Symphony Orchestra: April 17
The orchestra performs John Cage's Living Room Music, Fred Ho’s When the Real Dragons Fly! for bari sax and orchestra with soloist Ben Barson, and Mahler’s Symphony no. 5 (movements 1, 2 and 3).
The orchestra performs John Cage's Living Room Music, Fred Ho’s When the Real Dragons Fly! for bari sax and orchestra with soloist Ben Barson, and Mahler’s Symphony no. 5 (movements 1, 2 and 3).
Pitt's orchestra performs Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto, featuring student soloist Clement Ekaputra, and Antonin Dvorak's Serenade for strings in E major, op 22. Codee Spinner takes the podium to conduct Julia Perry's Symphony in one movement for violas and string basses.
Pitt's Symphony Orchestra performs a new work by Daniel S. Godfrey for clarinet and orchestra. The composition is in memory of Roger Hendrix and features faculty soloist Mary Beth Malek. The orchestra closes out the program with Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet and Johannes Brahms's Symphony no. 4.
Auditions and signups will be held for Department of Music student ensembles at the beginning of the fall term. Our choirs and instrumental ensembles are open to students throughout the University and you are encouraged to apply regardless of your major. Below, please find specific instructions for each of our ensembles.
The University of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra performs the Scherzo from Gustav Mahler's Fifth Symphony and Copland's Quiet City with soloists Matthew Rosenblatt (trumpet) and Daniel Rothman (English Horn). Faculty artist Tina Faigen will be featured on Brahms's Piano Concerto no. 1.
Please note that the premiere of Karen Brown's Medusa for euphonium and orchestra has been postponed.
Pitt's Symphony Orchestra presents a new work by graduate composer Laura Schwartz and Dvorak's famous New World Symphony.
Select events will be available via livestream on the Music at Pitt YouTube channel.
Saturday, January 13, 8:00 pm - counter)induction | Music On the Edge
Monday, January 22, 3:00 pm - Naomi André | Visiting Scholar Series
Pitt's Symphony Orchestra presents Beethoven's Symphony no. 7 (third movement), the premiere of graduate composer Marco Giusto's Four Pieces for orchestra, Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante for oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon, and orchestra (with faculty artists Cynthia Warren, Mary Beth Malek, Linda Fisher, and Jason Allison), and Stravinsky's Rite of Spring (abridged and arr. for modern instruments By Tom Kennedy).
Pitt's Symphony Orchestra performs David Stock's Triflumena (1978), Lou Harrison's Suite for Symphonic Strings (celebrating the composer's centennial), Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony no. 7 in A Major, op. 9.
The University Symphony Orchestra, in collaboration with Pitt Stages, presents Parade.