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Geneva Music Festival Brings Music to the Schools

Kelly Walker
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Finger Lakes Public Radio 89.5 WEOS

The Geneva Music Festival is underway with performances happening at venues across the Finger Lakes. The festival opened last Thursday night with the Cavani String Quartet. The next morning, they were performing again.

 

The group gave two performances for the students at North Street School. It’s the school the festival’s artistic director Geoffrey Herd attended.

 

Taking music into area schools has been a part of the Geneva Music Festival since it was founded in 2011. The members of the Cavani String Quartet perform in schools at almost every one of their residencies. The members also teach at the Cleveland Institute of Music and violinist Annie Fullard says that their outreach to elementary schools sometimes comes back to them years later.

 

The Geneva Music Festival continues through June 18th. A complete schedule is available online at genevamusicfestival.org.

Kelly Walker started his public radio career at WBAA in West Lafayette, Indiana in 1985 and has spent some time in just about every role public broadcasting has to offer. He has spent substantive time in programming and development at KWMU in St. Louis, WFIU in Bloomington, Indiana, and Troy Public Radio in Alabama before his arrival in Geneva, New York. In addition, his work has been heard on many other public radio stations as well as NPR. Kelly also produces The Sundilla Radio Hour, which airs Sundays at 1 p.m. on Finger Lakes Public Radio and is distributed to public radio stations all over the country through PRX.
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