Seven student winners featured in 55th annual Concerto-Aria Concert Feb. 7

Concert: 55th Annual Concerto-Aria Concert
Date and time: Saturday, Feb. 7, 2015 at 7:30 p.m.
Location: Sauder Concert Hall, Goshen College Music Center
Cost: $10 adults, $7 seniors/students, available at the door one hour before the concert. Goshen College faculty/staff/students are free with ID.

Seven student winners of the 2014-15 Goshen College Concerto-Aria Competition will perform arias and individual concerto movements with the Goshen College Symphony Orchestra, directed by Assistant Professor of Music Christopher Fashun, in the 55th annual Concerto-Aria Concert on Saturday, Feb. 7 at 7:30 p.m. in the Music Center’s Sauder Concert Hall.

Performing are:

• Jorge Abreu, violin, performing Zigeunerweisen op. 20 by P. de Sarasate. Abreu is a senior music major from Las Piedras, Puerto Rico.
• Josh Bungart, tenor, performing “Vainement, ma bien-aimée” from Le roi d’Ys by E. Lalo. Bungart is a junior music major from Three Rivers, Michigan.
• Miranda Earnhart, soprano, performing “Ah! non credea mirarti – Ah, non guinge” from La Sonnambula by V. Bellini. Earnhart is a junior music major from Milford, Indiana.
• Sadie Gustafson-Zook, soprano, performing “Ah! Je veux vivre” from Roméo et Juliette, by C. Gounod. Gustafson-Zook is a sophomore music major from Goshen.
• Blake Shetler, piano, performing Concerto No. 1 in D minor, BWV 1052 by J. S. Bach. Shetler is a senior social work and music double major from Goshen.
• Seth Yoder, piano, performing Concerto No. 5 in Eb major, op. 73 by L. van Beethoven. Yoder is a senior music and informatics double major from Quakerstown, Pennsylvania.
• Paul Zehr, baritone, performing “Bella siccome un angelo” from Don Pasquale, by G. Donizetti. Zehr is a senior music and theater double major from Carthage, New York.

The Goshen College Symphony Orchestra will also perform Overture to Ruslan and Ludmilla by M. Glinka, and “Infernal Galop” from the Overture to Orpheus in the Underworld, by J. Offenbach.

Dr. Christopher Fashun is an assistant professor of music at Goshen College where he conducts the Symphony Orchestra, directs the All-Campus Band, oversees the music education program, conducts the orchestra for musicals and opera, and teaches applied percussion. In 2011, he became the music director of the Elkhart County Honors Youth Orchestra, where he has the opportunity to work with talented high school musicians throughout Elkhart County. Fashun holds a bachelor’s degree in music education from Saint Olaf College in Northfield (Minn.) and received a master’s degree in percussion performance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He holds a doctorate in orchestral conducting from the University of Iowa where he studied conducting with William LaRue Jones and viola with Christine Rutledge.