Experience Global Music Locally: Jones College's Annual Spring Recital Series Returns

Jones College in Ellisville will host its annual Spring Recital Series, a four-week event featuring global music. The series starts on Friday, March 22, and runs every Friday until April 19, excluding Good Friday/Easter weekend. The recitals are in the Foote Chapel on the Jones College campus and are free.

The series begins with a performance called “Songs of Love, Light, and Spring,” by soprano Susan Ruggiero-Mezzadri and pianist Brian Murphy. The recital will feature music by George Frideric Handel, Gioachino Rossini, and Florence Price, along with spring-themed music by Heitor Villa-Lobos. A new work by American composer Luigi Zaninelli, “Spring Song,” will also be premiered.

Ruggiero-Mezzadri, a music Associate Professor at William Carey University, has performed with several opera companies and received the Mozart Award in the National Orpheus Vocal Competition. Murphy, her accompanist, is a soloist, pianist, vocal coach, and pedagogue. He has performed in the United States, Mexico, Chile, Germany, and Italy, and received four Top Music Teacher awards from Steinway and Sons.

The recital on Friday, April 5, will feature the Impromptu Piano Trio, with Borislava Iltcheva on violin, Alexander Russakovsky on cello, and Theresa Sanchez on piano. The trio will perform works by Mozart and Spanish composer Joaquin Turina.

Iltcheva, an Assistant Professor of Violin at the University of Southern Mississippi, started playing the violin at five and has won several National and International Competitions. Russakovsky, a Yale University and the University of Santa Barbara graduate, has performed in many solo and chamber music performances globally. Sanchez, the trio's pianist, has a diverse performing career. The Spring Recital Series will showcase these musicians' talents and bring a variety of music to the Jones College campus.

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