The University of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Roger Zahab, will perform Dvorak’s 7th Symphony and two works by Hector Berlioz: Beatrice and Benedict Overture and Reverie et Caprice. Reverie et Caprice will feature violin soloist Olivia Jackson, a sophomore bioengineering student at Pitt.
Chhandayan Center for Indian Music presents, in association with University of Pittsburgh will present an Evening of Indian Classical Vocal Music with Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty. He will be accompanied by Sandip Ghosh, tabla; Gourab Chatterjee, harmonium; Brajeswar Mukherjee, vocal. Pitt tabla instructor Samir Chatterjee curated this event.
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Music at Pitt is starting November off in a big way and local media have taken notice. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette published previews of the Jazz Seminar and Concert and Sweeney Todd, while the City Paper conducted extensive interviews with Jan and Amy Williams in anticipation of the Morton Feldman Symposium and Mini-Festival.
Congratulations to the cast and orchestra!
Pitt's Orchestra performs
Ludwig van Beethoven's Egmont Overture - Jonghee Kang, conductor
Antonio Vivaldi's Concerto for 2 celli in g minor - Isabela Negrin and Eric Gratta, soloists
Jonghee Kang's Will you take me home (When the Spring Wind Blows)?
Antonin Dvorak's Symphony no. 7 in d minor, op. 70
Roger Zahab, conductor
Updated: Roger Zahab leads the orchestra in Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Robert Ward's Dialogues, a Triple Concerto
Jen Hess, violin; Eric Gratta, cello; and Harry Jamison, piano
Eric Moe's Sonatuna for clarinet and string quartet
with soloists John Culver, clarinet; Jen Hess, violin; Andy Macgregor, cello
and W.A.Mozart's Symphony in D, K 504 Prague
Pitt's Orchestra performs Brahms, Schultz, and Holst.
Johannes Brahms: Scherzo from Trio in e flat major, op. 40
Zachary Koopmans, horn*, and Evan Mallory, piano+ with Roger Zahab, violin*
Gustav Holst: Double Concerto for two violins with Jen Hess & Wil Snead, solo violinists
Robert Schultz: Legend for string orchestra
Johannes Brahms: Symphony no. 2 in D major, op. 73
OCC credit is available for this concert.
*faculty artist
+ guest artist
The Theatre Arts Department's production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleeet Street will feature Pitt's Symphony Orchestra in the pit under the direction of Roger Zahab, and Glee Club director Richard Teaster as Sweeney.
The program for the final UPSO concert of 2011 includes Antonin Dvorak's Slavonic Dance, op. 46 no. 1 – Jonghee Kang, conducting; Tison Street's Fantasia for 6 cellos; J.S. Bach's Concerto in c minor for oboe, violin, strings and basso continuo, BWV 1060, featuring oboist Emily Cappo and violinist Wil Snead; and Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Concerto no. 1 in D flat, Harry Jamison, piano and Roger Zahab, conducting.
Pitt's Symphony Orchestra performs David Mahler's Three Pieces after Charles Ives and Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony no. 6 – Pastoral.