The University of West Florida and the Dr. Grier Williams School of Music will present the Runge Strings Orchestra in concert on Thursday, February 16 at 6:30 p.m. The performance will be held at St. Paul Catholic Church located at 3131 Hyde Park Rd., Pensacola.

UWF Orchestra Runge Strings Orchestra will present its post-Valentine-Day concert at St. Paul Catholic Church in Pensacola. The program will include Baroque music by Handel. Sibelius and Grieg. Among the soloists in the concert, will be the music directors of the ensemble Leonid Yanovskiy and Aleksandra Pereverzeva, as well as the young violinist Juan Meza-Jimenez.

Leonid Yanovskiy is Director of Strings at the University of West Florida and Concertmaster of the Pensacola Symphony; Pereverzeva is Principal Cello of the Pensacola and Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestras; and Meza-Jimenez is a junior student in high school and a dual-enrolled student with Leonid Yanovskiy’s violin studio at University of West Florida.

This event is free and open to the public and no tickets are required. For more information, visit uwf.edu/cfpa or call the CFPA box office at 850.857.6285.