Jourdan Urbach, 14-year-old violin prodigy from Roslyn and founder of the musical charity organization Children Helping Children, has taken his fundraising efforts to a new high this year. This national concert artist headlined a benefit performance at the Jazz at Lincoln Center Complex for the Children's Hearing Institute of the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary on Oct. 29. Pre-ticket sales for the event have already topped $900,000. The hosts for this concert are: Olympic Gold Medalist Vonetta Flowers and WNBC-TV medical correspondent Dr. Max Gomez. This fundraiser will benefit the Cochlear Implant/Hearing and Learning Centers so that all children may hear the language of music, and will be honoring its co-directors: Simon Parisier, MD, Ronald Hoffman, MD and Jane Madell, Ph.D.

Urbach's second Jazz at Lincoln Center performance on Nov. 6 already has pre-ticket sales of $250,000 and will benefit the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function. At this performance, Jourdan will be sharing the stage with Moby and Rob Thomas.

Combined with the $225,000 Urbach has raised in the past for neurological medical charities, this year's benefit performances and lectures about his MS research bring his philanthropic endeavors to a total of well over $1 million.

Urbach is as well known for his philanthropy as he is for his concert violin career. Since he founded Children Helping Children seven years ago, Urbach has to date raised a total of over $1 million for medical organizations like the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Beth Israel Medical Center's Hyman-Newman Institute for Neurology and Neurosurgery, pediatric divisions of hospitals and medical research.

Jourdan Urbach has been profiled in People magazine, The New York Times, Newsday, Daily News, Family Circle magazine, Teen People magazine in which he was chosen as one of the "Twenty Teens Who Will Change the World." He has performed and been interviewed on Good Morning America, CNN-Lou Dobbs Tonight, The Today Show, Inside Edition, From the Top and WQXR's Young Concert Artist Showcase where host Robert Sherman called Jourdan: "The one to watch for the future ... a brilliant performer." Urbach made his Lincoln Center debut as soloist with the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony in 2003, at the age of 11, and his Carnegie Hall debut in 2005 at the age of 13. Urbach has also performed at Madison Square Garden and the Meadowlands.

Jourdan is also the author of two published novels, Leaving Jeremiah and Inside the Music.

Jourdan Urbach intends to pursue the fields of neurology and neuroscience in the future and looks forward to continuing the symbiotic relationship between music and medicine in his career. Urbach will be performing Bizet's Carmen Fantasy on Nov. 6. His violin is an 1850 Vuillaume.