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Geneva Music Festival presents a gift by composer Reena Esmail 12/22 @ 8pm

Performance Upstate is your tour of concert halls, sacred spaces, and summer music festivals across Western and Central New York. 

Composer Reena Esmail
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Composer Reena Esmail

PERFORMANCE UPSTATE Program 2604

Support for Performance Upstate is made possible in part by Dawn F. Lipson, investing in the future of Classical Music.

Hour 1

Lars-Erik Larson: Pastoral Suite, Op. 19 (1938)
Cordancia Chamber Orchestra | Evan Meccarello, conductor | March 30, 2025 | Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word, Rochester, NY | Carl Pultz, Alembic Productions

Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 32 in c minor
Cooperstown Summer Music Festival | Richard Goode, piano | July 30, 2024 | The Otesaga Resort Hotel | Jim LaRonde, sound engineer

Antonin Dvorak: Quartet No. 12 in F, “American”
Skaneateles Festival | Dover Quartet | Joel Link, violin | Bryan Lee, violin | Julianne Lee, viola | Camden Shaw, cello | First Presbyterian Church, Skaneateles, NY | August 8, 2024 | Jim LaRonde, engineer

Hour 2

Reena Esmail: Saans (“Breath”)
Geneva Music Festival | Jinjoo Cho, violin | Max Geissler, cello | Henry Kramer, piano | May 24, 2025 | Gearan Center, Geneva, New York | Jim LaRonde, sound engineer

Luzzasco Luzzaschi: “O dolcezz’ amrissime d’Amore,” “T’amo mia vita”
Luigi Rossi: Passacaglia del Seigneur Louigi”
Gregorio Strozzi: Sonata di Basso Solo
Francesco Manelli: “Acceso mio core”
Pegasus Early Music | Laura Heimes, Clara Rottsolk, sopranos | Ashley Mulcahy, mezzo-soprano | Christa Patton, harp | David Morris, gamba and lirone | Deborah Fox, lute and theorbo | Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word, Rochester, NY | September 29, 2024 | Carl Pultz, sound engineer

Ástor Piazzolla: Histoire du Tango (1985)
Nicholas Goluses | Yoojin Jang, violin | Hatch Recital Hall | Eastman School of Music | Rochester, NY | John Truebger, sound engineer

Octavio Vazquez: MusicScapes, for piano trio and double bass (2011)
Society for Chamber Music in Rochester | Juliana Athayde, violin; Joseph Johnson, cello; James VanDemark, double bass; Chiao-Wen Cheng, piano | February 16, 2024 | Nazareth University, Rochester, NY | John Truebger, recording engineer

This program will repeat March 2, 2026.