Pittsburgh New Music Net

Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
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The Trillium Ensemble was inaugurated in 2010 by Pittsburgh performers Katie Palumbo (piano), Pamela Murchinson (flute), and Rachael Stutzman (Alia Musica’s principal clarinetist). Their July 14 concert at Frick Fine Arts Auditorium (on Pitt’s Campus) includes music by Claude Debussy, Libby Larsen, Ernst Bloch, Jennifer Higdon, and Alia Musica composers Matthew Heap and Federico Garcia.

As a special offer in partnership with the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble present the program from this concert and get a $5 discount to a pnme concert!

You can hit a concert every night over this weekend, starting tonight with the PSO premiering Joan Tower’s new work Stroke. That concert is tonight and tomorrow night and features pianist and wolf conservationist (how often to you get to type that phrase?) Hélène Grimaud performing Mozart’s Piano Concert No. 23, K. 488, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2. Go to the Friday night show if you can so that…

You can catch Alia Musica Pittburgh’s second spring concert at Saturdany night at 7 p.m. (Synod Hall). And that’s not all! If you order now (or even if you don’t) you can hear ELCO’s “Mixtape” concert Sunday night at the Brewhouse, and as you would hope, there will be lots of Duquesne Pilsner on hand as part of the festivities (and coffee for the under 21 set.)

Whew! Are you ready?

Synod Hall
Tickets: $15 at the door, $12 for students and seniors.
Admission is free of charge for children under 15
Discount tickets available online at www.alia-musica.org/tickets.html

Program
Lenny Young: Augury (wind quintet)
Kerrith Livengood: imaginary average (clarinet, vibraphone)
David Lidov: Kierkegaard’s Pantoum (soprano, synthetic drones, and 13 instruments)
Matthew Gillespie: Chiaroscuro (mixed ensemble)
Molly Joyce: Collage of Mischief (French horn, piano, violin, cello)
Mark Fromm: Six for seven (oboe, bassoon, trumpet, French horn, piano, cello, bass)

Synod Hall
Tickets: $15 at the door, $12 for students and seniors.
Admission is free of charge for children under 15
Discount tickets available online at www.alia-musica.org/tickets.html

Marcus Kim: Songs for Iraqi Children (soprano, percussion, string quartet)

Program

Annika Socolofsky: Three Bulguriand Dances (2 flutes)

Jonathan Howard Katz Three Sketches (flute, clarinet, percussion, violin, cello

intermission

Federico Garcia: Aquel que al Verme (mezzosoprano, flute, viola, guitar, 2 percussionists)

Matthew Heap: Illicit Trysts (flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion)

Two great concerts this weekend: Third Coast Percussion, featuring Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble’s own David Skidmore, plays at the Carnegie Lecture Hall on Saturday night at 8; Alia Music Pittsburgh gives its Winter Concert on Sunday night at 7 p.m. at Chatham’s James Laughlin Music Hall. Complete details on the Events Calendar.

Can’t wait for all the new music goodness? Don’t!

And in case you missed them, some nice articles in the Post-Gazette recently covering the adventurous end of the local music spectrum. Check out Andy Druckenbrod’s article on Music on the Edge at 20, as well as Manny Theiner’s write-up of Ben Opie’s recent CD release of duets with Anthony Braxton.

And finally, for your reading and listening pleasure, Kerrith Livengood has a blog.

Alia Musica Pittsburgh returns January 30th with their annual Winter Chamber Concert; featuring the best of this summer’s recital series, including pieces by composers near and far, such as Burkhardt Reiter, Steven Stucky, Francis Poulenc, and many others.  Come join us at James Laughlin Hall on the Chatham University campus (music building) at 7:00 PM.  Tickets are $12 at the door, $10 in advance (through the website www.alia-musica.org, or from an Alia Musica Pittsburgh member).

If you are heading out to Heinz Hall tonight to see the PSO perform Joan Tower’s Concerto for Clarinet, don’t forget that it’s Light Up Night and there will be even more random street closures than usual. Via the PSO’s Facebook page,

STREET CLOSURES: Roberto Clemente Bridge (Sixth Street.): 5 a.m. – midnight.
Andy Warhol Bridge (Seventh Street): 9 a.m. – midnight.
Rolling closures (6 to 8 p.m.) from Ross Street to the corner of Stanwix and F…t. Duquesne Blvd.

The Rolling Closures should be the name of Pittsburgh’s next great Rock band. You heard it here first.

Sunday night, Alia Musica Pittsburgh performs at Frick Fine Arts Auditorium. Rumor has it there is a duo for two hi-hats on the program, so what more do I need to say?

Dang, time flies. Hard to believe this is Alia Musica Pittsburgh‘s fourth season, but it       is, and we’re showing our stuff on November 21st with our Fall Chamber Concert.             Come out to hear new music including Alan Hovhaness’s transcendent flute and harp     duo, The Garden of Adonis, along with works for everything from bassoon and                   piccolo  to two hi-hats.

Show starts at 7:00 PM, tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door.

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.