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July 10, 2014
PROFESSOR DENK: MacArthur Fellow, Avery Fisher Prize recipient, and Musical America’s Instrumentalist of the Year for 2014, pianist and author Jeremy Denk (left) will spend two weeks playing and teaching at the Music Academy this summer, including a performance with the Academy’s Festival Orchestra at the Granada on Saturday, July 12.
with the idea for Mosher guest artists.” The Mosher Guest Artist program thus allowed the Music Academy to take its faculty model to another level and to bring in guest artists regardless of whether or not there were other people teaching that instrument. From there, of a catalyst, a program that would transform it spread to the idea that a guest artist could also be an ensemble, like Brooklyn Rider or the entire organization in a relatively short eighth blackbird, who participated in the period of time. Birch describes the discusprogram in 2013 and 2014 respectively, rather sion this way: “We sat around the table for than an individual performer. several hours and spun ideas. The one major The Mosher Foundation’s mission statemissing piece of the Academy’s program ment identifies “a particular focus on partwas the ability to bring in very significant, nerships where foundation support will world-renowned artists to spend time make a significant difference in a relatively with the students. So together, we came up short period of time,” and what the Music Academy has done with their support illustrates this principle. While the partnership with the New York Philharmonic is the real game changer, Posey sees this new relationship as “an extension of the Mosher Guest Artist program to another level” and goes on to explain how that worked.“Once we decided it was okay to have an ensemble as a guest artist, we began to think on a different scale. We have had certain things in place for a while, but it was really the Guest Artist program that was the seed of what has just happened. A party is only as good as the guest list, and through this program we’ve found a way to expand our guest list dramatically. We have a presence now that’s on a national scale because we’ve done so much recently, and that’s going to continue and get even bigger.” In the LEADING PLAYERS: This year, Music Academy foundation world, this kind of catalyst President Scott Reed (left) and Vice President for Artistic effect has become what every smart Planning & Educational Programs Patrick Posey are grant maker aspires to — creating the bringing more guest artists to campus and sending some momentum that will carry an organilucky Academy fellows to New York to train with the New zation from good to great. York Philharmonic. PAUL WELLMAN
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