Westmont: April Concerts to Reveal Spring Colors

This April, the Westmont Music Department showers the community with several performances, including the Spring Orchestra Concert on Sunday, April 29, at First Presbyterian Church, 21 East Constance Avenue. General admission is $10 and students are free. To purchase tickets or for more information, please contact Trinity Hokama at (805) 565-6040. Seven other performances this month are free and open to the public.

The Instrumental Chamber Concert, directed by Philip Ficsor, is on Monday, April 16, at 8 p.m. in Westmont’s Deane Chapel. The performance features a quintet, consisting of Emily Rutherford (cello), Alex Ronne (violin), Erin LeVoir (violin), Allyson Fredrickson (viola) and Enoch Matsumura (clarinet), playing Mozart’s Quintet in A Major KV. 581 for clarinet, 2 violins, viola and cello. The concert also includes the Siloam Quartet, featuring Emily McClean (violin), Madison Martin (violin), Sarah Shasberger (viola) and Rebecca Shasberger (cello). The repertoire includes music by Schubert, Brahms and Dvorak.

The Composers Concert will feature works by student composers on Wednesday, April 18, at 7 p.m. in Deane Chapel. The performance includes music by first-year students Rutherford, Jake Elliott, Steven Yoo, Emilee Letsinger, Nathan Frank and third-year student Alexander Quirk. “This will be a wonderful concert showcasing a wide variety of talent and musical styles,” Rutherford says. “The concert will feature string quartets, choral pieces, art songs and more.” Rutherford’s original piece will feature eight student vocalists performing C.S. Lewis’ poem “After Prayers, Lie Cold.” Yoo’s work utilizes 14 musicians performing “The Lord Answers Job.”

The Spring Choral Concert features a diverse selection of music showcasing the talents of three choral groups on Friday, April 20, at 8 p.m. in Trinity Episcopal Church. The performance features the Men’s Chorale directed by Grey Brothers, Women’s Chorale directed by Joanne Wasserman, and the Westmont College Choir directed by Michael Shasberger, Adams professor of music and worship. The College Choir will present a cycle of works ranging musically from the renaissance work of Jacobus Gallus, to the 19th century inspiration of Johannes Brahms and contemporary compositions of Rollo Dilworth.

Wind and brass ensembles, directed by Paul Mori, perform at the Wind Chamber Concert on Sunday, April 22, at 3 p.m. in Deane Chapel. The performance will highlight the talents of first-year students Bryanna Beauchamp (trumpet), Evan Ewert (tuba), Emily Hauck (French horn), Jeremy Kubiak (trombone), Matsumura (clarinet), Nicolas Robertson (French horn), Joseph Sidebotham (French horn) and Ryan Vande Wydeven (trumpet).

The Vocal Chamber Concert features the Chamber Singers and New Sounds, an 18 voice ensemble made up primarily of select first-year singers, on Sunday, April 22, at 8 p.m. in Trinity Episcopal Church, 1500 State Street. New Sounds will perform music for the Lenten and Easter seasons, as well as music from the Mexican cathedral tradition. The Chamber Singers’ repertoire includes some popular arrangements and spirituals.

Toes will be tapping at the Westmont Jazz Concert on Wednesday, April 25, at 8 p.m. in Deane Chapel. The Westmont Jazz Ensemble, directed by John Douglas, will perform an eclectic mix of compositions with genres ranging from bebop, straight-ahead and Brazilian. The repertoire includes a few jazz standards and an original song by Rutherford (vocals/cello). The ensemble also features Jaewoo Chung on trumpet, Matsumura on alto and tenor sax, Nathaniel Taylor on piano and Donny Brubaker on drums.

Westmont’s Siloam Quartet, featuring Martin, McClean, Sarah Shasberger and Rebecca Shasberger, performs its Spring Concert on Saturday, April 28, at 7 p.m. in Deane Chapel.

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