up unable to trust your own judgment. I'm also, generally, not a believer in awards. The reward is inside you. But the Avery Fisher Prize is a special kind of recognition, and what makes it so tremendously gratifying is that it comes from your peers, who recommend you for it – who say, 'He plays well, he's done good things, and he's worthy of being an American pianist.' I don't think the aim is to advance our careers, necessarily. It's more like the Pulitzer or the Nobel Prizes, in that it acknowledges that you've achieved something worthwhile." The Avery Fisher Center for Music & Media The Avery Fisher Center for Music & Media (originally named the "Avery Fisher Listening Room") at the Elmer Holmes Bobst Library of New York University was established in 1987 with assistance from the Avery and Janet Fisher Foundation. Fisher explained the reason for his donation to the New York University Division of Libraries, saying "I was a graduate of N.Y.U.," he said, "and I owe a great deal to them because I was there on a working scholarship." Later gifts from the Fisher family helped the Avery Fisher Center acquire new equipment in 2017 during renovation designed by the architectural firm Perkins Eastman and managed by the R.P. Brennan general contracting firm of New York, NY. The Avery Fisher Center for Music and Media, an 8-library, 6 million-volume system, is one of the world’s largest academic media centers. "His generous contribution to NYU has helped to make the Avery Fisher Center one of the largest academic media centers in the world." The Center is located on seventh floor of NYU's Bobst Library. The Fisher Center's video collection of DVDs, blu-rays, and videocassettes contain an extensive variety of classic and contemporary featuring American videos as well as those from around the world. TV series, stage and concert performances, documentaries, and art films are included in the library collection. The Avery Fisher Center’s facilities include collaborative media rooms, as well as a "state-of-the-art immersion" room. One of the world’s largest academic media centers, it features over 100 audio and video viewing carrels and 3 media-enhanced classrooms. Students and researchers use more than 100,000 audio and video recordings per year at the Avery Fisher Center. Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center Funded Philharmonic Hall renovation at Lincoln Center Fisher was known for having donated $10.5 million (U.S.) ()