"Volanti Flutes," an ensemble of Westminster Conservatory faculty members, will present a recital in the Rider University Art Gallery Thursday, February 8 at 7 p.m.

The program will include an arrangement of Gabriel Fauré's "Pavane," the "Quatuor de flûtes, op. 108" by Florent Schmitt, "Trois Pièces" by Eugene Bozza, the "Quatuor pour flûtes" by Pierre Max Dubois, the "Quartet" of Anton Bernhard Fürstenau, and selections from Bizet's "Carmen" arranged for flutes.

The members of “Volanti Flutes" are Jill Crawford, Ellen Fisher Deerberg, Katherine McClure, and Barbara Highton Williams.

Jill Crawford is active as a performer on both modern and baroque flutes. She is a member of the chamber ensembles Trillium and Col Legno, as well as the Volanti Flute Quartet. She has performed with area orchestras in a variety of settings, and was a participant in the International Baroque Institute at Longy School of Music. She is a graduate of the New England Conservatory and received a Master of Music degree from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University.

Ellen Fisher Deerberg received her bachelor’s degree in music performance from Temple University where she studied with the late Murray Panitz, principal flutist of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Deerberg has performed principal flute with the Kennett Symphony Orchestra, Lehigh Valley Chamber Orchestra, and the Delaware Children's Opera, as well as numerous solo recitals and concerts throughout the Delaware Valley. She is also currently on the faculty of the Bryn Mawr Conservatory of Music and is a former faculty member of the Wilmington Music School and the Darlington Fine Arts Center.

Katherine McClure earned a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, and a Master of Music in flute performance from the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. She has taught at 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 Orchestra.

Barbara Highton Williams received a Bachelor of Arts in Music with honors from Principia College. She has performed on both coasts of the United States, as well as in France. A former member of the San Jose Wind Symphony, she now enjoys freelance work throughout New Jersey. Williams can be heard frequently in chamber music programs in the Princeton area. She has collaborated in recital with pianists Alfred Clark, James Goldsworthy, and Marianne Lauffer.

The Rider University Art Gallery is located on the second floor of the Bart Luedeke Center on Rider University’s main campus in Lawrenceville, NJ. A collection of watercolors by W. Carl Burger entitled “New Jersey Landscapes" is on exhibit there from January 25 to February 22.

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