The Hamilton College Department of Music will present a free student concert of voice and clarinet recitals on Saturday, May 5, at 7 p.m. at Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts. The concert will feature 13 Hamilton College music students who will perform various works by Monteverdi, Handel, Chopin, Mozart, and others. The Richtones, Hamilton's Barbershop Quartet, will also perform.
Each student performer auditioned before a panel of judges from the Hamilton College department of music and was selected to play in the concert. The students performing vocal works are: Juliette Reiss '03, a soprano from Wynnewood, PA; David Kolb '02, a baritone from Clinton, NY; Kerri Spindler-Ranta '02, a soprano from Princeton, MA; Elizabeth Padin '03, a soprano from New Rochelle, NY; Katherine Hughes '04 a soprano from Pleasantville, NY; Julia Berger '04, a soprano from Cazenovia, NY; Darcy Crum,'04, a soprano from Cobleskill, NY; and Michael O'Leary, a baritone from Nassau, NY.
The piano students are: Richard Waite'03, from Montpelier, VT; Jeff Dyer'04, from Milton, MA, and Jane Khiet Long '01, from New York, NY. Daniel Chapman'02 from East Aurora, NY will perform a flute solo and Neil Basu '01, from Rochester, NY will perform a violin solo.
Elizabeth Padin, Katherine Hughes, and Jukiette Reiss are students of Anita Firman, instructor of voice at Hamilton College. David Kolb, Michale O'Leary, Darcy Krum, Julia Berger, and Kerri Spindler-Ranta are students of Lauralyn Kolb, instructor of voice at Hamilton College. Jane Khiet Long, Richard Waite, and Jeff Dyer are students of Colleen Roberts Pellman, instructor of piano and coordinator of staff pianists at Hamilton. Neil Basu studies with Vladimir Pritsker, instructor of violin at Hamilton and violinist with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra. Daniel Chapman studies with Linda Greene, instructor of flute at Hamilton.
This concert is free and open to the public. No tickets are required. There will be a reception immediately following the performance. For more information, call the Performing Arts ticket office at 859-4331.
