Since 1998, the Bessie Award-nominated Darrah Carr Dance has created a sensational and unique blend of traditional Irish step and contemporary modern dance. The company draws from Irish music, step dance footwork, and spatial patterns to create high-energy, rhythmically based work set to live music on fiddle, accordion, spoons, and guitar. We welcome them back to Geneva Concerts.
Recent New York City performance highlights include: NBC's The Today Show, a guest performance with The New York Pops at Carnegie Hall, the company's annual season at The Irish Arts Center, "The Yeats Project" at the Irish Repertory Theatre, The Duke Theater on 42nd Street, Celebrate Brooklyn, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, the annual NYC Irish Dance Festival, "Stam-pede" Percussive Dance Festival at Symphony Space and a guest appearance with Mick Moloney at the Skirball Center.
Darrah Carr (Artistic Director and Choreographer) holds an MFA from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Wesleyan University. Named one of the "Top 40 Under 40" by The Irish Echo one of the "Top 100 Irish Americans of the Year" by Irish America Magazine, and one of the "Most Influential Women of 2010" by The Irish Voice, Carr grew up in Ohio where she and her three sisters enrolled in the Tim O'Hare School of Irish Dance as a means of celebrating their Irish heritage. Now based in New York City, Carr has been active for over fifteen years in both the Irish and modern dance communities as a choreographer, dancer, educator, and writer. Carr recently received the New York City Comptroller's Irish Heritage Award in recognition of her substantial contributions to the cultural life of New York's Irish community.
Darrah Carr Dance Home Page
YouTube video of Darrah Carr Dance, a 7 minute highlight reel.
Program Notes for the Evening's Concert
One of the earliest and most famous Black vocal groups, the Fisk Jubilee Singers are musicians and students at Fisk University in Nashville, TN who perform and travel worldwide. Founded in 1871, the first Fisk Jubilee Singers introduced the world to the music of what were called “slave songs” now known as African-American spirituals. Credited with preserving this vibrant musical tradition, we welcome the 16 student singers and their director to Geneva. Celebrating Fisk! The 150th Anniversary Album earned a 2021 GRAMMY in the Best Roots Gospel Album category.
In 1999, the Fisk Jubilee Singers were featured in Jubilee Singers: Sacrifice and Glory as part of the PBS award-winning television documentary series American Experience, produced by WGBH/Boston.
Much more information about the Fisk Jubilee Singers is available here, including links to video and audio performances, teaching materials and the PBS video mentioned above.
The Fisk Jubilee Singers Home Page
YouTube video of the Fisk Jubilee Singers performing Wade in the Water.
Program Notes for the Evening's Concert.
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| The presentation of the Fisk Jubilee Singers on November 4, 2023 is supported by The Audience Building Project, a program of the Lake Placid Center for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts with support from the Governor and New York State Legislature; the Statewide Community Regrants program, a regrant program of New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by Auburn Public Theater; and the Ontario County Arts Council. |
Heralded as a leading interpreter of the great classical masterworks, American concert violinist Rachel Barton Pine thrills international audiences with her dazzling technique, lustrous tone, and emotional honesty. With an infectious joy in music-making and a passion for connecting historical research to performance, Pine transforms audiences' experiences of classical music.
Pine performs with the world's leading orchestras including the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Camerata Salzburg, and the Chicago, Vienna, and Detroit Symphony Orchestras. She has worked with renowned conductors, including Teddy Abrams, Marin Alsop, Semyon Bychkov, Neeme Järvi, Erich Leinsdorf, Nicholas McGegan, Zubin Mehta, and John Nelson.
In a special appearance, Pine’s 12-year-old daughter, Sylvia Pine, will join her mother on stage to perform Vivaldi's "Double Violin Concerto in A minor."
Lawrence Loh is Music Director of Symphoria. Mr. Loh was Assistant, Associate and Resident Conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra from 2005-2015 and he returns annually to lead a wide variety of programs.
Mr. Loh's previous positions include: Music Director of the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, Music Director of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic, Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Syracuse Opera; Music Director of the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra; Associate Conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra; Associate Conductor of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra and Music Director of the Denver Young Artists Orchestra.
Mr. Loh received his Artist Diploma in Orchestral Conducting from Yale, his Masters in Choral Conducting from Indiana University and his Bachelor of Arts and Certificate of Management Studies from the University of Rochester. Lawrence Loh was born in southern California of Korean parentage and raised in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He and his wife Jennifer have a son, Charlie, and a daughter, Hilary.
YouTube video of Rachel Barton Pine and her daughter Sylvia Pine performing the Vivaldi Concerto in A Minor for Two Violins.
The Symphoria Home Page
Program Notes for the Afternoon's Concert.
Julian Schwarz was born to a multigenerational musical family in 1991. Heralded from a young age as a cellist destined to rank among the greatest of the 21st century, Julian's powerful tone, effortless virtuosity, and extraordinarily large color palette are hallmarks of his style.
After making his concerto debut at the age of 11 with the Seattle Symphony and his father Gerard Schwarz on the podium, he made his US touring debut with the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra in 2010. Since being awarded first prize at the inaugural Schoenfeld International String Competition in 2013, he has led an active career as soloist, performing with the symphony orchestras throughout the United States. Internationally, he made his Australian debut with the Queensland Symphony, his Mexican debuts with the Boca del Rio Philharmonic in Veracruz and the Mexico City Philharmonic with frequent collaborator Jorge Mester, and his Hong Kong debut at the Intimacy of Creativity Festival. He has also appeared at the Salzburg Mozarteum, and the Verbier festival in Switzerland.
As a chamber musician, Mr. Schwarz performs extensively in recital with pianist Marika Bournaki. In 2016 the Schwarz-Bournaki duo was awarded first prize at the inaugural Boulder International String Competition's "The Art of Duo," and subsequently embarked on an extensive 10-recital tour of China in March 2017. Mr. Schwarz is a founding member of the New York based Frisson Ensemble, and the Mile-End Trio.
Lawrence Loh is Music Director of Symphoria. Mr. Loh was Assistant, Associate and Resident Conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra from 2005-2015 and he returns annually to lead a wide variety of programs.
Mr. Loh's previous positions include: Music Director of the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, Music Director of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic, Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Syracuse Opera; Music Director of the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra; Associate Conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra; Associate Conductor of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra and Music Director of the Denver Young Artists Orchestra.
Mr. Loh received his Artist Diploma in Orchestral Conducting from Yale, his Masters in Choral Conducting from Indiana University and his Bachelor of Arts and Certificate of Management Studies from the University of Rochester. Lawrence Loh was born in southern California of Korean parentage and raised in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He and his wife Jennifer have a son, Charlie, and a daughter, Hilary.
The Symphoria Home Page
YouTube video of Julian Schwarz and Marika Bournaki performing the Tchaikovsky Pezzo Capriccioso.
Program Notes for the Afternoon's Concert.
 Preferred lodging partner of Geneva Concerts is Fairfield by Marriott Geneva Finger Lakes. |
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| This series is made possible, in part, by grants from the Williams Family Foundation and the Wyckoff Family Foundation, by a continuing subscription from Hobart and William Smith Colleges, and by the friends of Geneva Concerts. |
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| Geneva Concerts' programs for 2024 are made possible in part by a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. |
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| The presentation of the Fisk Jubilee Singers on November 4, 2023 was supported by The Audience Building Project, a program of the Lake Placid Center for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts with support from the Governor and New York State Legislature; the Statewide Community Regrants program, a regrant program of New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by Auburn Public Theater; and the Ontario County Arts Council. |
