The 25th Fil at the Met Concert, 20th Anniversary Performathon, new two-week summer program in Iowa, FMDG summer program, and student spotlights: Haowen Deng and Logan Riman.
Collaboration with Recording Academy, Matthew Whitaker’s Grammy Award, NEA grant, The Fil in Iowa, and faculty spotlights: Anthony Vine and Michelle Trovato.
New Executive Director: Dr. Robert Derke, Monarch braille and tactile graphics device, alumni perform in Paris, and Leslie Jones and Dalia Sakas’s program “Defining Music Accessibility in Higher Education.”
24th Fil at the Met Concert, 19th Annual Performathon, American Foundation for the Blind’s Helen Keller Achievement Awards, Vision Loss Alliance of New Jersey spring fundraiser, Michelle Trovato at Carnegie Hall, faculty spotlights: Charlotte Surkin, Katharine Flanders, and John Sanfilippo, student news: Sami Osborne and Iolanta Mamatkazina, Juilliard School’s Diversity Dialogue: Accessibility in Music.
Caroling at The Met Cloisters and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Matthew Whitaker workshop, “Something, Something, Trumpet,” 19th Annual Performathon, The Fil at The Met 2025, and financial update.
2024 Paul J. Sauerland Braille Literacy Award, FMDG Music School on Broadway, New York Police Department (NYPD) Jazz Band, Conversations with The Fil, student spotlight: Barbara McNair, and “Seeing Notes” documentary film.
