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.
