Glencairn Museum presents Elizabeth Pitcairn in concert

Acclaimed American violin virtuoso Elizabeth Pitcairn returns to Bryn Athyn to perform in concert with her legendary “Red Violin” in the Great Hall at Glencairn Museum on Sunday, March 17.

Pitcairn is joined by Evan Drachman, cello, and Barbara Podgurski, piano, for a special program featuring works by seminal composer Ludwig van Beethoven. This is a return performance at Glencairn for both Drachman and Podgurski.

The concert begins at 3:00pm (doors open at 2:30) and seating is limited. General admission $20, $15 students & Basic Members, free for Gold and Patron Members. Advance tickets, and reserved seating for Patron Members only, available through 5pm on Thursday, March 14: visit the Museum or call 267.502.2990. After March 15 tickets will be sold only at the door the day of the concert.

Celebrated as one of America’s most beloved violin soloists, Pitcairn has toured the world with her 1720 Red Mendelssohn. As an artist and performer, she is known for musical interpretations that touch audiences on a deeply emotional level.

For more information, visit Glencairn Museum or call 267.502.2990. Glencairn Museum: 1001 Cathedral Road, Bryn Athyn, PA 19009.

Pitcairn—great-niece of Glencairn’s visionary architect, Raymond Pitcairn—made her New York debut at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall in 2000. She has performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra and made debuts at Walt Disney Concert Hall and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall.

The 10th Anniversary edition DVD of the 1998 film, The Red Violin, features Ms. Pitcairn and her Red Mendelssohn Stradivarius in a special feature called “The Auction Block.” Although the movie itself is largely fictional, the instrument is the very real and mysterious violin built by Antonio Stradivari around 1720. Renowned for its distinctive sound and playability, the legendary violin went missing for 200 years before resurfacing in Berlin in the 1930s. After a succession of owners, it came to Elizabeth Pitcairn as a 16th birthday gift from her grandfather, Theodore Pitcairn. He purchased the Red Mendelssohn at a Christie’s auction in 1990 for a reported $1.7 million.

Pitcairn began the violin at age three and performed her first concerto with orchestra at 14. Her path led her to study violin in Los Angeles with Robert Lipsett at the USC Thornton School of Music. She is currently a member of the distinguished faculty at the Colburn School of Performing Arts in Los Angeles.

Pitcairn is president, CEO and artistic director of the Luzerne Music Center, a summer camp for gifted young musicians ages 9 to 18 in the Adirondacks of New York. A Bucks County native, she currently resides in Los Angeles, California.