Winter Serenade featuring Ivy Walz, mezzo-soprano, and Margaret Reitz, piano.
Music of John Jacob Niles, Menotti, Milhaud and Mozart.
A touch of de Falla, Obradors and Granados.
A taste of Carousel, Fiddler on the Roof, Lost in the Stars, and more.
Free and open to the public!
Ivy Walz, DMA, an opera, concert and recital singer, has performed with Spoleto Festival, Cincinnati Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, Syracuse Opera, and Tri-Cities Opera. As a concert soloist she has enjoyed performing a variety of alto/mezzo roles. Recently she has appeared with Akron Symphony, Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes, Symphoria Syracuse, Binghamton Philharmonic and Cayuga Chamber Orchestra. As a recitalist and chamber musician, Ivy has collaborated with Finger Lakes Chamber Ensemble, SongFest, Cincinnati Art Song Initiative, Denver Art Song Project and Fall Island Vocal Arts Seminar. Ivy teaches a vibrant community of developing singer musicians at Ithaca College School of Music.
Margaret Reitz, pianist, earned Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in piano performance with accompanying emphasis from Boston University, the New England Conservatory, and Binghamton University. She 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, and at the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria. Reitz has been on the faculty at Binghamton University since 1991 and Ithaca College School of Music since 1999. She maintains a private piano studio in Vestal, New York. A member of the Executive Board of the New York District MTNA organization, she is also past President of the local Southern Tier Music Teachers Association and is an active adjudicator for the National Piano Guild Organization.
