Orchestra Concert to Feature Concerto and Aria Competition Winners

The Westminster College Symphony Orchestra will present its Classical Series Concert III Sunday, May 3, at 3 p.m. in Orr Auditorium. The concert is free and open to the public.

The concert will feature soprano soloist Karen Biddle as Mimi in "Quando men vo" from Puccini's La Boheme. Biddle is from the studio of Dr. Anne Hagan Bentz, Westminster associate professor of music.

Oboe soloist Jennie Smith will be featured in Horovitz' Oboe Concerto. Smith studies oboe with Shawn Reynolds, Westminster adjunct music faculty.

Biddle and Smith were the winners of the Concerto and Aria Competition sponsored by Westminster's Department of Music in March.

The program also includes Sibelius' Finlandia and Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 "From the New World."

The Symphony Orchestra is under the direction of Jonathan Moser, Westminster instructor of music and director of orchestras.

Moser, who has been with Westminster since 2005, earned an undergraduate degree from Shenandoah University and a master's from Arizona State University.

Contact Moser at (724) 946-7271 or e-mail moserjo@westminster.edu for additional information.

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