Pittsburgh New Music Net

Bellefield Hall Auditorium
FREE

IonSound Project will perform new music by Pitt’s grad student composers as part of their ongoing residency with the Pitt’s Department of Music.

Bellefield Hall Auditorium, free

Roger Zahab performs as violin soloist with the University of Pittsburgh Orchestra in the premiere of his vioentelechron, then takes the podium when Walter Morales performs Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1.

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

Saturday June 20 – 8 pm – $10
Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, University of Pittsburgh, Oakland

TRIO BRAAM DEJOODE VATCHER
Michiel Braam – piano
Wilbert DeJoode – double bass
Michael Vatcher – drums

Trio Braam DeJoode Vatcher comprises three of the Dutch jazz scene’s most idiosyncratic musicians, for whom freedom and adventure are essential values. They all play an absolutely equal role in the music, which can go in any direction depending on decisions made on the spot. Their long musical friendship results in intuitive playing of the highest order. The trio shines in short powerful pieces written by Michiel Braam, and combines a playful incorporation and expansion of older forms with forward-thinking innovation.

Listen to their latest CD “Change This Song” at http://www.michielbraam.com
or at http://www.myspace.com/bikbentbraam

“Pianist Michiel Braam is yet another superb performer who perfectly encapsulates everything that’s made New
Dutch Swing one of the most consistently lively and enjoyable scenes in contemporary jazz.”
-Dan Warburton, Paris Transatlantic

“The trio has one of the most integrated sounds I’ve heard from any such grouping. They travel the continuum
from Trad to Free with ease and dexterity. This one’s for lovers and haters of the piano trio alike.”
-Marc Medwin, Cadence Magazine

IonSound Project Week starts tonight with a performance of music by Pitt’s graduate student composers. The concert includes music by Matthew Heap, Ben Harris, Jonghee Kang, Alec Summers, and Mark Fromm. Eric Moe will sit in at the piano when regular IonSound pianist Rob Frankenberry declaims the text for Fromm’s Harmonices Mundi. The Pitt grad composers concerts takes place at 8 p.m. in Bellefield Hall Auditorium and is free to the public.

IonSound’s next performance takes place on Sunday, March 8 also at Bellefield Hall Auditorium. Please be aware that the start time of this concert has been moved to 7 p.m. Titled Hometown Heroes, the concert features music by Pittsburgh-based composers including honorary Pittsburgher John Adams, Patrick Burke, Jonathan Kolm, Eric Moe, David Stock, Philip Thompson, and the premiere of Roger Zahab’s entelechronicity between six persons. Tickets are are available at the door. General admission is $10 and student/senior admission is $5.