We invite you to join us as a member of the Concert Committee for the 2024 Janet & Arthur Ross Rome Prize Ceremony on Thursday, April 25, 2024, taking place in the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York.

On April 21, 1924, George Gershwin made his Carnegie Hall debut with one of the first performances of Rhapsody in Blue at a fundraising concert to benefit the American Academy in Rome. One hundred years later, we pay tribute to this event and the evolution of music at the Academy with an adventurous concert curated by George Lewis (2010 Resident) and performed by the International Contemporary Ensemble, featuring works by Academy Fellows and a version of Rhapsody in Blue.

This special evening to announce the 2024 Rome Prize winners will help raise vital funds necessary to continue the Academy’s storied mission. Proceeds from the evening support AAR, which for 130 years has provided time and space for the world’s best thinkers, scholars, and artists to create and imagine the future. We will list contributors of $1,000 or more as members of the Concert Committee on our website and in the printed program.

We hope you will make a commitment to support the Academy at this concert. So that we may include your name on the event materials, we ask that you kindly confirm your participation. If you have any questions, please contact Eve Orenstein in Special Events at e.orenstein [at] aarome.org (e[dot]orenstein[at]aarome[dot]org) or 212-751-7200, ext. 352.

Patrons

Bill and Anna Cameron
Jessie and Charles Price
Katharine J. Rayner

Supporters

Kathryn J. Alexander, FAAR’89
Larry T. Bell, FAAR’83 and Andrea Olmstead
Suzanne Bocanegra, FAAR’91 and David Lang, FAAR’91, RAAR’17
Martin Bresnick, FAAR’76, RAAR’00
Martin Brody, RAAR’02
William B. Hart and Constance Eaton
Bun-Ching Lam, FAAR’92
Arthur Levering, FAAR’97
Elizabeth McGowan and Guy Hedreen, FAAR’94
Nico Muhly, RAAR’18
Sydney Houghton Weinberg

Patron

$10,000

• Prime reserved seating for six at the Janet and Arthur Ross Rome Prize Ceremony and Concert on April 25, 2024
• Acknowledgement in the printed program and on the AAR website
• Invitation for two to post-concert reception with the 2025 Rome Prize Winners, AAR Fellows and Residents in the Steinway Building
• Invitation to a world premiere of a piece commemorating this event by composer Nico Muhly, performed by him at his studio
• Invitation to attend rehearsal of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice and talk by 2022 Fellow Eugenio Refini at the Metropolitan Opera in May 2024

Friend

$5,000

• Preferred seating for four at the Janet and Arthur Ross Rome Prize Ceremony and Concert on April 25, 2024
• Acknowledgement in the printed program and on the AAR website
• Invitation for two to post-concert reception with 2025 Rome Prize Winners, AAR Fellows and Residents in the Steinway Building

Supporter

$1,000

• Reserved seating for two at the Janet and Arthur Ross Rome Prize Ceremony and Concert on April 25, 2024
• Acknowledgement in the printed program and on the AAR website
• Invitation for two to post-concert reception with 2025 Rome Prize Winners, AAR Fellows and Residents in the Steinway Building

Gifts can be pledged now and fulfilled any time before August 31, 2024. The estimated value of goods and services is $75 per ticket.