Join the Westminster Community Orchestra and Dr. Ruth Ochs on March 29th at 3:00 p.m. for “Love and Fate,” a concert featuring soprano Ally Christiansen performing two arias—Mozart’s “Ruhe sanft” from Zaide and Joseph Bologne, the Chevalier de Saint-Georges’, “Du tendre amour” from L’amant anonyme, plus Louise Farrenc’s Overture No. 2, Adoration by Florence Price, and the first movement of John Baston’s Concerto in C Major for Recorder and Strings, performed by Juliana Correa Ogihara. The program concludes with Beethoven’s iconic Symphony No 5 in C minor.

Ally Christiansen is a 2024 Master of Music in Voice Performance and Pedagogy graduate from Rider University’s Westminster Choir College. During her time at Westminster, she sang in the Westminster Symphonic Choir as well as in the prestigious Westminster Singers. The second-place winner in the Westminster Conservatory Concerto Competition, Juliana Correa Ogihara was born in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil and began recorder studies at the age of seven. She moved to New Jersey in 2024 and attends Millstone River School.

The concert will take place in Hillman Hall, in the Cullen Center, on the Westminster campus, Walnut Lane, in Princeton. There are no tickets required; a suggested admission of $10/person cash will be collected at the door. For more information, please contact the Westminster Conservatory office by phone, 609-921-7104, email, conservatory@rider.edu, or visit https://www.rider.edu/about/events/westminster-community-orchestra-love-and-fate