When 16-year-old violin virtuoso Jourdan Urbach gives a concert at Carnegie Hall in November, his performance will be the latest piece in a philanthropic motif that began when he was just 7 years old.
The 2007 Young Heart Liberty Medal winner, a high-school senior from Long Island, will appear Nov. 22 with the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony at Carnegie Hall to benefit the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
Urbach began playing violin before he was 3. When he was 7, he took a tour of a pediatric neurosurgery ICU at Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan.
That’s when he launched Children Helping Children, a musical philanthropy foundation that raises funds to combat pediatric and neurological diseases.
“We’ve raised about $1.4 million since it began,” he said in a recent phone interview from Harvard Medical School, where he’s spending part of the summer as a researcher working on a cure for multiple sclerosis. Next summer, his concert career goes international with performances in El Salvador and Argentina.
The Post’s Liberty Medals program seeks to recognize the everyday heroes who are the city’s backbone.