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Our Mission
Our History
Our Programs
Leadership Bio
Donors
Financial Statements and 990s
501(C)(3) IRS Tax Determination Letter

 

Our Mission


Ansonia Music Outreach has been bringing the gift of music to New York City audiences for 28 years, through our work with young people at public and private schools, our residencies designed to bring the musical arts to low-income and underserved populations, and our concerts for the elderly, the ill, and the physically disadvantaged.  We provide quality cultural experiences that inspire and enlighten, making the arts more accessible to all people, where they live and work.  Our mission is to help establish the musical arts as a more essential and valuable experience in the lives of the general public.

 

Our History


Ansonia Music Outreach was founded in 1992 by graduates of The Juilliard School. After participating in the Juilliard Community Service Fellowship Program, they saw the great need to carry on this work as professional musicians. As the organization developed, the Phoenix Ensemble was formed, a chamber music group dedicated to the performance and recording of classical music, and to the mission and goals of Ansonia Music Outreach. Through concerts, recordings, and residencies in schools and communities, the Phoenix Ensemble has carried out the work of Ansonia Music Outreach, presenting hundreds of events designed to inspire a new and diverse audience for classical music.

There is a large population of people who feel that the arts do not relate to them, that the arts are only meant for a small elitist or wealthy minority, or that the arts will simply never fit into the daily enjoyment of their lives.  These beliefs are untrue, and the work and accomplishments of Ansonia Music Outreach demonstrate this.  A continued decline in funding for arts education, a quickly changing generational perspective, and diminishing opportunities for the public to be introduced to and learn about the art form, has created an atmosphere where classical music is  marginalized in this country.  An effort must be made to rethink how classical music is presented, and to inspire a new and wider American audience, through a more innovative integration of the arts into the community.  We are not only focused on reaching out to young audiences.  Arts education and audience building efforts can be just as effective when directed towards adult and senior audiences.  Since 1992, we have brought the gift of music to the underserved and to communities in need, for children, adults, and the elderly, enriching the lives of thousands, and inspiring many who previously were unaware of the positive influence the arts can make in their lives.

 

Phoenix Ensemble Open Rehearsal at the Sirovich Center

 

Our Programs


Our Access to Music program offers events such as free concerts, music classes, and interactive workshops to disadvantaged and underserved audiences in New York City.

Our Music for the Young program presents innovative concerts and events to young people designed to inspire interest in classical music and the arts, encourage creativity, and help make the arts an integral part of the school curriculum.

Our Composer Workshop gives composers of merit the opportunity to create new works, to make accessible important music of our time, and to work on ways in which the particular musical style or message of new works can be communicated to a general audience, particularly young audiences.

 

 

Mark Lieb

 

Leadership Bio
Mark Lieb, President and Artistic Director

Mark Lieb is the Founder of Ansonia Music Outreach. He is a graduate of Northwestern University and The Juilliard School, where he studied clarinet performance with Robert Marcellus, former Principal clarinet with the Cleveland Orchestra, and David Shifrin, former Artistic Director of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. He has been a professional freelance musician in New York City since 1991, and has performed and toured extensively throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. He has recorded with New World Records, Mode Records, Furious Artisans, Newport Classics, Dorian, Innova Recordings, Albany Records, and BMG Classics labels. His arts education experience includes participating in the Juilliard Community Service Fellowship Program as a student at the school, and then after graduation, was the Manhattan and Brooklyn clarinet teacher for the New York Pops Salute to Music Program, worked for three years with Young Audiences of New Jersey, and one year with Midori and Friends. In addition to 28 years experience in nonprofit management with Ansonia Music Outreach, Mr. Lieb also has three years experience as Manager of Foundation Relations with the Big Apple Circus.

 

Donors

We thank the following Government, Foundation, Corporate and Individual supporters:

GOVERNMENT

NYSCA  (New York State Council on the Arts)

Office of the Manhattan Borough President

New York City Council

NYC Department for the Aging

NYC Department of Cultural Affairs

 

 

FOUNDATION  AND CORPORATE

 

Amazon

Autodesk

Frank J. Antun Foundation

Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation 

Harry Chapin Foundation

Con Edison

The Cricket Foundation 

The Captiva Foundation 

Robert and Dana Emery Family Foundation

The Felicia Fund  

Nathan J. & Gelen Goldrich Foundation

The Florence Gould Foundation

The Haley Foundation 

Ina Kay Foundation

Kranzdorf Family Foundation

Virginia Cretella Mars Foundation

The Mere Foundation

Metzger-Price Fund, Inc.

Microsoft Corporation

Newpol Foundation, Inc.

Kenneth and Hazel Roe Foundation, Inc. 

James R. Dougherty Jr. Foundation     

Thomas P. and Cynthia D. Sculco Foundation

Special People in Need

New Kalman Sunshine Fund, Inc.

Tableau

 

 

INDIVIDUALS

Renee Albert

Anonymous

Jill Bandy

Peggy Becker

Pamela Benning

Melissa Bullen

Cristina Casanova

Pearl Chang

Jann Cook

Angela Crowns

Carole Dumaine

Sophia Faivush

Wadad Finan

David Gilman

Olga Golod

Stephen Herman

Imogene Hess

Linda Jasper

Karen Johnson

Mary Ann Joulwan

Rebecca Kalin

Renate Koble

Aubrey Lees

Patricia & Dennis Lieb

Joan Marlow Golan

Lane Maurer

Carol Noblitt

Su Chiang Pan

Jeanne Pape

Kathleen Russell

Suzanne Sahi

Barbara Scaturro

Susan Shamhart

Ruth Sherman

Helen Strassberg

Georgeta Sudolsky

Suzanne Sunkel

Nezahat Gulay Topcubasi

Philip & Nancy Travis

Catherine Venturini

Diane Lieb Wilson

John Wolohojian


 

Financial Statements and 990s (PDF downloads)

Reviewed Financial Statements for 2018

Reviewed Financial Statements for 2017

Reviewed Financial Statements for 2016

Reviewed Financial Statements for 2015

Reviewed Financial Statements for 2014

Reviewed Financial Statements for 2013

Reviewed Financial Statements for 2012

Reviewed Financial Statements for 2011 and 2010

Form 990 for 2018

Form 990 for 2017

Form 990 for 2016

Form 990 for 2015

Form 990 for 2014

Form 990 for 2013

Form 990 for 2012

Form 990 for 2011

Form 990 for 2010

Form 990 for 2009

Form 990 for 2008

Form 990 for 2007

Form 990 for 2006

Form 990 for 2005
Form 990 for 2004
Form 990 for 2003

501(C)(3) IRS Tax Determination Letter (PDF download)

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