Westminster Kantorei will present a concert titled Prayer’s Passion on Sunday, Nov. 20 at 3 p.m. in Bristol Chapel on the campus of Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton.
The program will include works by Bach, Monteverdi, Purcell and Tallis led by ensemble’s conductor Amanda Quist. Graduate assistant Molly Getzinger will conduct movements of Herbert Howells’ Requiem and John Taverner’s Christe Jesu, pastor bone as her graduate conducting recital.
Tickets are $20 for adults and $15 for students and seniors and are available by phone at (609) 921-2663 or online.
Quist is associate professor and department chair of Conducting, Organ and Sacred Music at Westminster Choir College. She conducts the Westminster Chapel Choir and Westminster Kantorei, and she teaches graduate and undergraduate conducting. She is also director of the Westminster Vocal Institute, a summer program for talented high school students.
Founded in 2004, Westminster Kantorei is an auditioned chamber choir specializing in early and contemporary music. The ensemble performs regularly with some of America’s leading specialists in early music.
The ensemble’s 2016-2017 season includes performances in Princeton and a recording project. Westminster Kantorei, joined by Fuma Sacra and the Institute Festival Orchestra, can also be heard on the Albany recording, Jon Magnussen: Music for Limon Dances.
