Praised as "Creme de la Creme" (NPR "Performance Today"), violinist Cyrus Beroukhim has earned broad recognition as a leading performer of his generation. Top prizewinner in the 2005 National Federation of Music Clubs Biennial Young Artists Auditions, he has also received awards in the WAMSO Competition, Hudson Valley Philharmonic Competition, and the Juilliard Violin Concerto Competition. Mr. Beroukhim made his debut with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra at the age of fifteen. He has appeared in solo and chamber recitals in New York at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Symphony Space, Bargemusic, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Other recent venues around the country have included Symphony Hall in Chicago and the Lobero Theater in Santa Barbara as a laureate of The Music Academy of the West. A 2001 recipient of the Mitzi Foundation Scholarship, he has presented numberous recitals in Taiwan. Highlights of the 2005 season included solo performances with the Academy of St. Martin inthe Fields in Bern, Switzerland, and a recording on the Vanguard/Artemis label.

As an active chamber musician on both the violin and viola, Mr. Beroukhim has performed at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago, the Verbier Festival and Academy in Switzerland, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, the Sarasota Music Festival, the Museum of Modern Art's Summergarden concert series in New York, and the Keshet Eilon Festival in Israel. He has performed around the country as a member of the Lenape Chamber Ensemble and America's Dream Chamber Artists. He has also been on the faculty of Point Counterpoint Chamber Music Festival.

Mr. Beroukhim has served as concertmaster of various orchestras including a 1998 tour of Germany and Luxembourg with the Jeunesses Musicales World Orchestra. An active performer of new music, Mr. Beroukhim recembtly recorded music by Steven Gerber with Cho-Liang Lin and Kurt Nikkanen for KOCH International. He regularly performs with Columbia Sinfonietta, a new music group founded by Jeffrey Milarsky.

A native of Milwaukee, Mr. Beroukhim began his early musical training with Mimi Zweig. He attended the Oberlin Conservatory under Roland and Almita Vamos and is currently a Doctoral Fellow at the Juilliard School where he studies with Chol-Liang Lin.

Upcoming Concert:

Feb. 23, 2006
Miami, Florida