Masterpiece Piano Quintets - Schumann & Schubert

42 S. Palmer Street,Foxburg PA 16036

05 March, 2023

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Allegheny RiverStone Center for the Arts is proud to open its 2023 classical programming on Sunday, March 5, at 2 PM in Lincoln Hall as international competition winner and celebrated pianist, David Allen Wehr, returns by popular demand to Foxburg to perform two chamber music masterpieces – piano quintets by Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann that are the pinnacle of the chamber music repertoire. He will be joined by an ensemble of musicians from his acclaimed and sold out “Music on the Bluff” series in Pittsburgh – an afternoon of sublime music making by world class artists. David’s distinguished colleagues from the Pittsburgh Symphony and Duquesne University faculty include Marylene Gingras-Roy, viola (Pittsburgh Symphony); Adam Liu, cello (Assistant Principal Cello, Pittsburgh Symphony); Aaron White, contrabass (Bass, Pittsburgh Symphony); Charles Stegeman, violin (Concertmaster, Pittsburgh Opera/Ballet Orchestra); and Rachel Stegeman, violin (Concertmaster, Youngstown and Wheeling Symphonies) A favorite of Foxburg audiences, David Allen Wehr will also serve as the program host for the concert, providing enlightening and delightful insights on the music and the composer. And no one does it better! David’s international career was launched when he won the Gold Medal at the 1987 Santander International Piano Competition in Spain. The resulting tours have taken him to over 30 countries in Europe, North and South America, and the Far East, including performances in the world musical capitals of New York, London, Paris, Vienna, Washington, Madrid and Buenos Aires Wehr’s November 2022 all-Chopin concert for ARCA in Lincoln Hall was exquisite – during which he told the raptly attentive audience that he was inspired by their listening… a concert to be forever remembered. It could be said of his November 2021 two-piano performance with Cynthia Raim of Rachmaninoff duets that gleaned them the 1998 Recording of the Year for the American Record Guide, that on that day – anywhere in the music capitals of the world – there was no more exultant performance of classical music. It was breathtaking. Known for his ability as a “Living Program Note”, David Allen Wehr has a warm personality that welcomes an audience member into the emotion of the music and makes imaginative and simple the intricacies of glorious works of master composers. It was David’s thirteen seasons touring the United States and Canada for Community concerts as a soloist and in chamber music partnerships that honed his unique ability to make great works of music accessible to the public.