Seven Students Selected by AC Music Faculty to Perform in Honors Recital 

Amarillo College’s music faculty selected seven talented student musicians to perform in this year’s Student Honors Recital at AC. 

The recital, which is free, will be at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 4 in the AC Concert Hall on the Washington Street Campus.

“Family, teachers, friends and our community are all invited to come and support these students in an evening of great music making,” said Camille Day Nies, professor of music. “High school students considering majoring in music can come and learn about the excellent quality of music program found at Amarillo College.” 

These outstanding music majors were selected for the Honors Recital based on their juried performances last fall. Selections include instrumental and vocal performances from a variety of musical eras. 

Ezekiel Johnston, piano, will play “Etude Allegro” by Yoshinao Nakada. Kimberly Aparicio, guitar, will play “Nocturne, Op. 4, No. 2” by Johann Kaspar Mertz. Nadia Cochran, clarinet, will play Wolgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Clarinet Concerto.”

Erin Murphy, mezzo-soprano, will sing “Lullaby" from "The Consul” by Gian Carlo Menotti. Keoni Murphy, guitar, will play “Suite del Recuerdo” by José Luis Merlin. 

Isaiah Plasencio, violin, will play Sergei Rachmaninoff’s “Vocalise Op. 34, No. 14.” Heaven Watts, mezzo soprano, will sing “II Mio Bel Foco” by Benedetto Marcello.