Charity Organization to Honor Jose Serebrier in New York at Pierre Hotel October 21

 

ReachingU is a charity organization devoted to finance and co-create quality education programs for children and youth living in poverty in Uruguay. It has raised over $17,500.000 in recent years, helping more than 62,500 students. The New York City fundraising gala dinner will be held at the Pierre Hotel on Monday 21 October 2019, honoring Maestro José Serebrier.

Maestro Serebrier, one of the most recorded classical artists in  history, winner of innumerable awards both as composer and conductor, organized the first youth orchestra in Latin America when he was 11 years old, and toured extensively with them. Studying at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia from age 16, the following year Leopold Stokowski premiered his first symphony in a historic concert, replacing the world premiere of the Symphony No. 4 by Charles Ives, considered unplayable at the time. Four years later Stokowski and Serebrier conducting together premiered the Ives' 4th at Carnegie Hall. Serebrier recorded it on his own for RCA with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

At 19 Serebrier won the first of two consecutive Guggenheim Foundation fellowships, the youngest ]to ever receive this awards on any field. Since that time, he has recorded and toured with the most important orchestras in the world, published over 100 compositions, and made over 300 recordings. Recently he was seen on international television, conducting at the GRAMMY ceremony in Los Angeles. The French music critic Michel Faure has written a book about Serebrier published in Paris by L'Harmattan,

Maestro José Serebrier will be honored by ReachingU along GRAMMNY Nominated for Best Vocal Album soprano Carole Farley, Tony-awarded actress Stephanie J. Block (who won the 2019 Tony for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical for The Cher Show), and actor Sebastian Arcelus (from the series "Madam Secretary" and "House of Cards").