Professor of Mathematics and Alumnus to Perform Mozart, Purcell, Handel, Bach

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., May 5, 2003 — Victor Hill and Richard Miller will perform songs and harpsichord pieces of early Italian composers at the Clark Art Institute on Sunday, May 18, at 3 p.m.

Selections will include Mozart’s “The Violet” and “To Chloe,” Handel’s “Waft her, angels, to the skies” from the Jeptha oratorio, Purcell’s Suite #5, and Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in G minor.
Victor Hill

The performance is part of the Griffin Hall Concert series, now in its 34th season. Hill both founded and currently directs the concert series.

Hill, the Thomas T. Read Professor of Mathematics at Williams, is an accomplished harpsichordist and musician. He studied organ and harpsichord in New York and Amsterdam with Vernon de Tar and Gustav Leonhardt, and has played more than 900 concerts throughout the United States and in Europe. Since 1982, he has served as archivist of the Association of Anglican Musicians, as well as a member of the Editorial Board and the Recordings Reviewer for the AAM Journal.
Richard Miller

Miller, who received his B.A. from Williams College in 1986, is an accomplished tenor and musician, specializing in opera. He received his professional training in Florence, where he studied music at the Luigi Cherubini Conseratorio di Musica. He has appeared as a soloist at Carnegie Hall with the New York Pops, the Mann Music Center in Philadelphia, and at Ozawa Hall in Tanglewood. His operatic roles have included Pedrillo in The Abduction from the Seraglio, Nemorino in L’Elisir d’Amore, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, and Donald in Gallantry. This past summer he appeared as Alexis in The Sorcerer at the International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival in Butonn, England.

In April 1998, Governor George Pataki appointed Miller chairman of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza Performing Arts Center Corporation. He is also chairman of the Lake George Opera Festival.

The performance is free and open to the public. Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-serve basis.

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Published May 5, 2003