Orchestral Masterworks

MU Students can receive up to one (1) free ticket with a valid MU ID. MU discounts are NOT available online and must be made in-person or by calling any box office location. Advanced ticket reservations are strongly encouraged. MU discount tickets are subject to availability on the day of the event.

SOLD OUT – MU’s Tell School of Music Fall Choral Concert

This performance is sold out.

Wind Ensemble

Xun Pan & Gabriel Chamber Ensemble

Our faculty, Dr. Xun Pan, Steinway artist, will perform chamber music with the Gabriel Chamber Ensemble, to Millersville University and Lancaster community audiences.

SOLD OUT – MU’s Tell School Choir Spring Concert

This performance is sold out.

Christy Banks and Manor Winds

A Lancaster-based ensemble, Manor Winds is comprised of five musicians who come together to rehearse in a historic farmhouse on Manor Street in Lancaster, PA. Since their formation in the Spring of 2016, they have given over 50 performances throughout the southeastern Pennsylvania region. At home in traditional and non-traditional settings, Manor Winds strives for professional performances of both standard and modern wind quintet repertoire. Built upon friendships developed in the freelancing community, Marissa, Lauren, Christy, Anne, and Robin believe that quality chamber music should be readily available to the region’s diverse population. Manor Winds wishes to share their love of music and collaboration with their surrounding community and can be seen performing throughout southeastern Pennsylvania.

Christy Banks, Clarinet

Christy Banks, Associate Professor of Clarinet and Assistant Chair of the Music Department at Millersville University of Pennsylvania, has appeared as a soloist/recitalist throughout the US as well as in Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Germany, Iceland, Italy, and New Zealand. Passionate about new music, Banks is a member of NakedEye Ensemble and Spatial Forces Duo. Additional affiliations include Lincoln’s Symphony Orchestra, Pennsylvania Philharmonic, Allegro Orchestra Lancaster, King Street Big Band, and Manor Woodwind Quintet. She holds degrees from the University of Nebraska Lincoln and the Florida State University.

American String Quartet

Internationally recognized as one of the world’s finest quartets, the American String Quartet has spent decades honing the luxurious sound for which it is famous. The Quartet celebrated its 45th anniversary in 2019, and, in its years of touring, has performed in all fifty states and has appeared in the most important concert halls worldwide. The group’s presentations of the complete quartets of Beethoven, Schubert, Schoenberg, Bartók, and Mozart have won widespread critical acclaim, and their MusicMasters Complete Mozart String Quartets, performed on a matched quartet set of instruments by Stradivarius, are widely considered to have set the standard for this repertoire.

Recent seasons featured performances of the Quartet’s major project together with the National Book Award-winning author Phil Klay and the poet Tom Sleigh, which offers a groundbreaking program combining music and readings that examines the effects of war. The Quartet also collaborated with the renowned author Salman Rushdie in a work for narrator and quartet by the film composer Paul Cantelon built around Rushdie’s novel The Enchantress of Florence. These tremendously imaginative collaborations cement the American String Quartet’s reputation as one of the most adventurous and fearless string quartets performing today, as comfortable with the groundbreaking as with the traditional.

Formed when its original members were students at The Juilliard School, the American String Quartet’s career began with the group winning both the Coleman Competition and the Naumburg Award in the same year. â€¯Resident quartet at the Aspen Music Festival since 1974 and at the Manhattan School of Music in New York since 1984, the American has also served as resident quartet at the Taos School of Music, the Peabody Conservatory, and the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.

“…luxurious, beautifully sculpted performances”
— THE NEW YORK TIMES

Cheng² Duo

Siblings and renowned musicians Bryan and Silvie Cheng have been making music together their entire lives. Since officially forming the Cheng² Duo, their expressive works of piano and cello have left lasting impressions across the globe. Committed to presenting traditional masterworks, rediscovering neglected repertoire, and championing the music of their time, the Cheng² Duo transfixes listeners with impassioned music that is filled with joy!

Pacifica Quartet

With a career spanning nearly three decades, the multiple GRAMMY® Award-winning Pacifica Quartet has achieved international recognition as one of the finest chamber ensembles performing today. The Quartet is known for its virtuosity, exuberant performance style, and often-daring repertory choices. With its powerful energy and captivating, cohesive sound, the Pacifica has established itself as the embodiment of the senior American quartet today.

This performance is made possible through the Melva S. McIlwaine Concert and Masterclass Endowment Fund.

Harlem Quartet – McIlwaine Concert

New York-based Harlem Quartet (Ilmar Gavilán and Melissa White, violins; Jaime Amado, viola; Felix Umansky, cello) has been praised for its “panache” by The New York Times and hailed for “bringing a new attitude to classical music, one that is fresh, bracing and intelligent” in the Cincinnati Enquirer.  

Since its public debut at Carnegie Hall, the ensemble has thrilled audiences and students in 47 states as well as in the U.K., France, Belgium, Brazil, Panama, Canada, Venezuela, Japan, Ethiopia, and South Africa. Harlem Quartet’s programming combines standard string quartet literature with jazz, Latin, and contemporary works.

MU Students will receive up to one (1) free ticket with a valid MU ID at a box office location. Advanced ticket reservations are strongly encouraged. MU Student discount tickets are subject to availability at the door.

This performance is made possible through the Melva S. McIlwaine Concert and Masterclass Endowment Fund.