Members of the woodwind faculty of Westminster Conservatory are set to perform the final Kaleidoscope Chamber Series event of the season titled All in the Family on May 9 at 8 p.m. in Gill Memorial Chapel.
The program will include Paul Hindersmith’s Sonata for English horn and piano, Alun Cook’s Mad Swans for clarinet and bass clarinet and Amilcare Ponchielli’s Grand Concertante Quartet for flute, oboe, clarinet, E-flat clarinet and piano. There will also be three composition for flute ensemble—Till MacIvor Meyn’s Urban Ragas, Georges Hüe’s Fantaisie and an arrangement of Goliwogg’s Cakewalk from Debussy’s Children’s Corner Suite.
The performers will include Jill Crawford, Ellen Fisher Deerberg, John Lane, Katherine McClure, Barbara Highton Williams and Kevin Willois playing instruments from the flute family, Melissa Bohl playing oboe and English horn, Kenneth Ellison playing clarinet and E-flat clarinet, Joseph d’August playing clarinet and bass clarinet and Phyllis Alpert Lehrer playing piano.
Crawford is an active performer on both modern and baroque flutes. She is a member of the chamber ensembles Trillium, Col Legno and the Volanti Flute Quartet.
Deerberg studied with Murray Panitz, principal flutist of the Philadelphia Orchestra, while earning a Bachelor of Music in performance from Temple University. She has performed as principal flutist with the Kennett Symphony Orchestra, Lehigh Valley Chamber Orchestra and Delaware Children’s Opera.
Lane earned both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music performance from from Indiana University. He performs regularly with the Garden State Symphonic Band, Sinfonietta Nova and the Fifes and Drums of the Old Barracks in Trenton.
McClure earned a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Skidmore College and a Master of Music in flute performance from the Mason Gross School of the Arts.
Williams received a Bachelor of Arts in music from Principia College and performs as a freelancer throughout New Jersey.
Willois earned a Bachelor of Music in Education and Performance as well as a master’s degree from Mason Gross School of the Arts. He is the principal flutist of Chelsea Opera and the Martina Arroyo Festival Orchestra. He is also a member of trio@play.
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.
Ellison performs regularly with the Chelsea Opera Company, New Jersey Arts Collective, the Danzon Trio, Tripleplay Winds and is a founding member of trio@play.
D’Auguste has performed with ensembles including the American Repertory Ballet, New Jersey State Opera, Staten Island Philharmonic Orchestra, Garden State Philharmonic and the Garden State Symphonic Band.
Lehrer is professor of piano and director of graduate piano pedagogy at Westminster Choir College. She is a founding member of the International Society for the Study of Tension in Performance.
Admission is free.
Gill Memorial Chapel is on the campus of Rider University located at 2038 Lawrenceville Road, Lawrenceville.
More information is online at rider.edu/arts.
