Performance Music on the Edge

Music on the Edge presents about six concerts each year featuring visiting artists as well as the Music on the Edge Chamber Orchestra, Roger Zahab, conductor. The series is devoted to the performance of contemporary music by professional musicians.

Recent concerts presented include Wu Man, the California EAR Unit, 2004 Pulitzer Prize Winner Paul Moravec (Lehar Composer-in-Residence), and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project.
Event Calendar.

Eric Moe, Codirector
emoe@pitt.edu

Mathew Rosenblum, Codirector
rosenblu@pitt.edu

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Music on the Edge 2008–09

Music on the Edge Chamber Orchestra
Roger Zahab, Conductor
Tuesday, October 14, 8 p.m.
Bellefield Hall Auditorium
Music by John Adams, Amy Williams, Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead),
and others.

Franz Lehar Composer-in-Residence Betsy Jolas
Sunday, November 2, 8 p.m.
Bellefield Hall Auditorium
Featuring works for solo and duo pianos by Jolas, and a newly discovered arrangement by Varèse of his composition “Ameriques” for two pianos,
eight hands. Performed by Amy Briggs, Winston Choi, Lisa Kaplan, and Amy Williams.

NOW
Saturday, November 22, 8 p.m.
Bellefield Hall Auditorium
“…NYC’s NOW Ensemble… works experimental, chamber-music miracles…” — L.A. City Beat

Sirius String Quartet featuring Elliot Sharp
Co-sponsored by the Andy Warhol Museum*
Saturday, January 10, 8 p.m.
Andy Warhol Museum
“…an amazing group of musicians and musical visionaries...” — Indie Style

Clarinetist Jean Kopperud and Pianist Stephen Gosling
Saturday, January 17, 8 p.m.
Bellefield Hall Auditorium
Music by Paolo Cavallone, Jason Eckhardt, David Felder, James Primrosch, Steven Ricks, Harvey Sollberger, and Pitt’s own Eric Moe. “Ms. Kopperud has the technique and imagination to make nearly anything sound interesting…” Mr. Gosling’s playing is “luminous and poised”
The New York Times

Violinist Mary Rowell and Pianist Geoffrey Burleson
Co-sponsored by the Andy Warhol Museum*
Saturday, February 21, 8 p.m.
Andy Warhol Museum
Including music by George Antheil, Amy Kohn, Preston Stahly, Vincert Persichetti, Julia Wolfe, and Arvo Pärt.

VOX: CANCELED
Saturday, February 28, 8 p.m.

Alarm Will Sound Presents 1969
Friday, March 20, 8 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the Andy Warhol Museum*
New Hazlett Theater
Alarm Will Sound’s 1969 is a music-theater event which tells the stories of artists as diverse as Stravinsky, Jimi Hendrix, Steve Reich, John Lennon, and Aaron Copland and their relation to the history changing events of their time.

Tickets in Advance Through ProArts: $10 general, $5 sen./stu.
(At the door: $15/$8, Pitt students free)
412-394-3353. www.proartstickets.org

For concert information and tickets, call 412-624-4125, or visit our
Event Calendar.

To find out more about Music on the Edge events sign up for our e-mail list.

*The Andy Warhol Museum, one of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, serves more than 80,000 visitors of all ages per year. Opened in 1994, the museum features extensive permanent collections of art and archives of one of the most influential American artists of the twentieth century. The museum, a primary resource for anyone seeking insights into contemporary art and popular culture, is also an active cultural center that presents contemporary performance through its Sound Series and Off The Wall series.

 

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