(PRINCETON, NJ) -- The Westminster Conservatory of Music will host two upcoming recitals; both are free and open to the public.

On Sunday, February 16, 2025 at 3:00pm, Westminster Conservatory faculty pianist Clipper Erickson will perform a solo recital entitled Spirituals and Sonatas. The recital will take place in Hillman Performance Hall in the Marion Buckelew Cullen Center, located at 101 Walnut Lane in Princeton, New Jersey.

The program includes two compositions by composers of African descent that incorporate material from the religious folksongs of African American culture: the Sonata in E Minor by Florence Price and Deep River from Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's 24 Negro Melodies. The program also includes three short works by Laurie Altman, Prelude 17, Chorale and Fugue in B Major/Minor, and Boogie; and Sonata in G Minor by Swedish composer Wilhem Stenhammar. 

On Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 12:15pm, the Volanti Flute Quartet will perform as part of the series Westminster Conservatory at Nassau. The recital will take place in the Niles Chapel of Nassau Presbyterian Church, 61 Nassau Street in Princeton, New Jersey.

Quartet members Jill Crawford, Ellen Fisher Deerberg, John Lane and Katherine McClure will perform on piccolo, flute, alto flute and bass flute. The program will include original flute music, Lullaby by Jennifer Higdon and Harmony in Blue and Gold by Eric Ewazen, and an arrangement for flutes of Debussy's Arabesque No. 2.

This program is made possible in part by the Mercer County Cultural and Heritage Commission through funding from the Mercer County Board of Chosen Freeholders and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.