Clockwise from top left, Kathy Kessler Price, Rachelle Jonck, Sean McCarther and Ruth Ochs.
Westminster Conservatory is set to present three concerts on Oct. 6.
The Westminster Choir College faculty is set to present Sanctuary 7:30 p.m. in Bristol Chapel on Westminster Choir College’s campus, 101 Walnut Lane, Princeton.
The program is set to feature Kathy Kessler Price, soprano, and William Hobbs, piano, performing works based on the theme of sanctuary by Samuel Barber, Eric Ewazen, Richard Strauss, Claude Debussy and more. Guest pianist Karen Murphy will collaborate to present Sanctuaries of Heaven and Earth, a newly commissioned work by Jonathan Kolm.
A discussion with the composer will follow the performance.
Kessler Price, assistant professor of voice at Westminster Choir College, teaches graduate vocal pedagogy courses and voice lessons, and she serves as director of the Presser Voice Laboratory. Before joining Westminster’s voice faculty, Price was voice area coordinator at Mississippi State, and she also taught at the University of Kansas, Northern Virginia Community College and William Jewell College. She has performed as soloist in such distinguished venues as The Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, and the National Museum for Women in the Arts, concert halls in the Czech Republic, and The White House.
Hobbs joined the piano and voice faculty at Westminster in 2010. He earned degrees from the University of Colorado at Boulder and the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N. Y. Hobbs worked at many of the world’s major opera houses as conductor and coach., including Opéra National de Paris, San Francisco Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, Seattle Opera, Washington Opera and the Opéra de Monte-Carlo.
Admission is free.
Baritone Sean McCarther is set to present a recital 3 p.m. in Bristol Chapel on Westminster Choir College’s campus, 101 Walnut Lane, Princeton.
Joined by pianist Rachelle Jonck, McCarther is set to perform works by Carlos Guastavino, Franz Schubert, Camille Saint-Saëns, Samuel Barber and Edwin Penhorwood.
Sean McCarther is assistant professor at Westminster Choir College, teaching studio voice and undergraduate voice science. He has performed leading roles in opera, musical theatre, and staged plays with JCA Management, The Lee Norvelle Theater and Drama Center, the Bloomington Early Music Festival and the Bloomington Playwrights Project. In April, McCarther sang the baritone solos in the American premiere of Paul Mealor’s Crucifixus with the Westminster Williamson Voices in Princeton and New York City.
Jonck received her musical training at the Conservatory of the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa, earning a degree in piano and music sociology. Currently she is the head coach and assistant conductor of Bel Canto at Caramoor. Since 2007 she has served on the adjunct faculty of Westminster Choir College.
Admission is free.
The Community Orchestra and the conservatory’s cello orchestra, Chorchestra, are set to present a concert titled Music for Magic!
The family concert is scheduled for 3 p.m. at the Princeton Meadow Church and Event Center, 545 Meadow Road, Princeton.
Music for Magic! features the overture from Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Dukas’ The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Grieg’s In the Hall of the Mountain King, Anderson’s The Syncopated Clock, Vivaldi’s Double Concerto in G Minor for Two Cellos and Williams’ music for the film Harry Potter. The program also includes arrangements of Saint-Saëns’ The Swan.
The community orchestra is led by Ruth Ochs for nine seasons.
She is the founding conductor of a collaborative youth orchestra that joins middle school musicians from the Princeton Charter School and the Westminster Conservatory of Music. As music director of the Princeton University Sinfonia for the past 12 years, she has led its growth from a chamber orchestra into a full-size symphony orchestra. She holds degrees in music and conducting from Harvard University and the University of Texas at Austin.
General admission tickets are $5.
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