PORT LUDLOW — Cellist Pamela Roberts and pianist Sung-Ling Hsu will perform in a benefit concert at 6 p.m. Saturday.
The event will be at the Port Ludlow Community Church, 9534 Oak Bay Road, Port Ludlow.
Admission is free. All donations will benefit the Apple of His Eye charity in Rwanda.
The program features Cello Sonata No. 2 in A minor, Op. 81 by Nikolai Myaskovsky; Ernest Bloch’s “From Jewish Life,” Prayer: Andante moderato, Supplication: Allegro non troppo and Jewish Song: Moderato; “Guitarre” by Moritz Moszkowski, “Sicilienne” by Maria-Theresia von Paradis, the Orfeo Mandozzi transcription; and Prelude #2 by George Gershwin, also transcribed by Mandozzi.
Apple of His Eye charity is a nonprofit that provides holistic care to Rwandans through a sponsorship program and other projects such as water wells, housing, vocational training, counseling and nutritional programs.
Donations will help build a recreational playground for young students and their families.
“This benefit concert is a wonderful reason to come together and to be reminded of how blessed we are in so many ways,” Pastor Kevin Hall said. “Pam and Sung-Ling have planned a beautiful, international program for us to enjoy as we collectively support this worthy Rwandan project.”
Roberts graduated from the University of Washington and was faculty cellist at the University of Puget Sound, principal cellist of the Tacoma Symphony and a received a fellowship at the Aspen Music Festival. She has performed as soloist with the Seattle Symphony, Aspen Music Festival, Port Townsend Symphony and Bremerton Westsound Symphony and as a chamber musician with the Philadelphia String Quartet, Northwest Chamber Orchestra and Seattle Early Music Guild.
Roberts currently lives in Quilcene and is principal cellist in the Port Townsend Symphony Orchestra and an artistic director of the orchestra’s chamber music series.
Sung-Ling Hsu, from Keelung, Taiwan, immigrated to the United States in 2014 and became an American citizen in 2022. She began studying piano when she was 6 and became a pianist for the Keelung Assembly of God Church when she was 10.
Hsu majored in composition at Tainan National University of the Arts in Taiwan. After graduating, she worked in scoring and sound effects design, composing music and producing sound effects for video games, films and TV commercials.
Hsu has played viola with the Bremerton and Port Angeles symphonies and is the principal violist for the Port Townsend Symphony Orchestra and a founding member of the orchestra’s chamber music series.
Hsu also plays piano for the Port Ludlow Community Church and accompanies the Choral Belles.
There will be a short reception following the concert.
For more information, call the church at 360-437-0145 or visit www.portludlow communitychurch.com.
