December 2: Tuesday Noon Recital
The next Tuesday Noon Recital features music by Bach, Tchaikovsky, Elgar, and Szymanowski.
The next Tuesday Noon Recital features music by Bach, Tchaikovsky, Elgar, and Szymanowski.
The next Tuesday Noon Recital includes music by Back, Cage, Elgar, and Ravel.
Students from the Department of Music Chamber Music Class perform works for mixed ensemble by Telemann, Corelli, Reicha, Gershwin, and more.
Department of Music students perform Mozart, Rachmaninoff, and more for the next Tuesday Noon Recital.
The next Music Monday at Bellefield Hall features Brahms's C minor Piano Quartet, op. 60 (with Jad Hilal, Roger Zahab, Alan Huang and Gabe Freedman) and music for piano four hands by Debussy and Dvorak with Hazelle Ko and Yujin Jung.
Slavonic Dance, Antonin Dvorak
En Bateau (from Petite Suite), Claude Debussy
Emily Jung and Hazelle Ko, piano
The Fountain of Arethusa (1915), Karol Szymanowski
from Mythes, op. 30, (1882-1937)
Roger Zahab, violin*
Christian Clark, piano
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.
The University of Pittsburgh Department of Music presents Oboe Quartets by Mozart and Malcom Arnold in a program featuring former and current faculty of the Department. The ensemble will comprise oboist Robin Driscoll, violinist Kypros Markou, Roger Zahab on viola, and Paula Tuttle on cello. Markou, Zahab, and Tuttle will also perform Schubert's String Trio No. 2 in B flat, D. 571.
Natalie Rogers' Senior Voice Recital will include a wide variety of songs from the classical and jazz repertoire. The program will encompass Puccini ("O mio babbino caro"), Brahms ("Sonntag"), Ellington/Strayhorn/ Mercer ("Satin Doll"), Mikky Ekko and Justin Parker's "Stay", and much more.
Vocalist Chloe Wieczorek will present a recital of jazz standards including songs by Jerome Kern ("The Way You Look Tonight"), Betty Carter ("Bluebird of Happiness"), George Gershwin ("Summertime"), and many more. Joining Wieczorek are pianist Ben Clifton, drummer Nick Volk, bassist Charlie Scott, and saxophonist Nicholas Amoscato.
The recital is free but donations for the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network will be accepted and greatly appreciated.
The next Thursday Noon Recital features music by Arthur Hamiltorn, Erroll Garner, Elgar, Schubert, Dvorak, and Beethoven.