Great Neck South music teacher Dr. Pamela Levy and friends will be performing a program entitled “Opera Classics in the Park” on Tuesday, Aug. 4, at 8 p.m., at the gazebo in Firefighters’ Park, as part of the Village of Great Neck Plaza’s 2015 Summer Concert Series.
The program will feature singers Karen Notovitz, Gabrielle Lowell, Alex Schecter, Diana Charlop, Michelle Geffner, Elora Aclin, Giovanni Xu, and pianist Jonathan Geffner.
A regular participant in the Village’s Summer Concert Series, Dr. Levy will be putting on her trademark summer opera classic concert that will be sure to have concert-goers filling up Firefighters’ Park early to get their seats.
“Our annual opera night is always one of our most popular shows of the summer,” said Village of Great Neck Plaza Mayor Jean Celender. “Dr. Levy, in her role at Great Neck South High School, has educated and trained many talented singers, many of which have gone on to perform all over the world. We’re delighted Dr. Levy will once again feature her current and former students in what stands to be a riveting performance in Firefighters’ Park.”
Levy, a long-time Great Neck resident, is a graduate of the Juilliard School, where she received a B.M. and M.M. as a piano major, and her D.M.A from the Manhattan School of Music.
Currently Dr. Levy teaches at William A. Shine Great Neck South High School in the Performing Arts Department, where she directs the choir, teaches opera, piano, chamber music and at the Manhattan School of Music Precollege, where she is the conductor of the Manhattan Chorale. She is also the coordinator of NYSSMA for Great Neck Public Schools.
As part of the evening, Notovitz, a third year vocal performance major at the New England Conservatory of Music, Lowell, a senior at Northwestern University majoring in voice, Charlop, another Great Neck South graduate who will be attending the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University this fall, and Michelle Geffner, a graduating senior from Great Neck South who will be attending Julliard School of Music, will be among the artists performing in Firefighters’ Park.
In the case of inclement weather, the concert performance will be moved to the Great Neck Social Center, located at 80 Grace Ave. Check with village staff at Village Hall on the day of the concert , visit www.greatneckplaza.net, or call (516) 482-4500 after 5 p.m.
