Sonos Montecito Quintet Offers Recital

Sonos Montecito, a wind quintet in residence at Westmont, performs a free, public recital Friday, March 13, at 7 p.m. in Westmont’s Deane Chapel. The quintet, comprised of Westmont’s applied music faculty, will play works by Georges Bizet, Paul Hindemith and Madeleine Dring (with accompanist Neil Di Maggio).

Sonos Montecito features Andrea Di Maggio, flute, Trey Farrell, oboe, Joanne Kim, clarinet, Paul Mori ’77, bassoon and special guest French hornist Bethany Stevens.

Andrea Di Maggio, a graduate of San Jose State University, studied at Arizona State University before earning a master’s degree in instrumental performance at UC Santa Barbara.

Farrell, a graduate of Pennsylvania State University, earned a Master of Music from USC’s Thornton School of Music. He began teaching oboe at Westmont three years ago.

Kim earned a Bachelor of Music degree at Mannes College the New School for Music and Master of Music degree at Manhattan School of Music, where she is pursuing her Doctor of Musical Arts. She joined the Westmont music faculty in 2013.

Mori, a Westmont alumnus, first garnered praise as a conductor with the Bach Ensemble of Baltimore in the 1990s. At Westmont he conducts chamber ensembles and coaches the wind and brass sections for the orchestra throughout the year.

Stevens, who graduated from UC Santa Barbara, has played French horn professionally with the Oregon Coast Music Festival Orchestra, Santa Maria Philharmonic, the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts and the Santa Monica Orchestra. She began teaching private horn lessons at Westmont in 2014 and serves on the marketing staff of the Music Academy of the West.