Senior Music Majors to Perform Joint Piano Recital

Two Westminster College students, Lauren Garcia and Ashley Rexrode, will perform a joint piano recital Saturday, Dec. 4, at 5:30 p.m. at Orr Auditorium.

 Their program ranges from the Baroque works of J.S. Bach to the contrasting 20th Century sonorities and harmonies of Debussy.  This concert is comprised of works that portray the passionate styles of various composers.  They will be performing the solo works of Bach, Mozart, Robert Schumann, Chopin, and Debussy, and a suite for piano four-hands by Debussy.

  Lauren Garcia, a senior music education and Spanish major, is a daughter of Charles and Mary Garcia, Aliquippa, and a graduate of Beaver Valley Christian Academy.   She has studied piano for over 16 years, during which she has performed numerous times and done various accompanying works.  Garcia has performed throughout the United States and Italy as a member of the concert choir and chamber singers.  She has recently completed a semester at the University of Salamanca in Spain.  Her academic honors include the National Dean's List, the College's Dean's List, honor societies Pi Sigma Pi and Omicron Delta Kappa.

 Ashley Rexrode, a senior music education major, is a daughter of the Rev. Dale and Linda Rexrode, Farmington, and a graduate of Lighthouse Christian Academy. She has studied piano for 16 years, and teaches students both at home and with the Westminster College Music Intern Teaching Program.  Rexrode is a member of the Women's Chorus and the Concert Choir, and has served as accompanist for the Chamber Singers.  She is also a member of the the Pennsylvania Collegiate Music Educator's Association (PCMEA) and the American Choral Directors's Association (ACDA).  She has been on the National Dean's List, the Westminster College Dean's List, and is a member honor society Pi Sigma Pi and Kappa and educational fraternity Kappa Delta Pi.

 The music will be played on the model "D" concert grand Steinway, the largest piano that Steinway makes, that was given by the extended Mansell family in memory of Margaret Louise Young Mansell.  Margaret and her husband, Thomas V. Mansell, are both 1929 Westminster College graduates and long-time New Wilmington residents.

 The event is free and open to the public.  For more information, contact the Westminster College Department of Music at (724) 946-7270.

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