Soprano Jessica Pagel, Plover, winner of the Alice Peet Faust Concerto Competition, will join the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Symphony Orchestra in a performance on Wednesday, May 1.

The concert will be at 7:30 p.m. in Michelsen Hall of the Fine Arts Center.

Part of the Music Scholarship Series, admission is $5 for the general public, $3 for senior citizens, and $2 for youth. Tickets are available at the Arts and Athletics Ticket Office in Quandt Gym lobby or by phone at (715) 346-4100 or 800-838-3378. Tickets also will be available at the door.

Pagel will sing "Glitter and Be Gay" from "Candide" by Leonard Bernstein with the UWSP Orchestra, under the direction of Professor of Music Patrick Miles. She was chosen during a competition in December from among contestants nominated by their professors. The competition is adjudicated by a panel of UWSP music department faculty members, chaired by Miles.

The orchestra also will perform "Finlandia" by Jean Sibelius and Symphony Number Four in D minor by Robert Schumann.

Pagel, the daughter of Clark and Donnell Pagel, 2380 Shadow View Circle, Plover, is a 1998 graduate of Stevens Point Area Senior High School. She also attended the University of Colorado. A student of Rebecca Karpoff, assistant professor of music, she is a senior majoring in vocal music performance. She has performed with the UWSP Opera Workshop and Concert Choir.

After a recent audition in New York City, she was among 20 students from throughout the U.S. to be accepted to perform with the Bel Canto Northwest Program in Portland, Ore., where she will have the opportunity to work with top vocal teachers. After graduation in May 2003, she plans to continue her studies in vocal performance and pursue a career in opera.

Faust came to UWSP in 1961 to teach speech and drama and began to play in the UWSP Orchestra the following year. Alice and her late husband, Gilbert Faust, longtime registrar, supported scholarships at UWSP in chemistry, theatre and music.

Faust established a scholarship for nonmusic major string students who played in the orchestra. "I hoped it would encourage them to keep up with the instruments and get as much fun out of playing all through their lives as I had," she said. "Pat Miles had the idea for naming the student concerto concert for me, I guess because I had been around so long. I was very proud to be asked."

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