Pitt Department Of Music Blog

Thursday Noon Recital, November 19

Phil Thompson — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:46:55 +0000

132 Music Building, free
Rhapsody in Blue, George Gershwin

Nick Stamatakis, piano
Naomi Latorraca, piano

Tango, op. 165, no. 2, Isaac Albéniz

Shana Fowler, trumpet
Wes Ward, piano

Sonata in c minor (1824), Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Adagio-Allegro

Wei Zhao, viola
Andrew Head, piano

German Songs, Louis Spohr
1. Sei Still Mein Herz (Be Still, My Heart)
2. Sehnsucht (Longing)
3. Das Heimliche Lied (The Secret Song)
4. Wach Auf (Awakening)

Sarah Phillips, soprano
Paul Shepard, clarinet
Nicholas Emmanuel, piano

Salut d’Amour, Edward Elgar

Danielle Rager, violin
Roger Zahab, piano

Tango, Isaac Albéniz

Emily Wheeler, piano

Military March, op. 51, no. 1, Franz Schubert

Kayla Wands & Kevin Hrebinko, piano, four-hands

Roger Zahab and Alicia Bekeny in Recital at Heinz Chapel November 22

Phil Thompson — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:12:51 +0000

Sunday, November 22, 2009
Heinz Memorial Chapel, 3 p.m.
Admission: $5 at the door

Legends, Songs and Dances
a concert in support of the Heinz Chapel Building Fund

Roger Zahab, violin
with Alicia Bekeny, violin

The music
J.S.Bach : Partita in d minor (BWV 1004, ca. 1720)
Béla Bartók : Sonata for Solo Violin (1944)

with short works by
Judith Weir: Rain and mist are on the mountain, I’d better buy some shoes
and
Roger Zahab : Battery Park, New York Harbor, The Fens, & commonwealth

Thursday Noon Recital, November 5

Phil Thompson — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:59:32 +0000

132 Music Building

The Program

Sonata II in a minor, BWV1003 J.S.Bach, Grave-Fuga
Joshua Greenberger, violin

Sonata op. 10, no.1 Ludwig van Beethoven, Finale: Prestissimo
Impromptu, op. 142, no. 2, Franz Schubert
Qui-dong Chen, piano

Simplicity, Dexter Gulick
Dexter Gulick, piano

Shades of Gray, Mark Penn
Mark Penn, piano

Fantasy in C minor, W.A. Mozart
Kaitlin Mitchell, piano

Akin Euba and Pitt Alumni at UCLA’s Africa Meets North America Conference

Phil Thompson — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:25:28 +0000

Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Music Akin Euba and Music Department alumni, including George Dor (PhD 2001), Anicet Mundundu (2005), Sister Marie Agatha Ozah (PhD 2008), and Jason Squinobal (PhD 2008), will participate in UCLA’s Africa Meets North America Conference (AMNA) taking place October 22-25. Professor Euba will make remarks at several sessions and his opera Chaka will be discussed during a scholarly session. Sister Marie Agatha Ozah will chair a scholarly session on Music Performance and Technology in University and Studio Environments and give a paper titled “Understanding the Pre-Compositional Resources in Joshua Uzoigwe’s Egwu Amala.’” George Dor will give a paper titled “West African Drumming and Dance in U.S. Universities: The Resurrection of a Suppressed Genre” and lead a workshop on “Observations on Ghana50 at Ole Miss in Oxford Mississippi.” Anicet Mundundu will chair a scholarly session titled “Melding Traditions: West Africa, USA, China, and Cuba” and give a paper titled “Diversity and Unity in African Music Performance Practice in the U.S.” Jason Squinobal will perform original compositions, including a song he composed for Dr. Euba, with his jazz group Horizon Band. Squinobal’s compositions feature intertwined ostinatos and polyrhythm, and many utilize West African traditional melodies. He will be joined for this performanc. by Ghanaian master drummer J. S. Kofi Gbolonyo (PhD 2009).

Mark Peters (PhD 2003) to speak at Yale Conference

Phil Thompson — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:55:23 +0000

Mark Peters (PhD 2003) will give a paper at the conference Poets, Mothers, and Performers — Considering Women’s Impact on the Music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Peters’ paper is titled “A Woman’s Poetry in Leipzig’s Churches: Mariane von Ziegler as Cantata Librettist.” The paper grows out of Peters’ ongoing research on J. S. Bach’s sacred cantatas to texts by Leipzig Poet Christiane Mariane von Ziegler, research he published in his monograph A Woman’s Voice in Baroque Music: Mariane von Ziegler and J. S. Bach. The conference, which takes place October 16-18, is chaired by Prof. Markus Rathey (Yale) and sponsored by the Yale Institute of Sacred Music in collaboration with the Music Department and the Program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale.

Mark Peters is Associate professor of Music at Trinity Christian College (Palos Heights, IL) and Chair of the Department of Music. Mark has presented conference papers on Bach, Ziegler, and Johannes Brahms, and his publications include articles in BACH: Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute and the monograph “Claude Debussy As I Knew Him” and Other Writings of Arthur Hartmann (University of Rochester Press, 2003), with Samuel Hsu and Sidney Grolnic. He serves as Secretary-Treasurer of the American Bach Society and is currently pursuing new research on the German Magnificat from Martin Luther to J. S. Bach.