Classical Music Concert- Alyce Cognetta Bertz

Join us by the fireplace for the return of this talented duo. 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 studied chamber music with the Cleveland Quartet,  the  Juilliard Quartet and Joeseph Gingold. When in high school she performed in Vienna , Austria at the world premier with Leonard Bernstein's  "Mass".  She has performed concerts at Carnegie Hall, The  Kennedy Center, Mexico (La Philarmonica de las Americas), The Blossom Music Festival in  Ohio, and  The  Waterloo Music Festival  with members of the New York  Philharmonic.

Alyce Cognetta  Bertz has been 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.

She has performed with the Rochester Philharmonic and the Finger Lakes Symphony and most recently, at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, enjoyed playing the piano solo in the Beethoven Choral Fantasy. 

 An unusual quartet ,consisting of 4 pianists at 2 pianos, has been meeting every Tuesday in Geneva N.Y. for the past 85 years, with Meg keeping a seat warm for the past 30 years. 

Like all Southbury Public Library programs, this event is free to attend and open to anyone regardless of town of residency. Registration is required. This program is sponsored by the Friends of the Southbury Public Library. For more information about this program, please email Rebecca at rrandall@biblio.org or call the reference desk at 203-262-0626 ext 130.