DATE -  Thursday, January 8, 2026

TIME-  10:30 am - 12:30 pm

LOCATION -  Luella Musselman Paul Recital Hall at the Gettysburg College Sunderman Conservatory of Music - Schmucker Hall.  300 North Washington Street, Gettysburg, PA 17325.

COST -  Free and open to the public

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Market Square Concerts and  Gettysburg College Sunderman Conservatory of Music will co-present a violin masterclass with Canadian violin virtuoso Kerson Leong. Mr. Leong will work with four selected young violinists.  This event is FREE & open to the public, and will take place in Luella Musselman Paul Recital Hall, in the Schmucker Hall at Gettysburg College Sunderman Conservatory of Music, Gettysburg, PA.  Students who are interested in performing for Mr. Leong in the masterclass, please submit the application for consideration no later than Friday, November 28, 2025. 

 

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About Kerson Leong

Kerson Leong has been described as “not just one of Canada’s greatest violinists but one of the greatest violinists, period” (Toronto Star). Forging a unique path since his First Prize win at the International Yehudi Menuhin Violin Competition in 2010, he continues to win over colleagues and audiences alike with “a mixture of spontaneity and mastery, elegance, fantasy, intensity that makes his sound recognizable from the first notes” (Le Monde).

 

His latest album, featuring the Britten and Bruch violin concertos with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Patrick Hahn for Alpha Classics, was released to widespread critical acclaim, including having been awarded ‘Editor’s Choice’ by Gramophone, ‘The Strad Recommends’ by The Strad, and the ‘Choc de Classica’ by Classica as well as five-star recommendations from the Sunday Times and Diapason among others.​

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Passionate about pedagogy and music outreach, he has been invited to give masterclasses and teach at various festivals and universities. He has always been keen on making connections between music and other fields. Ever since his dad started introducing him to physics concepts about string resonance, they have strongly influenced his playing and philosophy on sound production. Together with his dad, he has given lectures about this subject in places such as the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, the Barratt-Due Music Institute in Oslo, and various universities in California.

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He has always been keen on making connections between music and other fields. Ever since his dad started introducing him to physics concepts about string resonance, they have strongly influenced his playing and philosophy on sound production. Together with his dad, he has given lectures about this subject in places such as the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, the Barratt-Due Music Institute in Oslo, and various universities in California.

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Kerson performs on the ‘ex Bohrer, Baumgartner’ Guarneri del Gesu courtesy of Canimex Inc, Drummondville (Quebec), Canada.​​​

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Market Square Concerts is grateful to Pennian Bank (EITC), Mid Penn Bank (EITC) and McInroy Sheffer People Trust in memory of the late Mary McInroy Sheffer for the generous support of Soundscape.  Market Square Concerts’ Soundscape Program is also one of the recipients of the Whitaker Center Lois Lehrman Grass Performing Arts Fund: Youth Performing Arts Program Partnership Grant; as well as the “Arts for All, a charitable fund of the Greater Harrisburg Community Foundation, a regional foundation of The Foundation for Enhancing Communities (TFEC).

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