Concerts to Feature Classical Music, Jazz, and More

Lancaster Bible College, 901 Eden Road, Lancaster, and The Trust Performing Arts Center, 37. N. Market St., Lancaster, have announced three concerts.

The 2026-27 Lancaster International Piano Festival series will continue with a performance by young pianist Jiarui Li at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 14, at The Trust. Li was born into a musical family and began piano studies at age 5. She has since earned numerous prizes in national and international competitions in both China and the United States and has performed in recitals and festivals throughout both countries. In 2024, she presented a recital tour of works by Chopin in several cities across China. As a concerto soloist, she has performed Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 with the Chinese International United Youth Symphony Orchestra. This year, she won first prize in the Hershey Symphony Orchestra's annual Young Artist Competition, and she will perform Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58, with the Hershey Symphony Orchestra this fall. Currently a junior at Lancaster Mennonite High School, Li studies piano with Xun Pan.

The Lancaster Bible College (LBC) wind and percussion ensembles will continue their 2026 theme of America's 250th anniversary at their fall concert, set for Sunday, Nov. 15. The program, titled "One Nation Under God," will begin at 3 p.m. in Good Shepherd Chapel on the LBC campus.

The college community wind ensemble and the student percussion ensemble will present patriotic works as well as tunes by American composer George Gershwin. Under the guidance of director of instrumental studies Doris Hall-Gulati, the college community wind ensemble includes both student musicians and community mentors who perform alongside their student counterparts.

Jazz singer Kate Kortum will perform on Friday, Nov. 20, at The Trust. The concert will begin at 7 p.m. Kortum, a Juilliard graduate, blends bebop and Broadway. The winner of the 2025 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition, Kortum has performed on iconic stages, including Birdland, Blue Note, Jazz at Lincoln Center, and SXSW, and has toured internationally with artists such as Wynton Marsalis, Peter Bernstein, and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. She is also a member of New York City vocal trio The Sunhouse Singers. Her albums "Good Woman" and "Wild Woman," which reimagine jazz standards through a female lens, have amassed over 5.1 million streams.

To purchase tickets to any of the concerts, visit http://www.lancastertrust.com or http://www.lbc.edu/events.

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