Faith Borkowski and Georgia Burtt, ending a pandemic with a music festival

Best friends: Faith Borkowski and Georgia Burtt play Jay Ungar’s “Ashokan Farewell” in this week’s podcast. Georgia has named her violin — made in Germany in the 1800s — Aphrodite and says it is her most prized possession. Faith’s violin originally belonged to her mother. Her father, too, is a violinist and she has enjoyed playing with him at nursing homes. The duo are Young Leaders in the Empire State Youth Orchestra and are organizing a Volunteer Music Festival that will be held on Sunday, June 13, at Altamont’s Orsini Park from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. They have partnered with the Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York and will be collecting monetary and food donations for the food bank during the festival. Both of them aspire to careers as musicians and will soon be submitting performance tapes to Julliard. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.