ANDOVER, Mass.—The Phillips Academy Music Department will present the Academy Cantata Choir and Chamber Orchestra performing Requiem by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (completed by Robert Levin) and Ernest Bloch’s Concerto Grosso in two concerts, free and open to the public. The first performance will be at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 5, in Cochran Chapel at Phillips Academy. The second will be at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 14, in Old South Church, Copley Square, Boston.

Both concerts are under the direction of faculty member William Thomas and will feature music faculty soloists Susan Consoli, Krista River, Allen Combs and Donald Wilkinson. For more information, contact the music department at 978-749-4263 or by e-mail.

Soprano Consoli is a member of the Handel & Haydn Society Educational Outreach Vocal Quartet. She is on the music faculty at Boston College and Phillips Academy. Mezzo-soprano River has appeared as a concert soloist with the Handel & Haydn Society, Emmanuel Music, the Santa Fe Symphony, the Concord Orchestra and Chorus Pro Musica, and with opera companies including Opera
Aperta, Monadnock Music, Red House Opera, Prism Opera, Opera Southwest and the International Opera Festival in Rome. She is a regular soloist with Emmanuel Music’s renowned Bach Cantata Series under Craig Smith.

Tenor Combs has served as music director of the Andover Choral Society since 1990. He has been a soloist and cantor at the Church of the Advent and at Trinity Church, Copley Square, whose choirs he also conducted on numerous occasions. Baritone Wilkinson made his European debut in the World premiere of Theodore Antoniou’s opera, The Bacchae, at the Acropolis in Athens, Greece, in 1995. He teaches voice at Harvard University and Phillips Academy and maintains a private studio in Nahant, Mass.

The Contata Choir and Chamber Orchestra are a multicultural group of young people drawn from 20 states and six countries. For all students at Phillips Academy, music is part of the curriculum at some time in their career. The great number of ensembles, choral and instrumental, offer performance opportunities to students at whatever their level of expertise.

Phillips Academy, better known as Andover, is a coeducational independent boarding high school of 1,087 students, known for its extensive and rigorous academic program. A diverse community of teachers and students, the academy was founded in 1778.