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Brooklyn Conservatory of Music Presents
Music
Moves
Activate the Power of Music
Spring Gala
Tuesday, April 21, 2015 | 6:00 PM
sponsorship opportunities
Inside
•Who We Are
•What We Do
•Our Leadership
•Our Media Coverage
From
Our
Gala
Chairs
Dear
Friends
Welcome to Music Moves, the Brooklyn
Conservatory of Music’s 2015 Spring Gala!
Building upon the success of last year’s sold out Red Hot Winter
Gala at Roulette , this year we will activate the power of music at
the Brooklyn Museum. Our Music Moves gala will celebrate the
Conservatory’s inspiring Music Therapy Program, which fosters social,
emotional and developmental growth through active engagement
in music. It will also honor members and staunch supporters of the
Conservatory and benefit its many other extraordinary programs.
The Conservatory will present Music Moves on Tuesday, April 21 at
6:00pm. Guests will enjoy cocktails and dinner followed by swing
dancing, led by the talented Excelsior Symphony. As we did last year,
we expect Music Moves to draw musicians, parents, educators, and
community and business leaders from Brooklyn and beyond.
We need your support to keep our great programs thriving and
vibrant. We look forward to meeting you and partnering with you in
advance of this important event.
Best Regards,
Florence Hutner & Matthew H. Tye
Honoring
Lucina Clarke
Founder and Executive Director
of My Time, Inc.
INSPIRATIONAL LEADER AWARD
The Joseph
Leroy and Ann C.
Warner Fund
Randy Weston
Legendary Jazz Pianist
& Composer
Music Impact Award
Community Partners Award
Kramer Levin
Naftalis &
Frankel LLP
Toby Williams
Director,
BCM Music Therapy Program
Outstanding Service Award
Corporate Leader Award
Additional Honorees to be Announced
Gala Co-Chairs
&
Florence Hutner
Matthew H. Tye
Honorary Chair Eric L. Adams Brooklyn Borough President
Gala Host Committee
Melinda Burke
David Burrell
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Denise Jordan
Barbara Smith
Jon Samson
Jerri SInes Mayer
Thomas Moers Mayer
Featured Swing Band
Excelsior Symphony
An ensemble of critically acclaimed music industry veterans who have worked with The Duke
Ellington Orchestra, Count Basie Orchestra, Mel Lewis, Chico O’Farrill and many, many others.
Music Moves will celebrate
MUSIC THERAPY
Music activates, inspires and stimulates emotional
expression. Music relaxes, calms the nervous
system and helps restore internal balance. Music
connects us to ourselves and others.
Music is life affirming.
Music Therapy is an evidenced-based clinical discipline where music is used to effect
positive change and foster creative expression in children and adults. In addition
to achieving clinical goals and improving social functioning of those with special
needs, people who desire to expand their lives and explore issues through creative
expression are also good candidates for music therapy.
Whether working one-on-one or in a group setting, the Brooklyn Conservatory of
Music offers music therapy for clients to grow through the transformative experience
of making music in relationship with a trained music therapist. Our credentialed
music therapists play music with clients using improvisation and specific music
interventions to address client needs and goals.
We Offer
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Onsite Music Therapy
Early Intervention Program
Outreach Music Therapy
Therapeutic Music Lessons
With the support of grants and individual
donations, the program is able to offer
subsidized music therapy to most of the
participating individuals, all of whom have
emotional, development and physical
challenges. The program works with over
1000 students in 28 schools, social service
agencies and community organizations
throughout New York City.
“We have been coming to this school
for nearly 10 years. My special
needs son could barely speak at
that time. Now he is able to express
himself with the help of the amazing
therapists and teachers in this music
therapy program.”
Joeretta Washington
“The music
brought him
back to a
familiar place
and helped
motivate him
to participate
in therapy and
heal.”
Cheryl Boucher
Mother of a child
who suffered a paralyzing brain
assault
Community
Outreach
Music Partners
The Conservatory created Music Partners in 1988 in response to a critical need
in the community – the rising number of New York City public schools offering
no music instruction. Today Music Partners offers subsidized, comprehensive,
and sequential music instruction at little or no cost to nearly 5,000 individuals
in 32 schools, Head Start programs and at senior centers throughout New York
City. Programs include band, strings, chorus, world drumming and percussion,
guitar, ukulele, recorder, and early childhood movement and music.
Music Partner students represent 42 nationalities and speak more than 30
languages and dialects. Additionally, 65% of these students are AfricanAmerican, Hispanic/Latino or Asian and live at or below the poverty line.
Brooklyn Conservatory
Community Orchestra
From Mozart to Copland and beyond, the Conservatory Orchestra performs
works of the great orchestral repertoire and gives several public performances
throughout the year in Brooklyn.
Brooklyn Conservatory Chorale
A dynamic chorus with high musical standards, the Conservatory Chorale
explores and performs a rich variety of musical styles, both a cappella
and with accompaniment, from the Renaissance to the present. Public
performances are given throughout the year in Brooklyn.
Early Childhood
Music education
onsite
division
In House Party: Songs and Stories from
America’s Neighborhoods, featuring the music
of Grammy Winner Dan Zanes, children and
their parents sing, dance, listen, play instruments
and learn to make music an integral part of their everyday lives while
interacting with the music and stories of the diverse cultures that make up
America’s neighborhoods.
Suzuki Method
Recognized worldwide as a highly effective approach for teaching children
the language of music, the Suzuki program is filled to capacity every year and
includes violin, viola, cello, guitar, piano and bass.
Teen Jazz
Our Teen Jazz Program provides
an opportunity for students
with limited financial means to
participate in a comprehensive
jazz program of lessons, theory,
jazz combo rehearsals, and
Big Band – taught by NYC’s
leading jazz professionals. This
program is supported by the Amy
Winehouse Foundation, Brooklyn
Community Foundation, Doris
Duke Charitable Foundation/
Chamber Music America, New
York Community Trust, and
numerous donors.
Private Lessons
We offer private instruction in nearly every orchestral and band
instrument, as well as in piano, guitar, voice and in a variety of
instruments from the around the world.
Our Leadership
Joel S. Kress
Board of Trustees
Joel S. Kress is the founder and managing member
of Z to A Ventures, LLC, a strategic advisory
and consulting firm, and a vice president of
V&A Capital, a New York-based merchant bank
focused on investing in and advising European
and U.S. middle-market companies. Mr. Kress
was previously a principal and senior managing
director for ICON Investments, an alternative
investment management group that manages
and distributes a range of alternative investment
products for individual and institutional investors.
In that position, Mr. Kress was actively involved
in all aspects of the firm’s business, including
product development and capital raising, portfolio
management and operations, risk management,
compliance and investor relations.
Board of Trustees
Joel Kress, Chair
Bernadette Levandowski, Vice Chair
Honorable Brian M. Cogan,
Secretary
Jason Tepper, Treasurer
Scott Cantone
Chad Cooper
Florence Hutner
Kevin King
Russ Soper
Adam Stein
Matthew H. Tye, Ph.D.
Arda Ural
Advisory Council
Alan Blum
Craig Bromberg
Danny Kapilian
Maureen Keenan
Andrea Knutson
Judy Lieff
Helen Little
Konrad Payne
Rick Russo
Robert Vitalo
Karen Wenderoff
Mr. Kress received a JD cum laude from Boston
University School of Law and a BA with honors
from Connecticut College. He was also a visiting
student in the Masters of Jurisprudence program at St. Catherine’s
College, Oxford University in Oxford, England.
As a lifetime lover of music and believer in the therapeutic and other
benefits that music can bring, coupled with his desire to give back to
the community in which he and his family live, Mr. Kress is pleased to
be the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Brooklyn Conservatory
of Music so that he can help further its mission to provide access to
music education and music therapy to individuals and organizations
in underserved communities through its outreach programs as well as
at its on-site location in Park Slope.
Karen Geer
Executive Director
Karen Geer, who lives in Brooklyn, joined the Brooklyn Conservatory
of Music as Executive Director in January 2011 with experience
leading nonprofit and for-profit organizations. Under her leadership,
Karen has restructured the administrative staff, created partnerships
with leading cultural institutions in Brooklyn, and initiated House
Party, an early childhood music program featuring the music of
Dan Zanes. Karen served as Interim Executive Director of Opus 118
Harlem School of Music where she was instrumental in the design and
development of the Music Within preschool program and the Harlem
Youth Chorus. Through collaboration with Columbia University,
Karen developed the Community Programs Initiative, the earned
revenue programming arm of Opus 118 that nearly doubled program
engagement.
Before joining Opus 118, Karen was a lawyer at Harris Beach LLP
managing mass tort litigation. She received her JD from Fordham
University School of Law, LLM in Environmental Law from Pace
University, Master’s Degree in Tuba Performance from Manhattan
School of Music, and BM in music education from Kent State
University. Before practicing law, Karen was an Orff Certified music
teacher at the Ethical Culture School in Manhattan. She also taught
Music and Movement for preschool children at the renowned Diller
Quaile School of Music. As a performer, Karen was a soloist at the
Brooklyn First Unitarian Church for over fifteen years. She has
performed with the Canton Symphony, Akron Symphony, Cleveland
Women’s Orchestra, Kent Opera Theatre, the Opera Ensemble of
new York, the Brooklyn Lyric Opera Company and was a regular
performer with the Beekman Hill Recital Series in Manhattan.
Looking Back...
Red Hot Winter Gala 2014
Thank you to our corporate donors for making our 2014 Gala a success!
Account Management Solutions, Inc. (AMS)
Ashland Maintenance Organization, Inc.
Bacardi/Grey Goose
Bender Cantone Consulting, Inc.
Bender Insurance Agency Inc.
Broadcast Music, Inc.
Brooklyn Brewery
Café Dada
CDesks
City National Bank
ConEd
Continental Advisory Services, LLC
Contrarian Capital Management
Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt, Mosle LLP
Cypress Hills Local Development Center
DanceWave
David Carrie LLC
Dr. Daren A. King Specialist in Orthodontics
Ercole’s Creative Fashions
Festival Five
Forest City Ratner
FTI Consulting
GLC Advisors & Co.
HaloCard
Houlihan Lokey
Investors Bank
Johnson String Instrument
Knighthead Capital Management
Kramer Levin
Mark’s Bookkeeping Services
Morrison & Foerster LLP
Noel Pointer Foundation
Orr Associates
Owen J. Flanagan & Company, CPAs
PS 321PTA
Quinn & Feiner
Red White & Bubbly
SaveMor Digital Printing
Special Events Unlimited, Inc.
Steinway
Stone Lion Capital Partners L.P.
Suzuki Parents Association
The Painted Pot
TNG Cleaners, Inc. / Brooklyn Valet
Z to A Ventures
Be a 2015 Sponsor
Contact our gala team at 212-684-1110 or
email [email protected]
Get involved!
$50,000 Raise Your Voice Leaders
• Includes 2 Tables with 20 Premier Seats
• Top acknowledgement in all printed material, including the invitations (if confirmed by 1/15/14)
• Logo with link featured on BCM’s event website and on rolling slide at event
• Inside cover advert in program
• One year pass for 4 to all Conservatory concerts
$25,000 CATCH THE BEAT Benefactors
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Includes 1 Table with 12 Priority Seats
Acknowledgement in all printed material, including the invitations (if confirmed by 1/15/14)
Logo with link featured on BCM’s event website and on rolling slide at event
Full page advert in program
Six-month pass for 2 to all Conservatory concerts
$12,500 CLAP YOUR HANDS Supporters
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Includes 1 Table with 10 Seats
Acknowledgment on invitations (if confirmed by 1/15/14)
Listing on BCM’s event website and on rolling slide at event
Full page advert in program
15 tickets to Conservatory concerts
$5,000 BEAT THE DRUM Advocates
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Includes 1 Table with 8 Seats
Acknowledgment on invitations (if confirmed by 1/15/14)
Listing on BCM’s event website and on rolling slide at event •Half page advert in program
10 tickets to Conservatory concerts
$2,500 GET IN THE GROOVE Sustainers
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Includes 1⁄2 Table with 4 Seats
Listing on BCM’s event website and on rolling slide at event
Quarter page advert in program
6 tickets to Conservatory concerts
Be a STAR!
Buy a scholarship ticket
Add a $200 gift to your
commitment so a BCM music
therapist or faculty member
can attend this special event.
INDIVIDUAL TICKETS
$500 MOVE TO THE MUSIC Patrons *
$300 INSPIRE IMPROVISATION Friends
* Patron ticket purchasers will be acknowledged in program.
JOURNAL ADVERTISEMENTS
Artwork due on April 3, 2015
$2,500 Platinum Full Page
$1,500 Gold Full Page
$750 Silver Half Page
$500 Bronze Quarter Page
In case you are unable to attend
Questions?
you can still show your support with a tax
deductible contribution!
Contact our gala team at 212-684-1110 or
email [email protected]!
Media Coverage
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2015
Sponsor
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Call 212-684-1110
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