PRESS RELEASE THE PRESENTED 2013 GABARRON INTERNATIONAL AWARDS
New York, November 9, 2013. Last night The Gabarron International Awards were presented in New York. For the second consecutive year, the ceremony was held at the Gabarron Foundation in NY, a terrific group of personalities from the cultural, science and political world enfolded the Gala. We should remember that the main goal of the Gabarron Foundation is to “Create awareness through the Arts”, organizing exhibitions and educational programs. Within this mission, there is a focus on helping emerging artists; on fostering the relations between the American continent and Spain; and encouraging the safeguard of the excellence, the generosity, the dialogue, the tolerance, the liberty, and the universality through the sciences, the arts, the culture, the sports and economics. The ceremony was masterfully presented by the Carleth Keys, TV star, anchor of NY1 News/Noticias. Cris Gabarron, president of the organization, plentifully remarked the idea “in Valladolid live our roots and in New York gravitates our explorer and dreamer spirit”. In the end, “The United States are a Hispanic Nation and the Spanish culture imbued this country”. Thus, “the geopolitics made that more than two thirds of United States were Spanish soil, from Alaska to Florida, crossing California, Texas, Nevada, New Mexico…; some of them for centuries. Due to this heritage, the Hispanic impression is present in all the toponymy of this great nation that is the United States of America”
The fabulous cluster of laureates included Richard Meier, the great American Architect, Visual Arts Award, who received the award from Terence Riley, former director of the Architectural Department at the MoMA; Berklee College of Music, the world’s largest private university of music, Performing Arts Award, represented by its president of its chapter in Valencia, Ann Kreis, the director of the center in Valencia, María Iturriaga and its Executive President, Roger Brown, who received the award from the artist and music producer Javier Limón; Dr. Luis Rojas Marcos, Science and Research Award, emotionally touched received the award from Allan Villafaña, Telemundo News TV star; the Sports Award was presented by Mary Wittenberg, President and CEO of the NYC Marathon, to Dr. Thomas P. Rosandich, founder and president of the United States Sports Academy University, a titanic devotee of the Olympic Values; the Economics Award went to the Indian professor Abhijit Banerjee, recognized thinker and social economist of the MIT, the prize was handed over by the Honorable Guillermo Linares; Ángel Carro-Castrillo, director of the European Office for Africa, was commissioned to carry out the Thought and Humanities Award to Donald Kuspit, American thinker and art critic, a legend in the contemporary art world; Brian Lafora O’Sullivan representing Iberia Airlines handed over the Conservation and Restoration Award to Michael Duffy, restorer of the Museum of Modern Art in New York; and the Spanish Ambassador in Washington, Ramón Gil-Casares delivered to the journalist Rossana Rosado, editor of El Diario/La Presena, the Lifetime Achievement Award. Writer Fernando Arrabal, Literature Award, convalescing in a hospital in Paris, delegated Juan Rámon Martínez Salazar the collector of the award. Once at the podium, the legendary Richard Meier stressed that one of his greatest accomplishments has become the plaza in front of the Museum of Modern Art in Barcelona a public space filled with life. Roger H. Brown, president of Berklee College of Music, discussed that the great revolution contributed by his university was to stress on the celebration and diffusion of music without regard to stylistic customs, mixing in a blender of pedagogic excellence Bach and Public Enemy, the baroque and the music from the streets, rap and the chamber quartets. He also confessed that it was “the most beautiful award he has ever received”. Emotionally moved, the psychiatrist Luis Rojas Marcos spoke with great humility the recognition of this award, stated as “a tremendous illusion”, and recalled his origins as an immigrant arriving to New York in 1968, without knowing English, and only thanks to have had exceptional mentors he has achieved to make his way in the asphalt jungle. Thomas Rosandich spoke of the importance of sport and the desire to improve it for the development of the human capacities, while Abhijit Banerjee expressed gratitude, also with great humility, of the importance of solidarity and finding minds that work together to bring awareness to this global scourge that is poverty. Michael Duffy praised the existence of a prize that emphasizes the work of those who dedicate their lives to look after and protect the patrimony of humanity. Rossana Rosado, editor of El Diario/La Prensa, referred to the prize as a “final touch” to the centenary of her newspaper. Other award winners in previous editions did not want to miss the ceremony, like the doctors Carlos Cordón and Valentín Fuster; or Mary Wittenberg, president of the Marathon of New York. Other guests were Javier Limón; Peter Launsksy-Tieffenthal, United Nations’ Under-Secretary-General; the director of the European Officer for Africa, Angel Carro-Castrillo; the Consul of Spanish Tourism, Paloma Notario;
journalists Cristina Moreno from Telemundo, Ángel Vazquez, from El diario/La Prensa, Roxana Saberi, from Al-Jazeera, Rafael Cañas, director of EFE America; Guillermo Fesser, Mercedes Gallego, Francesc Peirón, José Ángel Abad correspondent of Antena 3, Evan Weiner, Frank Zimmerman; the editor of Diplomatic Magazine Sonia Segura, the bag-piper Cristina Pato, representative Miguel Ángel Cortés, diplomat and playwright Íñigo Ramírez de Haro, prominent art dealers Fran Kaufman and Steven Rosenberg, Alicia and Ricardo Arranz, President of Villapadierna, Adrián GarcíaAranyos from J P Morgan, Manuela Roosevelt from the Roosevelt Foundation or Ignacio Olmos, director of Cervantes of NY. And, of course, Dani Garcia, the great Spanish chef, 2 Michelin starred and the master of ceremonies of a dinner that conquered New York by its spectacular mix of product and avant-guarde Spanish cooking combined with outstanding wines of the Ribera del Duero from the Matarromera Group. The new edition of the Gabarron Awards ends, and for the second consecutive year these awards have brought an essence of Spain to the Hudson shore, while the most fundamental figures of our time are celebrated in the capital of world.
To inquire more information: The Gabarron Foundation 149 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016. www.gabarronAwards.org awards@gabarron.org, valdeon@gabarron.org Phone: +1.212.573.6968 Cell: +1.646.204.5846
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