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Hartsville, S.C. — Coker College’s music professorsand students are presenting a showcase recital on Thursday, November 1 at 8 p.m. in the Watson Theater of the Elizabeth Boatwright Coker Performing Arts Center. Admission is free.

The program will begin with professors Serena Hill, soprano, and Joanne Kampiziones, piano, performing selected works by composers Vincenzo Bellini, Samuel Barber, Franz Schubert, Michael Head, and Miguel Sandoval. Kampiziones is an assistant professor of music for piano and Hill is an adjunct professor for voice.

Professor William Carswell’s Coker Chamber Singers with junior Breonna Payne, soprano, will then  perform “In Remembrance” by Eleanor Daley and “Ride the Chariot,” arranged by William Henry Smith. Carswell is assistant professor of music and director of choral and vocal studies.

Carswell also directs the Coker Singers, the college’s official choral ensemble, who will sing Chesnokov’s “Salvation is Created” and Redford's “Welcome All Wonders.” Rhonda McElveen will be the accompanist.

Following intermission, Kampizones will perform “Ballade in F Minor, Op. 52” by Frédéric Chopin. For the rest of the program, musical theater will be highlighted under the direction of professors Hill and Graham Wood, associate professor of music and director of musical theater.

Sophomore Meredith Gratton will perform Cole Porter’s “Tale of the Oyster,” and senior Adam Winstead and junior Cody Smith will perform “Agony” from “Into the Woods” by Stephen Sondheim.

Finally, Winstead, Smith and sophomore Amesha Johnson will perform selections from Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Prate of Penzance,” including “Stop, Ladies, Pray!”and “Major General’s Song.” They will be accompanied by Kim Roberts.

The music faculty and student showcase is being held in conjunction with the 47th annual South Carolina Music Teachers Association conference hosted by Coker College November 1-3.

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October 26, 2007