FARMINGTON – Singer Rebecca Hayden will give a recital at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 28, in Nordica Auditorium at the University of Maine at Farmington, accompanied by her stepmother, pianist Patricia Hayden.

In their third collaboration they’ll perform folk, classical, sacred and popular songs, spanning several centuries and four languages. The program will include Handel’s “Wher’ Er You Walk,” a set of French folk songs by Canteloube, songs by Hugo Wolf and two Italian songs by Rossini.

Hayden also will sing spirituals such as “Ride on King Jesus” and popular works by Jerome Kern and Harry Burleigh. The program will conclude with familiar light music such as “All the Things You Are” and “The Way You Look Tonight.”

Hayden grew up in a musical family and began singing at age 8 under the direction of her father, Joel Carlsen. She has sung with choral groups in Boston, Seattle and Munich, Germany. She has given recitals of popular and classical music in the Boston area, and has performed in Maine and Vermont. Hayden has appeared in many musical theater productions. She is currently a soloist at St. Peter’s Brookline High School in Brookline, Mass.

Hayden is the pianist and organist for the University of Maine at Farmington Community Chorus. She has also accompanied area soloists, The Celebration Chorale, Continental Harmony Chorus, the Sandy River Players, the Rangeley Friends of the Arts and Old South Congregational Church.

Admission for the recital is by donation only and is sponsored by the Arts Institute. For more information call 778-7136.

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