Don’t forget that tonight’s the last night of the PNME 2010 season featuring the premiere of Ned McGowan’s Radiance, music by David Lang, Radiohead, and more.
And if you haven’t already heard, there’s an Alia Music recital on Sunday, August 1 featuring flutist Kerrith Livengood, cellist Simon Cummings, and pianist Matthew Gillespie. Sorry I didn’t get around to posting this on the calendar, but consider yourself fully informed.
A quick reminder that Alia Musica’s second spring 2010 performance is this Thursday, April 8, at Synod Hall. Be sure to check it out. I’ve been hearing great feedback about the March 26 concert.
IonSound will perform on Sunday, April 11 at Bellefield. Here’s a preview of their concert courtesy percussionist Eliseo Rael.
| April 8, 2010 | ||
| 7:00 pm |
Synod Hall
Mark Fromm: Harmonices Mundi
Ivan Jimenez: Luces incandescentes…
Jong Hee Kang: 4:30am, Prague
Federico Garcia: Endecaphony
Matthew Gillespie: Ineffable dissolutions
| March 26, 2010 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
G. F. Handel: Royal Fireworks (arr)
Kerrith Livengood: twelve ball bearings
Matthew Heap: Unravelling conversations
Nathan Hall: On the troposphere
Rob Frankenberry: Indianisches Tagebuch (Busoni)
Happy New Year to all of you who faithfully read this blog!
If it seems as though the new music scene has been a little feast or famine this season, well then prepare to feast! 2010 gets underway in grand style starting this Saturday night at the Warhol when Music on the Edge hosts ICE (the International Contemporary Ensemble). And to make things just perfect, the high on Saturday is supposed to be a whopping 16º! (Is it too late for them to change their name to BALMY?)
The following week includes concerts by the Polish Cultural Council presenting Zygmunt Krauze at Frick Fine Arts Auditorium (January 13), Alia Musica Pittsburgh’s winter chamber music concert at Chatham University (January 14), and on January 18, the Emerson Quartet performing music by Ives, Janacek, Barber, and Shostokovich. While the Emerson concert isn’t new music per se, it’s hard for me to imagine anyone appreciating this program more than the new music community.
That’s what I know of for January; you can find more details at the Events Calendar. I’ll begin posting events for the rest of the winter and spring soon, so as always, if you have info about an upcoming performance, do tell.
| January 14, 2010 | ||
| 7:00 pm |
James Laughlin Music Center, Chatham University
Tickets are $12 at the door, or $10 for students, seniors, and in advance online at www.alia-musica.org/tickets
Centered around Morton Feldman’s 1951 piece Projections II (for trumpet, flute, violin, cello, and piano), Alia Musica will perform its first concert of 2010 (the third event in its 2009-10 season) on Thursday January 14th, at 7pm, at the James Laughlin Music Center of Chatham University in Shadyside.
The program also includes music for 2 and 3 performers by Mark Fromm, Ivan Jimenez, Federico Garcia, Matthew Heap, Ayo Oluranti, and new composer member Lenny Young. Also featured is Pittsburgh-native guest composer Chris Catone, whose Le Mirlitone, for flute and fixed electronics, will be given its Pittsburgh premiere by flutist Kerrith Livengood.
For more information visit Alia Musica Pittsburgh’s home page.
Update: This concert begins at 7 p.m.
| October 2, 2009 | ||
| 4:00 pm | ||
| October 3, 2009 | ||
| 2:00 pm |
James Laughlin Music Hall
Chatham University will celebrate the Global Focus Year of West Africa at the Sounds of Africa Music Festival, Friday, October 2 and Saturday, October 3. Pauline Rovkah, professor of music and the festival director, has assembled Pittsburgh’s finest music scholars and musicians for an incredible weekend of free events in the James Laughlin Music Hall. For more information contact Pauline Rovkah at 412-365-1676 or rovkah@chatham.edu.
Friday, October 2, 4:00 p.m.
“Jazz Imaginings of Africa: Aesthetics, Memory, and the African Cultural Continuum”
This talk will include discussion and performance of select jazz composers’ works, which demonstrate the creative connections between traditional African music and modern jazz.
Dr. Kenan Foley, professor of music
Dr. Anicet Mundundu, a native of the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire), is an expert in traditional and contemporary music from the central African region
Immediately following: Trio performance featuring Dr. Mundundu
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Saturday, October 3, 2:00-4:30 p.m.
“Composition in Africa: Transmission and Reception” (Panel discussion, 2:00-3:00)
Moderator: Dr. Margit Hawelleck
Dr. Akin Euba, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Music, University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Kenan Foley
Mr Charles Lwanga
Dr. Eric Moe, composer and pianist, professor of music, University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Anicet Mundundu
Mr. Ayo Oluranti
Chamber Music Concert
Works by African composers: Kwabena Nketia, Akin Euba, Vindu Bangambula, Joshua Uzoigwe, Ayodamope Oluranti.
Performers: Kelly Lynch, Eric Moe, Roger Zahab, Robert Frankenberry, Oye
Dosunmu, Ayodamope Oluranti, Richard Page*, Pauline Rovkah, Alia Musica Sextet
*Principal Bass Clarinet of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
| September 15, 2009 | ||
| 7:00 pm |
$12 at the door; $10 for students, seniors, and online
Alia Musica Pittsburgh announces its Fall 2009 Concert, to take place on September 15th at 8pm in Bellefield Hall Auditorium. The concert features soprano Kelly Lynch in a program devoted to vocal music by Pittsburgh composers.
Ms. Lynch, an experienced singer of both opera and new music, will premiere the solo-voice composition The Flesh and the Spirit, by Duquesne University faculty composer Eli Tamar, and sing to various instrumental accompaniments, ranging from piano to 8-player chamber ensemble, in pieces by CMU faculty composer Reza Vali and Alia Musica composer members Federico Garcia and Matthew Gillespie. (more…)
| May 22, 2009 | ||
| 7:30 pm |
Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
Alia Musica members Kerrith Livengood (flute, composition) and Amy Galbraith (oboe) will give a recital this Friday, May 22nd. It’s at 7:30 at the Frick Fine Arts Auditorium (across from the Carnegie Library). The concert features music by Ravel, Muczynski, and Ginastera plus works by Federico Garcia and Livengood.
With Matt Gillespie, piano
Admission is free but donations will be accepted for for Alia Musica Pittsburgh
Alia Musica members Kerrith Livengood (flute, composition) and Amy Galbraith (oboe) will give a recital this Friday, May 22nd. It’s at 7:30 at the Frick Fine Arts Building auditorium (across from the Carnegie Library) and will feature some
Admission is free, but all donations go to Alia Musica Pittsburgh.