Evening Glow Music Series
Alyce Cognetta Bertz, Violin
Meg Cognetta Heator, Piano
Donations Welcome!
Performances are followed by a reception with refreshments.
ALYCE COGNETTA BERTZ & MEG COGNETTA HEATON are sisters who play violin and piano respectively and have played together professionally since they were very young.
There’s a special magic and sometimes madness to playing music with your sister. For decades, Meg and Alyce have been navigating the intricate dance of chamber music side by side, their shared history echoing in every phrase they play. Their mother Mary instilled in them her own deep love for music, a gift both sisters have cherished and are now passing on to the next generation, teaching and playing alongside their own children and grandchildren. When they perform it isn’t just a concert; it’s a celebration of sisterhood and the quiet joy of two lives lived in harmony.
Alyce is the concertmaster of the Waterbury Symphony and a frequent virtuoso soloist with orchestras and chamber music ensembles. She has given concerts at Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, La Philarmonica de las Americas in Mexico, The Blossom Music Festival in Ohio, and The Waterloo Music Festival with members of the New York Philharmonic. She studied chamber music with the Cleveland Quartet, the Juilliard Quartet and Joseph Gingold. Alyce has been violin soloist on WQXR in New York, and has appeared as soloist with the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, Hartt Symphony Orchestra and on numerous occasions with the Waterbury Symphony.
Alyce performs on an exceptional Italian violin made by Desiato- Postiglione in 1869.
Meg performs and teaches in the Finger Lakes region of New York, most recently as the piano soloist in the Beethoven “Choral Fantasy.” She has performed as soloist with the Rochester Philharmonic and the Finger Lakes Symphony.
A quartet, consisting of 4 pianists at 2 pianos, has been meeting every Tuesday in Geneva N.Y. for the past 100 years, with Meg keeping a seat warm for the past 45 years.
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