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Summer 2011 Geneva Concerts Presents

Music for a Summer's Eve

CURRENT REGULAR SEASON | DIRECTIONS | OUTREACH
MUSIC FOR A SUMMER'S EVE: SUMMER '10 | SUMMER '09 | SUMMER '08 | SUMMER '05 | SUMMER '04
SUMMER '11: July 23: Piano Music of Liszt and Schubert | July 24: Celebrating Schubert! | July 29: Piano Music of Schubert and Liszt | July 30: Violin Sonatas by Mozart, Brahms and Schubert
The "Music for a Summer's Eve" Concert Series features outstanding artists many from the Eastman School of Music and others with roots in Geneva. All concerts will take place at 7:30pm in the Geneva Room in the Warren Hunting Smith Library on the campus of Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Admission to the concerts is free and open to the public. A free-will donation of non-perishable food items, or $5, is suggested, to benefit Catholic Charities and the food banks of the Center of Concern and the Salvation Army. Funding for this series was provided by the George D. and Frieda B. Abraham Foundation.


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Mission Statement

To cultivate, foster, promote, and develop within the local Geneva, NY community an appreciation and understanding of the musical arts and dance, particularly the immediacy and freshness of live events, by sponsoring, promoting, and producing, musical concerts and similar events; by especially encouraging young people to attend our events through educational outreach; to engage in artistic and cultural activities and programs allied with the musical arts; to secure the interest of patrons of these arts; and to participate in activities with other organizations sharing these purposes.

Schedule of Events



Saturday, 23 July 2011 at 7:30 PM
The Geneva Room in the Warren Hunting Smith Library
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Pulteney Street, Geneva, NY

Liszt Photo Schubert Photo

Piano Music of Liszt and Schubert

Douglas Humpherys
Professor and Chair of the Piano Department, Eastman School of Music

Humpherys Photo


Sunday, 24 July 2011 at 7:30 PM
The Geneva Room in the Warren Hunting Smith Library
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Pulteney Street, Geneva, NY

Schubert Photo

Celebrating Schubert!

Piano duets by Meg Cognetta Heaton and Hilda Lam Collins
Premiere of a commissioned work for two cellos and piano by Greg Brown
and the magnificent Schubert Cello Quintet performed by
Sarah Crocker (Violin, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra);
Eliot Heaton, violin; Sophie Heaton, Viola; Hannah Collins, Cello;
and Stefan Reuss (Principal Cello, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra)



Friday, 29 July 2011 at 7:30 PM
The Geneva Room in the Warren Hunting Smith Library
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Pulteney Street, Geneva, NY

Schubert Photo Liszt Photo

Piano Music of Schubert and Liszt

Greg DeTurck, Piano, Eastman School of Music DMA candidate

DeTurck Photo


Saturday, 30 July 2011 at 7:30 PM
The Geneva Room in the Warren Hunting Smith Library
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Pulteney Street, Geneva, NY

Mozart Photo Brahms Photo Schubert Photo

Violin Sonatas by Mozart, Brahms and Schubert

Jeremy Zhu, Violin, Senior Faculty and Chair of String Department, Eastman Community Music School

Zhu Photo

Hilda Lam Collins and George Abraham, Piano




NYSCA logo HWS logo GC logo Funding is provided by the George D. and Frieda B. Abraham Foundation. Additional support for Geneva Concerts is provided by funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, by a continuing subscription from Hobart and William Smith Colleges, and the friends of Geneva Concerts.

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