On June 16th, 2023, The Daisy Jopling Foundations is presenting The Ovation Strings Concert directed by Susan Feldman at the Assumption Church in Peekskill, NY.
Church of the Assumption
131 Union Ave
Peekskill, NY 10566
The Ovation Strings Program provides free after school string tuition for 2 hours each week to 26 children in Peekskill, NY. The program is an Arts 10566 program that is funded by the Daisy Jopling Music Mentorship Foundation.
For more information on the Daisy Jopling Foundation Ovation Strings program go to
https://daisyjoplingfoundation.org/ovation-peekskill-strings-program/
Mission Statement for the Daisy Jopling Music Foundation
Tagline: Unleashing Creative Potential Through The Arts.
Mission: Bringing the power of world class music-making into community performances that transform people’s lives.
This is accomplished through three core initiatives:
- Mentorship by world class musicians for youth to study and perform with them on major stages
- Removing barriers such as cost for youth to attend world class concerts
- Supporting low cost and tuition free high-quality music programs for children by donating funds
Daisy Jopling:
Classical/rock violinist Daisy Jopling was born in London, and now lives in NY. She has toured the world with her own band, the “Daisy Jopling Band” and with the creative string trio “Triology.” She has recorded nine albums, two with BMG RCA Victor. Daisy was the first international violinist to perform a major concert at the Great Pyramids of Giza in Egypt on November 4, 2022, collaborating with Egyptian stars Hany Adel, Wust El Balad and Noha Fekry.
Her Solo work has included playing a concerto at the Royal Albert Hall in London at the age of 14, playing twice before 30,000 people at the opening of the Vienna Festival, touring with her band to 53 stunning concert halls in China, creating “Illuminance” on Bannerman Island, NY which aired on PBS in 2021 and 2022, and performing her own “Awakening” Concert at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center.
In June 2021 Daisy premiered a new show called “Transcendence”, directed by iconic Olympic Ceremony creator Daniel Flannery, based on African American author Sarah Bracey White’s memoir “Primary Lessons”.
Daisy has collaborated with superstars worldwide, including Bobby McFerrin and Rob Evan from the US, Hollywood’s Hans Zimmer, India’s Shubha Mudgal, Cuba’s Omara Portuondo, Africa’s Oliver Mtukutsi, Austria’s Joe Zawinul, Wolfgang Muthspiel and Julian Rachlin, The Netherland’s Janine Jansen, Russia’s Boris Grebenshikov and London’s Tony Award Winning director Tom Morris.
She has composed music for various ensembles which has been performed in major concert halls throughout the world, and for the last 11 years she has performed her own shows “The String Pulse Experience” and “Awakening” for her Band, orchestra, solo singers, dancers, and youth choir, enhanced by custom made lighting design and projections. Both shows give opportunities to young instrumentalists, singers and dancers to perform on great stages alongside world class musicians. “Music Magic: The String Pulse Experience” documentary film by Diana C. Frank has aired on Mountain Lake PBS.
