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HARTSVILLE, S.C. – The Coker College Department of Dance, Music and Theater welcomes the Carolina Composers to campus on Friday, November 19. Comprised of Jacquelyn Culpepper, soprano, and Phillip Bush, piano, the Carolina Composers will perform a recital at 7:30 p.m. in the Watson Theater of Coker College’s Elizabeth Boatwright Coker Performing Arts Center.

The Carolina Composers will present four musical pieces in the show:
• Wallflowers and  Appalachian Song  by Kenneth Franzelle
• Blue River Variations by John Fitz Rogers
• Sacred Songs for Pantheists by Robert Ward

Culpepper has shared her beautiful soprano voice with audiences across the United States, Europe, South America, and the Caribbean and to countries in Asia including Japan, Vietnam, Taiwan, and Brunei. Career highlights include performing more than 85 roles in opera and oratorio, and solo concert tours throughout the world with American Voices. Currently, she is the Artist Associate of voice in the music department at Davidson College.

Bush has played the piano since he was 5 years old and it has continued to be a lifelong passion for him. In 2008 he received the Artist Fellowship in Music Performance from the South Carolina Arts Commission. In the summers Phillip works as an administrator with the Chamber Music Conference and Composers’ Forum of the East, a program in Bennington, Vermont where other amateurs and non-music-professionals come to study with professional performer-teachers. A native of Charlotte, N.C., Bush currently lives in Columbia, S.C. with his wife (pianist and USC professor) Lynn Kompass, their 3-year-old son Spencer, and dog Ruby.

The recital is free and open to the public.

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Coker College readies undergraduates for personal and professional success through a distinctive four-year program that emphasizes a practical application of the liberal arts as well as hands-on and discussion-based learning within and beyond the classroom. Coker is ranked among the “Best Colleges” in the South by U.S. News & World Report as well as The Princeton Review. Located in Hartsville, S.C., Coker is within two hours of the cultural, financial and recreational resources of Charlotte, Columbia, Charleston and Myrtle Beach.