GENEVA — The Syracuse Orchestra and guest pianist Awadagin Pratt comes to the Smith Opera House March 8 as part of Geneva Concerts’ 2025-26 series.
The show begins at 3 p.m.
Pratt is no stranger to the Smith’s stage and Steinway piano, having performed with The Syracuse Orchestra here in March 2023.
The concert begins with Guilliame Connesson’s “Celephais” from Les Cités de Lovecraft, inspired by the fantasy stories of H.P. Lovecraft. Pratt will then play the beautiful Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Concerto No. 23. The Syracuse Orchestra concludes the program with Sergei Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5 by Sergei Prokofiev, one of his most popular works and his hymn to a “free and happy man.”
The Syracuse Orchestra will be led by guest conductor Jacob Joyce. Joyce serves as the associate conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and music director of the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra.
Born in Pittsburgh, Pratt became the first student in the history of Baltimore’s Peabody Conservatory of Music to receive diplomas in three performance areas: piano, violin and conducting. He has performed around the world, including the White House. He currently is a piano professor at the College Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati.
HWS students and students through grade 12 are admitted to all Geneva Concerts performances for free. Tickets are $35 for general admission or $10 for non-HWS college students with ID.
All programs are subject to change.
For more information, and to buy tickets, visit www.genevaconcerts.org, email [email protected], or mail to PO Box 709, Geneva, NY 14456. Tickets are available at the door, too, and at Stomping Grounds (cash or check only), 41 Seneca St.
Geneva Concerts’ 2025-26 season is sponsored by Finger Lakes Federal Credit Union, and also by Silver Sponsor C.S. Burrall & Son, and Business Circle Sponsors Billsboro Winery, Kowalski Legal, Pedulla’s Wine and Liquor, and Ports Café. Geneva Concerts’ programs are made possible, in part, with funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Support from the Williams Family Foundation, the Wyckoff Family Foundation, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Rotary Club of Geneva, and individual donors and local businesses also sustains these programs.
