Community Commitment

First Commonwealth Supports Seton Hill University's Center for the Performing Arts

As part of our ongoing commitment to the arts and our communities, First Commonwealth recently presented Seton Hill University with a financial contribution earmarked for the University Center for the Performing Arts project in Downtown Greensburg.

Pictured: l - r, representing Seton Hill: Dr. Curt Scheib, Chair of the Visual and Performing Arts Department and Dr. JoAnne Boyle, President. Presenting the check from First Commonwealth: Sue McMurdy, Executive Vice President/Chief Information Officer and Thad Clements, Executive Vice President/Strategic Resources.

The gift is a significant part of the school's overall fundraising campaign for the University Center for the Performing Arts project and will create the E. James Trimarchi Music Wing on the street level of the facility in honor of our former Chairman, recognizing his commitment to higher education and the arts.

Music for the community will be a focal point of Seton Hill’s new Center, which will host the activities of the Westmoreland Symphonic Winds, chamber music performances of the Westmoreland Symphony, and the Seton Hill Community Music Program.

The First Commonwealth Music Wing will provide Seton Hill students and students from the community-at-large with a technologically enhanced and aesthetically pleasing space to study their craft. According to the president of Seton Hill, the financial support from First Commonwealth was a significant early vote of confidence for the project's kick-off. Sue McMurdy, Executive Vice President/Chief Information Officer, added, "Everyone at First Commonwealth is excited to be part of this wonderful project.”

The Seton Hill University Center for the Performing Arts is a 73,000 square-foot performing arts center that will include a music hall and flexible theatre as well as workshops, rehearsal spaces, classrooms and faculty offices. When completed, the Center will house the University’s premier programs in Theatre and Music and provide modern performing spaces for both.

The University Center for the Performing Arts will serve as the completing piece of the Cultural District envisioned by the City of Greensburg and Westmoreland County several years ago, with the Westmoreland Museum of American Art at one corner and Seton Hill at the other, linked by the Palace Theatre, the restored Greensburg Train Station, cafes, restaurants and bookstores.

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