The Emerald Coast Music Alliance Foundation, Inc. (ECMAF) was founded in 2017 to give the experience of world-class, classical music to demographics that would otherwise never have these types of opportunities, bringing “Carnegie Hall to the People”.
Through week-long festivals, our Music Director Alon Goldstein and world-class guest musicians perform classical pieces in multiple venues throughout Northwest Florida; traveling through Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, Walton and Jackson Counties.
In our first year, 2017, the musicians of Emerald Coast Music Alliance Foundation performed in five venues. In 2018, performances tripled to fifteen venues.
In 2019 Emerald Coast Music Alliance Foundation increased to twenty-five performances in seventeen locations. Accompanying our Music Director Alon Goldstein were the guest musicians; Grammy nominated cellist and conductor, Amit Peled, and the Peabody Cello Gang.
In 2020, The Emerald Coast Music Alliance Foundation has scheduled over forty performances with twelve musicians, including our artistic director, Alon Goldstein, four of Alon's classical pianist students, classical guitarist JiJi, percussionist Mitya Nilov, and a brass quintet.
In 2021, Emerald Coast Music Alliance Foundation determined to continue providing free concerts to schools, senior organizations, and special needs centers despite the threat of Covid-19 utilizing the power of streaming platforms. Fifteen artists, performing on Piano, Viola, Flute, a Brass Quintet and a vocalist, shared their talents in over 63 total performances in a three week period.
In 2022, Emerald Coast Music Alliance Foundation returned to live performance; bringing in four pianists, a clarinetist, a cellist and two dancers to perform with the musicians. Fifty performances were held in 23 venues in the week-long festival spanning three counties across Northwest Florida.
In 2023, Emerald Coast Music Alliance Foundation welcomed back four pianists and introduced two new unique musicians; an accordionist and an artist performing on traditional Chinese instruments. In addition, the ECMAF presented the first live, Free Public Concert in the Fort Walton Beach Civic Auditorium. Our musicians performed forty-seven times in a total of 25 venues.
To inquire about scheduling a performance for your not-for profit agency, school, senior center, or other agency, please contact us.
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ECMAF, Inc.
c/o Ben Gordon 2113 Lewis Turner Bld., Suite 100 For Walton Beach, FL 32547 © Copyright 2017 Emerald Coast Music Alliance Foundation, Inc. |
(850) 803-3537
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