The final Westminster Conservatory Gallery Concert this season will take place at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 23, in the Rider University Art Gallery.

Gallery Concerts feature performances by Westminster Conservatory faculty members concurrent with gallery exhibits. The recital, which is open to the public without charge, will take place during the exhibit entitled “Drawings—Thomas George.” The exhibit runs from March 2 through April 6. Rider University Art Gallery is located on the second floor of the Bart Luedeke Center of Rider University, 2083 Lawrenceville Road in Lawrenceville, NJ.

The concert on March 23 will be performed by Serenata, a Westminster Conservatory faculty trio composed of Katherine McClure, flute; Melissa Bohl, oboe; and James Day, guitar. The program comprises Canyon Echoes by Katherine Hoover for flute and guitar; Uirapurú by Tom Eastwood for oboe and guitar; the Eclogues of Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco for flute, English horn and guitar; the Partita for flute and oboe by Franco Màrgola; and two works for solo guitar: Songs My Mother Taught Me by Laurence Altman and Westward Voyage by James Lentini.

Katherine McClure, flute, earned a bachelor of arts in music degree from Skidmore College and a master of music degree in flute performance from the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. She has studied modern flute performance privately with Julius Baker, William Bennett, Robert Dick, and James Scott, baroque flute with Pierre Sechet and Philippe Suzanne, and taken master classes with Michel Debost and Jean-Pierre Rampal. She has taught at the Conservatoire Alfred Loewenguth, Paris; the Mason Gross School of the Arts; Wagner College, Staten Island; and The Peddie School. She teaches flute at Westminster Conservatory and the Lawrenceville School and maintains a private studio in Kingston, NJ. An active chamber and orchestral player, McClure is a regular performer with the Riverside Symphonia, Edison Symphony, the Greater Trenton Symphony Orchestra and the Princeton Symphony.

Melissa Bohl plays principal oboe with the Greater Trenton Symphony Orchestra and the Edison Symphony, and performs regularly with many other area musical organizations, including the Delaware Valley Philharmonic, Boheme Opera, and the Orchestra of St. Peter by the Sea. She teaches oboe at the Lawrenceville School and is head of the wind department and a member of the master faculty at Westminster Conservatory. She is also the coordinator of Kaleidoscope Chamber Series and the noontime series Westminster Conservatory at Nassau. Bohl has degrees in music from the Eastman School of Music, the University of Notre Dame and Princeton University. Her principal teachers were Jerry Sirucek, Robert Sprenkle, and Ray Still.

Classical guitarist James Day has performed in venues in England, Italy, and across North America, including New York’s Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center, SolarFest Performing Arts Festival in Vermont, St. James (Piccadilly) in London and the International Guitar and Lute Exposition in Vicenza, Italy. His concerts have been broadcast on public television and radio in the United States, and he has received numerous awards for his performances. Day is an avid promoter of new music by emerging composers and has recorded two CDs. He has lectured on the guitar and the early 19th-century lied at Eastman, the Philadelphia Guitar Festival, College Music Society International Conference in Madrid and the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Stuttgart, Germany.