(PRINCETON, NJ) -- Westminster Choir College of Rider University will host a summer choral reading session on Tuesday, June 19 at 7:30pm in Bristol Chapel on the Westminster campus in Princeton. Westminster alumnus Anthony Maglione will lead a reading of Ralph Vaughan William’s Dona Nobis Pacem. Participants can bring their own scores or borrow one from Westminster. Admission is free.
Conductor/Composer Anthony J. Maglione is a graduate of Westminster Choir College of Rider University, East Carolina University, and the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the director of choral studies at William Jewell College where, under his direction, the Concert Choir was awarded second place in the 2015 American Prize in Choral Performance, College/University Division. In addition to his responsibilities at William Jewell College, he serves as director of the Greater Kansas City AGO Schola Cantorum, conductor emeritus of the freelance ensemble Artists of NJ, a symphony orchestra based in Central NJ, and he was recently appointed artist-in-residence and choir master at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Kansas City.
Maglione’s choral works are growing in popularity and are published on GIA’s “Evoking Sound” choral series. In the last several years his music has appeared at state and national-level conventions, on Television and in video games. It has been recorded on Gothic Records, Albany Records, and Centaur Records. HE has also been commissioned by the American Guild of Organists for a new work to premiere at the AGO National Conference to be held in Kansas City in this summer.
Westminster Choir College of Rider University is located at the corner of Hamilton Avenue and Walnut Lane in Princeton.
