1997 Gateways Music Festival

Gateways Music Featuring orchestra concerts, choral concert with orchestra, and chamber music concerts in the home series (including homeless shelters and institutions of incarceration).  The 1997 festival brought musicians from all around the United States which included chamber ensemble concerts, youth ensembles, and performances around Rochester, NY.

Festival Highlights:

• Performances around metropolitan Rochester area.

• Series of chamber music performances

• "Youth Fest"

Chamber Music Highlights:

• Solos by William Grant Still, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Scott Joplin and Percy Grainger

• Quintets and Trios by Schubert, Brahms and Mozart
  Appearance from the Anderson Quartet, George Taylor (viola), Jerome Ashby (horn), Sanford Allen (violin), Sandra Rivers (piano), Raymond Jackson (piano), Roy Eaton (piano), John & Richard Contiguglia (piano)

Highlighted Venues/communities serviced by the Gateways Music Festival:

• Rochester School of the Arts

• Nazareth College

• Monroe Community College

• Christ Church

• Jefferson Seventh Day Adventist Church

• Midtown Plaza

• Aenon Baptist Church

• Eastman School of Music

• Downtown United Presbyterian Church

• Memorial Art Gallery

• Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Reformation

• Old Dominion University