Faculty member and pianist Wei-Hsien Lien presented several chamber music recitals in Argentina in November of 2006. She also played in Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall.
Faculty member and pianist Genevieve Chinn Brings appeared with Allen Brings in a concert of music for piano, four-hands, as part of the dedicatory season of the Dave Brubeck room of the Wilton Library in march, 2007. She also performed a work by Allen Brings at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary, in October.
Faculty member and pianist-composer Allen Brings received three performances of his composition In Memoriam for string orchestra and alto soloist in Hungary in October, 2006. The work was repeated twice in New York. He also gave an illustrated lecture about his music at the Liszt Music Academy in Budapest. Fellow faculty member Jennifer Foster presented Dr. Brings' Five Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins at Queens College, CUNY and in Hamden, CT. A recording entitled Duos, Duologues and a Duette was recently issued. Other performances include Antitheses for guitar, saxophone, piano and percussion presented in New York and Long Island.
Faculty member and pianist Lin Li performed in a concert of chamber music at Weill Hall last January.
Faculty member and cellist Adam Grabois performing with the Fiat Lux chamber Players (http://www.fiatluxchamberplayers.org) in February of 2006. Mr. Grabois' recordings are available at www.finckel4cellos.com and www.reflexeditions.com.
Faculty member and violinist Justin Smith finished a new album with the country-western group The Defibullators (go to www.thedefibulators.com for more information) and continues to tour across the country. He continues to play Broadway with the hit musical Wicked, and appeared in August 2007 with the Abaca String Band at the Levitt Pavilion in Westport.
Faculty member and jazz pianist Jay Spadone brought his Kitchen Sink Band for the 4th year in a row to the Emmanuel Church concert series in Weston in June 2007. Featured artists included Broadway veteran Kirsti Carnahan, faculty members Jennifer Foster (voice) and Justin Smith (violin); and the acapella singing group The Colgate Thirteen. Also in June 2007 Mr. Spadone presented an original acapella piece at Colgate University that was performed by the Colgate Thirteen in the Colgate Chapel. In March of 2008 Mr. Spadone will present the 28th Annual StrawHat Auditions at the Michael Schimmel Performing Arts Center at Pace University in New York City. Information is available at www.strawhat-auditions.com.