The Oneida Daily Dispatch (Oneida, NY)
Concert duo supports artistic programs
LEONARDSVILLE, N.Y. >> The Horned Dorset Inn’s next dinner concert on Sunday, Aug. 25, will feature a performance with flutist Jeanne Sperber and pianist Margaret “Pej” Reitz presenting “Flute and Piano Favorites, from Days Gone By to the Present.”
The event, which benefits the inn’s affiliated nonprofit artist residency program, begins with cocktails and hors d’oeuvres at 4 p.m. The concert follows at 5 p.m., with dinner served afterward. The cost is $70 per person, excluding beverages, tax and gratuity. To make a reservation, call 315- 855-7898. Overnight accommodations also are available.
Reitz, a faculty member at SUNY Binghamton, Ithaca College and SUNY Broome, has been an accompanist throughout the United States, as well as in England, South America, Spain and at the American Institute of Musical Studies in Austria. She recently was invited to the International Clarinet Conference to play a recital in Tokyo, Japan. She has performed at the Newport Music Festival for two seasons and at the Glickman/Poplin Festival in North Carolina. She also has performed at the National Opera Center in New York City. She is a winner of the Artistic Ambassadors Program by the United States Information Agency in partnership with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Sperber has been known to Southern Tier audiences for more than 20 years as a soloist and orchestral flutist. She serves as principal flute of the Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes in Corning and the MostArts Festival Orchestra, performing each summer in Alfred, New York. She also teaches flute privately at Binghamton University and SUNY Broome. Before relocating to upstate New York, she was a freelance flutist in New York City, performing at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Weill Hall and Trinity Church. She has toured South America and Cuba twice as a concerto soloist. Radio and television coverage have included a BBC broadcast of one of her Trinity church recitals as well as various television commercials and public radio and television broadcasts.
The Horned Dorset’s monthly dinner concert series features performances by musicians from Central New York and beyond, with proceeds benefiting the Horned Dorset Colony artist residency program’s scholarship fund. Profits from the inn’s overnight accommodations also benefit the artist colony. Concerts are announced on the restaurant’s Facebook page and email list. Email signups are available at www. horneddorsetinn.com.
The colony offers fourweek summer residencies to emerging and professional artists in the fields of creative writing, literary translation, musical composition and visual arts. For more information about the colony, visit www.horneddorsetcolony.org.
The inn is located at 2000 State Route 8 in the hamlet of Leonardsville.