On Friday, April 12, 2024 from 7-8pm in the Brinker Fireplace Room, join us for a violin and piano concert performed by sisters Alyce Cognetta Bertz and Meg Cognetta Heaton.
Alyce and Meg will be performing a program of Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Dvorak, John Williams and Fritz Kreisler.
Alyce Cognetta Bertz is the Concertmaster of the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra. She studied violin with Syoko Aki of the Yale School of Music and with Charles Tregor of the Hartt School of Music.
Alyce has been a violin soloist on WQXR in New York. She has appeared as soloist with the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, Hartt Symphony Orchestra and on numerous occasions with the Waterbury Symphony.
Pianist Meg Cognetta Heaton is active in the Finger Lakes region of New York, accompanying choral groups, Suzuki classes and soloists. A graduate of Oberlin Conservatory, Meg teaches at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and is on the board of St. Peter's Community Arts Academy, which makes available free piano and violin lessons for Geneva's children.
Like all Southbury Public Library programs, this program is free to attend and open to anyone regardless of town of residency. This program is sponsored by the Friends of the Southbury Library.
Registration is requested. Please visit the link below for more information and to register.
Registration Link:
https://www.southburylibrary.org/event/classical-music-concert-alyce-cognetta-bertz-34709