In the 1990s, as children, three of them met at a summer music camp in the Danish countryside. The youngest students in attendance, they soon became friends and continued to get together to play music in the years that followed.
Last season, pianist Wu Han, violinist Philip Setzer, and cellist David Finckel captivated a Schwab Auditorium audience with a performance of Ludwig van Beethoven piano trios. This season, the exceptional ensemble will return to Penn State to perform three more Beethoven compositions.
Cécile McLorin Salvant, whose For One to Love earned the 2016 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album, is “the finest jazz singer to emerge in the last decade,” writes a New York Times critic.
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma will appear at Penn State for only the third time when he performs in concert with pianist Kathryn Stott.
HUB-Robeson Center Flex Theatre
Penn State School of Theatre students will perform an excerpt from RENT. Students will be invited to write their own scenes and share their experiences in a talkback hosted by members of the LGBTQA Student Resource Center. The event is scheduled to last three hours. Refreshments will be provided.
EMS Museum & Art Gallery
Deike Building ground floor
Penn State’s College of Earth and Mineral Sciences will host a conversation with Julia Wolfe, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer of Anthracite Fields, along with other events commemorating the history of coal mining in Pennsylvania. The Lure of the Mine, an exhibit featuring works from the Steidle Collection of American Industrial Art that focus on the history of the coal industry in Pennsylvania, will be on display. Coal scientist Jonathan Mathews, associate professor of energy and mineral engineering at Penn State, will be available to discuss the Steidle collection.
New Leaf Initiative
Third floor of State College Municipal Building
243 S. Allen St., State College
RSVP required. Contact Medora Ebersole at mde13@psu.edu.
Appalachian Outdoors
123 S. Allen St., State College
The Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State will share resources about the impact of the wilderness on well-being. The store visit, from 5–9 p.m., is spurred by the March 15 presentation of WILDERNESS, a new multimedia documentary theatre production that speaks to our collective search for connection and hope as families survive the pressures and complexities that accompany coming of age in the twenty-first century.
Music Building I’s Esber Recital Hall
The public is invited to observe as cellist David Finckel teaches students in Penn State Distinguished Professor Kim Cook’s cello studio. The session is scheduled to last two hours.
