Westminster College Symphony Orchestra winter concert is Feb. 28

NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. –  The Westminster College Symphony Orchestra will present its winter concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 28, in the Will W. Orr Auditorium on Westminster’s campus.

The concert will highlight junior computer science major Braden Stesiak and senior music education major Maura Kardasz, winners of the School of Music Concerto Competition.

Stesiak will perform Édouard Lalo’s Cello Concerto, while Kardasz will perform Carl Maria von Weber’s “Andante and Hungarian Rondo” on bassoon.

The concert will also feature the “Peer Gynt Suite No. 1” by Edvard Greig, which ends with the popular “Hall of the Mountain King,” as well as Gioachino Rossini’s Overture to the “Barber of Seville.”

The orchestra will play under the direction of Dr. Daniel Perttu, associate professor of music and chair of the School of Music. He is serving as the Spring 2020 sabbatical replacement for Dr. Melinda Crawford Perttu, associate professor of music and director of the symphony orchestra.

The concert is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Perttu at 724-946-7024 or perttude@westminster.edu.

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