Aaron Dworkin (b. 1970)
is featured at AfriClassical.com
as an outstanding
Musician of African Descent
The New York Times
The Sphinx Organization,
an organization based in Detroit that offers classical music training
to minority students, announced a partnership with the management agency
IMG Artists
on Tuesday, in which Sphinx’s orchestras would perform at festivals and
other events run by IMG, and IMG’s artists would collaborate with
Sphinx. Aaron P. Dworkin, the violinist who founded Sphinx in 1996 and
has built it into a national program that runs competitions and sends
touring ensembles around the country, described the agreement as a
relationship unlike the usual arrangement between managers and artists.
“In many ways,” Mr. Dworkin said in an
interview on Monday evening, “it’s a broad, long-term partnership. It’s
not a matter of ‘Here’s an artist, let’s get them bookings,’ but about
looking at what we each do and seeing how we can jointly effect Sphinx’s
mission of creating a greater diversity of musicians on the stage, and
at the same time, creating a broader audience for classical music. Those
are goals that we share, and there are things we can each bring to help
further that goal.”
The first fruit of the arrangement will be a
residency by the Sphinx Symphony Orchestra — an ensemble of the
organization’s best student players — at the Napa Valley Festival del Sole,
a summer festival that was started in 2006 by Richard Walker, a West
Coast lawyer and arts manager, and Barrett Wissman, the chairman of IMG.
Both the orchestra and the Sphinx Virtuosi, a smaller string ensemble,
will perform at the festival, which runs from July 11 to 20. (The
festival’s other programming has not yet been announced.)
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