Awards

Honors and Awards

The Foundation administers a number of annual endowment awards that recognize individuals for their outstanding achievements.

The recipients of the 2009 awards are as follows:

2009 Endowment Development Award presented to
Maestro JoAnn Faletta and Dr. Enrico Mihich

Faletta

Mihich

The Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies presented the 2009 Endowment Leadership Awards to Maestro JoAnn Falletta and Dr. Enrico Mihich for their leadership and dedication to the Marcel Tyberg Musical Legacy Project of the Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies. Dr. Mihich has preserved and protected the original manuscripts, first entrusted to his father, of the classical music of Marcel Tyberg.

Tyberg was a young composer and a Roman Catholic who was murdered by the Nazis at Auschwitz solely because of his Jewish ancestry. With the support of Maestro Falletta of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, his exceptional music is gradually coming to light. Two piano sonatas, a trio, a sextet for strings and his third symphony have been performed and recorded thus far. The Foundation is proud to recognize our honorees for their extraordinary efforts to introduce the world to the talent and creativity of Marcel Tyberg and his rediscovered musical masterpieces.

Dr. Louis Sklarow Award
to the outstanding graduate in medicine from the
University at Buffalo School of Medicine
Margaux Kanis

Sidney N. Kahn Memorial Award
to the outstanding MBA graduate in marketing from the
University at Buffalo School of Management
Justin Voty

Ruth H. & Milton E. Kahn Young Leadership Award
to a young woman for demonstrated community leadership
Wendy Pressman

Ann & Meyer Riwchun Young Leadership Award
to a young man for demonstrated community leadership
Rabbi Daniel J. Shuman

Rita Wepner Kagen Award
to the outstanding graduate of Ramapo High School
Bleshonda Bankston-Fields and Gjon Nikpreljevic

Dr. Martin & Edith L. Horowitz Scholarship Award
to an outstanding student in music
Ethan Fox

David Shaposhnikov Memorial Award
to the most improved student in the
graduating class at Kadimah School
Nathan Senick

Lester Schatz Memorial Award
to an outstanding graduate from the
State University of New York at Buffalo Dental School
Andrew S. Deutch

Max Nobel Scholarship Fund
Nathan Wagner and Breanne Geller

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