Westminster will present an array of musical offerings from June 26 through August 4. Events range from choral reading sessions, held on most Tuesdays, and hymn sings, offered on most Mondays, to concerts and recitals. Most events are held at 7:30 p.m. in Bristol Chapel on the Westminster campus in Princeton. With the exception of the Bach Festival performance, all events are open to the public at no charge. Please check back for more information or call Westminster’s box office at 609-921-2663. For additional information about the concerts and updates check the Web site at http://www.rider.edu/arts.

Tuesday, June 27, 7:30 p.m., Bristol Chapel – Choral Reading Session
Join other music lovers in singing the Fauré Requiem and Cantique de Jean Racine conducted by Joseph Ohrt ’87 MM’95. Bring your own score or use one of ours.

Thursday, June 29, 7:30 p.m., Bristol Chapel – Recital
Todd Marsh will present a piano recital featuring works of Chopin and Schumann. Mr. Marsh has performed throughout the tri-state area, including concerts at Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. He is currently organist and choirmaster at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Passaic, and he has frequently been heard as guest organist at various churches in Bergen, Essex and Passaic counties. He plays keyboards for Total Soul, one of the fast growing and most sought after bands in the New York metropolitan area. Specializing in Motown, R&B, and disco classics, the group has appeared at major venues in New York City and New Jersey with Gloria Gaynor, Tavares and Gary US Bonds. Director of music at Collegiate School in Passaic, NJ, he has made several recordings, including Todd Marsh, Pianist, featuring music of Mozart and Brahms, and two Total Soul CDs, A Total Soul Explosion and Just Doin' My Thing.

Thursday, July 6, 7:30 p.m., Bristol Chapel – Recital
Join pianist Tara Buzash as she performs with violinist Adam Krass in an acoustic jazz duo. In addition to teaching private jazz piano lessons at Westminster Conservatory, Tara Buzash teaches a jazz improvisation class for the Young Artist program. She has 14 years of experience performing jazz piano in settings that include solo, small ensemble, and big band. Buzash spent two years performing and teaching jazz to Chinese students in the People’s Republic of China, and she is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and conducted all of her teaching in this language. Recently, she released her first CD: Tara Buzash, offering solo piano and keyboard arrangements of various styles of songs, and some original jazz compositions.

Wednesday, July 12, 7:30 p.m., Bristol Chapel – Recital
Join the rising stars of the CoOPERAtive program, an opera training program for singers age 19 and older, for a recital.

Thursday, July 13, 7:30 p.m., Bristol Chapel – Recital
The Practitioners of Musick, Eugene Roan and John Burkhalter, will present an early music recital. The Practitioners of Musick was founded several years ago by Messrs. Roan and Burkhalter to survey the musical riches of 18th-century Great Britain and Ireland and both the Colonial and early Federal periods in America. Their recent research has also focused on musical life in New France from the years 1660 until the Fall of Québec in 1759.

Friday, July 14, 7:30 p.m., Bristol Chapel – Recital
Join the rising stars of the CoOPERAtive program, an opera training program for singers age 19 and older, for a recital.

Saturday, July 15, 8:00 p.m. (note different time), Miller Chapel at Princeton Theological Seminary – Concert
This year’s annual Bach Festival Concert is entitled "Bach on Trial!" The performers are Fuma Sacra, participants in Westminster’s Bach Festival seminar and the Westminster Bach Festival Orchestra. They will perform Cantatas BWV22 and 23 and other works. The suggested donation at the door is $10 per person.

Monday, July 17, 7:30 p.m., Bristol Chapel – Hymn Sing
Join other music lovers in a hymn sing led by Eric Plutz ’89, University Organist at Princeton University and the accompanist for the Westminster Choir and Westminster Symphonic Choir at Westminster. Mr. Plutz has worked as an accompanist with many Washington, DC, organizations, including the National Symphony Orchestra, the Choral Arts Society of Washington, the American Repertory Singers, the Fessenden Ensemble, the Washington Symphonic Brass and the Washington Ballet. He also has accompanied the Voices of Ascension conducted by Dennis Keene and has worked with conductors Leonard Slatkin, J. Reilly Lewis and Norman Scribner in various venues in the Washington area, including the National Gallery of Art, the Barns at Wolf Trap and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. A seasoned concert artist, he has been invited to play organ concerts in distinguished locations across the United States.

Tuesday, July 18, 7:30 p.m., Bristol Chapel – Choral Reading Session
Join other music lovers in singing Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem, conducted by Scott McCoy. Scott McCoy is professor of voice and pedagogy, director of the Presser Music Center Voice Laboratory, and director of graduate studies at Westminster Choir College of Rider University. He has performed more than two dozen leading operatic roles and over 60 concert and oratorio solo roles with professional music organizations in the United States and abroad. Bring your own score or use one of ours.

Wednesday, July 19, 7:30 p.m., Bristol Chapel – Recital
Join the rising stars of the CoOPERAtive program, an opera training program for singers age 19 and older, for a recital.

Thursday, July 20, 7:30 p.m., Bristol Chapel – Recital
Soprano Nancy Froysland Hoerl will present a recital entitled A Woman’s Journey. Ms. Hoerl has performed in Europe, the United States and the United Kingdom. While studying lieder and opera at the Conservatory of Music in Vienna, Austria, she premiered numerous works for soprano and chamber orchestra and created the lead role of Gabi in Der Krach im Ofen, which premiered at the Theater an der Wien. At the Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies in Aldeburgh, England, she coached with Sir Peter Pears, Dame Nancy Evans and John Shirley-Quirk. A recipient of the 1990 International Professional Exchange program sponsored by the English Speaking Union, Ms. Hoerl studied the music of the British Isles in Edinburgh and Glasgow and presented an all-American recital in St. Cecilia Hall at the University of Edinburgh. She has taught at Westminster Conservatory since 1992 and is an adjunct assistant professor of voice at Westminster Choir College.

Friday, July 21, 7:30 p.m., Bristol Chapel – Recital
Join the rising stars of the CoOPERAtive program, an opera training program for singers age 19 and older, for a recital.

Monday, July 24, 7:30 p.m., Bristol Chapel – Hymn Sing
Join other music lovers in a hymn sing led by Mark Trautman MM ’95. He has performed throughout the Northeast as an accompanist, conductor, and organist in concert and on radio and television. Since 1994, Mr. Trautman has served as director of music at Christ Church, New Brunswick, NJ, where he conducts the choir and coordinates the award-winning Noonday Recital Series. He is also artistic director and conductor of the New Brunswick Chamber Orchestra, and serves on the faculties of New Brunswick Theological Seminary and the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers.

Tuesday, July 25, 7:30 p.m., Bristol Chapel – Choral Reading Session
Join other music lovers in singing Beethoven’s Mass in C, conducted by Allen Crowell ’59. Allen Crowell is professor of choral music and director of choral studies at the University of Georgia. He also taught and conducted at Westminster Choir College of Rider University for 20 years. At Westminster he was a soloist with the Westminster Choir under the founder of the school, Dr. John Finley Williamson. In 1965 he received a Master of Music from The Catholic University of America. He recently received an honorary doctorate degree from Westminster Choir College at its 77th annual Commencement ceremony, 2006. Bring your own score or use one of ours.

Wednesday, July 26, 7:30 p.m., Bristol Chapel – Recital
Join the rising stars of the CoOPERAtive program, an opera training program for singers 19 and older, for a recital.

Thursday, July 27, 7:30 p.m., Bristol Chapel – Recital
Pianist Radek Materka will present a recital. Radek Materka is a doctoral candidate in piano performance at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, studying under the guidance of John Perry. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Westminster Choir College, and a master’s degree from the University of Southern California. Mr. Materka has performed recitals at the Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall in New York City, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and appeared in performances in the United States, Europe, and Asia. He has recorded for American and Polish radio and television.

Friday, July 28, 7:30 p.m., Bristol Chapel – Recital
Join the rising stars of the CoOPERAtive program, an opera training program for singers age 19 and older, for a recital.

Saturday, July 29, 7:30 p.m., Bristol Chapel – Recital
Join the rising stars of the CoOPERAtive program, an opera training program for singers age 19 and older, for a recital.

Monday, July 31, 7:30 p.m., Bristol Chapel – Hymn Sing
Join other music lovers in a hymn sing led by Stan Szalewicz. A native of Oil City, Pa., Stan Szalewicz has played the organ for Roman Catholic, Episcopalian, and Presbyterian congregations in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Indiana, Ohio and New Jersey for more than 35 years. He holds a master of arts degree in organ performance from Indiana University of Pennsylvania where he studied with the late Carol Teti, and a master of library science degree with specialization in music librarianship from Indiana University, Bloomington. Mr. Szalewicz was appointed assistant professor-librarian at Westminster in May 2001. In addition to his work at Westminster, Mr. Szalewicz, who holds the Colleague Certificate from the American Guild of Organists, is organist at the First Presbyterian Church of Plainsboro, and assistant organist at St. Paul’s (R.C.) Church in Princeton. He is also active in the Trenton Chapter of the National Association of Pastoral Musicians for which he has served as director of membership and recruitment for the past four years.

Tuesday, August 1, 7:30 p.m., Bristol Chapel – Choral Reading Session
Join other music lovers in singing Mozart’s Requiem conducted by Andrew Megill MM’89. Andrew Megill is recognized as one of the leading choral conductors of his generation, known for his passionate artistry and unusually wide-ranging repertoire, extending from early music to newly-composed works. As associate professor at Westminster, Dr. Megill conducts the Westminster Kantorei, a chamber choir specializing in music of the Renaissance and Baroque that was founded last year. He has been conductor of both the Westminster Singers and the Westminster Chapel Choir, and was associate conductor of the Westminster Symphonic Choir for eleven years. Since 1989, Dr. Megill has served as artistic director of Fuma Sacra, ensemble-in-residence at Westminster, recognized as "one of America's leading professional ensembles specializing in Renaissance and Baroque vocal music. Dr. Megill is also music director of the Masterwork Chorus, one of metropolitan New York's finest volunteer choirs. With Masterwork, Dr. Megill has conducted the major choral-orchestral repertoire in the regions finest halls, including Avery Fisher and Carnegie Halls. Bring your own score or use one of ours.

Thursday, August 3, 7:30 p.m., Bristol Chapel – Concert
The Westminster Conservatory Youth Chorale conducted by Frank Abrahams will present a Brazil Tour Send-Off concert. The Westminster Conservatory Youth Chorale is an honors choir for high school students. The choir provides an opportunity for advanced high school singers to perform challenging choral literature of various styles, periods and genres. They will embark on a concert tour to Brazil this summer.