Pianist

Upstream is a violin-piano duo project by Will Healy and George Meyer. It is a showcase for their co-compositions, which draw on a shared background in classical music, as well as a range of other styles. Will and George each live with a foot outside of classical music: George works regularly with bluegrass musicians, and Will with hip-hop and jazz artists.

They have performed together in many of New York City’s homes for new music, including Carnegie Hall, (Le) Poisson Rouge, the DiMenna Center, National Sawdust, and Roulette Intermedium. Their debut album, comprised of twelve co-written compositions, will be released in Spring 2027.

Their co-compositional approach was present from their earliest collaborations and improvisations together, going back to their time together as students at The Juilliard School. They formalized their duo in 2022, with invitations to premiere newly-composed music at the Tribeca New Music Festival and Sophia Rosoff Concert series in NYC and at Midsummer's Music in Door County, Wisconsin.

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UPSTREAM DUO - George Meyer and Will Healy

Scarritt Bennett Center

Music by Will Healy, Errollyn Wallen, Paquito d’Rivera, and Johannes Brahms.

Santa Monica Music Festival: Program 1

First Presbyterian Church of Santa Monica

Ned Miller Rorem (October 23, 1923 – November 18, 2022) was both a composer and a writer. Best known for his art songs which number over 500, Rorem was the leading American of his time writing in the genre. Frequently described as a neoromantic composer, he showed limited interest in the emerging modernist aesthetic of his lifetime. As a writer, he kept—and later published—numerous diaries in which he spoke candidly of his exchanges and relationships with many cultural figures of America and France. I had the distinct pleasure of planning and conducting both his 70th and 75th birthday concerts with The New York Virtuoso Singers. I met with him in his apartment, where he looked through his file cabinets, handing me multiple choral works he wished me to conduct. Little did I know then that these two concerts would present only a fraction of his total choral output. Recently I pored through ALL of them, choosing my favorites to present here for his 100th birthday tribute. I only wish he were able to enjoy this concert, as he did the two others.

Pianist

Will Healy

Events

Past events

Oct 1, 2026

UPSTREAM DUO - George Meyer and Will Healy · Nashville Chamber Music Society

Jul 17, 2025

Santa Monica Music Festival: Program 1 · Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra

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