Submitted by the Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State
UNIVERSITY PARK — Time for Three, a beyond-classic-rock string trio, will return to the Center for the Performing Arts this month for the first time since 2015.
The Grammy Award-winning ensemble will perform a wide-ranging, jukebox-style concert in the style of The Beatles and Guns N’ Roses arrangements combined with Leonard Cohen, Johann Sebastian Bach and the musicians’ original string compositions.
The concert will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 28, at 7:30 p.m. in Eisenhower Auditorium. Students from Bellefonte Area School District will perform the song “Joy” with Time for Three at the end of the program.
“It’s about joy. It’s about smiling,” said Time for Three’s bassist, Ranaan Meyer. “We just wanna have a party together, a celebration.”
Tickets are $44 for an adult, $22 for a person 18 and younger and $5 for a University Park student.
Bonded by a love of instruments and vocals, the trio’s violinists — Charles Yang and Nick Kendall — and Meyer have found a unique voice of expression.
“We create this playground, this little creative sandbox on stage. And we invite people to kind of
be part of that experience and that interplay,” Kendall said in a recent conversation with the Center for the Performing Arts.
“Obviously, there’s a lot of energy that comes from that. But there’s also a lot of soul. It’s not all virtuosic, of course. It’s very dynamic.”
Time for Three has performed at Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center and The Royal Albert Hall. The artists also have collaborated with Ben Folds, Branford Marsalis and Joshua Bell, and have premiered various original works. The trio’s most recent commission, by Pulitzer Prize-winner Kevin Puts, “Contact,” premiered with the San Francisco Symphony and the Philadelphia Orchestra in 2022 and won a 2023 Grammy in the Best Classical Instrumental Solo category.
An informal moderated discussion will be offered one hour before the performance and is free for ticket holders. Seating for the pre-performance talk is available on a first-arrival basis.
