Sergey Tkachenko To Perform With the New York Philharmonic

2013 Dec 12

Sergey Tkachenko of Jackson Heights, NY, will perform Handel’s Messiah with the Westminster Symphonic Choir and the New York Philharmonic conducted by Andrew Manze December 17 through 21, at Lincoln Center in New York City. Sergey is a student at Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton, N.J., where he is a member of the Westminster Symphonic Choir.

Composed of students at Westminster, the Westminster Symphonic Choir has recorded and performed with major orchestras under virtually every internationally acclaimed conductor of the past 79 years. Recognized as one of the world’s leading choral ensembles, the choir has sung more than 350 performances with the New York Philharmonic alone.

In addition to these performances of Handel’s Messiah, the ensemble’s 2013-2014 season includes performances of works by Beethoven with The Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra and Mark Laycock, Rachmaninoff’s The Bells with The Philadelphia Orchestra and Vladimir Jurowski, and Rouse’s Requiem with the New York Philharmonic and Alan Gilbert.

Westminster Choir College is a division of Rider University’s Westminster College of the Arts. A professional college of music with a unique choral emphasis, Westminster prepares students at the undergraduate and graduate levels for careers in teaching, sacred music and performance. To learn more about Westminster, go to www.rider.edu/wcc.