. and Mrs. Victor O. Bacani
The George A. Long Foundation Gensler Mrs. Karen F. Baer
Lubrano Ciavarra Architects Philip and Karen Glick Charles and Miranda Barker
Alta T. Malberg Pam Goldberg Denise and Benjamin Battat
Susan Olsen Maren Dr. Richard A. Gradone Linda Dupree-Bell
Oren Michels Madelon and Jerald Grobman Yvette Bendahan
Christopher and Elissa Morris Laurie Hamilton Lawrence O. Benjamin
Anthony Napoli Dr. Carl Hanson James Bennett
Marjorie Neuwirth Dr. Mary H. Harding Avis Berman
Patrick O’Connor Caroline and Rodney Hine Patricia Berman and Harvey Singer
Yahui Olenik Ilene Jacobs Susan Biskeborn
Dr. John Pagano† Julie Jacobs Kevin M. Bohl
Henry Pinkham JPMorgan Chase & Co. Dr. Louis M. Bonifati, Ed. D.
Dr. Kariné Poghosyan† Richard Kayne Frank Bookhout
Susan Quittmeyer and Mr. and Mrs. Matt Kim Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Borowiec
James Morris† Kathy King Agnes and Carl Boxhill
Mary Radcliffe The Kocan Family Julianne Boyd
Dr. Maria Radicheva† Wolfram Koessel Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. Boysen
Lisa Raskin Kranzdorf Family Foundation Joy Hodges Branagan
Mary S. Riebold Dr. and Mrs. Eugene Krauss Anthony N. Brittin
Esther Rosenberg and Carol Lam David Britton
Michael Ostroff Gary Trout and Kenneth Latsch Frank Bruno
Dr. Ed Rubin and Mrs. Vicki Rubin Jay Lesenger Ivy and Ian Bukzin
Dr. and Mrs. Eduardo Salvati Stuart E. Liebman Raymond J. Burghardt
Saremi Health and Wellness Kathy Liu Hugh Burritt
Foundation Xin Liu and Hong Chen Mabel A. Campbell
Eve M. Schooler James P. McCarthy Alexander and Filis Cardieri
Marc Scorca Linda McKnight Norman and Nadine Carey
Dr. Marc Silverman† Ruth Meints Mr. and Mrs. Dalmo Carra
The Skylark Foundation Michelle and John Morris Martha Chapo Family Gift Fund
Ted Smith Florence Meisels Nelson Joel Chatfield
Alex Solowey Myrna Payne Min Kyung M. Cho
Kathleen Byrum Suss Kane Pryor Jung Sun Chung and Byung Ju Hyun
Telebeam Telephone Systems Raul S. Quines Annette Coco
Mimi Tompkins† Bruno A. Quinson Robert Stillman Cohen
Lucie Vippolis Noa Rafimayeri Sue Ann and Tony Converse
The Cecilia and Mark Vonderheide Mr. and Mrs. Kanti Rai Prudence Costa Jenkins
Charitable Fund Irwin L. Reese Jeffrey Cox
Xiayin Wang Judy Reiner Platt and Roger Platt Dr. David Karl Davis
Rachel B. Weinstein Dora and Patrick Rideout Anthony J. de Mare†
Daniel E. Weiss David and Judith Rivkin Anaar Desai-Stephens
Michael Ytterberg Laura Schiller Nancy Zipay DeSalvo
June Zaccone Susan F. Sekulow Simone Dinnerstein and Jeremy
Kira Sergievsky Greensmith
$250 to $499 Elizabeth and Robert C. Sheehan Thanne Dispenza
An Anonymous Donor Walter F. and Margaret M. Siebecker Marjory M. Duncalfe
Paul Baer Paul Sperry† Jane Emery
Louise Basbas Tchaikovsky Michael and Marjorie Engber
Dr. Hayes Biggs† and Ms. Susan Gordon Turk Carolyn J. Enger
Orzel-Biggs Marlene and Marshall Turner Elaine Enger
John S. Britt and Janice Chisholm Elizabeth R. Van Arsdel Jeffrey Epstein and Renee C. Epstein
Angela Brown Nils Vigeland Warren Feldman
18 Elizabeth A. Browne Martine and Ronan Wicks Grace A. Feldman
*Deceased †MSM Faculty/StaffMarion Feldman† Lorinda Klein Howard G. Rittner
Robert Felicetti Rhoda Knaff Carol Robbins
Dr. Fenichel Kenneth H. Knight Wendy Rolfe
Elsa Honig Fine Dr. Michael and Mrs. Rachel Kollmer Alex Romanov
M & M Firestone Charitable Fund Nadine Kolowrat Roger F. Rose
Harry First and Eve Cole First Gene B. Kuntz Amy S. Rosen
Dr. John Foster and Dr. Cheryl Bunker Ursula Kwasnicka Stanley Rosenberg
Miriam Frieden Paul and Denise Lachman Mary Jaccoma Rozenberg
Edith Hall Friedheim David Law Reto A. Ruedy
Charles Gallagher Diane H. Lee June Sadowski-Devarez
David Geber† and Julia Lichten† Esther O. Lee Frank E. Salomon
Stephen A. Gilbert Suzanne Lemakis Suki Sandler
Christine and Peter Glennon Michelle Lin Dr. Anthony Scelba
David M. Goldberg Xiaoting Liu Stanley Scheller
Frederick T. and Wendy M. Goldberg Julie E. Livingston and Peter Gordon Nanette Seidenberg
Morris and Jean Goldberg Carmel Lowenthal and Eric Tirschwell Ari Selman
Eleanor Goldhar and John Vollmer Mr. and Mrs. Mort Lowenthal Sybil Shainwald
Lisa K. Gornick and Kenneth Weier Lu Ariel Shamai
Hollenbeck Carol P. Lyon Marsha Shapiro
David W. Granger Angelyn MacWilliams Angela A Sherzer
Daniel Green Gunther Marx Ruth Siegler
Dr. and Mrs. Eric Green Lucille Mastriaco William and Claire Sit
Laura Greenwald George Mathew James Stalzer
Louis R. Grimaldi Dr. Julia M. McCall-Mboya Thomas P. Stapp
Robert Haddock Meredith Wood McCaughey Matthew Starobin
Holly Hall Barbara McCrane Allen Steir
Sarah Hall and Edward Keough Richard McGeehan Susan Stern
Dr. Heather A. Hamilton Bob McGrath Toni Stern
Mr. and Mrs. Patrick J. Hannan Andy McQuery Donna and James Storey
Patricia Jacob Hannemann Kim and Ingrid Meacham Kwong Sum Charity Fund
Michael Harrison Julie C. Mech Mark Suozzo
Janne and Daniel Heifetz Joan and Scott Merlis Nina Svetlanova†
Dr. Andrew E. Henderson and Lee Middlebrook Moore Felice E. Swados
Mary W. Huff Florence Miller Sondra Tammam
Rita K. Herber David Miller Gary Thalheimer
Deborah Herschel Nadine Nozomi Mitake Richard Tietze
Amy Hersh Joe Morrison Jacquelyn Tomlet
Betty Himmel Ruth Mueller-Maerki Dawn Upshaw
Doris Holloway Frank W. Munzer Mark Vandersall and
Eric T. Houghton Mr. Lee E. Musiker Laura Mendelson
Dr. Warren P. Howe Odette C. Muskin Maria Pia P. Viapiano
Judith T. Hunt Freda Zeiguer Karen Victoria
DeeAnne Huntstein Norma Nelson Mary Vinton
Judith and Leonard Hyman Blair Deborah Newcomb Dr. Katharina Volk
Family Fund Ruth and Harold Newman Vos Family Fund
Leon Hyman Yuka Nishino Doris Joy Warner
Marcie Imberman Rebecca J. Noreen Michael Washburn and Nancy
Lawrence Indik Dr. Abby O’Neil and Dr. Carroll Joynes Carmichael Gift Fund
Carol K. Ingall, Ed.D Kay Outwin Patricia S. Weiss
Jonathan and Rheva Irving Farida Paramita Fawn Wiener
John Jensen and Thomas Bellezza Duncan Patton† Cherisse Williams
Ingyu Jeon Tobias Picker Barbara Wilson
Jacqueline M. Johnson Doralynn Pines Michael C. Wimberly
Jennifer Jones Arthur Plutzer Patricia A. Winter
Andrew Jorgensen and Jill M. Pollack LCSW BCD Margo and Charles Wolfson
Mark Stuart-Smith Anek and Evelyn Pooviriyakul Eve J. Wolinsky
Peter H. Judd Christopher Preiss Dr. Roy Wylie
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Jurden Maya Radiconcini Barbara Yahr
Steven and Carey Kane Odin Rathnam Zhendai Yang
Joanna and John Kapner Anthony A. Rayner Ellen and Bill Yeckley
Phyllis Katz Mona Reisman Schoen Dr. Velia Yedra-Chruszcz
Debra Kenyon and Peter Hess Barbara L. Reissman, Dr. PH Zhi L Yu
Minjung Kim Joyce Richardson Ji-Ming Zhu
Daniel Kirk-Foster Amy Franklin Richter Pinchas Zukerman†
Shirley Kirshbaum Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Rios
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*Deceased †MSM Faculty/StaffEndowed Named Scholarships
College Peter J. Kent Scholarship Precollege
Joan Taub Ades Scholarship for Marga and Arthur King Scholarship An Anonymous Jazz Precollege
Musicial Theatre Kraeuter Violin Scholarship Scholarship
Licia Albanese Scholarship Edith Kriss Piano Scholarship Alex Assoian Music Project
Augustine Guitar Scholarship LADO Scholarship Fund Precollege Scholarship
Herbert R. and Evelyn Axelrod Marquis George MacDonald Dr. Michelle Solarz August
Scholarship Scholarship Precollege Scholarship in Piano
Frances Hall Ballard Scholarship Robert Mann Scholarship in Violin Kate Bamberger Memorial Violin
Artur Balsam Scholarship and Chamber Music Scholarship
Hans and Klara Bauer Scholarship Viola B. Marcus Memorial Matilda Cascio Precollege
Jordan Berk Scholarship Scholarship Fund (Graduate) Scholarship
Berkman-Rahm Scholarship Fund Viola B. Marcus Memorial Cuker/Stern Precollege Scholarship
Selma W. Berkman Memorial Scholarship Fund (Undergraduate) Marion Feldman Scholarship
Scholarship Clement Meadmore Scholarship in Dianne Danese Flagello Precollege
Vera Blacker Scholarship in Piano Jazz Studies Scholarship
Carmine Caruso Memorial Scholarship Homer and Constance Mensch Rosetta Goodkind Precollege
Edgar Foster Daniels Scholarship Scholarship Scholarship
in Voice Samuel and Mitzi Newhouse Andrew Goodman Memorial
Baisley Powell Elebash Scholarship Scholarship Precollege Scholarship
Gart Family Foundation Scholarship Birgit Nilsson Scholarship Dorothy Hales Gary Scholarship
Lloyd Gelassen Scholarship Scott Oakley Memorial Scholarship Jocelyn Gertel Precollege
Rita and Herbert Z. Gold Scholarship in Musical Theatre Scholarship
Michael Greene Scholarship Mae Zenke Orvis Opera Scholarship Constance Keene Precollege Piano
Charles Grossman Memorial Ethel Hollander Planchar Scholarship Scholarship
Endowment Scholarship Paul Price Percussion Scholarship Patinka Kopec† Precollege Violin
Grusin/Rosen Jazz Scholarship Judith Raskin Memorial Scholarship Scholarship
Adolphus Hailstork-Mary Weaver Jay Rubinton Scholarship Mary B. Lenom Scholarship
Scholarship Leon Russianoff Memorial Sassa Maniotis Endowed Precollege
William Randolph Hearst Foundation Scholarship Piano Scholarship
Scholarship Scott Shayne Sinclair Scholarship Nana’s Way Precollege Division
Margaret Hoswell van der Marck in Guitar Scholarship
Memorial Scholarship in Opera Joseph M. Smith Scholarship Carl Owen Memorial Scholarship
Helen Fahnestock Hubbard Elva Van Gelder Memorial Maitland Peters† and Karen Beardsley†
Family Scholarship Scholarship in Piano Precollege Voice Scholarship
Alexandra Hunt Endowed Vocal Dona D. Vaughn† Voice Scholarship Prep Parents Scholarship
Scholarship Emily M. Voorhis Scholarship Rita and Morris Relson Scholarship
Deolus Husband Memorial Rachmael Weinstock Scholarship Jonathan and Conrad Strasser
Scholarship for Composition in Violin Memorial Scholarship
Eugene Istomin Scholarship Avedis Zildjian Percussion Elva Van Gelder Memorial
in Piano Scholarship Scholarship in Piano
Annual Named Scholarships
College Janey Fund Charitable Trust Precollege
The ASCAP/Fran Morgenstern Davis Scholarship Alfred and Jane Ross Foundation
Scholarship Jephson Educational Trust Precollege Scholarship
Louis Armstrong Educational Scholarship CWKH Scholarship
Foundation, Inc. Scholarship JMP Musical Theatre Scholarship Eric and Margaret Friedberg
Augustine Foundation Scholarship Hugh Masekela Heritage Foundation Scholarship
Theodore H. Barth Foundation Scholarship Hansoree Scholarship
Scholarship Mae Zenke Orvis Opera Scholarship Isaac Kaplan Precollege Jazz
Elizabeth Beinecke Scholarship Sabian/Robert Zildjian Memorial Scholarship
Frank & Lydia Bergen Foundation Scholarship Josephine Luby Precollege
Scholarship Harold and Helene Schonberg Scholarship
Educational Assistance Scholarship Pianist Scholarship Robert and Amy McGraw Precollege
The First Initiative Hong Kong/China Glen K. Twiford Piano Scholarship Scholarship
Scholarship L. John Twiford Music Scholarship The Rochlis Family Foundation
International Advisory Board Scholarship
Scholarship
We have made every effort to list MSM donors accurately. If your name is not listed as
you wish, or if you notice an inaccuracy, please contact Nina Delgado in the Advancement
20 Office at 917-493-4490, or at ndelgado@msmnyc.edu.
*Deceased †MSM Faculty/StaffGalaxy Society
Members of the Galaxy Society ensure the future of Manhattan School of Music through inclusion of the School
in their long-range financial and estate plans. We are grateful for their vision and generosity, which helps ensure
that MSM continues to thrive into the next century and enables aspiring young artists to reach for the stars.
Anonymous Donors (2) Capt. Kenneth R. Force, USMS (ret.) Regina Rheinstein
Richard E. Adams Rabbi Mordecai Genn Melody Sawyer Richardson
Joan Taub Ades Ruth Golden† Mary S. Riebold
Louis Alexander Luisa Guembes-Buchanan Evelyn Ronell
Frank Bamberger Dr. Heather A. Hamilton Lesley and Ted† Rosenthal
Gabrielle Bamberger Shirley Katz-Cohen Alex Shapiro
Renee Bash Phillip N. Kawin† Dr. Marc Silverman†
Peter Basquin Diane Kettering Amy R. Sperling
William S. Beinecke Alan M. and Karen Schiebler Knieter Carleton B. Spotts
Yvette Benjamin Doris Konig Jonathan Sternberg
Blanche H. Blitstein Dr. Robert Ira Lewy Sondra Tammam
Louis M. Bonifati, Ed. D. Shigeru Matsuno Hetty Te Korte
Carla Bossi-Comelli Charlotte Mayerson Flavio Varani
James B. Coker Claire A. Meyer Dona D. Vaughn† and Ron Raines
Alex Davis Dr. Solomon Mikowsky† Keith L. Wiggs
Michael P. Devine Warren R. Mikulka Dr. Theo George Wilson
J. S. Ellenberger Charles B. Nelson Jr. Carolyn Zepf Hagner
Jonathan Fey Barbara and Dermot O’Reilly
Dianne and Nicolas* Flagello Duncan Pledger
Founder’s Society
The Founder’s Society honors the extraordinary generosity of the following individuals and institutions whose
cumulative giving to Manhattan School of Music exceeded $250,000 (as of June 30, 2019). These exceptional
donors enable MSM to provide world-class conservatory training to immensely talented students. We are deeply
grateful for their special dedication to the School’s mission and culture of artistic excellence and musicianship.
$5 million and above Mary Owen Borden Foundation Carnegie Corporation of New York
Michael and Noémi K. Neidorff/ Estate of Ruth Chatfield Edgar Foster Daniels
Centene Charitable Foundation Baisley Powell Elebash Fund Ervika Foundation
G. Chris Andersen and Lorraine Gallard and Richard H. Levy Cecilia and John Farrell
SungEun Han-Andersen Gart Family Foundation Estate of Ellen G. Fezer
Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Yveta S. Graff*
$1 to $5 million Michael W. Greene Estate of Rea F. Hooker
Joan Taub Ades & Alan M. Ades* Marcia and Donald Hamilton Jephson Educational Trusts
The ASCAP Foundation Jewish Foundation for Stanley Thomas Johnson
Carla Bossi-Comelli Education of Women Foundation
ELMA Philanthropies Estate of Kellogg Johnson Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen
Gordon K. Greenfield* Estate of Marga King Foundation
Gordon and Harriet Greenfield Estate of Edith Kriss Ruth M. Knight Trust
Foundation Peter Luerssen/Maecenata David G. Knott, PhD and
Estate of Jacqueline Kacere Foundation Françoise Girard
Estate of Dora Zaslavsky Koch A. L. and Jennie L. Luria Foundation Estate of Anna Case Mackay
Ilene and Edward Lowenthal Estate of Viola B. Marcus Dr. Linda Mercuro and
Alfred* and Claude Mann Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Toby Mercuro
Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation Dr. Solomon Mikowsky† National Endowment for the Arts
and Estate of Joseph F. McCrindle Ambrose Monell Foundation New York State Higher Education
Estate of Homer Mensch Miller Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Capital Matching Grant Board
Family Foundation Foundation Henry Nias Foundation
William R. Miller (HonDMA ’11) Estate of Harold Schonberg Bill and Patricia O’Connor
Octavian Society Estate of Rosalie Weir
Arthur and Mae Orvis Foundation $250,000 to $499,999 Sceneworks Studio
Susan and David Rahm An Anonymous Donor Melody Sawyer Richardson
Peter Jay Sharp Foundation Annie Laurie Aitken Charitable Trust Jody and Peter Robbins
Helen F. Whitaker Fund Estate of C. J. Stuart Allan Evelyn Sharp Foundation
Amato Opera Theater Harold and Helene Schonberg Trust
$500,000 to $999,999 Rose L. Augustine* and Augustine Starr Foundation
Altman Foundation Foundation Surdna Foundation
Nancy Terner Behrman*/ Herbert R. and Evelyn Axelrod Patrick N. W. Turner
Fund for Individual Potential Michael R. Bloomberg Gabe Wiener Foundation
William S. Beinecke Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation
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*Deceased †MSM Faculty/StaffManhattan School of Music Leadership
Board of Trustees
Lorraine Gallard, Chair Nancy Freund Heller
Edward Lowenthal, Vice Chair Han Jo Kim
David G. Knott, Treasurer Warren Jones
Noémi K. Neidorff (BM ’70, MM ’72, HonDMA ’17), Linda Bell Mercuro
Secretary Bebe Neuwirth (HonDMA ’15)
Terence Blanchard (HonDMA ’17) Bill O’Connor
Carla Bossi-Comelli Leonard Slatkin (HonDMA ’13)
Laurie Carney Trustees Emeriti
Susan Ennis Marta Istomin (HonDMA ’05), President Emerita
James Gandre, President William R. Miller (HonDMA ’11)
Marcia Clay Hamilton David A. Rahm (HonDMA ’07), Chair Emeritus
Thomas Hampson (HonDMA ’09) Robert G. Simon
International Advisory Board
Carla Bossi-Comelli, Chair, Switzerland Michelle Ong, Hong Kong
Mita Aparicio, Mexico Margot Patron, Mexico
Delin Bru, United States Maria Elvira Salgar, Colombia/United States
Alejandro Cordero, Argentina Chiona X. Schwarz, Germany
Raul M. Gutierrez, Mexico/Spain Angel Sosa, Mexico
Lori Harris, United States Guillermo Vogel, Mexico
Margot Alberti de Mazzeri, Italy
Artistic Advisory Council
Terence Blanchard (HonDMA ’17) Marta Istomin (HonDMA ’05), President Emerita
Anthony Roth Costanzo (MM ’08) Bernard Labadie (HonDMA ’18)
Glenn Dicterow Lang Lang (HonDMA ’12)
Peter Duchin Bebe Neuwirth (HonDMA ’15)
Richard Gaddes (HonDMA ’17) Leonard Slatkin (HonDMA ’13)
Thomas Hampson (HonDMA ’09) Pinchas Zukerman (HonDMA ’93)
Stefon Harris (BM ’95, MM ’97)
President’s Council
James Gandre, President Joan Gordon, Interim Dean of Enrollment Management
Joyce Griggs, Executive Vice President and Provost Bryan Greaney, Director of Facilities and
Gary Meyer, Senior Vice President and CFO Campus Safety
Susan Madden, Vice President for Advancement Christianne Orto, Dean of Distance Learning
Jeff Breithaupt, Vice President for Media and Recording Arts
and Communications Kelly Sawatsky, Dean of the Precollege
Carol Matos, Vice President for Administration Alexa Smith, Chief of Staff
and Human Relations Henry Valoris, Dean of Performance and
Monica Coen Christensen, Dean of Students Production Operations
Department Chairs and Program Directors
Michelle Baker, Chair, Brass Margaret Kampmeier, Artistic Director and Chair,
Rebecca Charnow, Director of Community Contemporary Performance Program
Partnerships & MSM Summer Christopher Lamb, Chair, Percussion
Linda Chesis, Chair, Woodwinds Jeffrey Langford, Associate Dean of Doctoral
Glenn Dicterow, Chair, Graduate Program in Studies and Chair, Music History
Orchestral Performance David Leisner, Chair, Guitar
Casey Molino Dunn, Director, Center for George Manahan, Director of Orchestral Activities
Music Entrepreneurship Nicholas Mann, Chair, Strings
John Forconi, Chair, Collaborative Piano John Pagano, Chair, Humanities
Reiko Füting, Chair, Theory Maitland Peters, Chair, Voice
Liza Gennaro, Associate Dean and Director, Marc Silverman, Chair, Piano
Musical Theatre Program J. Mark Stambaugh, Chair, Composition
Stefon Harris, Associate Dean and Director, Kent Tritle, Director of Choral Activities
Jazz Arts Program Dona D. Vaughn, Artistic Director of Opera
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