Rutgers-Camden Offers Free Noontime Concert Series this Fall

CAMDEN – During difficult economic times, free entertainment is music to anyone’s ears. Visit Rutgers University’s Camden Campus on Wednesdays this fall for a noontime concert series that is free and open to the public.

Presented by the Rutgers–Camden Department of Fine Arts, the noontime concert series will feature trumpeter Ellen Frazier and harpsichordist Elizabeth Boggs on Oct. 14; pianist Charlie Abramovic on Oct. 21; pianist Adrian Butler on Oct. 28; the Symphony in C chamber group on Nov. 4; Louis Porter, professor of visual and performing arts at Rutgers–Newark, on Nov. 11; composer and violinist Mark Zaki, an assistant professor of music at Rutgers–Camden, on Nov. 18; a jazz band under the direction of Gary Rago will play at the Campus Center on Dec. 2; and the Rutgers Choir, under the direction of Julia Zavadsky, will perform in the Gordon Theater, located in the Fine Arts Complex, on Dec. 9.

Unless otherwise noted, all concerts will be held from 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. in the Mallery Room, located on the second floor of the Fine Arts Complex. Both buildings are on Third Street, between Cooper Street and the Benjamin Franklin Bridge on the Rutgers–Camden Campus.

For more information, call (856) 225-6176.  For directions to Rutgers–Camden, visit camden.rutgers.edu.

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Written by Courtney Preston.