Author: Renee Shohet
Crain’s Notable Leaders in Philanthropy 2025
PUBLISHED IN: CRAIN’S NEW YORK BUSINESS NOTABLE LEADERS IN PHILANTHROPY “To try to make the world in some way better than you found it is to have a noble motive in life,” wrote Andrew Carnegie in “The Empire of Business.” A man of his word, the Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist founded the Carnegie Corporation of…
Marketplace Feature: BKCM
PUBLISHED IN: MARKETPLACE One Saturday afternoon every spring, you can wander around the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn and see live music everywhere for free — jazz groups playing on brownstone stoops, drummers playing in gardens, big brass bands playing in streets temporarily closed to cars. This year, if you happened to walk down Seventh…
Ian Davis, CMS Theory & Composition Teacher
“What originally drew me to composition was writing my own songs,” says Ian Davis, frontman of Ian Davis: Rock Band, one half of the experimental folk group Relatives, and BKCM’s resident theory maestro since 2019. In his music theory classes, he familiarizes students of all ages with staffs, notation and time signatures. He also directs…
Miranda Knutson, Senior Events and Community Partnerships Manager
There are few people more ingrained in BKCM’s operations and lifeblood than Miranda Knutson, especially when you consider that she’s been a student here since she was eight years old (back when the entire lobby had a shag carpet). It was in the lot nearby — now BKCM’s garden — where she would do homework…
BKCM Music Therapy in the New York Times
PUBLISHED IN: THE NEW YORK TIMES A recent Sunday Times article provides an in-depth look at our music therapists’ impactful work with children at a shelter in Brooklyn, one of over 40 community-based music therapy sites across New York City. “We’re going to be making a beat,” Dannyele Crawford said as the kids settled noisily…