Westminster Conservancy will inaugurate the 2014-2015 Kaleidoscope Chamber Series with “Cantare e Sonare: Bach for One, Two and Three.” The program will take place on Nov. 16 at 3 p.m in the Gill Memorial Chapel, Rider University, Lawrenceville.
Coordinated by faculty member Timothy Urban, the program will feature vocal and instrumental music by J.S. Bach. The performers, all members of the Westminster Conservatory faculty, will include Danielle Sinclair, soprano; Eva Kastner-Puschl, alto; Timothy Urban, bass vocalist and recorder; Jill Crawford, Baroque flute; Melissa Bohl, oboe; Flora Newberry, natural trumpet; Hyun Soo Lim, violin; Tomasz Rzeczycki, cello; and Kathleen Scheide, historic keyboards.
Danielle Sinclair has performed with orchestras throughout the country in works ranging from Bach’s Magnificat and St. John Passion to Respighi’s Lauda per la Natività del Signore and Orff’s Carmina Burana.
Pianist and vocalist Eva Kastner-Puschl, a native of Graz, Austria, studied music education and instrumental music education at the University for Music and Performing Arts, Graz, where she majored in Piano and Voice under the guidance of Andreas Woyke and Agathe Kania-Knobloch. At present, she serves as singer and organist at Witherspoon Presbyterian Church in Princeton, N.J.
While a Fulbright scholar in Hungary, Timothy Urban performed throughout Hungary and Austria with the Kesckemeti Renaiszance Conzort and Ars Nova. He was invited as a guest director to Conjunto de Music Antiga in Niteroi, Brazil, for a series of concerts exploring the Renaissance music of Hungary and Poland. Mr. Urban was a performer and clinician at the first Baroque Music Festival held at National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaoshiung, Taiwan.
Jill Crawford is active as a performer on both modern and Baroque flutes. She is a member of the chamber ensembles Trillium, Col Legno and 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.
Melissa Bohl is the principal oboist of the New Jersey Capital Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra, the American Repertory Ballet Orchestra, and the Edison Symphony. She plays oboe and English horn with the Orchestra of St. Peter by the Sea and the Plainfield Symphony, and performs regularly with many other area musical organizations, including the Garden State Symphonic Band and Boheme Opera.
Flora Newberry received her training at the Juilliard School of Music, receiving a Bachelor of Music in 1987. She performs frequently in the area and throughout the East Coast with groups such as the Delaware Valley Philharmonic, Trenton Symphony, Boheme Opera, Fuma Sacra, Actor’s Net Theater, Burlington Brass, Washington Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble and the Renaissance group Quidditas.
Hyun Soo Lim received a Doctor of Musical Arts in Violin Performance at Michigan State University and a Master of Music at Roosevelt University. She was the principal violinist of the Catholic University Orchestra and a member of Romance Orchestra, New Seoul Symphony Orchestra, Pilsen Orchestra and En-Gedi ensemble. She has appeared as solo recitalist, chamber musician and orchestra member throughout the Midwestern United States, Korea, France and the Czech Republic
A native of Kraków, Poland, cellist Tomasz Rzeczycki completed a Bachelor of Arts in Music at the Music Academy in Kraków. He received a Master of Music in 1998 from Shenandoah Conservatory and a Doctor of Musical Arts in Cello Performance from the University of Texas, Austin. As an undergraduate he was chosen to be a member of the Bach Academy in Kraków under Helmuth Rilling and the Pavarotti Orchestra’s South America Tour in 1995. Currently, Dr. Rzeczycki teaches cello at the Princeton Day School and the Waldorf School of Princeton, and performs in the tri-state area.
Kathleen Scheide has performed as a harpsichord and organ soloist throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, the Far East and the Caribbean. She received touring artist grants from the Arkansas Arts Council, California Arts Council and the American Embassy, Vienna. Dr. Scheide regularly performs chamber music as a member of Due Solisti with Czech flutist Zofie Volalkova under the management of Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists; with harpist Cheryl Cunningham in Voix seraphique; and with Le Meslange des Plaisirs on historic string keyboard instruments.
The Kaleidoscope Chamber Series is a Westminster Conservatory faculty series that emphasizes repertoire combining voice, winds, strings and keyboard. For more information, visit rider.edu/arts.
