FREE Student & ½ Price Parent Tickets for Sean Chen & The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

Central to the mission of Allegheny RiverStone Center for the Art has been providing arts education resources for younger audiences in the greater Allegheny River valley. Outdoor concerts at RiverStone Estate and in Lincoln Hall for the popular Carnival of Souls have been free – and $5 student tickets are available for all concerts. Since 2009, students in in grades K to 12 in the Allegheny-Clarion Valley School District have received annual residency programs presented by professional performers and seasoned teaching artists.

Small elementary workshops, assemblies and masterclasses have been presented by the Grammy award winning woodwind group, Akropolis Reeds. and specially created for A-C Valley was a fractured fairy tale musical theatre show by Pittsburgh’s ARIA412. During COVID, ARCA commissioned an educational movie, SPARK YOUR CREATIVITY, by violinist and educator Monique Mead with her two teenage children; elementary students viewed the movie in their classroom, masked and six feet apart.

In recent years, TAKE3 Trio with their rock-star charisma “From Bach to Rock” wowed the students and Backtrack Vocals with their popular “beatboxer” got students and classroom teachers on stage to try their hand at it after a short how-to crowd lesson. In 2022, elementary and Jr./Sr. high school band and choral students were bussed to Lincoln Hall where they were amazed by organ demonstrations and a silent movie performed by Dave Wickerham on the McKissick Mighty Wurlitzer.

PLUS - for four years prior to COVID, the artwork of A-C Valley students working with former t teacher, Anita Allen, was exhibited in the opening exhibit of the Red Brick Gallery, mounted by the RBG’s then Artistic Director, Donna Edmonds.

Expanding this art-education tradition, ARCA is implementing a new ticket program for select concerts in its 20th Anniversary Season to encourage students in the region to experience with their families the inspiring world-class artistry of performers in Lincoln Hall concerts.

This begins with the concert of the young, internationally renowned pianist SEAN CHEN on Sunday, March 30 at 2 PM in Foxburg’s Lincoln Hall. Tickets are FREE to students – and tickets for parents or accompanying adults are half-price - $15.

To reserve discounted family tickets and pay by cash or check at the door, call 724-659-3153 to make reservations. Adult tickets are $30, ARCA Member tickets are $25 – and may be purchased online at www.alleghenyriverstone.org

In Sean Chen’s last performance on the Lincoln Hall Steinway, he received TWO standing ovations!  Young audience members especially will enjoy Sean’s arrangement of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice made popular by Disney’s Fantasia. Also on the program are romantic virtuoso works by Chopin, Liszt, and Medtner. After the concert, Sean will do a Meet and Greet with students and audience Q & A session.

Sean came to international prominence at the age of 24 in 2013 when he won the International Van Cliburn Piano Competition. He has performed all over the world - and is one of the warmest and most down to earth young geniuses you have ever met. He is married to a violinist in the Kansas City Symphony and is the father of two young children.