The Westminster Conservatory at Nassau monthly recital series will continue on Thursday, March 17 at 12:15 p.m. when Westminster Conservatory faculty members Katherine McClure, flute; Kenneth Ellison, clarinet; and Esma Pasic-Filipovic, piano will perform music by Johannes Brahms and Cesar Franck, at Nassau Presbyterian Church, 61 Nassau Street.

The program on March 17 includes the Sonata in A major by Cesar Franck, adapted for flute and piano; and the Sonata in E-flat major, op. 120, no. 2, for clarinet and piano by Johannes Brahms.

McClure is the principal flutist of the New York-based Lyons Chamber Players. In addition, she plays flute and piccolo with the Capital Philharmonic of New Jersey, the American Repertory Ballet Orchestra, the Riverside Symphonia, and the Volanti Flute Quartet, among other regional groups. McClure teaches flute at Westminster Conservatory and the Lawrenceville School, and maintains a private studio in Kingston. 

Ellison has performed internationally with many ensembles, including the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, the Riverside Symphonia, the Greenville Symphony, and the American Fine Arts Festival. He has played under such conductors as Andrea Quinn, John Rutter, Frederick Fennell, and Rossen Milanov in venues such as Avery Fisher Hall, Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, NJPAC, and the Liszt School of Music. He performs regularly with the Chelsea Opera Company and he is adjunct professor of clarinet at Kean University. He can be heard on the recordings “Bread of Life” with the Tim Keyes Consort, “On Course” by Laurie Altman, “Pictures at an African Exhibition” by Darrel Yokley, and trio@play CDs Willie Was Different and In the Sandbox. He teaches clarinet and saxophone as a member of the senior faculty at Westminster Conservatory.

Pasic-Filipovic has performed and recorded with the Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra. She has been a recitalist, accompanist, and teacher in the former Yugoslavia, Denmark, Austria, Switzerland, and the United States. She was the accompanist for flute classes at the Music Academy in Sarajevo, and at the Vienna Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst for classes of Raphael Leone of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. At Westminster Conservatory, she teaches piano, and is director of the Honors Music Program.

The next Westminster Conservatory at Nassau recital will take place on Thursday, April 21. The performers will be Melissa Bohl, oboe; Craig Levesque, horn; and Phyllis Lehrer, piano. The season resumed in person on February 17 after two years of online events.

Admission to the concerts are free, but all attendees must remain masked and observe social distancing.