Yellow Barn Concert Series: Summer Afternoon Soiree

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YELLOW BARN CONCERT SERIES
The Iva Smith Memorial Gallery of Fine Art will host a summer concert series with various dates held June - September. Listeners are invited to ask the performers questions and see their instruments at close hand. 

SUMMER AFTERNOON SONG SOIREE ft. Ivy Walz (vocalist) and Pej Reitz (Pianis) to perform on Sunday, July 23 at 3:00pm.
An enchanting program of art song from Spain, France, Germany, Austria, Italy and the United States from the 18th to the 20th century, enjoy rich colors and a variety of texts that will allow the audience to enjoy the vibrations of summer. This program has something for everyone!

Ivy Walz – mezzo soprano. Dr. Ivy Walz currently serves as an Associate Dean at the Ithaca College School of Music, Theatre, and Dance where she is also an Associate Professor of Voice. Her credits in opera include appearances with Cincinnati Opera, Syracuse Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, the Spoleto Festival, Opera Ithaca, Tri- Cities Opera and Resonance Works. She is an active concert soloist, and has been featured with Symphoria Syracuse, Binghamton Philharmonic, Akron Symphony, Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, and the Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes. Her scholarship within art song has brought invited performances with the International Music by Women Festival, Fall Island Vocal Arts Seminar, Finger Lakes Chamber Ensemble, SongFest, Cincinnati Song Initiative, Denver Art Song Project, Civic Morning Musicals, and Middlebury Song Fest. Her most recent performances have centered the works of women composers. She holds the DMA from the College Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati and a BM and MM from Ithaca College.

Pej Reitz - pianist, is a native of the Binghamton Area. She received her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in piano performance with accompanying emphasis. She attended Boston University, New England Conservatory and Binghamton University. She has studied piano with Jean Casadesus, Victor Rosenbaum, Seymour Fink and Walter Ponce and accompanying with Allen Rogers. She has accompanied throughout the United States, in England, South America, Spain and at the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria. She was a winner of the Artistic Ambassadors Program by the United States Information Agency in partnership with the John F. Kennedy Center for the performing arts.

2023 Yellow Barn Concert Schedule
June 11: FIDDLERS THREE at 5:00pm
June 18: WORLD ON A STRING at 5:00pm
July 12: CANTIGA at 5:00pm
July 23: SUMMER AFTERNOON SONG SOIREE FT. IVY WALZ & PEJ REITZ at 3:00pm
July 30: A GATHERING OF VOICES at 5:00pm
August 13: SING-ALONG, PLAY-ALONG JAM WITH BARB HELLER at 5:00pm
September 9: THE ATKINSON FAMILY BAND CONCERT at 7:00pm
September 17: CARAMELO TRIO PRESENTS: A SOUND TAPESTRY SOUTH OF THE BORDER at 5:00pm
September 23: MAEVE GILCHRIST at 2:00pm