Concert Details

Friday, October 10th, 2003 at 6PM
Honoring Dino Anagnost, Music Director of The Little Orchestra Society
The Bar Association of the City of New York
42 West 44th Street, Between 5th and 6th Avenues

Saturday, October 11th, 2003 at 6PM
Immanuel Lutheran Church
122 East 88th Street, Between Park and Lexington Avenues

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2003 at 7:30PM
Alice Tully Hall
Lincoln Center
Benefit Concert for the Trickle Up Program

David Bernard, Conductor
Jourdan Urbach, Violin

Haydn Symphony No. 88 in G
Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 26
Beethoven Symphony No. 5, Op. 67

Left: Charles Osgood introducing The Park Avenue Chamber Symphony. Right: Jourdan Urbach performing the Bruch Violin Concerto with The Park Avenue Chamber Symphony, David Bernard conducting.

Left: The Park Avenue Chamber Symphony performing Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor.  Right: Backstage at Alice Tully Hall (left to right): Charles Osgood, Anchor, CBS Sunday Morning and emcee of the event; Wendy Gordon Rockefeller, President, The Trickle Up Program; Reynold Levy, President of Lincoln Center; Richenda Van Leeuwen, Executive Director, The Trickle Up Program

About the Soloist

Jourdan Urbach, eleven year old concert violinist and newly published author, is a student at The Juilliard School's Pre-College Division, where he studies with Lewis Kaplan.  He also studies privately with Patinka Kopec, and her assistant Julie Artzt. Jourdan has won numerous violin competitions and has been the headline soloist at Carnegie Recital Hall, Steinway Hall, The Tilles Center, Merkin Hall, and Lefrak Hall, as well as being a featured performer on national television. He most recently performed and was interviewed by Diane Sawyer on Good Morning America, and was featured artist on The Caroline Rhea Show.
     This year, Jourdan has had full page articles written about him in The New York Times, The Daily News and Newsday. He was also invited to perform and was honored for his national achievements with a citation by the Nassau County Legislature, and will be honored again in January with a citation by The New York State Legislature and Governor Pataki.     
     Jourdan's appearance in Alice Tully Hall with the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony marks his Lincoln Center Debut.  He will be performing on January 24, 2004 at Carnegie Recital Hall as the headline artist in a Gala Benefit for Beth Israel Medical Center’s Institute for Neurology and Neurosurgery. This season, Jourdan will also appear as soloist in performances with the Metropolitan Youth Orchestra and the Massapequa Philharmonic.
     Jourdan is the Founder and Director of Children Helping Children (CHC), a musical charity organization that performs and fundraises for the pediatric centers of New York hospitals. Jourdan and his young accomplished musical colleagues go room-to-room and play bedside for the children in each hospital they visit. He has also produced and performed gala benefit concerts at Carnegie Recital Hall to raise funds for New York area hospitals. In the past three years, CHC has raised tens of thousands of dollars for Beth Israel Medical Center's Institute for Neurology and Neurosurgery.
     Jourdan is also a published author. His first novel (Leaving Jeremiah, Goose River Press), available in retail and online bookstores such as Barnes & Noble and Amazon.Com,  has recently gone into its second printing.  As part of the release of Leaving Jeremiah, he has held "Meet the Author" talks at Barnes & Noble and Borders, where he covered the book's content and his own creative process in its development. Jourdan's second novel, Inside the Music is awaiting publication.
     Jourdan is a participant in the Johns Hopkins Talented Youth Program and has been nominated to The Kids Hall of Fame. He also makes time for playing classical and blues guitar and fiddle, and is an adjunct member of the popular band, 6V6, (of which John McEnroe is a member). He resides on Long Island with his parents and seven year old brother Alec, a talented cellist.
     Jourdan would like to dedicate his performance of the Bruch Violin Concerto to the memory of his grandfather Zayde.