Guest Vocal Artist to Give Recital at Westminster College

Soprano Jennifer Davis Jones and baritone Dr. Allan Mosher will give a recital Monday, Oct. 27, at 7:30 p.m. at Westminster College's Wallace Memorial Chapel.

The concert, which will be accompanied by pianist Nancy Zipay DeSalvo from the music faculty of Westminster College, will feature "Sound the Trumpet," "Sweeter Than Roses," "La charmante Marguerite," "Ici-bas," "Vier er`nste Gesange," "Sapphische Ode Wiegenlied," and "Bei Mannern" from Die Zauberflote. Following intermission will be three Gospel expressions including "Wesley Church," "Wayfaring Stranger," and "Jacob's Ladder." A "Cantata of Spirituals" and "Bess, You Is My Woman Now" from Porgy and Bess.

Jones is a graduate of the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati and The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. She pursued further Italian studies at L'Universita per Stranieri a Perugia, Italia. Jones has performed many Mozart roles, including Fiordiligi in Cosi Fan Tutte, Pamina in The Magic Flute, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, and Konstanze in The Abduction from the Seraglio.

Jones made her Carnegie Hall debut as soprano soloist in Luigi Boccherini's Villancicos. Recent concert engagements include Cincinnati's Taft Museum Rising Stars Recital Series, a Viennese Evening with the Lake Placid Sinfonietta, and recitals at Youngstown State University. Jones teaches voice at Ashland University and at Youngstown State University.

Mosher is an associate professor of voice at Youngstown State University and coordinator of the voice area and director of opera at the Dana School of Music. Among the operas he has directed are Die Fledermaus, The Tender Land, The Bartered Bride, Hansel and Gretel, The Legend of Ellis Island, L'Amico Fritz, Signor Deluso, The Magic Flute and Albert Herring. He has also performed in New York's Carnegie Hall and in Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall.
Mosher earned his undergraduate degree from San Francisco State University, and the University of California at Berkeley, his master's from the Eastman School of Music, and his D.M.A. from the College Conservatory of Music, at the University of Cincinnati.

DeSalvo is an assistant professor of music at Westminster College, where she teaches piano and music theory, and performs various solo recitals. She performs extensively across the United States as a professional accompanying pianist and chamber music collaborator. Guest solo appearances have included performances with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra.

DeSalvo earned her undergraduate degree from Youngstown State University, her master's from the Manhattan School of Music, and her D.M.A. from The Cleveland Institute of Music. She and baritone Jason Fuh captured First Prize for their performance of Four Claudal Poems in the Darius Milhaud Performance Auditions held at the Cleveland Institute of Music. In 1997, Dr. DeSalvo received the Gwendolyn Koldofsky Award, given at the discretion of the CIM faculty to a Collaborative Piano Major who has special aptitude for vocal accompanying and who exemplifies the important dual role of the profession - that of support, service and cooperation, balanced with professional skill and high standards of performance.

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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