Jourdan Urbach (born on December 5, 1991) is an American entrepreneur and retired professional violinist/composer. He currently resides in New York City, USA.

Jourdan Urbach
BornDecember 5, 1991
Long Island, New York
Alma materJuilliard Pre-College Yale University

Early life and education

Jourdan Urbach was born on December 5, 1991 in Long Island in New York State.[1] in Roslyn on Long Island, New York. Urbach started playing the violin when he was 2 and 3/4-years-old, and was playing professionally by the time he was 7.[1] He made his debut at Carnegie Hall when he was 6 years old.[2]

Beyond playing, Urbach founded two non-profits that raise money to fight children's neurological diseases: Children Helping Children and Concerts for a Cure.[3] Children Helping Children is a charity organization that performs at places like Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center.[1] Concerts for a Cure had raised over $4.7[4] million dollars by the time Urbach started attending college. Urbach was also involved at an early age in Alzheimer's research at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.[5]

For his education, Urbach studied at the Juilliard School[6] and later enrolled as an undergraduate at Yale, where he graduated with a B.A. in liberal arts.[1] During this same period, he wrote the score for the short film "Elah and the Moon",[7] which debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival.[7]

As an undergraduate, Urbach started the International Coalition of College Philanthropists (ICCP)[8] and the International Coalition of College Philanthropists.[9] The ICCP is “a council of college-age philanthropic entrepreneurs dedicated to coordinating and maximizing the effectiveness of fundraising operations at college campuses across the world.”[8] In his senior year at Yale, Urbach was chosen by ASCAP to write the score for the trailer at the Columbia Film Festival, which premiered at Lincoln Center and the IFC (International Film Center).[10] Shortly before graduation, he was awarded a National Jefferson Award.[11]

Later life

Urbach later moved back to New York as the National Director of the Jefferson Awards.[12] Urbach served in this capacity for a year and half before becoming the Director of Research and Development and running mobile information architecture at the Brooklyn cloud technology startup MiMedia. Urbach now lives in New York City's Upper East Side, where he serves as CTO of Mass Lab, a mobile video company he co-founded in early 2013.

He currently serves as an advisor and consultant to a number of emergent companies in the New York technology space. Urbach also worked as a Goodwill Ambassador to the UN Arts for Peace Council.[13]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Fischler, Marcelle (March 9, 2003). "At 11, a Violin Virtuoso and Author, Too". The New York Times.
  2. ↑ Lewis, Michael (April 12, 2004). "Jourdan Urbach, 12, Violinist". People (People 30th Anniversary): 261.
  3. ↑ Gonzalez, Susan (March 14, 2012). "Yale senior wins Jefferson Award for being a 'globechanger'". YaleNews. Retrieved October 13, 2023.
  4. ↑ Jackson, Susan. "Q&A With Jourdan Urbach". The Juilliard Journal.
  5. ↑ Kraust, Rochelle. "Jourdan Urbach: our youngest researcher". InsideMS (June–July 2007).
  6. ↑ "Jourdan Urbach, 19, United States". ThreeDotDash - Global Teen Leaders.
  7. 1 2 "Rancho Santa Fe Foundation, World of Children Award present 'An Evening with Jourdan Urbach'". Rancho Santa Fe Review.
  8. 1 2 Ilnytzky, Ula. "Jefferson Awards 2012: Jourdan Urbach, Violin Prodigy, Among Recipients". Huffington Post.
  9. ↑ "Jourdan Urbach: Changing the World Since the Age of 7".
  10. ↑ "Festival Trailer". Columbia University Film Festival.
  11. ↑ Gonzalez, Susan (March 14, 2012). "Yale senior wins Jefferson Award for being a 'globechanger'". news.yale.edu.
  12. ↑ McKinnon, Lisa. "Young performers raise the bar for Ventura Music Festival". Venture Country Star.
  13. ↑ Kavner, Lucas. "New Kind Of Prodigy: Jourdan Urbach, Violin Virtuoso, Raises Millions For Medicine, Dabbles In Film Scoring". HuffPost.
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