American recording engineer, producer and violinist Adam Abeshouse was born into a Jewish family in Westbury, New York on 5 June 1961. (His grandfather had been a balalaika player in Russia.) He studied at New York University and at the Manhattan School of Music.
At the start of his career, in the 1980s, he worked as a professional violinist, before becoming a producer in the 1990s.
In 2002 he founded the Classical Recording Foundation which provides seed funding to encourage artists of merit and smaller record labels to release performances of music about which they are passionate.
Adam Abeshouse died from metastatic bile duct cancer at his home in South Salem, New York on 10 October 2024, aged sixty-three.