BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//artsboston.org//NONSGML iCalcreator 2.6// VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:Calendar of artsboston.org X-WR-CALDESC:In this calendar you will find information about events that y ou did save X-WR-TIMEZONE:US/Pacific BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20130526T103441CEST-82593xSJOZ@artsboston.org DTSTAMP:20130526T083441Z CATEGORIES:Personal CLASS:EVENT DESCRIPTION:Event Name: musician and arts advocate AARON P. DWORKIN\nEvent Url: http://www.artsboston.org/event/detail/441091525/musician_and_arts_ad vocate_AARON_P_DWORKIN\nEvent Date Begin: 2011-03-11\nEvent Date End: 2011 -03-11\n\nAaron P. Dworkin\, Founder and President of the Sphinx Organizat ion\, which focuses on youth development and diversity in classical music performance and appreciation\, will discuss &ldquo\;Breaking the Sound Bar rier: The Sphinx Organization and Classical Music.&rdquo\; SPHINX\n\n\n\nD workin will address the lack of diversity that exists in the classical mus ic field in America. As part of this analysis\, he will share statistics f rom orchestras\, music schools and youth orchestras that lay the foundatio n for his work building greater representation of Blacks and Latinos in th e industry. He also covers the issues facing minority composers and the ob stacles to greater visibility of their historical contributions to the cla ssical music repertory as well as current commissions.\n\n\n\nIn addition\ , Dworkin will provide an overview of the Sphinx Organization and the impa ct of its programs including their Preparatory Music Institute in Detroit\ , Performance Academy in Boston\, Artist Series at Carnegie Hall\, various educational programs in schools around the country and the flagship progr am of the organization\, the Sphinx Competition for young Black and Latino musicians. Dworkin will also share a brief video on the organization that includes clips of several of its ensembles\, featuring the Sphinx Symphon y\, Sphinx Chamber Orchestra and the Harlem Quartet.\n\n\n\nDworkin repres ents diversity himself with a family background that is White\, Black\, Je wish\, Jehovah's Witness\, Irish and Catholic. He will also share his pers onal story including his adoption\, beginnings on the violin at the age of five and his various life experiences that ultimately led him to founding the Sphinx Organization while still a student at the University of Michig an.\n\n\n\nAn accomplished electric and acoustic violinist\, Dworkin recei ved his Bachelors and Masters of Music in Violin Performance from the Univ ersity of Michigan School of Music\, graduating with high honors. He previ ously attended the Peabody Institute\, the Philadelphia New School and the Interlochen Arts Academy and has studied with Vladimir Graffman\, Berl Se nofsky\, Jascha Brodsky\, John Eaken\, Renata Knific\, Donald Hopkins and Stephen Shipps. Additionally\, Dworkin studied piano with Robert Alexander Bö\;hnke in Tü\;bingen\, Germany. Awarded a 2005 MacArthur Fellow ship and a member of President Barak Obama's National Arts Policy Committe e\, Dworkin is this year's recipient of Harvard University's Luise Vosgerc hian Teaching Award\, which honors a nationally recognized educator and is administered by the Office for the Arts at Harvard. Dworkin is the eleven th recipient of the Vosgerchian Award\, which was established by Professor and Mrs. Ray A. Goldberg and the Max Goldberg Foundation in order to perp etuate the values and teaching skills represented by the late Professor Vo sgerchian who\, at her retirement from Harvard University in 1990\, was th e Walter W. Naumberg Professor of Music Emerita in the Department of Music .\n \n\nStart time: 3:00 - 4:30 PM DTSTART:20110311T000000 DTEND:20110311T000000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:musician and arts advocate AARON P. DWORKIN TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR