(BERKELEY HEIGHTS, NJ) -- Wharton Institute for the Performing Arts’ (WIPA) Performing Arts School presents a Spring faculty concert on Sunday, April 28 at 3:00pm at 60 Locust Avenue in Berkeley Heights. Performances by faculty members Timothy Maureen Cole, soprano; Laura George, flute; Craig Graham, guitar; Eric Olsen, piano; Ema Mitrovic, mezzo-soprano; Eric Olsen, piano; and Emma Paterson, soprano include music from Into the Woods, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Nine the musical, The Greatest Showman and Be More Chill as well as Bizet’s Habanera and music of the French salon, or La Belle Époque. The concert is free and open to the public.
The Wharton Institute for the Performing Arts’ mission is to provide the highest quality performing arts education to a wide range of students in a supportive and inclusive environment, where striving for personal excellence inspires and connects those we teach to the communities we serve.
Wharton is New Jersey’s largest independent non-profit community performing arts education center serving over 1,500 students through a range of classes and ensembles including the 15 ensembles of the New Jersey Youth Symphony, which serve 500 students in grades 3 – 12 by audition. Beginning with Out of the Box Music and Pathways classes for young children, Wharton offers private lessons, group classes, and ensembles for all ages and all abilities at the Performing Arts School. With the belief in the positive and unifying influence of music and the performing arts and that arts education should be accessible to all people regardless of their ability to pay, Wharton teaches all instruments and voice and has a robust musical theater program. Based in Paterson, New Jersey, thePaterson Music Project is an El Sistema-inspired program of the Wharton Institute for the Performing Arts that uses music as a vehicle for social change by empowering and inspiring children through the community experience of ensemble learning and playing.
Wharton Institute for the Performing Arts is located in Berkeley Heights, New Providence and Paterson, NJ and reaches students from 10 counties. All of Wharton’s extraordinary faculty members and conductors hold degrees in their teaching specialty and have been vetted and trained to enable our students to achieve their personal best.
