Jourdan Urbach will be performing!
15. Oct, 2010 
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Jourdan Urbach is musically gifted, socially conscious, and will be performing at TEDxYSE on November 13th! Check out his bio below. (And don’t forget to register).
Biography
At 18, Juilliard Pre-College violin virtuoso and Yale University sophomore Jourdan Urbach has already received international acclaim: for his musical artistry and philanthropic endeavors as founder and director of Children Helping Children, a musical charity organization that has raised $4.7 million through Concerts for a Cure for cutting edge neurological research, groundbreaking hospital pediatric programs in music therapy & pain management, and international medical organizations targeting the eradication of neurological disease.
Compared by NY critics to a “Young Paganini” with “buttery smooth playing and laser sharp technique,” Urbach has been the headline performer at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Madison Square Garden, The Meadowlands, The Tilles Center, The Kravis Center in Palm Beach, National Classical Radio Show: From the Top,Universal City in LA, among dozens of legendary national concert venues. Urbach has been featured on Good Morning America, The Today Show, CNN-Lou Dobbs, CBS Sunday Morning Program with Charles Osgood, Host Robert Sherman of WQXR’s Young Artist Showcase called Urbach “the one to watch for the future…a brilliant performer.”
Urbach’s concert career has included four sold-out performances at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall, and musical collaborations with Multi-Platinum Country Music Star Clay Walker and Emmy nominated composer Chris Caswell—with two world premieres written for him by Caswell. Urbach was presented as classical music’s “Rising Star” at The Ventura Music Festival, under the direction of Maestro Nuvi Mehta; in Memphis as the prestigious “2009 Artist Ascending Winner” (following in the footsteps of such past winners as: Itzhak Perlman & Gil Shaham). Urbach is featured on comedian Steve Martin’s Grammy Winning Blue Grass album—released by Capitol Records in 2009; and was commissioned to compose his first film score for the short film: “Elah and the Moon,” by director Vera Mulyani, screened which will be screened at the Tribeca Film Festival, 2009 and The Cannes Film Festival 2010. He has composed the original scores for Metamorphoses, Aracadia, Happy Endings, and Phantomwise for Yale Repertory Theater, and is presently working on a commission for a Berthold Brecht score for The Yale School of Drama.
Urbach’s latest social entrepreneurial endeavor is as Founder and Executive Director of the International Coalition of College Philanthropists the first collegiate, philanthropic honor society–the new millennium’s greatest movement forward in youth leadership and nonprofit fundraising. ICCP is the first completely student-run, zero-overhead, grant-giving organization linking the top colleges in the nation in annual philanthropic causes and fund raising activities).
Urbach is the Director of Communications for the Nestle Foundation; a National winner of the Nestle Very Best in Youth scholarship; Coca Cola Scholarship, Toyota Scholarship, AXA Achievement Scholarship; Build-a-Bear’s National Scholarship; is Advisor & Artist-in-Residence to UN (WAFUNIF) Council of Arts for Peace; and the 2010 recipient of the World of Children Jr. Nobel Prize for Global Child Advocacy.
This is a phenomenal performer! I’ve heard him at Lincoln Center in NYC. Don’t miss this guy!
I’m actually taking off from school to hear Jourdan. I’ve heard him on TV and am so psyched that he’s finally in the DC area. Excellent job on snagging him, TEDx!
Ahhhhhh! He’s amazing!!! I’ve heard him play twice. I wish I could go. Next year come to New York!
This sounds great. I can’t believe the accomplishments Jourdan has put together in 18 years. I’m very impressed and looking forward to hearing him play. Is he speaking too? I’d love to hear about his journey.
This bio just blows my mind. Where did you find Jourdan and how can I hear his music? I can’t get to the event. Will his talk be taped?
Wow, I saw this performer on Charles Osgood’s Sunday Morning Program and couldn’t believe the things he’s done–not to mention his incredible playing! If I lived closer, I’d be there. Can you make a CD of his performance and sell it on this site? (Make it reasonable, please,’cause we’re students!)
Jourdan rocks, and if I didn’t go to school in NY I’d come for the day just to hear him. Those of us who follow his work think he’s going to make some kind of lasting change in this world, for sure. No wonder he won a Nobel Prize for Child Advocacy!!!
What a CV!I’d like to go just to hear what someone like this sounds like. I think what you’re doing with TEDx is so inspiring. If you can get people like this performer in your line up, you’re doing something right.
Now that’s a powerful youth leader!! Looking forward to watching this performance online. Please make it available.
Jourdan is unbelievable! I’ve been following his career for years and am trying to get down to TEDx to hear him (as long as I don’t have major exams to study for that weekend). It would be a lot easier if you brought him to Richmond to speak and perform. He’s coming to do a benefit concert at the historic Byrd Theater for the Cullather Brain Tumor Center on Nov. 13th, and I’ll definitely be there.
TEDxYSE is so lucky to get Jourdan Urbach!He is very famous in NY and I’d come to hear him speak if I could. I’ve only heard him perform and he’s unbelievable. He has done more in 18 years than most leaders of our country do in a life time. I think it’s kind of monumental that you’re having him speak in DC because he’s going to be a major player in the world one of these days.
Children Helping Children is an amaaaazing organization that helped my dad’s Multiple Sclerosis chapter a lot. Jourdan raised almost $200,000 for our Long Island chapter. He’s a hero to all of us affected in any way by this disease. A lot of home-care services can be provided with that money. Jourdan, we love you!!! Please go into politics and save our health care system!!
Has anyone read about Urbach’s new collegiate venture: International Coalition of College Philanthropists (ICCP)? We don’t have a chapter at Duke, and I’m going to contact him now to see if we can start one. What a great idea!To get all the colleges around the world united in a few major fund raising efforts each year. Smart.
Very impressive individual–a one person arts and philanthropic army for change. Good luck with the conference. Wish I could attend.
Such an inspiration! This is a world leader!
Completely awesome artist-activist!!! Fantastic to read about.
Could he be any more remarkable? I’ve heard about him a lot. Wish I could attend. What a line-up!
I’m getting in touch with Jourdan to create a chapter of International Coalition of College Philanthropists at Brown. He’s amaaaaazing! Will he be talking about that new organization at TEDx?
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! He’s amazing. My whole suite will be watching from USC!
WOW!!! Totally gonna’ see this when it’s online. Outstanding.
Jourdan thanks everyone for attending and watching the livestream. He has a message for his fans…
When will Jourdan’s segment be up on the site?
A shout-out to Jourdan from his fans back in NY. When’s the next Lincoln Center gig? Put the word out and we’re there.