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Senior to Give Voice Recital

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Posted on Monday, April 9, 2007

Laura Swanson, a Westminster College senior English and music major, will perform her capstone mezzo soprano recital on Sunday, April 15, at 1 p.m. in Wallace Memorial Chapel.

Swanson, a daughter of George and Sherry Swanson from Garretsville, Ohio, is a graduate of Cardinal High School. While at Westminster, she has participated in the opera Hansel and Gretel and has been involved with Chapel Drama and Alpha Psi Omega's One Act Festivals. Swanson is a member of Amnesty International, Kappa Delta Sorority, and is currently the public relations chair for Scrawl, Westminster's literary and arts student magazine.

Swanson's program includes: Georges Bizet's Chanson d'Avril; Isabella Colbran's Povero cor tu palipiti; Vincenzo Bellini's Per pieta beli dol mio; Clara Weick Schumann's Liebst du um Schonheit; Edvard Grieg's Ich liebe dich; Adam Guettel's The Allure of Silence; and Jason Robert Brown's "You Don't Know this Man" from Parade; and "Stars and the Moon" from Songs for a New World. She will be accompanied on piano by Kathryn D. Miller, adjunct music professor.

Contact the Westminster College Department of Music at (724) 946-7270 for more information.