Sunday, October 18, 2026
3:00 pm
$40 General Admission
$20 Basic Glencairn Museum members
Free for Patron and Gold Glencairn Museum members
Patron members enjoy reserved seating; all other seats are general admission.
Reservations for Patron members must be made by 5:00 pm on Thursday, October 15, 2026, to secure this benefit.
This concert is expected to sell out. Advance ticket purchase is strongly recommended, as tickets will not be available at the door if the concert reaches capacity.
Experience an unforgettable afternoon of music as violinist Elizabeth Pitcairn returns to Glencairn Museum with pianist Derek Wieland. Performing on the legendary Red Mendelssohn Stradivarius, Pitcairn brings one of the world’s most celebrated violins to life in Glencairn’s intimate setting.
About the Artists:
Elizabeth Pitcairn, violin
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. 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.
Elizabeth currently resides in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Pitcairn received her degree from the University of Southern California, where she studied with renowned professor Robert Lipsett. Pitcairn is on the faculty at the Colburn School of Performing Arts. The 10th Anniversary edition DVD of The Red Violin film features Pitcairn and the Red Mendelssohn Stradivarius in a special feature called “The Auction Block.”
Derek Wieland, piano
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 in 1992 and Master’s in 1994 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.