Roger Zahab leads the University of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in a program featuring student soloist Gabriel Freedman performing Anton Rubinstein's Piano Concerto no. 4 in D minor, op. 70. Dvorak's Symphonic Variations will round out the program.
The University Orchestra's final concert of the semester will include Bach's Third Brandenburg Concerto, Rachmaninov's Second Symphony and new works or arrangements by six undergraduates: Garrett Carson, Hamid Campbell, Christian Clark, Eric Gratta, Dan Rothman and Brandon Smith
The University of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra presents Elgar's Cello Concerto with cellist Stefan Poost, Mark Fromm's (PhD 2012) Steel, Slag, and Silicon, and Dvorak's Symphony No. 8.
Pitt Arts will host its second annual Arts Festival on Friday, September 5 and once again the slate of performers will highlight some of our outstanding Department of Music students. Our string quartet, featuring violinists Jennifer Hess and Olivia Jackson, cellist Eric Gratta and violin and viola instructor/orchestra director Roger Zahab on viola, will kick off the festival at noon on the porch of the William Pitt Union. Later on, at 3:30, members of the Pitt Jazz Ensemble will take to the WPU porch to entertain Festival attendees.
Director Roger Zahab leads the orchestra in Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto featuring soloist Jennifer Hess, Igor Stravinsky’s Suite No. 2, Burkhardt Reiter’s Amnesiac Responses, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8.
Composer Elizabeth Brown will perform on the theremin when the University of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra premieres her composition Arboretum tonight at Bellefield Hall Auditorium. Here are Brown's thoughts on Arboretum and the theremin.
"Arboretum is a sonic grove within a forest of audience members. The music gradually brings both musicians and audience into a slow sync, the speed of tree-time, with all participating in the theremin's electronic field.
Roger Zahab and the University of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra will host The William and Mary Symphony Orchestra, conducted by David Grandis, for a free concert at Bellefield Hall Auditorium. The program includes Elgar's Cello Concerto in e minor, featuring cellist John Anderson, and Schubert's Unfinished Symphony.
Updated: Tenor Robert Frankenberry joins the University of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra for Birtten's Nocturne. Director Roger Zahab will pick up his violin to perform Beethoven's Triple Concerto with cellist Paula Tuttle and pianist Donna Amato. Assistant conductor Matt Aelmore will lead the Beethoven.
The program will also include Bruch's Romance for Viola and Orchestra with Erin Araujo as viola soloist, Bruckner's Aequale in c minor for three trombones, and Bach's Sinfonia 11, BWV 797 performed by the Symphony Brass.
The December 4th Symphony Orchestra concert features oboe soloist Robin Driscoll in Tison Street’s Adagio in E flat for oboe and orchestra along with a world premiere composition by Andrew Head. Driscoll is a member of the private instruction faculty for the Department of Music and Head is a senior Music and Computer Engineering double major.