Cellist with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Charlie Powers, talks live with Jim Cunningham about the Pittsburgh Cello Quartet's upcoming concert, and what the PSO is doing this summer.

Charlie founded the Pittsburgh Cello Quartet in 2015, and it has since become a staple of high quality quartets in the region. Charlie talks about forming the group, and their upcoming concert on July 27th at Ingomar Church. There program will feature new repertoire including arrangements of works by Bach, Vivaldi, and Brahms. They also will perform original compositions by Fitzenhagen and Popper, as well as a new arrangement of Bach's Sixth Cello Suite.

Charlie also reflects on past PSO events, including Fiddlesticks concerts around the area. He reminisces about performing his father's arrangements of Fred Rogers' songs with Yo-Yo Ma during a recent concert. Yo-Yo even called Charlie's father to thank him afterwards. There are a lot of concerts coming up too!

The PSO will be performing movie scores on July 24th, as well as Marvel film scores in August. Their next season starts in September with Yuja Wang.

You can hear the Pittsburgh Cello Quartet at Ingomar Church on July 27th at 4 pm. The concert is free!

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