Music for Medicine Benefit Concert

with Members of the

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Presented by The American Austrian Foundation

Thursday, November 15, 2012

On Thursday, November 15, 2012, The American Austrian Foundation (AAF) will present the annual Music for Medicine Benefit Concert with members of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York City.  Proceeds from the evening will provide qualified individuals with fellowships to pursue postgraduate education in medicine.

George Soros; Ambassador William J. vanden Heuvel and Sanford I. Weill are the Benefit Chairs.  Steven M. Altschuler, M.D.; Laurie H. Glimcher, M.D.; Lee Goldman, M.D.; Louis A. Shapiro and H. Dirk Sostman, M.D. are the Honorary Co-Chairs.  Jeanne D. Andlinger; Noreen Buckfire; Lee MacCormick Edwards, Ph.D.; Katharine Eltz-Aulitzky; Anita Gotto; Emmanuella Habsburg-Lothringen; Marifé Hernández; Carol M. Lee, M.D.; Elisabeth Muhr; Cynthia D. Sculco; Daisy M. Soros; Ashley von Perfall and Joan Weill are the Vice Chairs. 

The festive evening will begin at 7:00pm with a concert at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall featuring members of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, led by Dieter Flury, solo flutist of the Vienna Philharmonic since 1981, and the orchestra's general manager since 2005.  The evening will continue with dinner, a live auction and a raffle at 8:30pm the Rohatyn Room at Carnegie Hall.  

Music for Medicine supports the Open Medical Institute, a program founded by The American Austrian Foundation and physicians from the Weill Medical College of Cornell University and New York-Presbyterian Hospital that funds medical seminars between American and European teaching physicians and physicians from developing nations worldwide.  The program mentors young, promising physicians and offers them multiple opportunities to meet with outstanding faculty members to advance their academic and clinical skills.  This interaction allows these physicians to improve the quality of healthcare in their developing countries.  Faculty members who share their medical expertise do so on a pro bono basis.  Since its inception, more than 1,300 American and European faculty members have taught 14,000 physicians from over 122 countries.  Young physicians have come from Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the countries of the former Soviet Union. Recent expansion of the program has included physicians from Africa and Mexico.  Some 35 seminars take place each year in Salzburg, Austria.