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Tuesday, May 6, 2008

2008 Concert Gala

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OUR 90TH
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Celebrate five of New York City’s brightest lights and their contributions to the arts.

The evening will also showcase performances by soprano Dawn Upshaw, pianist André-Michel Schub, and some of Manhattan School of Music’s finest emerging musicians. Your support helps ensure that this leading conservatory of music and its many talented young artists continue to flourish.

Chairman David A. Rahm
President Robert Sirota
and the Board of Trustees

cordially invite you to the

Manhattan School of Music 2008 Concert Gala
honoring five illustrious contributors to the arts

John Corigliano
Arthur Mitchell
Charles Osgood
Bruce A. Stevens
Dawn Upshaw

Tuesday, May 6, 2008
The Rainbow Room
30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York City

Reception and Silent Auction 6:00 PM
Dinner and Concert 7:00 PM
Christie’s Live Auction

Performances by

Dawn Upshaw, André-Michel Schub, and students from Manhattan School of Music

Black Tie

For further details — including donor levels and how to reserve a table or an individual seat — click here.

(Patterns in the above "M" are adapted from a mural painted for the Rainbow Room by Ever Greene Studios.)

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2008 Concert Gala Honorees

John Corigliano
John Corigliano is widely recognized as one of our most outstanding contemporary composers, whose orchestral, choral, and chamber works are performed worldwide. His many honors include a Pulitzer Prize for his Symphony No. 2 (2001), a Grawemeyer and Grammy Award for his Symphony No. 1 (1991), and an Academy Award for his score to the film The Red Violin. His widely acclaimed opera, The Ghosts of Versailles, was commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera for its centenary. Mr. Corigliano was a member of Manhattan School of Music’s composition faculty from 1971 to 1991 and is an alumnus as well.

Arthur Mitchell
Arthur Mitchell is known around the world as an accomplished artistic director, astute educator, talented choreographer, and extraordinary dancer. As the founding artistic director of the Dance Theatre of Harlem, with an illustrious career that has spanned over fifty years, Arthur Mitchell has been the recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors, a National Medal of the Arts, a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, the New York Living Landmark Award, the Handel Medallion, the NAACP Image Award, and more than a dozen honorary degrees.

Charles Osgood
Known as CBS News’s “poet-in-residence,” Charles Osgood has anchored Sunday Morning since 1994. He has been called “one of the last great broadcast writers” by Charles Kuralt, his predecessor on the show. His daily news commentary on CBS Radio, The Osgood File, has earned him five Best in the Business Awards from the Washington Journalism Review. Among his many other accolades, Osgood was inducted into the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 1990, received an ASCAP Award for outstanding coverage of music creators in 1996, and was honored by the International Radio and Television Society Foundation in 1999 for significant achievement.

Bruce A. Stevens
As president and CEO of Steinway & Sons from 1985 to 2007, Bruce A. Stevens dedicated himself to the company’s mission to continue to produce the finest pianos in the world, upholding and updating Steinway’s tradition of excellence. Raised in Shenendoah, Iowa, in a family whose musical life revolved around their Steinway Model L (since rebuilt by Steinway & Sons), Mr. Stevens studied French horn, trumpet, and drums, as well as piano. A graduate of the Wharton School, he was formerly director of international marketing for Polaroid.

Dawn Upshaw
Manhattan School of Music alumna Dawn Upshaw is internationally renowned for an opera and concert repertoire that ranges from the sacred works of Bach to the newest sounds of today. Acclaimed for her performances of the great Mozart roles, as well as of Stravinsky, Poulenc, and Messiaen, she has sung nearly 300 performances, from Salzburg and Paris to the Metropolitan Opera, where she began her career in 1984. A four-time Grammy Award winner, Ms. Upshaw has earned the devotion of an exceptionally diverse audience worldwide and is a favorite artistic partner of many of the leading musicians of our day.

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2008 Concert Gala Performers

André-Michel Schub, Piano
Pianist André-Michel Schub has been described by the New York Times as “pianistically flawless … a formidable pianist with a fierce integrity.” The 1981 grand prize winner of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, the 1977 recipient of the Avery Fisher Recital Award, and winner of the Naumberg International Piano Competition in 1974, Mr. Schub has performed with the world’s most distinguished orchestras, among them the Boston Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic. Mr. Schub was born in France and moved to New York with his family at eight months old. After attending Princeton, he studied with Rudolf Serkin at the Curtis Institute from 1970 to 1973. André-Michel Schub has been a Manhattan School of Music faculty member since 2006.

Dawn Upshaw, Soprano
Manhattan School of Music alumna Dawn Upshaw is internationally renowned for an opera and concert repertoire that ranges from the sacred works of Bach to the newest sounds of today. Acclaimed for her performances of the great Mozart roles, as well as of Stravinsky, Poulenc, and Messiaen, she has sung nearly 300 performances, from Salzburg and Paris to the Metropolitan Opera, where she began her career in 1984. A four-time Grammy Award winner, Ms. Upshaw has earned the devotion of an exceptionally diverse audience worldwide and is a favorite artistic partner of many of the leading musicians of our day.

Manhattan School of Music Students TBA

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To read about the Gala After-Party that follows the Concert Gala, click here.

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About last year's Concert Gala

Benefiting Manhattan School of Music and inaugurating the School’s 90th Anniversary, the 2007 Concert Gala was held at the Mandarin Oriental on May 1. The event honored three internationally renowned artists: Thomas Hampson, Evgeny Kissin, and Pinchas Zukerman.