A chamber music recital featuring flute, cello, mezzo-soprano, and piano will be offered Tuesday, Jan. 20, at 7:30 p.m., in Messenger Recital Hall in Darbeth Fine Arts Center.  There is no admission charge.

Former Southwestern College adjunct faculty member Joyce Anne Wilder, flutist, and SC alumna Karen Wilder Archbold, mezzo-soprano, will be joined by cellist Timothy Archbold and pianist Kimberly Werner.  The recital will include “Chansons Madecasses” by composer Maurice Ravel and “Quatre Sonnets a Cassandre” by Frank Martin for flute, voice, viola, and cello; “The Jet Whistle” for cello and flute by Heitor Villa-Lobos; “Threnody,” a work for unaccompanied cello by Peter Sculthorpe; and “Three Irish Folk Songs” for flute and voice by John Corigliano among other works. 

Wilder received her master’s in flute performance from the University of Michigan.  She has played in the Wichita Symphony for the last 29 years.  She has recently moved to Chicago where she continues to play chamber music.

Karen Archbold recently returned from Germany where she was studying voice at the Hochschule fur Kunste.  She is a part of the Young Artist Program with the Wichita Grand Opera and recently appeared as Little Buttercup in “HMS Pinafore.”

Timothy Archbold graduated in December 2007 from the Hochschule fur Kunste with a post-graduate diploma.  He has recently begun his master’s at Wichita State University and is playing with the Wichita Symphony Orchestra and with the Bloomfield String Quartet. 

Werner recently moved to Wichita from St. Louis.  During her 10 years in St. Louis she was active as a pianist, organist, and vocal coach/accompanist for many local universities and music organizations including Opera Theatre of St. Louis, the University of Missouri-St. Louis, Webster University, and the St. Louis Symphony Community Music School.  She holds a bachelor of arts degree in music from Wheaton College and a master of music in piano accompanying/vocal coaching from Westminster Choir College of Rider University.

A reception will follow in the Darbeth lobby. 

For more information, call (620) 229-6272.