The Motown Sound
As part of the Princeton Festival's Juneteenth Celebration, we'll take a look at the music of Motown and how the record label helped further the cause of the Civil Rights movement in America.
Dr. Rochelle Ellis will trace the origins of Motown and how this distinctive sound affected American pop music, spotlighting some of the major groups on the Motown label in advance of the ticketed evening concert, Masters of Soul.
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Soprano ROCHELLE ELLIS, DMA Voice, is a Lecturer of Voice at Princeton University and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Voice at Westminster Choir College of Rider University. She made her New York City Opera debut as "Serena" in Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, and has also performed operas with Chamber Opera Chicago and Skylight Opera Theatre. Internationally, she has performed the Verdi Requiem with the National Opera of China in Beijing, sung opera favorites at the Prague (Czech Republic) Autumn Music Festival, and performed solo recitals in Osaka and Tokyo, Japan.
In addition to maintaining voice studios at Princeton University and Westminster Choir College, Dr. Ellis is active in both Rider University and community outreach in music. She teaches in the Rider Educational Opportunity Program summer pre-college program, as well as in the Westminster Conservatory High School and Middle School Summer Vocal Institutes. She conducts the Chorale, the performance choir for the Trenton Children’s Chorus.
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