Renowned for “forging a vibrant, life-affirming approach to the re-making of early music” (BBC Music Magazine), the Apollo’s Fire chamber orchestra makes its fourth appearance at Schwab Auditorium in The Power of Love.

A banjo duo might seem like a musical concept beset by limitations. But when the banjo players are Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn, it’s a different matter. He brings the virtuosic, jazz-to-classical ingenuity of an iconic instrumentalist and composer with bluegrass roots.

Emerson String Quartet, an ensemble with an unparalleled list of achievements, makes its first appearance at Penn State in six years with a program featuring works by Joseph Haydn and Franz Schubert—plus a piece by Lowell Liebermann co-commissioned by the Center for the Performing Arts through it

“You don’t generally go to a performance of Bharatanatyam, the classical South Indian dance style, expecting to want to get up and dance. The form inspires a more removed kind of reverence … ,” observes a New York Times reviewer.

“A perfect blend of calm contentment and soaring spirit” (London’s The Independent), VOCES8 makes its Penn State debut in an acoustic choral program.