Sunday, September 29
3:00 pm (doors open at 2:30)
$25 per person
Free for Patron and Gold Glencairn Museum members
Free for Supporting/Silver Patron Cairnwood Estate members
$20 Basic Glencairn Museum members
$2 ACCESS Philly Cardholders
Advanced ticket purchase is required by 5:00 pm on Thursday, September 26
Reserved seating for Patron members only
Renowned American violin virtuoso Elizabeth Pitcairn and acclaimed pianist Derek Wieland are set to return to Glencairn Museum’s stage for an exceptional duo recital this September. Their previous performance in March 2024, which was their first on-stage collaboration since meeting at the Luzerne Music Center in 1989, captivated the sold-out audience.
At Luzerne, Pitcairn and Wieland first joined forces to learn a Brahms Sonata, and they were among several rising stars featured in their New York debuts at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall with the New York String Orchestra in 2000.
For their upcoming concert at Glencairn Museum, Pitcairn and Wieland will once again perform Brahms, specifically the Sonata No. 3 in D minor, alongside Mozart’s Sonata in A Major, K. 305. Additional pieces will be announced closer to the event.
Elizabeth Pitcairn, whose great uncle and aunt, Raymond and Mildred Pitcairn, once called Glencairn home, expressed her excitement about the upcoming performance, calling it “very good news.” We share her enthusiasm and invite you to join us for this unforgettable musical experience.
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. 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.”
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.