MUSIC

New Presbyterian Church Concert Series is pleased to present the Youth Choir, in concert on Sunday, May 6, at 2:00 p.m. The concert will be performed at Pompano Beach High School, 600 NE 13th Avenue, in Pompano Beach. Admission is Free. Tickets are not required. An offering will be taken.

The 25-voice Youth Choir from the New Presbyterian Church in Pompano Beach, will present their annual Spring Concert directed by John and Lisa Wilson. The Choir is comprised of talented and award-winning high school students from many schools in South Florida. The Choir had the honor of being invited to sing this past December for the famous Christmas Candlelight Program at Walt Disney World in Orlando, FL.

The songs they sing will include a wide variety of musical styles, from Classical to Gospel, including Spirituals and Contemporary Christian. The Choir will also present excerpts from the Broadway musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat”, complete with costumes and staging.

In addition to the Broadway musical, there will be vocal solos as well as solo piano selections. A special feature is a choir of talented musicians who play English Handbells using the difficult “four-in-hand" technique. It is a program that will appeal to adults and children alike!

The choir is directed by Dr. John L. Wilson, who is the full time Director of Music at the New Presbyterian Church in Pompano Beach. He is a graduate of The American Conservatory of Music in Chicago with a Doctor of Musical Arts degree, and the Sacred Music School at Union Seminary in New York City with a Master of Sacred Music degree plus an undergraduate degree from Westminster College in New Wilmington, PA, where he recently received a “Distinguished Alumni” Award. He was formerly Director of Music at the Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale for 12 years.

His wife, Lisa Blyler Wilson, is the Co-director and accompanist of the group. She is a graduate of Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey, and has performed many concerts in the Mid-Atlantic area including Lincoln Center in New York City. She is also the Vocal Music Teacher at Westminster Academy in Fort Lauderdale. Her award-winning school choir performed a concert tour of Austria and Germany in 2011.

The Pompano Beach High School is located at 600 NE 13th Avenue in Pompano Beach, FL, just west of Route 1 and north of Atlantic Boulevard. For further information, call 954-946-4380 or www.newpres.org.