Brief Bio:
Eric Fontaine has been working in Atlanta's jazz scene since 2003 with various groups playing such generes as funk, latin, avant-guarde, rock, hip-hop, but primarily jazz. Originally starting off on piano when he was 5, he was exposed to his father's jazz saxophone records when he was little and began playing alto saxophone in his school band at 10. In highschool, Eric was accepted to the 1999, 2000, and 2001 International Honor Band held in Berlin and Vienna, as well as other local bands such as the 2003 Georgia All-State Jazz Band and the 2003 Atlanta Youth Jazz Orchestra. Eric is a former student of the renowned Atlanta saxophonist Sam Skelton who he studied under in the Music Minor program at Georgia Tech. Eric has since performed around the world in such places as Shanghai, Beijing, and Seoul, but currently performs around Atlanta in a whole variety of groups (as documented in the calendar below). His saxophones have been recorded on albums for several local Atlanta groups.
You can see Eric Fontaine play at the events shown in the calendar below. Click on an event for more info. He has limited public perfmances now since he needs to focus full time on his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech.
Check out my live recordings at podcast.ericfontainejazz.com and subscribe to the xml RSS feed in iTunes. Check out my youtube channel youtube.com/ericfontainejazz.
Some past groups I played with:
-a standard jazz group The Eric Fontaine Quartet
-an experimental jazz group The Flickering Candle
-an progressive jazz fusion group Ascended Masters
-my discontinued Studio 281 jam sessionStudio 281 Jam Session
-jazz vocalist Laura Coyle
-Jazz-Klezmer fusion group The 4th Ward Afro-Klezmer Orchestra
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