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The Maestro Foundation nurtures young classical musicians and encourages the appreciation of classical music through its Instrument Lending Program and Maestro Chamber Music Society.

Instrument Lending Program
The Maestro Foundation lends high quality stringed instruments and bows to gifted young musicians during the most critical stage in their professional development. Most of these students attend the finest music schools and conservatories, and are unable to afford the tools necessary to facilitate their performance careers. In addition, it is rarely possible to master the essential nuance and refined techniques on student instruments. 

The Maestro Foundation lends over 70 violins, violas, cellos and bows, used in excess of 75,000 hours per year. This collection will sustain many generations of musicians. Maestro is committed to commissioning living makers whenever possible. New instruments rival and often exceed older instruments in sound and quality at a reduced cost.

The Maestro Chamber Music Series showcases the world’s finest musicians in intimate performances. Concerts are held in an acoustically exquisite, private home, designed and ideally suited for this genre. The series aims to enhance public appreciation and support of classical music while providing a distinctive venue for performers. 


David Ezra Okonsar, Belgian pianist, composer, conductor and musicologist was born in Istanbul, Turkey. He studied piano, composition and orchestration at the Brussels Royal Conservatory and musicology at the Istanbul Technical University. His primary teachers were J. Cl. Vanden Eynden and Alexis Weissenberg for the piano and Madame Jacqueline Fontyn for composition. He is laureate of numerous international piano competitions including the Gina Bachauer. Besides his international concert career he is a prolific composer and music writer.

Pianist, drummer and composer from western Montana

Baroque string ensemble ACRONYM is dedicated to giving modern premieres of the wild instrumental music of the seventeenth century. The 12-member group formed in 2012 to create the first recording of the Alphabet Sonatas of Johann Pezel. ACRONYM’s following disc, sonatas by Antonio Bertali, was released in 2014 to critical acclaim; Alex Ross selected this disc as a CD Pick, and Early Music America Magazine wrote “the idiomatic performances and spacious recording by these young musicians are absolutely first rate. This is a disc…belonging in everyone’s collection.”

Recent and upcoming engagements for ACRONYM include Music Before 1800 (NYC), Academy of Early Music (Ann Arbor), Miami Bach Society’s Tropical Baroque Festival, Mawahie Performing Arts Center’s Close Encounters (Great Barrington, MA), Electric Earth Concerts (Peterborough, NH), Five Boroughs Music Festival (NYC), Midtown Concerts (NYC), Holy Trinity Lutheran (NYC) and the Glencairn Museum (Bryn Athyn, PA).

In 2015 ACRONYM released a third album – the first recordings of Giovanni Valentini’s instrumental works – which was praised in Gramophone for being “played with expertise, enthusiasm, and an almost tactile sense of timbre.” In 2016 ACRONYM released its fourth album: Wunderkammer. Forthcoming projects include the first recording of Valentini’s 1616 book of madrigals with the vocal ensemble Les Canards Chantants and a disc of the music of Rosenmüller with baritone Jesse Blumberg.

ACRONYM’s musicians (violinists Edwin Huizinga, Johanna Novom, Beth Wenstrom, Adriane Post; violists Karina Schmitz, Kyle Miller; gambist Loren Ludwig; cellists Kivie Cahn-Lipman, Paul Dwyer; bassists Doug Balliett; theorbist Simon Martyn-Ellis; and keyboardist Elliot Figg) can be heard in Apollo’s Fire, Tafelmusik, Handel and Haydn Society, International Contemporary Ensemble and Chicago Lyric Opera.

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