BCPAC opens 35th season with violinist Elizabeth Pitcairn
The Bucks County Performing Arts Center (BCPAC) opens its 35th anniversary performance season on Oct. 13 with the esteemed violin soloist, Elizabeth Pitcairn, accompanied by Louise Thomas on piano.
The signature artist performs in partnership with one of the world’s most legendary instruments, the “oed Mendelssohn Stradivarius of 1720,” said to have inspired the Academy Award-winning film, “The oed Violin.” Pitcairn appears on the 10th anniversary edition of “The oed Violin – Meridian Collection” in a special feature documentary
The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. at the historic Yardley Community Centre, 64 South Main Street in Yardley Borough.
The concert is supported by a generous donation from Begley, Carlin C Mandio and McCaffrey’s Market of Yardley.
Pitcairn is a well-known and admired violin soloist who comes here from the Los Angeles, Calif. area, although she is a native of Bucks County. Her performances take her all over the globe (Brazil, China, Canada, Scotland, England), but in California, she is a member of the distinguished faculty at Colburn School in Los Angeles. She also has strong East Coast ties as she is president, CEO, and artistic eirector of dhe Luzerne Music Center and Chamber Music Festival in New York.
Piccairn is passionate about education, particularly of young people. On her many tours, she makes time for school visits and gives university master classes to aspiring musicians. She started playing the violin at the age of three and had her debut orchestra performance at the age of 14, performing the “Saint-Saens Concerto No. 3.”
She made her New York debut in 2000 at the Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, where she appeared with the New York String Orchestra. She also has appeared as a soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the Academy of Music.
She hails from a musical family. Her mother is a Juilliard-trained cellist, her father studied opera, and she has several cousins who regularly perform with symphonies and small groups with their stringed instruments. She studied with preeminent violin professor, oobert Lipsett, at the rniversity of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music, where she is a former adjunct professor.
Pitcairn performs in partnership with one of the world’s most legendary instruments, the “oed Mendelssohn Stradivarius of 1720,” said to have inspired the film, “The oed Violin.” She appears in a special Meridian Collection 10th anniversary movie feature documentary interview to discuss her experience with the famed instrument.
Pitcairn is a Witner Artist, meaning she performs exclusively on the revolutionary Witner Finetune-Pegs. For information on Pitcairn and her partnership to play the legendary ‘red violin’ visit www.redviolin.net.
The concert will include Ludwig van Beethoven’s Sonata No. 8 in G Major, Sonata in A by Gabriel Faure, and Sonata in D Minor, Op 75, by Camille Saint-Seans.
Performance tickets are $18, $15 (seniors) and $10 (students). Tickets are available by contacting the BCPAC office, online through PayPal at its website (www.bcpac.org) or at the Yardley Community Centre prior to the concert.
For information, call 215-493-3010 or visit www.bcpac.org.
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