Since making her debut with Leopold Stokowski and the NBC
Symphony at the age of eight, Genevieve Chinn Brings has made
many appearances both as soloist and chamber player in this
country, Europe and Asia. She is especially known for her
performances of music for piano, four-hands, with Allen Brings
and, with him, was invited by the State Department to perform in
Yugoslavia and, as invited guests of the Bulgarian government, to
give concerts in Bulgaria.
Among her awards are the French Government Prize in piano, the Chopin Fellowship for composers awarded by the Kosciuszko Foundation, the Young Composers' Award of the New York Philharmonic Society, and two Danforth Foundation Teacher Grants. She has recorded for Centaur, CRI, Orion and Capstone.
In 1988 she was cited as an Outstanding Connecticut Woman of the Year by the United Nations Association of the United States of America. She holds a doctorate in musicology from Columbia University and is Professor of Music at the C.W.Post campus of Long Island University. She is also a director of the Weston Music Center.