Jourdan Urbach

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

Jourdan Urbach
Born December 5, 1991
Long Island
Alma mater

Juilliard Pre-College

Yale University
Home town Roslyn, Long Island

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 Jourdan 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, Jourdan attended Juilliard,[6] where he was featured in Teen People’s 20 under 20 list at the age of 13.[7] Jourdan matriculated to Yale at the age of 17,[1] where he completed his B.A. in liberal arts. During this same period, he scored for Elah and the Moon,[8] which debuted at the Tribeca Film festival.[8]

His freshman year, Jourdan 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 prestigious National Jefferson Award.[12]

Later life

Completing Yale in 3 years, Jourdan moved back to NYC 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. Currently, Jourdan 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. Jourdan is the incoming curator (chair) 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

External links

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 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. 1 2 "Rancho Santa Fe Foundation, World of Children Award present ‘An Evening with Jourdan Urbach’". Rancho Santa Fe Review.
  9. 1 2 3 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);
  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. ↑ "Urbach Wins World Of Children Nobel Prize".
  26. ↑ "New York's Jourdan Urbach of Roslyn Heights Named One of America's Top Ten Youth Volunteers.".
  27. ↑ Masca, Kristen (April 2006). "Jourdan Urbach, 14, Roslyn NY". Teen People.
  28. ↑ Nussbaum, Josh. "Roslyn’s Jourdan Urbach Named One Of Twenty Teens Who Will Change The World: RHS Freshman Receives Top Honor From Magazine".
  29. ↑ Musleah, Rahel (February 2006). "Jourdan Urbach - Raising Money for Kid's Health". Family Circle.
  30. ↑ "Jefferson Awards 2012: Jourdan Urbach, Violin Prodigy, Among Recipients".
  31. ↑ "Jourdan Urbach will be performing!".
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