Apogee President Kenneth Schneider with Prof. Xing Weikai, Central Conservatory
New York, Beijing, Seoul and Tokyo - The Apogee Foundation, a philanthropic corporation dedicated to the development of human excellence in the performance arts, announced today that it had added key team members and begun implementing its full slate of programs across East Asia.
The Foundation kicked off its East Asian operations by providing its first four Excellence Awards in China to the outstanding students and faculty of the Central Conservatory Music School in the nation's capital: pianists Wang Chun and Huang Nansong, and er hu (Chinese classical violin) artist Wang Xiao, were selected as the first Apogee Merit Scholars in East Asia, and Professor Zhang Jin, Head of the Central Conservatory's Piano Department and instructor of both Wang Chun and Huang Nansong, was named Apogee's first Achievement Award laureate in the region.
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Earlier this year, the Foundation opened an Asia and Oceania bureau in Tokyo and appointed both Mr. Tadao Otsuki, one of Japan's leading business consultants, and Professor Yu Rongfu, the former Director of the Central Conservatory Music School, to the Foundation's global Advisory Council to assist with the rollout of Apogee's programs throughout the region.
In the course of the coming year, the Foundation intends to follow this initial set of awards and appointments by introducing its full slate of programs across East Asia, with work already underway now in South Korea and Vietnam as well as in Japan and China.
Professor Xing Weikai, Director of the Central Conservatory Music School, said "On behalf of the many talented young artists in China who deserve this level of international recognition and support, we welcome Apogee to our country and look forward to successfully expanding on this collaboration in the years to come."
Apogee President Kenneth Schneider said "Apogee's mission of fostering human excellence in the arts and lives of gifted people is particularly well suited to the extraordinarily talented and dedicated artists now emerging from East Asia, as they prepare to enter upon the world stage more significantly than at any other time in history. It is a privilege for everyone at the Foundation to be able to play our role in this."
About The Apogee Foundation ®
Apogee is an international philanthropic corporation dedicated to the development of human excellence through the performing arts. The Foundation's programs are designed to synergize the creative, spiritual and economic aspects of human potential, creating a triple helix of evolution that propels its beneficiaries to the apogee of human excellence on the world stage.
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The Apogee Foundation
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