Westminster Conservatory set to present community showcase

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Westminster Conservatory is set to present its annual showcase featuring local community ensembles and the winners of its concerto competition on March 16 at 3 p.m.

Performers will include the Westminster Community Orchestra, the Westminster Conservatory Children’s Choir, the Trenton Children’s Chorus and the Princeton Charter School/Westminster Conservatory Youth Orchestra.

During the showcase, each of the winners of the concerto competition will perform a selection or movement from a work with the Westminster Community Orchestra. Elisabeth Boyce-Jacino, a soprano and senior honors student at Hopewell Valley Central High School will perform “Que Fais tu” from Gounod’s opera Roméo et Juliette. Chaitanya Natarajan, a saxophonist and a senior at West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North will perform Villa-Lobos’ Fantasia for Soprano Saxophone. And Raymond Hu, clarinetist and a sophomore at Montgomery High School will perform the third movement of Crusell’s Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in F Major, Op. 5.

The performance will be held in Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall located at 68 Nassau Street, Princeton.

Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for students and seniors.

More information is online at rider.edu/arts.

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