About Us

OUR MISSION  is to connect and to heal 

through music in our changing world.

Jazz and Classics for Change (“JCfC”) was established in the summer of 2019 with the mission, “To connect and to heal through music in our changing world.”

It has remained dedicated to its mission of bringing the highest quality music to its ever-growing and diverse audiences in Columbia and Berkshire Counties. The programs we have offered, performed by world-class jazz and classical musicians, have fostered a community that values music as an essential and vital expression of the human experience. 

As we prepare for our seventh season in 2025, we are excited to continue creating and expanding our programming for people in all walks of life. In addition to our public concerts, we perform for those who can’t come to us, so they too can experience the healing power of music — including programs for young adults and adults with special abilities, seniors in assisted living communities, and for children of underserved communities.

Thank you for your unwavering support as we strive to build connections through music that enrich, inspire and honor the lives of all people.






BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Matt Cain – Chairman

Gili Melamed-Lev – President and Artistic Director

Craig Bender – Treasurer

Martina Deignan – Secretary

Nicole Furnée

William (BJ) Johnson – Director Emeritus

Thomas Chulak – Director Emeritus

FOUNDERS:

Gili Melamed-Lev and Joe Gold

WEBSITE & GRAPHIC DESIGN

Antony Gravett

LOGO DESIGN

Suzanne Gold & Allison Crowly,

Fuzzy Muzzle Design

2022 Annual Benefit Concert Honorary Chairs: EUGENE DRUCKER and ROBERTA COOPER

ADVISORY COMMITTEE

George Brooks

Roberta Cooper

Eugene Drucker

Mark Evans

Ronald Feldman

Joe Gold

Gwen Gould

Deborah Grace

Philip Lasser

Abigail Laufer

Marianne Lockwood

Rafi Malkiel

Elizabeth Morse

Joe Mulholland

Bonnie Podolsky

Gili Sharett

Brian Shea

Sheila Silver

Michael Thomas

Peter Weitzner

Read more about JCfC in this 2020

article in HOMESTYLE magazine:

Click to read the February 2020

issue of the magazine


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Instagram  –and–  Facebook

Instagram @jcfc_music
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OUR BUSINESS SUPPORTERS

WE COLLABORATE WITH

Our Camphill Ghent outreach project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by CREATE Council on the Arts.

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