Westminster Conservatory’s Kaleidoscope Chamber Series will present “Vox Humana,” a concert by vocal soloists and the Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra conducted by Ruth Ochs. The concert will take place on June 14 at 3 p.m. in Hillman Performance Hall on the campus of Westminster Choir College of Rider UNiversity in Princeton.
Featured performers will include Elisabeth Boyce-Jacino, Danielle Sinclair and Jennifer Winn, soprano; Todd Reichart, reader and vocalist; Sung Chu, cello; and Michael Jacobsen and Kathy Shanklin, piano.
Elisabeth Boyce-Jacino won first place in the New Jersey National Association of TEachers of Singing competition in 2011 and 2012. In 2013 she was a winner of the Westminster Conservatory Scholarship Competition.
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 Nativita del Signore and Orff’s Carmina Burana. She has appeared in numerous operas including La Boheme, Cosi fan tutte, Don Giovanni, Hansel and Gretel and Pirates of Penzance.
Jennifer Winn has performed with numerous regional theaters and opera companies. She was twice a regional finalist with the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and received its Stage Presence Award.
Todd Reichart is an actor, singer and dancer with a decade of experience on stage and screen in New York City. Reichart is a co-director of the Princeton Variety Theater, which has been creating original, intergenerational productions since 2010.
Sung Chu graduated from McGill University where he received the Outstanding Achievement in Cello Award as a student of Matt Haimovitz. At McGill he was principal cellist of the McGill Symphony Orchestra and a member of Matt Haimovitz’s Uccello touring cello ensemble.
Pianist and arranger Michael Jacobsen is in his 20th year as a member of the piano faculty of Westminster Conservatory. In addition to teaching, he is an active performer, appearing regularly with the Westminster Community Orchestra, the Princeton Society of Musical Amateurs, on Westminster concert series and with the Princeton Variety Theater, for which he also serves as music director.
In addition to her faculty position at Westminster Conservatory, pianist Kathy Shanklin is the director of music at St. Martin’s Episcopal Church in Bridgewater and the organist at Temple Beth’el in Somerville. She has also served as a staff accompanist for Opera Festival of New Jersey/June Opera and the music director of the Princeton Ballet School.
The Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra is composed of Westminster Conservatory faculty members, adult amateurs from the Westminster Community Orchestra and advanced students from Westminster Conservatory.
Westminster Choir College is located at 101 Walnut Lane in Princeton.
Admission to the concert is free.
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