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Media Roundup for Jazz Seminar and Concert, Feldman Symposium and Mini-festival, and Sweeney Todd

Music at Pitt is starting November off in a big way and local media have taken notice. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette published previews of the Jazz Seminar and Concert and Sweeney Todd, while the City Paper conducted extensive interviews with Jan and Amy Williams in anticipation of the Morton Feldman Symposium and Mini-Festival.

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Congratulations to the cast and orchestra!

2011 Ensemble Auditions

Update: Thanks to all who auditioned! Best wishes for a great year full of great music making!

Heinz Chapel Choir, John Goldsmith Director

Pitt Musicians Perform at the Warhol for Twisted Pair Symposium

Roger Zahab will lead members of the University of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the Music on the Edge Ensemble in a special performance at The Andy Warhol Museum as part of the two-day symposium Further Thoughts on Twisted Pair. The Symposium is the closing event in the Warhol’s exhibit comparing the works of Andy Warhol and Marcel Duchamp and takes place on September 10 and 11th at the Warhol. Members of the orchestra and the MOTE Ensemble will perform at various locations in the museum on Saturday, September 11 beginning at 8 p.m.

Kaitlin Mitchell on Performing Schumann’s Piano Concerto
Sophomore Kaitlin Mitchell performs Schumann's Piano Concerto with Pitts Orchestra tonight. Here are her thoughts about her experience with the piece.
Sarah Albani on Preparing Walton’s Viola Concerto
Senior Sarah Albani is double major in music and biology. On Wednesday, February 18 she will perform Walton's Viola Concerto with the University of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. The concert takes place at 8 p.m. in Bellefield Hall Auditorium and is free to the public.
Dr. Victor Grauer, Heinz Chapel Choir, and Pitt’s Symphony Orchesrtra
Our next three events comprise a lecture by ethnomusicologist and composer Victor Grauer on Music in Deep History, The Heinz Chapel Choir's annual Chamber Choir Festival, and concert by the Pitt's Symphony Orchestra. Grauer's lecture takes place on Friday, February 13 at 4 p.m. in Room 132 of the Music Building, the Heinz Chapel Choir and guest choirs will perform on Sunday, February 15 at 3 p.m.
Entremets: The Story of a Musical Snack
mattshepherd.jpg  Last December, members of the University of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra premiered my short work Entremets for 14 winds and 2 percussionists. In the midst of Mendelssohn and Brahms, it was a little out of place—like some odd second cousin to the two great composers’ works. entremets.mp3 The story of how this little piece came to be is somewhat amusing, and at the request of Philip Thompson, I’m writing it here.
rehearsals and/for last concert
rehearsals etc. until the end - all events in Bellefield Hall Auditorium See the details on after the jump.
orchestra dress rehearsals & concert - March 24-26
dress rehearsals [all events in Bellefield Hall Auditorium] NB. Ben Harris’s work has been rescheduled to the last concert of April 16th Monday March 24 at 7:30 pm in concert order: Weber Oberon Overture Nielsen: Violin Concerto Mahler Symphony no. 6 mvts 2 and 3 Tuesday March 25 please note this rehearsal begins at 8:30 pm concert order: Weber Oberon Overture Nielsen: Violin Concerto Mahler Symphony no. 6 mvts 2 and 3 Wednesday, March 26 Sound check at 7:10 pm

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