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, joined by pianist Derek Wieland and cellist Kenneth Kuo. Performing on the legendary Red Mendelssohn Stradivarius, Pitcairn brings one of the world's most celebrated violins to life in Glencairn's intimate setting. Together, the trio will present an inspiring program in the historic surroundings and exceptional acoustics of the Museum's Great Hall.
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.
Kenneth Kuo, cello
A native of Taipei, Taiwan, Kenneth Kuo began studying the cello at the age of four and has built an international career as both a classical and crossover artist. He earned his Bachelor of Music degree from The Juilliard School, where he studied with Harvey Shapiro, and his Master of Music degree from Yale University under Aldo Parisot, receiving the Aldo Parisot Prize in recognition of his artistic achievements.
Kuo has performed throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia, appearing at distinguished venues including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall and Avery Fisher Hall, Moscow's Tchaikovsky Hall, and Taiwan's National Concert Hall. He has collaborated with renowned artists including Pierre Boulez, Aldo Parisot, Itzhak Perlman, and Erick Friedman.
In addition to his classical career, Kuo is an accomplished crossover artist whose recordings have sold more than 500,000 copies. He is the founder and president of The Connecticut School of Music and creator of the Connecticut Musical Arts Foundation, which supports students with musical and financial needs. Kuo performs on a collection of rare seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Venetian cellos crafted by the legendary Goffriller family.