On Sat. May 5, at 8 p.m. cellist Kim Cook will be performing with the Pennsylvania Centre Chamber Orchestra at their last concert of the season.

Cook will be playing Jacques Ibert’s 1925 Concerto for Cello and Wind Instruments. Accompanying her are 10 woodwind instruments. The concerto contains three movements, which vary in mood and style, PCCO will also be playing Handel’s “Royal Fireworks Music,” Arensky’s “Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky” and Haydn’s “Symphony 104 in D Major.”

This will be the second time that Cook has been featured with the PCCO, on other occasions she has played as a member of the orchestra.

Cook is also an associate professor for the School of Arts and Architecture. She teaches classes in applied cello and directs a choir of 24 undergraduate and graduate cellists, who recently performed at the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association annual convention in Hershey.

She has traveled around the world and has performed in several countries, such as, China, Peru and the Czech Republic. Cook has also performed with state orchestra of Sao Palo, Brazil.

Although she has traveled all over the world she enjoys her home in State College.

"I like the area, the hiking and the mountains. The people in the place where you live are the most important and there a lot of nice people here," Cook said.

— by Gretchen E. Gailey