Jeremy Cushman

Jeremy Stein Cushman
Background information
Born	(1990-12-19) December 19, 1990 Little Neck, Queens, U.S.
Genres	Classical music
Instruments	Violin and viola
Website	jscushman.info

Jeremy Stein Cushman (born December 19, 1990) is an American violinist　and violist.

Music career

Cushman made his solo orchestral debut at the age of eight with the Great Neck Philharmonic and, at the age of nine, was featured on the nationally televised CBS Early Show with Bryant Gumbel after winning the FAO/CBS international talent search.^[1] In 2002, he was selected to perform as Microsoft's Symbol of Potential for its annual convention in the New Orleans Superdome where he received a standing ovation from the 14,000 attendees, leading to additional performances under Microsoft’s sponsorship.^[2]

At the age of twelve, Cushman won the 2003 New York City talent competition at Manhattan’s Heckscher Theatre. He also gave two performances at Madison Square Garden for audiences of 19,000 in the Knicks Kids Talent Search semi-finals and finals where he earned the title of "Most Talented Boy of 2002-2003".^[3] Cushman was also flown by Swiss Orange Communications to Zürich, Switzerland to give a benefit performance for UNICEF, performed as a soloist at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall, and gave a solo recital to a full house at Manhattan’s Steinway Hall, which raised significant funds for the concert’s sponsor, the Variety, the Children's Charity.^[4] He was also given a third appearance at Madison Square Garden when the Garden featured the best performers from years past. Cushman has appeared with a variety of orchestras including as a guest soloist with the New York Riverside Orchestra, the Queens Symphony Orchestra, the Queensborough Orchestra, the Great Neck Philharmonic, and as a repeat guest soloist with the Nassau Pops Symphony Orchestra.^[5] He also toured London and Scotland as concertmaster and soloist of the COS Young Symphonic Ensemble, and had the opportunity to perform at the opening of the L'Oréal Paris convention to exemplify the event's motivational theme "Exceed and Succeed." In April 2006, Cushman won the American Fine Arts Festival young performers competition, conducted in four states over several weeks, and earned the opportunity to perform at Carnegie Hall in May 2006.^[6] In June 2006 he performed the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with the Scottsdale Symphony in Scottsdale, Arizona, and in October 2007 he was invited to give a solo recital as part of the Artists Ascending concert series in Memphis, Tennessee.^[7] In June 2008 he performed Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1 in Carnegie Hall with the Young Symphonic Ensemble.^[8]

Cushman has also performed for the Dance Theater of Harlem at a program hosted by Arthur Mitchell, provided the music for the opening night reception of Franco D'Alessandro's Off-Broadway play "Roman Nights" where he entertained such notables as Pia Lindstrom, Isabella Rossellini and Peter Bogdanovich, and participated in a special 9/11 memorial ceremony hosted by Secretary General Kofi Annan at the United Nations.^[5] In addition, Cushman spent many years as the featured soloist for the Tarumi Violinists, performing in Carnegie Hall, and the White House, at the official New York City and New York State celebrations of Israel's 50th anniversary hosted, respectively, by Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Governor George Pataki, and on concert tours of Japan, Taiwan, Argentina and Hong Kong.^[6] Cushman began his studies with teacher Yukako Tarumi at the age of five and studied with Juilliard professor Shirley Givens throughout high school.

Physics

Cushman graduated as valedictorian of Benjamin N. Cardozo High School in 2008 and received a B.A. in physics from Harvard College in 2012. He received a M.S. in physics from Yale University in 2012 and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the same, working on the CUORE Experiment.^[9]

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