(PRINCETON, NJ) -- Westminster Conservatory will present its annual showcase featuring Westminster Community ensembles and students on Sunday, February 17 at 3:00pm in Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall on the campus of Princeton University. The performers will be the Westminster Community Orchestra conducted by Ruth Ochs; Westminster Conservatory Children’s Choirs conducted by Patricia Thel and Yvonne Macdonald; Westminster Choir College students enrolled in Westminster’s Opera Workshop, and winners of the Westminster Conservatory Piano Concerto Competition: Michaela Guo and Annie Wei.
Michaela Guo is a junior at Princeton High School and studies piano under Galina Prilutskaya. She has been playing since age five and is a 2017 Westminster Scholarship Competition winner, 2018 American Fine Arts Concerto Competition Third Place winner, seven-year New Jersey Music Teachers Association (NJMTA) Spring Audition winner, and she has played in multiple chamber ensembles. She is a pianist in the Princeton High School Orchestra and serves her local church as an accompanist. She will perform two movements from Franz Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat.
A sophomore at Princeton High School, Annie Wei has been a student of Galina Prilutskaya for the past eight years. Taking every opportunity she has to express her love for music, she is part of a chamber group, plays in the Princeton High School Orchestra, plays flute and guitar at home, took composition and a mixed media music class, and every summer participates in a music camp, including the Westminster High School Pianist program. She has won various competitions including the NJMTA Young Musician Competition, NJMTA Spring Piano Festival, Princeton Festival, and the American Fine Arts Music Festival. She will perform Burleske for Piano and Orchestra by Richard Strauss.
The program will also include the Roman Carnival Overture by Hector Berlioz, “Gloria in Excelsis” and “Laudamus Te” from Gloria by Antonio Vivaldi, “Make our Garden Grow” from Candide by Leonard Bernstein, and works by Mozart, Handel and Smetana.
Tickets for the concert are $15 for adults and $10 for students/seniors. They can be purchased through the Princeton University Box Office at 609-258-9220 or online at www.princeton.edu/utickets. For more information, visit www.rider.edu/arts.
