A Year of Achievement for Composer Laura Schwartz
Composition and Theory
Pitt Graduate Composers Featured in NAT 28 Concert
Pittsburgh contemporary music ensemble NAT 28 will perform its third annual Pittsburgh Composers Project on February 9th and this year’s event features the music of three current Pitt grad students. Selected through NAT 28’s call for scores, the program will include Devon Osamu Tipp’s Blood on the Pavement 1984, Xinyang Wang’s San-Guei, and Cullyn D. Murphy’s Come to/Hypnic Jerk. The three Pitt graduate students’ compositions will be presented along with CMU composer Leonardo Ballada’s Caprichos No.
Aaron Myers-Brooks' New Noise-Rock Album
Night Vapor with Aaron Myers-Brooks (second from right). Photo: Devon Dill
Composer/guitarist Aaron Myers-Brooks (PhD 2014) has released a new album, 1,000 Miles of Mud, with his noise-rock band Night Vapor. The album has already received solid critical acclaim with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Scott Mervis describing it as,
Belcher and Tipp Appointed Physics and Astronomy Artists in Residence
The Department of Physics and Astronomy has announced that Composition and Theory doctoral candidates Jason Belcher and Devon Tipp have been selected as 2018-19 Artists in Residence. Each composer will work with a faculty member from the Department of Physics and Astronomy to shape an interdisciplinary composition to be performed at an afternoon concert on April 12 at Frick Fine Arts Auditorium.
Music and Erotics: February 23 Round Table and Concert
Department of Music Graduate Students will present a conference on Music and Erotics from February 22-23. For complete conference information and schedule visit the conference Web Page.
Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
5:00 - 6:30 — Concert & Roundtable — Chair: Eric Moe
Anna Elder, soprano
Music and Erotics: February 23 Sessions
Department of Music Graduate Students will present a conference on Music and Erotics from February 22-23. For complete conference information and schedule visit the conference Web Page.
Humanities Center (602 Cathedral of Learning)
8:00 - 8:45 — Coffee/light breakfast
8:45 - 9:45 — Womens’ Eroticisms — Chair: Meghan Hynson
Music and Erotics: February 22 Sessions
Department of Music Graduate Students will present a conference on Music and Erotics from February 22-23. For complete conference information and schedule visit the conference Web Page.
Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
1:00 - 1:15 — Welcome, Opening Remarks
1:15 - 2:45 — Historicizing/Glocalizing Music and Erotics —
Conference Schedule
Music & Erotics
University of Pittsburgh
22-23 February 2019
Friday, 22 February 2019
(Frick Fine Arts Auditorium)
1:00 - 1:15 — Welcome, Opening Remarks
1:15 - 2:45 — Historicizing/Glocalizing Music and Erotics —
Chair: Andrew Weintraub
Music Monday: December 3
The next Music Monday concert features music by William Shield, Burr Van Nostrand, David Leisner, Claude Debussy, Catherine McMichael, Ludwig van Beethoven, and songs by our own undergrads, Connor Lindsay, Benjamin Volk, Emma Lebo, Max Snyder, Jordan Bender, Peter Hu, and Dan Rothman
Performed by
Emma-Leigh Jones, Amal Saeed, Yuto Iwaizumi, & Roger Zahab*, violins
James Ferla, guitar*
Avery Bazell, Lily Carley, Gillian Reed, Alyssa Zamloot, flutes
Shumeng Yang, piano
Harrison Wayne, singer
Connor Lindsay, guitar
A Conversation with Memory: Music in Memory of Roger Hendrix
