The Saint Vincent College Concert Series season will conclude March 14 with “A Night of Intimate Chamber Music and Conversation,” featuring Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra violinists Christopher Wu and Susanne Park, violist Andrew Wickesberg and cellist Anne Martindale Williams.
The concert will begin at 7 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center of the Robert S. Carey Student Center on the Unity campus. A free meet-and-greet with the musicians will follow.
Wu joined the PSO’s first violin section in 1988 and currently holds the Nancy and Jeffery Leininger First Violin Chair. An active chamber musician, he has played with artists including Nancy Williams, Joshua Bell and the Muir String Quartet.
Formerly with the San Diego Symphony, Park joined the PSO’s first violin section in 2006. She came to Pittsburgh in 1996 and was assistant concertmaster of the Pittsburgh Opera and Ballet Theatre orchestras until 2001. She is a former grand prize winner at the Mid-America Violin Competition.
Wickesberg has been a member of the PSO since the 2007-08 season. Prior to joining the PSO, Wickesberg held a position in the New World Symphony.
Williams has been PSO principal cellist since 1979 and has regularly been featured as a soloist both in Pittsburgh and on tour in New York City. She was soloist with the PSO in the Pittsburgh premiere of “The Giving Tree,” conducted by its composer Lorin Maazel. Williams teaches cello at Carnegie Mellon University.
Tickets for the March 14 concert are $26, with children 12 and under admitted free.
Details: 724-805-2177 or stvincent.edu
