Arts journal offers glowing review of Julie Celona-VanGorden recital

The Sept. 23 recital featured Celona-VanGorden, a soprano and adjunct assistant professor of music, accompanied by pianist Christy Wisuthseriwong. 

The recent performance of “In Her Words: Women’s Poetry and Letters Set to Music,” by soprano Julie Celona-VanGorden in Whitley Auditorium at Elon has received a glowing review from Classical Voice of North Carolina, a statewide online arts journal. 

The Sept. 23 recital featured Celona-VanGorden, an adjunct assistant professor of music at Elon, accompanied by pianist Christy Wisuthseriwong in a series of songs featuring works by Paul Bowles, Edward Knight, Libby Larsen and others. 

Reviewer William Thomas Walker called the recital “superb,” and wrote that “Celona-VanGorden has added dramatic weight to her quiver of superb support across a wide range from an unusually solid lower to a seamless, precise high.”

Read the complete review by Walker for CVNC here