The Fine Arts Music Society (FAMS) has since 2002 produced over 200 concerts, events and master classes, in the historic Fine Arts Building of Chicago, as well as at many venues and private homes of our donors  in the Chicagoland area and beyond.

Our outreach concerts in Schools have also received much acclaim for educating audiences of tomorrow.

Since it's incorporation as a Not-For Profi (NFP)t in 2004, FAMS has co-produced events with major companies, foundations and schools, such as Elizabeth Stein Company, the A.U.A. Foundation, Bein & Fushi, Machold Rare Violins Chicago, the Music Institute of Chicago, Oak Park/River Forest High School, the MERIT School of Music, The McHenry County Music Center, Gallery Bremer Berlin, and many others.

The Fine Arts Music Society has developed in the 2007/08  season a master class series together with Elizaberth Stein Company (ESC), with world-renowned guest artists, such as violinists Roland & Almita Vamos, Shmuel Ashkenasi and Mathias Tacke of the world-renowned Vermeer Quartet. The series was lead by a well documented master class with legendary concert violinist Maestro Ruggiero Ricci at his home in Palm Springs, in November 2007 , and by Roland&Almita Vamos in December at the showroom of Elizabeth Stein Company at the historic Fine Arts Building of Chicago. 

In a very special collaboration with the Music Institute of Chicago and Ruggiero Ricci  we will be able to present Maestro Ruggiero Ricci in a very special master class on April 19th at the Music Institute of Chicago in Evanston, celebrating his 90th birthday year.

No matter, if you are looking for an intimate chamber music recital in a private salon setting or a concert in a major hall, the Fine Arts Music Society can provide you with musicians of international calibre. We also work with painters, poets and sculptors for interdisciplanary events, making the Fine Arts Music Society a truly unique platform, bringing the Fine Arts and it's supporters together.

Guest soloists have included musicians from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, such as Charles Pikler, viola. Violinists Almita Vamos and Sang Mee Lee, pianists Sergiy Komirenko, Stuart Leitch, Kay Kim, Katie Hamada, George Lepauw and deserving students of Northwestern University  and other Universities in the Chicagoland area.


 

  

UPCOMING PERFORMANCES:

APRIL 2008
Saturday, April 12th 3:00pm

Event:
FAMS-Spring fundraising Gala

Location:
Elizabeth Stein Company
Fine Arts Building of Chicago-410 S. Michigan
Suite 801
Chicago, IL 60605
Tel: (312) 602.9786
http://www.lizsteinco.com

Performing Artists:
David Yonan, violin
Sergiy Komirenko, piano

  • Beethoven, Sonata No. 5
  • "Spring" Sonata op.24
  • Debussy Sonata in g-minor for violin and piano
    Ilya Levinson (*1958)
  •  "Klezmer Rhapsody" for violin and piano
  • N. Paganini Caprice No. 24 op.1-with a piano accompaniment by Robert Schumann 

The concert is followed by a signing of the  CD by the artists and the composer, and accompanied by a chocolate and champagne reception.
Donation: $20
R.S.V.P. by Friday, April 11th
fineartsmusicsociety@gmail.com
or: (847) 942-6441

About the Artists:

Sergiy Komirenko, piano was born in Kiev in 1985. At six he won second prize in the Kiev Mozart Competition and was enrolled at the Lysenko Music School. In 1994 he won first prize at the Seventh International Steinway-Paris Piano Competition and in 1997 he won awards at the Fourth International Krainev Piano Competition. . Recent performances have included solo performances at the Pianoforte Chicago Fazioli Salon Series, which was also broadcasted live on WFMT, as well a recent performance at the Tower Club of Chicago. Sergiy is currently a student of piano performance at Northwestern University, where he studies with James Giles.He won 1st prize at the Northwestern University Concerto Competition 2007, where he is completing his Bachelors of Music Degree this summer.

Ilya Levison, Composer
Moscow native Ilya Levison (*1958) emigrated to the United States in 1988. Though a star pupil at the well-known Moscow Concervatory, he left rather than join the Soviet composers union. Living with relatives in the city's Jewish community, he got by playing klezmer (a traditional European Jewish music discouraged in his homeland as part of many years of systematic suppression of Russian Jewish culture. He showed some of his student work to the University of Chicago's Ralph Shapey, and eventually got a Ph.D. from the university.Says the Chicago Reader's Ted Shen of Levinson's artistic growth: "In Moscow, though Levinson had been exposed to modernism's 12-tone techniques, he'd never used them; his early style was heavily influenced by the more conservative output of Prokofiev and Shostakovich. But under the tutelage of SHapey, Shulamit Ran, and John Eaton his timidity evaporated." He is the director at the University of Chicago Chamber Music Program and professor of composition at Columbia College Chicago.