Rider’s Westminster Choir To Perform At Carnegie Hall March 30

LAWRENCEVILLE, NJ – Rider University’s Westminster Choir is all set to perform in the New York Chorus Festival at Carnegie Hall on March 30 at 8 p.m.

The event will take place in Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage.

The New York Chorus Festival is an international choral charity concert to help the victims of the east Japan earthquake and tsunami, and to foster friendship through singing.

“We are excited to share the sound and spirit of one of America’s great choirs for such a beautiful cause,” James Jordan, the conductor of the Westminster Choir, said in a statement.

Other artists scheduled to appear include Ensemble Sakura-Note conducted by Naoto Aizawa; Chor. UTANONE conducted by Masaya Ishiwaka; and The Ukrainian Chorus Dumka of New York conducted by Vasyl Hrechynsky.

The Westminster Choir is composed of students at Westminster Choir College of Rider University.

The ensemble’s 2022-23 season also includes a spring tour in Ohio and Pennsylvania that will feature appearances by the choir’s tenors and basses with the Pittsburgh Symphony as well as a concert at the choir’s founding church in Dayton, Ohio.

For more information on the performance visit: carnegiehall.org.

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