"Celebrating Our Musical Community" - featuring the WCO, Rider University Chorale, Winners of the Westminster Conservatory of Music piano concerto competition, student singers from the Honors Music Program, along with esteemed pianists Phyllis Alpert Lehrer and Ena Bronstein. Our program includes music from "Porgy and Bess", "Empire Strikes Back", selections from Mozart, Rachmaninov, and so much more.
Westminster Community Orchestra
Dr. Ruth Ochs, conductor
Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty Waltz
Lopez, et al: Music from Frozen
Powell: Music from How to Train your Dragon
Dvořák: Scherzo from Symphony No. 5
Fauré: Pavane
McPherson: Concerto for Audience and Orchestra
Mozart: Concerto in A Major, 2nd movement
Emily Boksner, piano (3rd place winner of Westminster Conservatory Concerto Competition)
Westminster Community Orchestra
Dr. Ruth Ochs, conductor
Hyun Soo Lim (Korea), violin
Chika Mimura (Japan), violin
Bing-Bing Chang (Hong Kong), piano
Jenny Chiou (Taiwan), piano
Ikumi Hiraiwa (Japan), piano
Eunju Kim (Korea), piano
Mary Elizabeth Latorre (Philippines), piano
Fang-Ting Liu (Taiwan), piano
Hendry Wijaya (Indonesia), piano
with
David Kim, cello
Timothy Urban, baritone and bawu
Susan Gaylord, mezzo-soprano
Larissa Korkina, piano
Featuring Ziguenerlieder by Johannes Brahms; arias by Georges Bizet, Leonard Bernstein, and Camille Saint-Saëns; and favorites from the Great American Songbook.
This program is made possible in part by the Mercer County Cultural and Heritage Commission through funding from the Mercer County Board of Chosen Freeholders and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Free admission
Ena Bronstein Barton and Phyllis Alpert Lehrer, piano
and others
Free admission
Music of Cecelia Reilly
Kevin Willois, flute
Melissa Bohl, oboe
Kenneth Ellison, clarinet
Ed Hirschman and Bill Myers, trumpet
Craig Levesque and Emalina Thompson, horn
Lars Wendt and Susan Moxley, trombone
Bill Conors, tuba
Hyun Soo Lim, violin
Marjorie Selden, viola
Clipper Erickson, piano
Patricia Landy, piano
Cecelia Reilly, piano
Hendry Wijaya, piano
Free admission
Katherine McClure, flute
Melissa Bohl, oboe
Esma Pasic-Filipovic, piano
Music of Lacerda, Goossens, and Gaubert
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Dennis Krasnokutsky, viola
Larissa Korkina, piano
The program comprises movements from Bach's Sonata, BWV 1028; Mikhail Glinka's Sonata for Viola and Piano in D Minor; Sonata, D. 821, "Arpeggione", by Franz Schubert; and Andante and Hungarian Rondo, J.79, op. 35 by Carl Maria von Weber.
Free admission
A recital featuring music from many nations for flute and piano performed by Westminster Conservatory faculty members Kevin Willois, flute and Patricia Tupta Landy, piano.