William Hobbs will open the Westminster Choir College Faculty Recital Series on Sunday, September 27 at 3 p.m. in Bristol Chapel on the campus of Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton. He will perform works by Beethoven and Chopin. Admission is free.
The Westminster Choir College faculty recital series is set to open with a performance titled “Beethoven and Chopin,” featuring pianist William Hobbs, on Sunday, September 27, 2015 at 3 p.m. The performance will take place in Bristol Chapel at Rider University’s Westminster Choir College, 101 Walnut Lane, Princeton. Admission is free.
The performance will feature Beethoven’s colorful Sonata in F Major, Op. 54 and his emotional Sonata in F Minor “Appassionata”, Op. 57; as well as Chopin’s innovative Three Mazurkas, Op. 50; his romantic Ballade No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 52; and his passionate Scherzo No. 4 in E Major, Op. 54.
William Hobbs works at many of the world’s major opera houses as a conductor and coach. These include the Opéra National de Paris, the Salzburg Festival, San Francisco Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, Seattle Opera, Washington Opera and the Opéra de Monte-Carlo. He has assisted conductors Claudio Abbado, Sir Charles Mackerras, Jiří Bělohlávek, Sir Andrew Davis, James Conlon, Robert Spano, Richard Bonynge, Donald Runnicles, Jiři Kout, Marco Armiliato and many others.
Hobbs joined the Westminster Piano and Voice Faculty in fall 2010 and he was appointed assistant professor in the fall of 2011. Besides serving as music director for Westminster Opera Theatre productions, he is the founder and artistic director of Opera Slavica, which is devoted to presenting full productions of masterworks from Russian, Czech and Polish composers. Opera Slavica provides singers with no background in these languages with the knowledge and training to sing, read and translate them, and offering professional guidance for reaching industry standards.
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