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From our gala chairs Dear

FriendsWe invite you to join us on april 11, 2016,

when we will celebrate the good works of the brooklyn conservatory of music (bkcm) at our music moves 2016 gala.

For more than 100 years BKCM has opened the wide world of music to our many and diverse communities, touching the lives of thousands who have wanted to

master an instrument, sing in a choir, or experience the many benefits of music.

Our mission to transform lives and enrich our communities by removing the barriers that hinder anyone from learning and experiencing music is evident on students’

faces as they walk in the door for their weekly lesson and in the strides music therapy participants make in their interpersonal relationships. It shines through in

the pride of students performing their first band concert and in the vibrancy of senior citizens singing in a choir. It forges friendships between former strangers.

Our programs mark the whole of the human experience, showcases what makes us human and what binds our communities together. Your support of our

Music Moves 2016 Gala will provide valuable resources for the coming year in providing free music lessons to more than 4,500 underserved music students

and subsidized music therapy to more than 1,100 individuals with emotional, developmental and physical challenges, throughout Brooklyn and New York City.

We invite you to play your part in the continued transformation of our students and the communities in which we work by making a contribution to our 2016

Gala. Through your support we will be able to sustain our movement forward and bring the transformative powers of music to our current—and future—students

and audiences in the coming year.

Best regards,

Gala CO-ChaIrs

Florence Hutner & Matthew Kalish

hONOrarY ChaIr

Eric L. Adams Brooklyn Borough President

Featured Guest Artist

india carney

BKCM alumna & NBC-TV The Voice Finalist

Featured Entertainment

excelsior symphonyrenée Manning and earl Mcintyre

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.

community music schoolEarly Childhood Music EducationFor children 12 months through 4 years of

age, our early childhood music education

program offers young children opportunities

to learn music through play, exploration

and music-specific strategies that are

developmentally appropriate. In house Party

featuring the music of Grammy Winner Dan

Zanes and Mini-Music Makers, students use

their voices, instruments and bodies, to learn

the fundamentals of music.

Classes & EnsemblesTo complement and reinforce private

instruction, we offer classes and performing

ensembles for students of all ages.

Instrumental and vocal ensembles in all styles

of music, as well as a selection of choirs

and vocal workshops give students the

opportunity to put their private study into

practice and share music-making with others.

all ensembles present a public performance

at least once a year.

Private LessonsWe 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.

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 Choralea 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.

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.

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“the music brought him back to a familiar place and helped motivate him to participate in therapy and heal.”

ChErYl BOuChErMother of a child who suffered a paralyzing brain assault

music therapy

music partners

4,500 stuDEnts

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 4,500 individuals in schools, Pre-K programs, youth 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, 70% of these students are african-american, hispanic/latino or asian

and live at or below the poverty line.

20Public Schools

8Youth Centers

2senior Centers

The Suzuki program builds on the principle that if properly trained all children can master music just as they can learn their mother tongue.

The suzuki Method is recognized worldwide as a highly effective approach for teaching

children the language of music. Generations of students have begun a lifelong journey of

musical enrichment through this approach.

The suzuki program at BKCM offers programs in violin, viola, cello, guitar, piano, and bass. the

curriculum incorporates three elements that provide the essentials needed for instrumental

music education: private lessons, theory classes, and group classes.

Parent involvement is an integral component of the suzuki approach. Parents learn and

practice alongside the child, functioning as role models and providing encouragement.

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the brooklyn conservatory oF music transforms and enriches the lives of those who are underserved

through music education and music therapy.

42 Represent 42 nationalities

30Speak more than 30 languages and dialects

70%70% live at or below the poverty line

40 schools 5 Head Start programs 4 Senior Centers 7 Social Service Agencies 33 Neighborhoods

8000 students...

our impact in new york city...

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Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears – it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But for many of my neurological patients, music is even

more – it can provide access, even when no medication can, to movement, to speech, to life. For them, music is not a

luxury, but a necessity.OlIVEr saCKs

board oF trusteesFlorence hutner ChaIr Bernadette levandowski VICE-ChaIr

Chad Cooper TrEasurEr russ soper sECrETarY

Ken Batista scott Cantone serena Dayal Joel Kress Zulema Quintans adam stein Nicholas Tatlow Jason Tepper arda ural Tamara Waye Tom Xu

advisory council alan Blum Craig Bromberg Bill Davis Matt DeMaio silvia henriquez Marie hill Matt Kalish Elaine Kanak Danny Kapilian Maureen Keenan Diana Kim Kevin King andrea Knutson Tara Kodali Judy lieff helen little Jerri Mayer Vivek Menezes Konrad Payne rick russo Christine scanlon Xiomara smith-romain Karen Wenderoff

Florence Hutner ChaIr, BOarD OF TrusTEEs

Florence hutner is the General Counsel for the NYC Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. For over 25 years she has worked for the city in various capacities, including Deputy Commissioner for the New York City Mayor’s Office to Combat Domestic Violence, senior Counsel in the law Department, and General Counsel for the Department of Correction and the Department of Probation. Florence’s prior nonprofit board experience includes serving as trustee and president of the long Island soundkeeper Fund and, more recently, of the Park slope Jewish Center, where she participated in leading a strategic planning process and significant building renovations. Florence and her family live in Park slope and are longtime avid amateur musicians and members of the Conservatory community, through the Conservatory teen brass group, the Brooklyn Conservatory Community Orchestra, and the Brooklyn Conservatory Chorale, in which Florence sings soprano.

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.

Our Leadership

music moves 2015 galaThank you To our corporaTe donors for making our 2015 gala a success!

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Looking Back...

get involved!$50,000 Raise Your Voice Leaders• Includes 2 Tables with 20 Premier seats• Verbal acknowledgement at the Gala• Photo Opportunity with India Carney• Top acknowledgement in all printed material, including the invitations (if confirmed by 1/15/16)• logo with link featured on BKCM’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• Includes 1 Table with 12 Priority seats• acknowledgement in all printed material, including the invitations (if confirmed by 1/15/16)• logo with link featured on BKCM’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• Includes 1 Table with 10 seats• acknowledgment on invitations (if confirmed by 1/15/16) • listing on BKCM’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• Includes 1 Table with 8 seats• acknowledgment on invitations (if confirmed by 1/15/16)• listing on BKCM’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 • Includes 1⁄2 Table with 4 seats• listing on BKCM’s event website and on rolling slide at event• Quarter page advert in program• 6 tickets to Conservatory concerts

individual tickets$300 Inspire Improvisation Friend

$500 Move To The Music Patron* * Patron tix includes $200 donation to scholarship program and your name listed in event journal

Journal advertisements *artwork due on March 18, 2016

$2,500 Platinum Full Page $1,500 Gold Full Page

$750 silver half Page $500 Bronze Quarter Page

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in case you are unable to attend, you can still shoW your support With a tax deductible contribution.Brooklyn Conservatory of Music is a 501c3 organization. Your gift is tax deductible according to that which is allowed by law.

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