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Westminster Conservatory Annual Showcase Highlights Local Talent on February 25

originally published: 02/09/2018

Westminster Conservatory Annual Showcase Highlights Local Talent on February 25

(PRINCETON, NJ) -- Westminster Conservatory will present its annual showcase featuring Westminster Community ensembles and students on Sunday, February 25 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 Concerto Competition: Clarissa Cheung, flute; Hope Lacson, soprano and Alex Liu, clarinet.  Each will perform a work with the Community Orchestra.

Clarissa Cheung is a senior at Princeton High School and a student of Katherine McClure.  Hope Lacson is a homeschooled senior and a student of Nancy Froysland-Hoerl. Alex Liu is a senior at the Lawrenceville School and a student of Kenneth Ellison.

The program will include Beethoven’s Egmont Overture, Doppler’s Fantasia Pastorale Hongroise, Debussy’s Première rhapsodie, “Hark the echoing air” from Purcell’s The Fairy Queen, “Lascia ch’io pianga” from Handel’s Rinaldo, Vyšehrad from Smetana’s Má vlast and Telemann’s “Ich will den Herrn loben.”  Excerpts from Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel and Puccini’s La Rondine will also be performed.

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.

PHOTO: Alex Liu, Clarissa Cheung, and Hope Lacson, winners of Westminster Conservatory’s Concerto Competition



 
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