Rider University Chorale The Wilderness of You Program
Friday, April 11, 2025 at 7:30 p.m.
Rider University
2083 Lawrenceville Road
Lawrenceville, N.J.
Bart Luedeke Center Theater
Program
Music to be selected from the following
Organ Sonata No.4 in Bb Major
I. Allegro con brio
The Wilderness of You
I. Blood
II. Breath
V. Being
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Duomi Liu, organ
I.
Andrea Ramsey (b. 1977)
Carmine Fiumano, percussion
II.
Penpen de Sarapen arr. Augosto Espino (b. 1954)
Ricky Sazon Salazar, conductor
Yimeng Mountain Song arr. Yida Zhang (b.1941)
Duomi Liu, conductor
III.
Stephen Schwartz: A Musical Celebration arr. Mac Huff
Carmine Fiumano, percussion
SECTION I Day by Day
Topsy Turvy
We Beseech Thee
SECTION II Colors of the Wind
God Help the Outcasts
Jean Milman, soloist
Connor Meletta, soloist
Sydney Stahl, soloist
Kiersten Burd, soloist
For Good
SECTION III
It’s an Art
Popular
Eliana Cardona, soloist
Vivienne Evans, soloist
Sydney Stahl, soloist
Olivia Santa Croce, soloist
Maya Hanna, Vivienne Evans, Samantha Brilla, Jenna Lubnewski, Jean Milman, Olivia Santa Croce, Ani Arzoumanian, Eliana Cardona, Wendy Heath, soloists
SECTION IV
Just Around the Riverbend
Zander Blickley, soloist
Meadowlark
Genesys Perez-Berrios, soloist
The Spark of Creation
Wendy Heath, Connor Meletta, Zander Blickley, Ani Arzoumanian, soloists
Defying Gravity
SECTION V
All Good Gifts
When You Believe
Ariana Rodi, soloist
Eliana Cardona, soloist
About the Artists
RIDER UNIVERSITY CHORALE
The Rider University Chorale provides the fundamentals of artistic choral singing. The ensemble performs diverse repertoire from across many eras, styles, and places. Concerts feature choral masterworks, compositions by contemporary composers, as well as spirituals, folk song settings from around the world, and music of the stage and screen. Current students, faculty and staff, alumni, and members of the surrounding community are invited to participate. The ensemble is one of six curricular ensembles at Westminster Choir College.
Tom T. Shelton, Jr., conductor
Mary Elizabeth Latorre, collaborative pianist
Duomi Liu, graduate assistant
Ricky Sazon Salazar, graduate assistant
SOPRANO
Inabel Abreu
Ani Arzoumanian
Samantha Brilla
Eliana Cardona
Vivienne Rene Evans
Jenn Gregg
Wendy Heath
Jenna Lubnewski
Ariana Rodi
Ashley Semmel
Sydney Stahl
Lexi Thompson
TENOR
Jaxx Bates
Zander Blickley
Connor Bowden
Hudson Fritz
Aaromel Menon
ALTO
Carissa Brunk
Kiersten Burd
Maya Hanna
Jamyla Harris
Domi Liu
Ruowen Liu
Jean Milman
Genesys Perez-Berrios
Olivia Santa Croce
Gabi Smalley
Debbie Stasolla
BASS
Trevor Janusas
Connor Meletta
Ricky Sazon Salazar
Damien Schultz
About Rider University & Westminster Choir College
Located in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, Rider University is a private co-educational, student-centered university that emphasizes purposeful connections between academic study and real-world learning experience. Rider prepares graduates to thrive professionally, to be lifelong independent learners, and to be responsible citizens who embrace diversity, support the common good, and contribute meaningfully to the changing world in which they live and work.
The College of Arts and Sciences is dedicated to educating students for engaged citizenship, career success, and personal growth in a diverse and complex world. The college cultivates intellectual reflection, artistic creativity, and academic maturity by promoting both broad academic inquiry and in-depth disciplinary study, while nurturing effective and ethical applications of transferable critical skills. The College consists of four schools: the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, the School of Communication, Media, and Performing Arts, the School of Science, Technology, and Mathematics, and Westminster Choir College.
Culturally vibrant and historically rich, Westminster Choir College has a legacy of preparing students for thriving careers as well-rounded performers and musical leaders on concert stages, in schools, universities, and churches, and in professional and community organizations worldwide. Renowned for its tradition of choral excellence, the college is home to internationally recognized ensembles, including the Westminster Symphonic Choir, which has performed and recorded with virtually all of the major orchestras and conductors of our time. In addition to its choral legacy, Westminster is known as a center for excellence in musical pedagogy and performance.
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