Friday, Dec 19, 2014
Twelfth Night Tour concerts in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida - January 12 - 23.
The Westminster Concert Bell Choir, conducted by Kathleen Ebling Shaw, will travel from Princeton to Florida in January, performing nine concerts of traditional English holiday music as part of its Twelfth Night Tour.
The program will feature arrangements of such familiar carols as Greensleeves, Coventry Carol, Sussex Carol, Masters in This Hall, and In the Bleak Midwinter performed on the largest range of handbells and Choirchimes in the world.
The 16-member Westminster Concert Bell Choir is composed of undergraduate and graduate students of Westminster Choir College of Rider University. The ensemble has appeared on Public Television’s Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood and several holiday broadcasts of the Today Show. Its holiday performances have been heard annually on National Public Radio’s Performance Today, and it is included on NPR’s Christmas Around the Country II recording. IN previous seasons, the ensemble joined Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Charlotte Church and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra for a critically acclaimed 15-city tour entitled “A Royal Christmas.” The choir has also performed with Josh Groban on NBC’s nationally televised lighting of the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree.
Conductor Kathleen Ebling Shaw is a member of the Sacred Music Department at Westminster Choir College, where she teaches classes in handbell ringing and conducts a second handbell choir. A graduate of Westminster Choir College, she is also director of music at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Doylestown, Pa. Well known as a handbell clinician, Mrs. Shaw has conducted sessions for the American Guild of English Handbell Ringers on the local and national levels. Her other engagements have included sessions for the American Guild of Organists; the New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Texas Music Educators Conferences; the Presbyterian Association of Musicians Conferences; the St. Olaf Church Music Conference; and International Handbell Symposia in Japan, England, Korea, Australia and the United States.
2015 Westminster Concert Bell Choir Tour Schedule
Monday, January 12 7p.m.
Hudson Memorial Presbyterian Church
Raleigh, NC
Learn More
Tuesday, January 13 7 p.m.
First Baptist Church
Hilton Head Island, SC
Learn More
Wednesday, January 14 7:30 p.m.
First United Methodist Church
Lakeland, FL
Learn More
Thursday, January 15 7 p.m.
Northwood Presbyterian Church
Clearwater, FL
Learn More
Friday, January 16 7:00 p.m.
Faith Presbyterian Church
Cape Coral, FL
Sunday, January 18 7 p.m.
First Presbyterian Church
Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Wednesday, January 21 7 p.m.
Christ United Methodist Church
Warner Robins, GA
Learn More
Thursday, January 22 7 p.m.
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Charlotte, NC
Learn More
Friday, January 23 7:30 p.m.
All Saints Catholic Church
Manassas, VA
Learn More