Faculty Recital: Dr. Laura Kitchel, voice

Dr. Laura Kitchel performs a voice recital at Huntington Recital Hall on Sunday, October 25, at 4 PM. It's a faculty recital, meaning she's taking the stage as a performer rather than a teacher, and the program is built around her voice.

The recital is part of the Conservatory of Music at Capital University, which has been preparing students for music careers in Columbus for more than a century. The Conservatory puts on over 200 events a year, many of them free and open to the public, across its performance spaces. Huntington Recital Hall is one of those spaces, a 180-seat room that's a good size for a voice recital—small enough to keep things intimate, but large enough to hold a decent crowd. The other main venue on campus is the 900-seat Mees Hall Auditorium.

Every course at the Conservatory is taught by a professor or faculty member, and the Level the Playing Field Fund provides instruments to students who can't afford one. That's the kind of place this recital comes from: a school that keeps its faculty active on stage and its doors open to the community.

If you're around Columbus on Sunday afternoon, it's an easy one to drop into. The recital starts at 4 PM at Huntington Recital Hall, inside the Conservatory of Music at Capital University, and admission is free.