The author of the memorial was Carl Ellenberger, a physician and a flutist, who, some years ago, co-founded a chamber-music series called Gretna Music.
Marin Alsop founded Concordia, a chamber orchestra, in 1984 and has gone on to a significant international career.
Ellen P. Chapnick, a dean at Columbia Law School, founded a program with Judge Sotomayor in 1998 that gave students a chance to work in appellate chambers.
After co-founding a successful legal chambers she looked set to become a High Court judge until Tony Blair made her a Labour peer, Baroness Scotland of Asthal, after the Oxfordshire village where she has a home.
Together, they founded the Absolute Ensemble, a chamber ensemble noted for its hip synthesis of rock and contemporary classical music.
His other musical ventures include founding the Simon Sinfonietta, a chamber orchestra in Falmouth, Mass., and l'Orchestre des Portes Rouges, an ensemble in residence at the Church of the Resurrection, on East 74th Street, named for the church's red doors.
"You Are (Variations)" was performed on Sunday at Le Poisson Rouge by Signal, a recently founded chamber group that focuses on contemporary music and is made up of players from prominent ensembles, like Alarm Will Sound.
Ransom Wilson founded the chamber orchestra Solisti New York in 1981.
Equilbey founded the chamber choir Accentus in 1991, and continues as its music director.
Ticciati founded the chamber ensemble Aurora, which gave its first concert in April 2005, the year in which he was also awarded a Borletti Buitoni Trust Fellowship.
In 1978, Ivashkin founded the Bolshoi Soloists, a chamber ensemble dedicated to new music.
