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