Westminster Kaleidoscope Series Begins on Oct. 30

Editor's Note: The following is a news release issued by the Westminster Choir College of Rider University.

Westminster Conservatory presents the first recital in the Kaleidoscope Chamber Series on Sunday, Oct. 30, at 2:30 p.m. in Gill Memorial Chapel on the campus of Rider University in Lawrence Township.  Admission is free.  Call the Westminster Choir College box office at (609) 921-2663 or go to www.rider.edu/arts for more information.

The recital, entitled Trio Brio features ensembles for three players, including a variety of instrumental ensembles and ensembles for two wind players and keyboard.  The program will include music in a variety of styles, ranging from the 17th to 20th centuries.  Some highlights will be 17th-century music for recorder, cornetto, and harpsichord, the Andante and Rondo by Franz Doppler for two flutes and piano; Jindrich Feld's Petit Divertissement and Pierre Paubon's Cinq Pieces Independantes for flute trio, the Trio for flute, oboe, and clarinet by Conrad Baden, and the Trio for oboe, bassoon, and piano by Francis Poulenc.

The performers will be Kimberly Bryan, Katherine McClure, Seth Rosenthal, and Kevin Willois, flute; Timothy Urban, recorder; Melissa Bohl, oboe; Kenneth Ellison, clarinet; Christopher Wickham, bassoon; Flora Newberry, cornetto; Kate Campbell, piano; and Kathleen Scheide, harpsichord.

Melissa Bohl is the principal oboist of the Greater Trenton Symphony Orchestra, the Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra and the Edison Symphony.  She performs regularly with many other area musical organizations, including the Delaware Valley Philharmonic, the Orchestra of St. Peter by the Sea, the Garden State Philharmonic, and Boheme Opera. She has degrees in music from the Eastman School of Music, the University of Notre Dame and Princeton University. 

Flutist Kimberly Bryan teaches at the Pennington School and in her private studio, and she has been a member of the Westminster Conservatory faculty since 2004.  She has degrees from Philadelphia Biblical University and the Longy School of Music. She has performed in a variety of master classes, is a member of the National Flute Association, and was a recipient of “Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers.”  Ms. Bryan enjoys teaching and freelancing in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and performing in chamber ensembles, including His Grace Notes Flute Ensemble. 

Clarinetist Kenneth Ellison has performed with many musical organizations, including the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, the Riverside Sinfonia, and the Greenville Symphony, under such conductors as Andrea Quinn, John Rutter, Frederick Fennell, and Rossen Milanov, and in venues including Avery Fisher Hall, Merkin Hall, NJPAC, and the Spoleto Festival USA.  He is a member of the Princeton Symphony woodwind trio for the BRAVO! program, the NJ Arts Collective, and trio@play.  Mr. Ellison is a candidate in the Doctor of Musical Arts program at Rutgers University.  He has degrees in music from Arizona State University and Furman University. 

Katherine McClure, flute, earned a Bachelor of Arts in music from Skidmore College and a Master of Music in flute performance from the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. In addition to teaching flute at Westminster Conservatory and the Lawrenceville School, she is music director and conductor of the wind ensemble at the Lawrenceville School, and maintains a private flute studio in Kingston, NJ.  An active chamber and orchestral player in the greater New York and Philadelphia metropolitan area, she is the principal flutist of the Edison Symphony and is a tenured member of Riverside Symphonia, Delaware Valley Philharmonic, the Greater Trenton Symphony Orchestra, and the American Repertory Ballet Orchestra. 

Flora Newberry received her training at the Juilliard School of Music, receiving a Bachelor of Music in 1987.  She received additional training in the Jazz Studies program at William Paterson College from 1991 to 1993, where she got her start in songwriting providing lyrics for a Rufus Reid composition.  She currently resides in Roebling, NJ, teaching and performing in the Greater Trenton area, offering demonstrations and performances on historical instruments, performances on modern trumpet, educational demonstration-concerts, and therapeutic music groups.  She has toured the US and Japan as a member of the Kit McClure Big Band and has backed up singer Judy Bady at the Cape May Jazz Festival.

Seth Rosenthal has played flute with the New Jersey Symphony, New York City Opera, and the National Orchestral Association Symphony.  He was principal flutist with the Orquesta Sinfonica de Estado de Mexico under Enrique Batiz.  He currently plays flute and piccolo in opera orchestras, ballet orchestras, bands, and symphonies in New Jersey and New York.  He is a member of the board of trustees of the New York Flute Club and also serves as its publicity director.

Kathleen Scheide has performed as a soloist in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, the Far East and the Caribbean. She has received touring artist grants from the Arkansas Arts Council, the California Arts Council and the American Embassy, Vienna. Dr. Scheide teaches harpsichord at Westminster Choir College of Rider University, and she is organist/choirmaster at All Hallows Episcopal Church near Philadelphia. She is also a published composer with a significant discography. Dr. Scheide earned degrees in early music and organ performance at New England Conservatory and the University of Southern California. She regularly performs chamber music as Due Solisti with Czech flutist Zofie Vokalkova, and as Voix seraphique with harpist Cheryl Dungan Cunningham.

In addition to a doctorate in musicology Timothy Urban holds graduate degrees in early music performance practice, recorder and voice performance, and music theory.  While a Fulbright scholar in Hungary he performed throughout Hungary and Austria with the Kesckemeti Renaiszance Conzort and Ars Nova.  He was invited as a guest director to Conjunto de Music Antiga in Niteroi, Brazil for a series of concerts exploring the Renaissance music of Hungary and Poland.  Mr. Urban was a performer and clinician at the first Baroque Music Festival held at National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaoshiung, Taiwan.  He has been heard in concerts and recitals in Taipei, Taiwan and Hong Kong and has recorded programs for Hong Kong Radio.  Mr. Urban regularly performs throughout the greater New York City area as both singer and instrumentalist. 
 
Christopher Wickham is the principal bassoonist of the Riverside Symphonia and performs with the Symphony in C of Camden, NJ, the Delaware Symphony, and in Texas with orchestras in Amarillo and Midland Odessa.  He is a former member of the Orquesta Sinfonica in Monterrey, Mexico and the Honolulu Symphony.  He teaches at the Lawrenceville School and conducts and coaches for the Youth Orchestra of Central Jersey.  He has degrees in music from Portland State University in Oregon, Temple University, and the Mannes School of Music.  He is a Doctor of Musical Arts candidate at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. 

Kevin Willois, flute, received a Bachelor of Music in education and performance from Mason Gross School of the Arts of Rutgers University, where he has also completed a master’s degree.  At Rutgers he was a student of Bart Feller and served as the principal flutist of the Rutgers Orchestra and SummerFest Orchestra.  Mr. Willois is the principal flutist of Chelsea Opera and the Martina Arroyo festival orchestra.  He is a member of trio@play.  Mr. Willois teaches summer chamber music workshops in New Brunswick and at Westminster Conservatory.