Soprano Robin Leigh Massie
Westminster Choir College of Rider University is set to present three concerts in Bristol Chapel over the weekend of March 29 and 30.
On March 29 at 8 p.m. Westminster Schola Cantorum, conducted by James Jordan, is set to present a concert titled “Journeys.”
The program will feature Paul Mealor’s Stabat Mater, as well as works by John Tavener, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Josef Rheinberger, Brandon Waddles and John Rutter.
Westminster Schola Cantorum is composed of students in their second year of study at Westminster Choir College. The Choir prepares students for the Westminster Symphonic Choir, which performs and records with the world’s great orchestras.
Jordan is professor and senior conductor at Westminster Choir College, where he conducts Westminster Schola Cantorum and the Westminster Williamson Voices.
Tickets are $20 adults and $15 students and seniors.
On March 30 at 3 p.m., Westminster is set to present Eric Rieger, tenor, and J. J. Penna, piano, in a program titled “The Sonnet in Song” on March 30 at 3 p.m. in Bristol Chapel.
The performance will present the sonnets of Francesco Petrarch and John Donne set to music by Franz Schubert, Franz Liszt and Benjamin Britten.
Rieger serves on the voice faculty of Westminster Choir College, having previously taught at Texas Tech University and Nazareth College.
Penna serves on the Westminster Choir College faculty and is a coach at the Juilliard School.
Admission is free.
On March 30 at 7:30 p.m., the Westminster Choir College Faculty Recital Series is set to continue with “Robin Leigh Massie and Friends.”
The performance will feature Robin Leigh Massie (soprano), Steven Condy (baritone), Sean McCarther (baritone) and Elizabeth Sutton (soprano) with pianists Frank Abrahams and Karen Linstedt Delavan.
The program will include compositions by Stephen Sondheim, Jacques Ibert, Frank Loesser, Cole Porter, Aaron Copland and Samuel Barber.
Massie is currently the assistant director for the Vocal Intensive Study Program at the MasterWorks Festival in Winona Lake, Indiana.
Condy is the artistic director of Cairn University’s Opera Theater and the director of the Vocal Intensive Study Program at the MasterWorks Summer Music Festival.
Sean McCarther serves as assistant professor at Westminster Choir College.
Sutton has been featured as a soloist with the Princeton Society of Musical Amateurs, the Southern Delaware Chorale Arts Society, New Haven Chorale, Norwalk Chamber Ensemble, the Graz Festival Orchestra, the Lucca Festival Orchestra, the Cincinnati Conservatory Philharmonic and The Korean National Arts Society.
Frank Abrahams is associate dean for the arts and professor of Music Education at Westminster Choir College of Rider University.
Delavan earned her Master of Music in Collaborative Piano from The Julliard School. In addition to more than 10 years as a successful freelance coach and recital accompanist in the New York area, she has been an adjunct faculty member at Long Island University and The Hartt School of Music.
Westminster Choir College is located at 101 Walnut Lane, Princeton.
More information is online at rider.edu/arts
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