Caroline Stoessinger is artist-in-residence at John Jay College, CUNY, and president of The Mozart Academy, where lessons are tuition-free for immigrant children. She produced the New York tribute to Alice Herz-Sommer on Alice’s 104th birthday with narrator Lynn Redgrave, the first New York performance of Brundibar, and the dedication of the Schindler violin at the U.S. Memorial Holocaust Museum; and she was artistic director of the Legacy of Shoah film festivals in Prague and New York. Stoessinger is a specialist in the music performed in Theresienstadt, and as a pianist she has premiered works in New York by Theresienstadt composers Hans Krása, Pavel Haas, and Stepan Lucky. She has spoken worldwide for YPO and the Chief Executive’s Forum and is now working on a documentary film the life of Alice Herz-Sommer.
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The subject of the Academy Award–winning documentary The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life, Alice Herz-Sommer was the world’s oldest Holocaust survivor when she died on February 23, 2014. A Century of Wisdom is the true story of her life&m... SEE MORE