William Paterson University to Hold 29th Annual Choral Day on Wednesday, March 25 —Christina Howlett, director of choral activities at Vassar College, will be special guest conductor Nearly 400 high school students from 11 New Jersey high schools will participate in the 29th Annual Choral Day at William Paterson University in Wayne on Wednesday, March 25, 2015. The event, which runs from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., will conclude with a concert in the Shea Center for Performing Arts on campus at noon which will include performances by members of William Paterson University’s Opera Workshop and Chamber Singers, and a grand finale features all the high school students in a performance of three choral pieces. Stephen Bryant, William Paterson University professor of music and director of choral activities, is organizing the event. Christina Howlett, DMA, director of choral activities at Vassar College, will be the special guest conductor. Howlett will rehearse the combined choral groups and will conduct the culminating performance. At Vassar, Howlett conducts the College Women’s Chorus and College Choir and teaches music theory and voice. In addition, she is a soprano soloist who often performs. She studied voice performance at the University of Toronto, and earned a master’s degree in early music voice performance and a DMA in choral conducting from Indiana University. The festival chorus will perform Lacrymosa from Mozart’s Requiem, Afternoon on the Hill by Eric Barnumand John the Revelator arranged by Caldwell and Ivory. Participating high schools include Neptune, West Orange, East Orange Campus, Saddle Brook, Rutherford, Middletown, Emerson, Metuchen, Passaic, Garfield and Memorial High School in West New York. For additional information, please email Stephen Bryant, bryants@wpunj.edu. 03/17/15
