Performance Opportunities

The Department of Music encourages its students to participate in performance in classes, private lessons, ensembles, and concerts. Students from all over the University participate in musical activities and performances, and are often joined in the ensembles by faculty and members of the community at large. Several ensembles make recordings and take part in tours to foreign countries. Our ensembles perform a wide variety of music, including western art music, jazz, folk music, popular music, and music of non-Western cultures.

Instruction for Credit

Students may enroll in private lessons, class piano (Music 121), or class guitar (Music 122). The number of subsidies for private lessons is limited, and so first opportunities go to declared music majors and students participating in one of the major ensembles. Private lessons are given by our performance faculty, as well as by some members of the academic faculty.

Chamber music may be taken for 1 credit per semester (Music 672). Undergraduates may also enroll in one of the ensembles for 1 credit per semester.

Students also participate in informal ensembles for performance at the Thursday Noon Concerts or Music Mondays at Bellefield and similar occasions.

Private Lesson Contacts


Donna Amato
BMA, University of Arizona
Piano
www.altarusrecords.com/ArtistpageDAmato.html
damato@andrew.cmu.edu

Pandit Samir Chatterjee
Tabla
www.tabla.org/samir.html

Frank Cunimondo
Jazz Piano
(724) 226-1976

Nathan Davis (Saxophone)
Saxophone
412 624-4113
Faculty Page
ndavis@pitt.edu

Don O. Franklin (Harpsichord)
Harpsichord
412 624-4197
Faculty Page
dof@pitt.edu

Barbara Hois
MM, Cincinnati College - Conservatory of Music
Flute
412 429-3457
bhois@pitt.edu

Greg Humphries
BS, Point Park College
Set Drums
412 657-9553
nhumphries03@sprintpcs.com

Carl Jackson
BFA, Carnegie Mellon University
Trombone & Tuba
412 401-0186
caljac@andrew.cmu.edu

John Maione
BA, University of Pittsburgh
Jazz Guitar
412 621-7609
www.johnmaione.com
jjmaione@aol.com

Jeffrey Mangone
BS, Duquesne University
Bass Guitar, Double Bass
412 366-0545
cell 412 512-8077
bassicjeff1@aol.com

Lorraine Milovac (Voice)
Voice
412 624-1388
lormilovac@aol.com

Linda Morton-Fisher
MM, The Juilliard School
Bassoon
412 243-2297
fisherpgh@aol.com

John Moyer
M MEd, Duquesne University
Piano
johncarolmoyer@aol.com

Joe Negri
Carnegie Mellon University
Jazz Guitar
www.joenegri.com
jnegri@andrew.cmu.edu

Natalie Phillips
MM, University of Michigan
Piano
412 421-4756
enphillips@webtv.com

Claudia P. Pinza
Diploma, Conservatory of Music; Bologna, Italy
Voice
www.epcaso.com/faculty.html
bopi@pitt.edu

Mary Beth Skaggs Malek
BA, Northwestern University
MM, Eastman School of Music
Clarinet
412 793-9272
mbsmalek@hotmail.com

Richard Teaster (Voice)
Voice
412 624-1388
richteaster@aol.com

Paula Tuttle
MA, Carnegie Mellon University
Cello
412 561-6637
paulatuttle@yahoo.com

Wesley Ward
MA, University of Chicago
Trumpet
(412) 672-9190

Doretta Lonnett Whalen
PhD, University of Pittsburgh
Jazz Voice
doretta@pitt.edu

Roger Zahab

MM, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Violin and Viola
412-624-4017
Faculty Page
rzahab@pitt.edu

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