Penn’s Woods Music Festival is a summer professional orchestral and chamber music festival offering outstanding chamber music and orchestral performances by professional musicians. Supported jointly by Penn State and the surrounding community, the festival seeks to inspire a passion for classical music through innovative concert programming, educational activities, and informal events.

Mike Block and Sandeep Das
Gala Season opener with pioneering multi-style cellist and American tabla player Sandeep Das (tabla) and Mike Block (cello/vocals) are a dynamic cross-genre duo that originally met as members of Yo-Yo Ma’s Grammy Award-winning Silkroad Ensemble. This energetic duo has been performing since 2013, sharing their music throughout America and India via tours and residencies, and even on the stage of Carnegie Hall. Their debut album including compositions from Western Classical and North Indian Hindustani traditions, adaptations of music from around the world, and several of their own original compositions.