(PRINCETON, NJ) -- Westminster Williamson Voices, conducted by James Jordan, will present a concert titled “The Stars Rearrange Themselves” on Sunday, November 3 at 3:00pm in Bristol Chapel on the campus of Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton. This program features several new works by James Whitbourn and Urmas Sisask, along with premieres of works by Thomas Lavoy and Sarah Rimkus with poetry by Dana Gioia and works by Anthony Maglione.
Westminster Williamson Voices has been lauded by reviewers and audiences on both sides of the Atlantic. Gramophone magazine has praised the ensemble’s “intimate and forceful choral artistry” with a tone that is “controlled and silken in sustained phrases as they are vibrantly sonorous in extroverted material.” American Record Guide praised the ensemble as “without peer.” Nominated for a 2013 Grammy® award for its recording of James Whitbourn’s Annelies, Westminster Williamson Voices is in residence each summer at the Choral Institute at Oxford, one of the world’s leading programs for the education of conductors.
Conductor James Jordan has been praised throughout the musical world as one of America’s pre-eminent conductors, music psychologists, writers and pedagogical innovators in choral music. The world’s most published performing musician, he has written more than 40 books exploring both the philosophical and spiritual basis of musicianship, as well as aspects of choral rehearsal teaching and learning. His book Evoking Sound was praised by the Choral Journal as a “must read.” He is senior conductor and professor of Choral Conducting at the Westminster Choir College of Rider University. Dr. Jordan is also director of the Westminster Conducting Institute and co-director of the Choral Institute at Oxford. A comprehensive listing of his publications and recordings can be found at giamusic.com/jordan.
Tickets are $20 for adults and $15 for students and seniors and are available by phone at 609-921-2663 or online at rider.edu/arts.
Westminster Choir College of Rider University is located at 101 Walnut Lane in Princeton. To learn more about this recital and other Westminster performances, please go to rider.edu/arts.
