By Page Olsen ’20, Staff Writer

The Lebanon Valley College Symphony Orchestra will tour Europe from May 11 to May 19, provided the COVID-19 pandemic subsides.

Students and accompanying faculty will visit sites important to music history. In addition to site seeing and learning, the orchestra will perform three concerts.

In prior years, the orchestra has visited Austria, Ireland, the Czech Republic and Italy. According to the tour coordinator, Dr. Johannes Dietrich, professor of instrumental music, these previous tours were highly successful.

This year, the orchestra will visit Berlin, Leipzig, Prague and Vienna.

Rachel Cheston, a senior self-designed major, is one of the students going on the tour. Cheston plays cello in the orchestra.

“I am very excited to go through this experience with my fellow friends and musicians, and I am looking forward to being immersed into a completely different culture and hopefully I won’t get lost,” Cheston said.

The tour is open not only to the orchestra, but other LVC students, faculty and friends of orchestra members.

“Not everyone from our current orchestra is going since it wasn’t required to go, but we still have a good number going including current members of the orchestra, some family and friends of those current orchestra members and some alumni of the LVC Symphony Orchestra,” Cheston said.

Those interested in attending may contact Dietrich at dietrich@lvc.edu.