The Rider University Art Gallery is set to present a recital by High Winds, a Westminster Conservatory faculty ensemble, on March 28 at 12:15 p.m.
High Winds is composed of Katherine McClure on the flute, Melissa Bohl on the oboe and Kenneth Ellison on the clarinet.
McClure teaches flute at Westminster Conservatory and the Lawrenceville School and maintains a private studio in Kingston. She is the principal flutist of the Edison Symphony and a tenured member of several orchestras.
Bohl is the head of the wind, brass and percussion department at Westminster Conservatory where she teaches oboe. She also teaches the instrument at Princeton Day School and maintains a private studio. She is the principal oboist of the New Jersey Capital Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra, the American Repertory Ballet Orchestra and the Edison Symphony.
Ellison teaches clarinet and saxophone at Westminster Conservatory and is an artist-in-residence at the Joshua Treet School. He performs regularly with the Chelsea Opera Company, New Jersey Arts Collective, the Danzon Trio, Tripleplay Winds and is a founding member of trio@play.
The program will feature the world premiere of Six Appalachian Folk Songs by Craig Levesque, Trio in G Major by Franz Joseph Haydn and the world premiere of Samuel Livingston’s Quartet in C, for which High Winds will be joined by Craig Levesque on the horn.
Levesque has a Bachelor of Arts in Music Theory and Composition, a Master of Arts in Music History and a Doctor of Philosophy in Music Theory and Composition from Mason Gross School of the Arts. He currently teaches theory, orchestration and ear training at Rutgers and horn and composition at Westminster Conservatory.
The recital is open to the public without charge.
The Rider University Art Gallery is located on the second floor of the Bart Luedeke Center at 2083 Lawrenceville Road, Lawrenceville.
More information is online at rider.edu/arts.
