ESU Department of Music to Present Senior Recital Featuring Christina Ellis, Soprano, Friday, May 3

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Christina Ellis, soprano, a senior at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania (ESU), will present a recital Friday, May 3 at 7:30 p.m. at Cecilia S. Cohen Recital Hall in the university’s Fine & Performing Arts Center, Normal and Marguerite streets, East Stroudsburg.

Selections from Handel’s The Messiah, and works by Gounod, Fauré, Liszt, and Mozart will be featured on the program.  The recital, sponsored by the Department of Music, is open to the public at no cost.  No tickets are necessary.

A daughter of George and Gail Ellis, Christina Ellis is from Royersford, Pa.  She is majoring in fine arts: music, with a concentration in applied music, and in media communications and technology and will be graduating in May with honors in both majors.

At ESU, Ellis is a member of Concert Choir, A Cappella Ensemble and University Singers.  She studies voice with Wendy Grice, an instructor of music at ESU.

Ellis’s vocal studies began when she was fourteen.  At Spring Ford High School, she was in Concert Choir, Madrigal Choir, Vocal Ensemble and Women’s Chorus.  She was a four-year member of Tri County Honors Choir.  She also participated in the 2008 PMEA District 11 choir.

For more information on the recital, call the Fine and Performing Arts Events Line at 570-422-3483 or email esuarts@esu.edu.