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Music Performance Major to Present Junior Recital

Posted on Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Karen Biddle, a Westminster College junior music performance major, will present her junior recital Sunday, Oct. 10, at 3 p.m. in Wallace Memorial Chapel. The program is free and open to the public.

Her program includes selections from Handel, Fauré, Gounod, Schubert, Marx, Bellini, Quilter, and Sullivan. She will be accompanied by Marie Libal-Smith, Westminster adjunct music faculty.

Biddle is a daughter of Richard and the late Cheryl Biddle of Silver Spring, Md., and a graduate of Montgomery Blair High School.

She is a member of Mu Phi Epsilon music honor society and Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity. She has performed in Opera Westminster productions, including The Gypsy Baron and the Opera Ball, where she sang "Love Unspoken" from The Merry Widow. Her performances earned her first-place recognition in freshman and sophomore competitions and she has sung in venues ranging from the White House and the Kennedy Center to Llandaff Cathedral in Wales and the National Christian Church in Washington, D.C.

Biddle, a lyric soprano, is from the studio of Dr. Anne Hagan Bentz, Westminster associate professor of music.

Contact Westminster's Department of Music at (724) 946-7270 for additional information.

Karen Biddle