RVCC Chorale to Present Annual Holiday Concert

The RVCC Chorale Annual Holiday Concert

WHEN: Saturday, December 7, at 8 p.m.
WHERE: Welpe Theatre at Raritan Valley Community College, 118 Lamington Road in Branchburg
TICKETS: General admission tickets cost $12 per person, $8 for students and seniors.
Tickets may be purchased at the door on the night of the concert or in advance from the Theatre Box Office, 908-725-3420. The Box Office is open Monday through Friday, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The program will feature Johann Sebastian Bach’s cantata, Wachet Auf, also known as “Sleepers Awake,” as well as Christmas music from the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The program also will include an audience singalong of traditional carols.

Directed by Dr. John Sichel, RVCC Assistant Professor of Music, the RVCC Chorale is composed of students, former students and members of the community. The holiday concert’s performers include Kayla Rodriguez, soprano; Joy Auerbach, Ruth Dilley, Angelique Dunlap, Holly Ellerbush, Carissa Culino, Jennifer Kapoian and Jane Sausanavage, altos; and Brian Hewitt, Joe Maselli and Tyler McManus, men’s voices. Michael Nuzzo is the Chorale’s accompanist.

For this concert, the Chorale will be assisted by a chorus of elementary and middle-school students from Clinton, Franklin Township and Union Township public schools.  Also assisting on the program are sopranos Alex Borden and Martha Desmond, bass Gregory Hartline, flutists Eugenia Cline and Clarissa Nolde, and the Littmann String Quartet.

CHORALE TO PERFORM ANNUAL HOLIDAY CONCERT @ RVCC

ANNUAL HOLIDAY CONCERT

WHEN: Friday, December 1, at 8 p.m.
WHERE: Welpe Theatre at Raritan Valley Community College’s Branchburg campus, 118 Lamington Road.
TICKETS: $12 per person, $8 for students and seniors. Tickets may be purchased at the door on the night of the concert or in advance from the Theatre box office, 908-725-3420. The box office is open Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The program will feature Franz Josef Haydn’s Missa Brevis (St. Joannis de Deo) as well as works by Bach and a cappella pieces from the Renaissance by Thomas Morley, Antoine Busnois and Josquin des Prez. The program also will include an audience singalong of traditional carols.

Directed by Dr. John Sichel, RVCC Assistant Professor of Music, the RVCC Chorale is composed of students, former students and members of the community. The holiday concert’s performers include Eleni Catanzaro, Melissa Jo Donlay, Carina Gonzalez, Gillian Koch, Kaitlin May and Mia Mazzariello, sopranos; Ruth Dilley, Jennifer Kapoian, Alison Quairoli, Jane Sausanavage and Theresa Vitovitch, altos; Patrick Gardner, Daniel Hogan, Christian Loree and Anthony Martinez, tenors; and Michael Krupinski and Rudy Plesmid, basses. Gregory Stout is the Chorale’s accompanist.

Raritan Valley Community College’s main campus is located at 118 Lamington Road in Branchburg, NJ. Serving Somerset and Hunterdon County residents for close to 50 years, RVCC is an educational and cultural center that is nationally recognized for its innovative programming, service to the community and environmental leadership. The College offers more than 90 associate degrees and certificates, as well as career training, professional development, and adult and youth personal enrichment courses. The College also has a performing arts center and planetarium.

RVCC is committed to offering a quality and affordable education through effective teaching, liaisons with the community’s businesses, and state-of-the-art technology. For further information, visit www.raritanval.edu.

RVCC CHORALE TO PERFORM “CARMINA BURANA” ON MAY 6

Carmina Burana

WHEN: Saturday, May 6, at 3 p.m.
WHERE: Welpe Theatre at the College’s Branchburg campus, 118 Lamington Road.
TICKETS: General admission tickets cost $12 each, $8 for students and seniors.
Tickets may be purchased at the door on the day of the concert or in advance from the Theatre Box Office, 908-725-3420. The Box Office is open Monday through Friday, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The program will feature Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, a perennially favorite choral work that sets anonymous medieval poetry (mostly about gambling, drinking and decidedly un-chivalric romantic activity) to dynamic and propulsive 20^th-century music. The program also will feature a cappella works by William Byrd, Thomas Morley and Arlo McKinnon.

The RVCC Chorale is composed of current RVCC students, alumni and members of the community. This spring’s Chorale includes Jennifer Boardman, Melissa Jo Donlay, Madeleine Evarts, Mia Mazzariello, Madeleine Nasta, Melissa Pampani, and Emily Woods, sopranos; Cathy Dayton, Georgina Denis, Ruth Dilley, Joeann Haddad, Jennifer Kapoian, Georgiana Lubrano and Jane Sausanavage, altos; Dante Colon, Airon Eschavez, Jorge Martinez, Christopher Piel, Gustavo Sanchez-Ochoa and Shawn Wallace, tenors; and Frank Becker, Andrew Conti, Darian Hampton, Andres Jinete, Jon Levering and Christopher Zanardi, basses.

Accompanist Timothy Brown will be assisted by second pianist Eric Plutz and a percussion ensemble composed of current and former RVCC students.

Raritan Valley Community College’s main campus is located at 118 Lamington Road in Branchburg, NJ. Serving Somerset and Hunterdon County residents for close to 50 years, RVCC is an educational and cultural center that is nationally recognized for its innovative programming, service to the community and environmental leadership. The College offers more than 90 associate degrees and certificates, as well as career training, professional development, and adult and youth personal enrichment courses. The College also has a performing arts center and planetarium. RVCC is committed to offering a quality and affordable education through effective teaching, liaisons with the community’s businesses, and state-of-the-art technology. For further information, visit www.raritanval.edu.