Goshen College Concerto-Aria Concert features pianists, vocalists and violinist Feb. 17

Concert: 2005-2006 Concerto-Aria Competition concert
Date and time: Friday, Feb. 17, 2006, at 7:30 p.m.
Location: Sauder Concert Hall, Goshen College Music Center
Cost: $6 adults, $4 seniors/students. GC students free with ID. Tickets are available at the door.

GOSHEN, Ind. – The annual Goshen College Concerto-Aria Competition Concert featuring six outstanding music student soloists accompanied by the Goshen College Orchestra will be in Sauder Concert Hall on Feb. 17 at 7:30 p.m.

Pianists Aubrey Helmuth (Sr., Harrisonburg, Va.) and Chara Sonntag (Soph., Middlebury, Ind.), violinist Molly Buckwalter (Sr., Keezletown, Va.) and vocalists Rebecca Fath (Jr., Goshen), Adrienne Nesbitt (Jr., Goshen) and Cassie Greer (Sr., South Bend, Ind.) were selected by a jury of music department faculty in late December as this year’s competition winners.

The concert will feature the orchestra accompanying pianists Helmuth and Sonntag (photo unavailable) in performances of Ravel’s “Piano Concerto in G Major” and Beethoven’s “Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 58,” respectively. Violinist Buckwalter will perform Camille Saint-Saëns’ “Introduction et Rondo Capriccioso.” Vocalists Fath, Nesbitt and Greer will be singing Puccini’s “In quelle trine morbide” from “Manon Lescaut,” Mascagni’s “Voi lo sapete” from “Cavalleria Rusticana” and Donizetti’s “Il segreto per esser felici” from “Lucrezia Borga,” respectively. The concert will open with the orchestra, directed by Associate Professor of Music John Graulty, performing Leonard Bernstein’s Overture to “Candide.”

Tickets for the concert can be purchased at the door and cost $6 for general admission, $4 for students and seniors and free for GC students with ID.

Editors: For more information about this release, to arrange an interview or request a photo, contact Goshen College News Bureau Director Jodi H. Beyeler at (574) 535-7572 or jodihb@goshen.edu.

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