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Great Music Unplugged concert series kicks off new season with a “grand” gift

The Great Music Unplugged concert series kicks off a new season at Penn State College of Medicine with “The Gift of Poise:”

  • Wednesday, Sept. 26
  • 5:30–7:30 p.m.
  • Lecture Room D

The “Gift of Poise” features guest performers Maestro Stuart Malina, pianist and artistic director of the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra, and Peter Sirotin, violinist and artistic director of Market Square Concerts. The pair will perform Mozart’s Sonata in A major for piano and violin.

This concert will be the first official performance using the new Steinway grand piano, gifted by Drs. Keith Cheng and Shou Ling Leong.

Steve Rudolph, jazz pianist and founder of Central PA Friends of Jazz, as well as some faculty and staff from the College of Medicine, including Dr. Keith Cheng, Distinguished Professor, Department of Pathology, and professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, and pharmacology; Jingwei “Jenny” Li, Jake Gittlen Laboratories for Cancer Research; and Rachel Moury, Development, will also perform.

A pre-concert reception will take place at 5:30 p.m. on the 7th floor of the College of Medicine outside Lecture Room D, followed by a special recognition of the gift of the piano and the concert.

Great Music Unplugged is sponsored by The Doctors Kienle Center for Humanistic Medicine. All concerts in the series are free for Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and College of Medicine employees and their family members. Register at centerstage@pennstatehealth.psu.edu.

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