Music on the Edge
The Music at Pitt Podcast Previews Beyond 2020
The Music at Pitt Podcast previews the Beyond 2020: Microtonal Music Festival with a series of podcasts guest-hosted by composer and Beyond producer Laura Schwartz. Beyondcast I features members of Kamratōn Ensemble, vocalist Anna Elder and clarinetist Emily Cook. Anna and Emily join Laura to talk about their upcoming performances of works by Curtis Rumrill and Catherine Lamb.
Rosenblum's New Album Released
Mathew Rosenblum’s new recording Lament/Witches’ Sabbath is now available from New Focus Recordings. The album features some of Rosenblum’s highly ambitious recent compositions performed by an all-star slate of new music performers including David Krakauer, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, FLUX Quartet, Mantra Percussion, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, Lindsay Kesselman, and Lisa Pegher.
Music on the Edge: Instruments of Happiness Guitar Quartet
Copresented with the Andy Warhol Museum
Music on the Edge and the Andy Warhol Museum co-present Instruments of Happiness Guitar Quartet. Their program will include new works they commissioned by composers Alessa Cheung, René Lussier, Amy Williams, and Nicholas Ryan, as well as Equal But Opposite Reaction by Tim Brady, Deep Fields by Jordan Nobles, and Quartet for 4 guitars by Marc Mellits.
Music on the Edge: Mivos Quartet
Copresented with The Andy Warhol Museum
Music on the Edge and the Andy Warhol Museum co-present the Mivos Quartet. Their program will include Sofia Gubaidulina’s String Quartet No. 4, Felipe Lara’s Cord Vocale, and Georg Friedrich Haas’ String Quartet No. 3, “In iij. Noct”.
Music on the Edge: Da Capo Chamber Players
Copresented with The Andy Warhol Museum
Music on the Edge and the Andy Warhol Museum co-present the Da Capo Chamber Players. Their program will include Pittsburgh composer Eric Moe's Strenuous Pleasures along with works by Valerie Coleman, David Rakowski, David Sanford, and Joan Tower, one of the founding members of the ensemble.
Music on the Edge: Transient Canvas
Copresented with The Andy Warhol Museum
Film About Rosenblum's Composition Premieres April 30
In a Dark Wood, a film about Mathew Rosenblum's Lament/Witches Sabbath by Pittsburgh filmmaker David Bernabo will premiere at the Pittsburgh JFilm Festival on Monday, April 30th! In a Dark Wood charts the path of the composer's Lament/Witches’ Sabbath, a highly personal concerto written for world famous clarinetist/composer David Krakauer.
Music on the Edge: Court-circuit
Copresented with The Andy Warhol Museum
The highly regarded French ensemble presents a program featuring David Felder’s Partial (dist)res(s)toration, Philippe Leroux’s Continuo(ns), Christophe Bertrand’a Sanh, and Sean Shepherd’s The birds are nervous, the birds have scattered.