The Hotchkiss Portals Make A Return

Following a three-year hiatus, The Hotchkiss School is finally resuming its Summer Portals Concert Series on the stage of The Katherine M. Elfers Hall in The Esther Eastman Music Center on the grounds of the preparatory school’s Lakeville, Conn., campus — but first, it is heading to New York City. A select group of promising students from the Summer Portals education program are scheduled to be welcomed to historic Carnegie Hall on Seventh Avenue on Wednesday night, July 19, where they will perform a piano recital on the stage of Weil Recital Hall.

Starting on Thursday, July 20, at 7:30 p.m., the free concert series on The Hotchkiss School campus will kick off with works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Franz Schubert, and Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev by Cuban-born Spanish pianist Leonel Morales, a professor of piano at The Conservatorio Superior de Castellon in Spain, who has been acclaimed at the Guerrero Foundation International Piano Competition in Madrid and won the Tasto D’Agento prize in Alexandria, Italy. He will be joined in concert by fellow Spanish pianist 28-year-old Leo de María from Madrid, a professor at the University Alfonso X El Sabio of Madrid and winner of first prize at piano competitions, including the Ciudade de Ferrol in Spain and the Grand Prix de Lyon in France.