Jourdan Urbach performs

(WTNH) - Violinist Jourdan Urbach performs on Connecticut Style.

About Jourdan:
As a 7 yr old young concert violinist, I founded an organization called Children Helping Children , now Concerts for a Cure. We gathered accomplished young musicians from Juilliard and other Manhattan conservatories and produced monthly performances in New York City hospital playrooms and neurosurgical ICUs. At Beth Israel Medical Center I saw firsthand the power music has to heal and stimulate the brain when I witnessed during my performance the movement of a previously unresponsive child who had recently undergone brain surgery. It was a moment I will never forget, epitomizing the symbiotic relationship between medicine and music to which I plan to devote my life’s work.
By 2003, as a nationally known concert violinist studying at Juilliard, I used my name to draw large audiences at major concert halls throughout the country to benefit children’s medicine. I enlisted entire symphony orchestras, totaling more than 500 musicians, to join my performances, creating Concerts for a Cure like our sold-out events in Lincoln Center & Carnegie Hall. In this way CHC has raised $4.7 million to date to fight children’s neurological disease. Through these Concerts for a Cure, I’ve funded 12 life-saving neurosurgeries for impoverished kids; raised a million dollars to provide 1,000 cochlear implants to indigent children; raised $165,000 to directly fund ‘support programs’ for 42,000 families and children living with Multiple Sclerosis; and have heightened the media profile of dozens of hospitals and medical organizations in the process. I have met with Senators Hillary Clinton and Bob Dole to discuss the future of healthcare fundraising in our country. And Iam proud to say that CHC now the largest music therapy program in America at the University of Michigan's Mott Children's Hospital, serving 5,000 inpatients per year. Chapters of CHC have been formed all over the world, from Australia to Guatemala & El Salvador: In an organized effort, hundreds of young musicians internationally are donating their talents for the future of medicine, participating in Concerts for a Cure.
Now, as the Goodwill Ambassador & Artist-in-residence for the UN Arts for Peace Council, I am counting on music to be the new global diplomat. We are strategically promoting human rights and peaceful foreign relations through WorldConcerts, empowering artists and their music from politically and socially suffocated environments to finally share a stage with one another; and bringing together artists and diplomats in an effort to cultivate their ideas for collaboration.