Jourdan Urbach

Jourdan Urbach is an entrepreneur and retired professional violinist/composer. He was born in Roslyn, New York and currently resides in New York City.

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

Early life and education

Jourdan Urbach was born on Long Island to Deborah and Victor Urbach.[1] He started playing the violin before he was 3 years old and was playing professionally by the age of 7.[1] His debut was at Carnegie Hall at the age of 6.[2] At age 7, Urbach and his parents started Children Helping Children, a charity organization which performed at locations such as Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center.[1] Later, this turned into Concerts for a Cure,[3] which raised over 4.7[4] million dollars by the time Urbach started attending college at Yale University. At the age of 9, he became involved with Alzheimer's research at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.[5] Later, Urbach attended Juilliard,[6] where he was featured in Teen People’s 20 under 20 list at the age of 13.[7] Urbach matriculated to Yale at the age of 17,[1] where he received a B.A. in liberal arts. During this same period, he wrote the score for the short film "Elah and the Moon",[8] which debuted at the Tribeca Film festival.[8]

As an undergraduate, Urbach started the International Coalition of College Philanthropists (ICCP),[9] International Coalition of College Philanthropists.[10] The ICCP is “is a council of college-age philanthropic entrepreneurs dedicated to coordinating and maximizing the effectiveness of fundraising operations at college campuses across the world.”[9] In his senior year at Yale, he was chosen by ASCAP to write the score for the trailer to the Columbia Film Festival, which premiered at Lincoln Center and the IFC (International Film Center).[11] Shortly before graduation, he was awarded the National Jefferson Award.[12]

Later life

Urbach later moved back to New York to a position as the National Director of the Jefferson Awards[13] to help the organization pivot from a focus on volunteerism towards a modern suite of social entrepreneurism programming. He served in this capacity for a year and half before becoming the Director of Research and Development as well as running mobile information architecture at Brooklyn cloud technology startup MiMedia. Urbach now lives in New York City's Upper East Side, where he serves as CTO of the company he co-founded in early 2013, Mass Lab, which builds a mobile video platform called Ocho,[14] which attracted 1.7m USD in investment from Mark Cuban and others in 2014.

He currently serves as an advisor and consultant to a number of emergent companies in the New York technology space. Urbach was the also the curator of the World Economic Forum Global Shapers (New York chapter) and works as a Goodwill Ambassador to the UN Arts for Peace Council.[15]

Awards
  • Winner, 2nd Place Grand Award, “Super Oligodendrocytes,” INTEL-International Science & Engineering Fair (ISEF), 2009[16]
  • Winner, American Academy of Neurology Neuroscience Research Prize, 2009[17]
  • Winner of University of the Sciences INTEL-ISEF Scholarship, 2008[18]
  • Coca-Cola National Scholar, 2009[19]
  • Toyota Community Scholars National Award, 2009[20]
  • Claes Nobel Academic Scholarship Award, 2009[21]
  • National AXA Achievement Scholar, 2009[22]
  • Nestle Very Best in Youth Scholarship Award, 2009[23]
  • Tribeca Disruptive Innovator Award 2012[24]
  • National Jefferson Award, 2012[9]
  • State and National Winner of The Prudential Spirit of Community Scholarship Award, 2007[25]
  • Chosen as one of the Twenty Teens Who Will Change the World by Teen People Magazine, 2006[26]
  • Winner of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Award, 2006.[27]
  • Founder and Director, Children Helping Children 1998 - Ongoing[28]
  • Founder and President, The international Coalition of College Philanthropists 2009 - 2012 [29]
  • Direction of Communications, Nestle Foundation 2010 - 2011[30]
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References
  1. Fischler, Marcelle. "At 11, a Violin Virtuoso and Author, Too".
  2. Lewis, Michael (April 12, 2004). "Jourdan Urbach, 12, Violinist". People (People 30th Anniversary): 261.
  3. "Concerts for a Cure".
  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. "20 Teens Who Will Change the World". Teen People. April 2006.
  8. "Rancho Santa Fe Foundation, World of Children Award present 'An Evening with Jourdan Urbach'". Rancho Santa Fe Review.
  9. Ilnytzky, Ula. "Jefferson Awards 2012: Jourdan Urbach, Violin Prodigy, Among Recipients". Huffington Post.
  10. "Jourdan Urbach: Changing the World Since the Age of 7".
  11. "Festival Trailer". Columbia University Film Festival.
  12. Gonzalez, Susan. "Yale senior wins Jefferson Award for being a 'globechanger'". http://news.yale.edu/2012/03/14/yale-senior-wins-jefferson-award-being-globechanger. External link in |publisher= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help)
  13. McKinnon, Lisa. "Young performers raise the bar for Ventura Music Festival". Venture Country Star.
  14. "Ocho".
  15. Kavner, Lucas. "New Kind Of Prodigy: Jourdan Urbach, Violin Virtuoso, Raises Millions For Medicine, Dabbles In Film Scoring".
  16. "Intel Science Talent Search 2009 Semifinalists for New York".
  17. "Local pediatric patients to be visited by 17-year-old violinist, philanthropist during Ventura Music Festival appearance, May 7".
  18. "Winner Announcement - Intel International Science and Engineering Fair" (PDF).
  19. "2013 Banquet Celebrates 25th Class of Coca-Cola Scholars".
  20. "Toyota awards $1 million in scholarships to 100 high school seniors Winners at top of class in both academics and community service".
  21. "National Society of High School Scholars".
  22. "Tapping into Youthful Philanthropy, a conversation with violinist/philanthropist Jourdan Urbach".
  23. "The 2009 Winners".
  24. "Class of 2012 - Tribeca Disruptive Innovator Awards".
  25. "New York's Jourdan Urbach of Roslyn Heights Named One of America's Top Ten Youth Volunteers".
  26. Masca, Kristen (April 2006). "Jourdan Urbach, 14, Roslyn NY". Teen People.
  27. Nussbaum, Josh. "Roslyn's Jourdan Urbach Named One Of Twenty Teens Who Will Change The World: RHS Freshman Receives Top Honor From Magazine".
  28. Musleah, Rahel (February 2006). "Jourdan Urbach - Raising Money for Kid's Health". Family Circle.
  29. "Jefferson Awards 2012: Jourdan Urbach, Violin Prodigy, Among Recipients".
  30. "Jourdan Urbach will be performing!".
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