Westminster Conservatory Has Noontime Recital
The noontime series Westminster Conservatory at Nassau will continue on Thursday, March 21 at 12:15 p.m. with a program of music for oboe, English horn, viola, and piano.
The performers are Melissa Bohl, oboe and English horn; Marjorie Selden, viola; and Christopher McWilliams, piano. The program will feature music by Robert Kahn, Christopher McWilliams, Frank Bridge, and Paul Hindemith. The recital will take place in the Niles Chapel of Nassau Presbyterian Church, 61 Nassau Street, and is open to the public free of charge.
Bohl is the principal oboist of the Capital Philharmonic of New Jersey, the Orchestra of St. Peter-by-the-Sea, the Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra and the American Repertory Ballet Orchestra. She plays oboe and English horn with the Plainfield Symphony and performs regularly with many other area musical organizations, including the Garden State Symphonic Band and the Central Jersey Symphonic Orchestra.
Selden holds a bachelor’s degree from SUNY Albany and a master’s degree from Boston University. She studied viola with Dr. Nathan Gottschalk and Walter Trampler. An active freelance musician, Selden is the principal violist of the Newtown Chamber Orchestra and The Orchestra of St. Peter by the Sea. She frequently performs in faculty recitals at Westminster Conservatory, the American Repertory Ballet Orchestra, The New Jersey Capital Philharmonic, and Plays in the Park in Edison.
McWilliams holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Westminster Choir College, where he studied piano with Phyllis Alpert Lehrer and organ with Ken Cowan. He was the 2009 recipient of the Damien Dixon Piano Award.