501(c)(3) · New York City

THE BRUCE
ARNOLD
FOUNDATION

Empowering the emerging artist through music education, mentorship, and performance.

Live at Provincetown Playhouse, NYC

“Transmitting the great pedagogical lineage of Western music to the next generation of artists.”

“If they don’t have music education in the school, how are they going to know that Bach exists, or Messiaen, or John Coltrane? You’ve got to be exposed to that to know what’s going on.”

— Bruce Arnold, NYU & Princeton

What We Do

THREE PILLARS
OF SUPPORT

01

Education

Free and subsidized music education resources, courses, and ear training tools available to all students regardless of economic background.

02

Mentorship

One-on-one guidance from working professional musicians, connecting emerging artists with the lineage of great teachers.

03

Performance

Live performance opportunities, workshops, and intensive programs that put emerging artists in front of real audiences.

Painting by Michal Shapiro
Painting by Michal Shapiro
Painting by Michal Shapiro
Painting by Michal Shapiro
Painting by Michal Shapiro
Painting by Michal Shapiro
Painting by Michal Shapiro
Painting by Michal Shapiro

Paintings by Michal Shapiro

Painting by Michal Shapiro

Painting: Michal Shapiro

The A in STEAM

STEAM ADDS A
FOR THE ARTS

My teacher Charlie Banacos would occasionally send me to art museums in Boston to write pieces of music based on paintings or sculptures. In all arts you can see the same relationships as you do in the sciences — from fractals to geometry to human perception.

Being around great artists such as Thornton Willis and Michal Shapiro for the last 40 years has inspired me many times to create compositions, so the influence is real and palpable.

Through these articles and images — courtesy of Michal Shapiro — I hope to inspire and explore the internal relationships of the arts and sciences.

Painting by Michal Shapiro
Painting by Michal Shapiro
Painting by Michal Shapiro
Painting by Michal Shapiro
Painting by Michal Shapiro
Painting by Michal Shapiro
Painting by Michal Shapiro
Painting by Michal Shapiro

Paintings by Michal Shapiro

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THE NEXT ARTIST

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