Sunday, March 24, 2024
3:00 pm–5:00 pm (doors open at 2:30)
TICKETS FOR THIS EVENT HAVE SOLD OUT.
$25 per person
Free for Patron and Gold Glencairn Museum members
Free for Supporting/Silver Patron Cairnwood Estate members
$20 Basic Level Glencairn Museum members
$2 ACCESS Philly Cardholders
RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED
Reserved seating for Patron members only
Registration is required by Thursday, March 21, 2024
American violin soloist Elizabeth Pitcairn returns to Glencairn’s stunning Great and Upper Halls, the former home of her great uncle and aunt, Raymond and Mildred Pitcairn. Elizabeth will perform in partnership with the legendary 1720 Red Mendelssohn Stradivarius, which was gifted to her by her grandfather (Raymond’s younger brother, Theo) in her youth.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
American violin soloist Elizabeth Pitcairn performs in partnership with the legendary 1720 Red Mendelssohn Stradivarius. She has appeared as a soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra and debuted in New York at Alice Tully Hall with the New York String Orchestra. Ms. Pitcairn has since performed at Carnegie Hall, Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Fisher Center, and the Kimmel Center. She is the President, CEO, and Artistic Director of the Luzerne Music Center Festival, a summer camp for gifted young musicians ages 9 to 18 in the Adirondacks of New York.
Originally from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, she resides in Los Angeles. Ms. Pitcairn received her degree from the University of Southern California, where she studied with renowned professor Robert Lipsett. Ms. Pitcairn is on the faculty at the Colburn School of Performing Arts. The 10th Anniversary edition DVD of The Red Violin film features Ms. Pitcairn and the Red Mendelssohn Stradivarius in a special feature called "The Auction Block.”
Growing up on Long Island, Derek Wieland began to play piano at 5 years old and entered Juilliard Pre-College at 11. He earned his Bachelor’s ‘92 and Master’s ‘94 at the Juilliard School while studying with György Sándor. As a concert pianist, Wieland performed at Alice Tully Hall and with the Cleveland Orchestra, and in 1987 he was the first pianist to win the Seventeen Magazine/General Motors Concerto Competition (violinist Joshua Bell had won five years earlier). “I really started out with a classical foundation to my training,” he said, noting that during his teenage years, his interests began to diversify.
At Juilliard as an undergrad, Wieland took an electronic music class and while recording at school, laid the groundwork to open a recording studio that he built and ran, producing classical, jazz, and rock. He considers electric bass his second instrument and also plays guitar, sings, arranges, and composes.
As the Trans Siberian Orchestra’s musical director for the past 20 years, Wieland performs keyboards on stage in the live show and is responsible for arrangements and other musical matters concerning the instrumentalists and singers, synchronicity between the music and accompanying video, light show, lasers, and pyrotechnics. It takes the combined effort of 40 performers, 36 trucks, and 26 tour buses to pull off the tour, which includes about 120 shows for a combined audience of about a million during six weeks each year.
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Pitcairn and Wieland met at Luzerne Music Center in the summer of 1989 and learned a Brahms Sonata together. They were featured in their New York debuts in the year 2000 at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tally Hall with the New York String Orchestra, along with several rising stars of Luzerne Music Center. This will be their first collaboration on the concert stage since their first meeting.