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.

Capstone Records has just released a compact disc of music by faculty-member, composer-pianist, Allen Brings entitled "A Concert of Music by Allen Brings," featuring his String Quartet; Sonata a quattro for percussion ensemble; Antitheses for guitar, saxophone, piano and percussion; Five Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, performed by faculty-member, soprano Jennifer Foster, with Brings at the piano; and Three Studies for piano, left-hand, also performed by Dr. Brings. On September 26 at the national conference of the College Music Society, he performed his Not A Trifling Matter, a short work for piano especially written to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Society. On May 20 in New York City, soprano Amanda Smith and faculty-member, violinist Justin Smith, gave the first performance of Brings' settings of texts by Shakespeare and George Meredith. On May 1 at Queens College violist Elena Rojas, who has appeared on the school's Sunday morning musicals, gave the first performance of Brings' Aria da capo.

Faculty member and pianist Lin Li performed in a concert of chamber music at Weill Hall last January.

Faculty-member and cellist Adam Grabois reports the release with former Weston faculty member, violinist Deborah Wong, of "Duos: Martinů, Ravel, Kodály." Their recording has received critical acclaim and is available at www.reflexeditions.com. Previous recordings by Mr. Grabois include "Music for Cello and Piano by Beethoven, Debussy and Rachmaninoff" and "The Finckel Cello Quartet Plays Bach." Chamber concerts in the 2008-09 season will include performances in New York at the Morgan Library, Vermont, Texas, New Jersey, Idaho, Utah, Florida, California, Pennsylvania and Oklahoma. He will also participate in a week-long residency in Idaho that will include teaching, coaching and performances.

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 sixth year in a row to the Emmanuel Church concert series in Weston in June, 2009. Featured artists included Broadway veteran Kirsti Carnahan, jazz and concert pianist Mario Grigorov, faculty members soprano Jennifer Foster and Jazz violinist Justin Smith, and the a cappella singing group The Colgate Thirteen. In March of 2009 Mr. Spadone presented the 30th 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. Mr. Spadone is also the director of the Bronxville High School a cappella group Sha! Cappella, which sang the national anthem for the Knicks in Madison Square Garden in January, and is an adjunct choral director for Fairfield Warde High School. Mr. Spadone will be playing at the Fairfield Theatre Company September 20th with Sweet Remains, with appearances by James Naughton, Buskin and Batteau and Kelly O'Hara.