Fountain Chamber Music Society

 
The Fountain Chamber Music Society is an innovative group of New York's finest young artists, combining strings, winds, voice, piano, and percussion. We present a diverse repertoire featuring masterworks of the past as well as music of today's emerging young composers.

The award-winning Fountain Ensemble, composed of violinists Jesse Mills and Cyrus Beroukhim, violist Dov Scheindlin, cellist Alistair MacRae, and clarinetist Gilad Harel, serves as the Society's leadership and musical nucleus.

Fountain CMS performances have been broadcast on WQXR and its recording of Laurie Altman's "On Course" was released in 2008.

The Society has been featured by The Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall in several of their educational programs: Family Concerts and Musical Explorers performances in Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall; numerous  CarnegieKids performances at Carnegie Hall's Kaplan Space; recorded original music for two animated children's films produced by The Weill Music Institute; and recorded musical examples for their Listening Adventures educational website, The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra. Other Fountain educational appearances include New York Public Schools in Harlem and Ardsley, The Jewish Community Center at Long Beach (NY), and Opus 118 Harlem School of Music; as well as a clarinet quintet lecture-performance by Fountain Ensemble at Palm Beach Community College (FL).

Fountain CMS has premiered new works by young composers such as Jonathan Keren and Ryan Streber, and performed pieces by established contemporary American composers such as Claudio Spies and George Crumb.


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