Pittsburgh New Music Net

Thursday, January 24th, 7:00 pm
CAPA’s Cabaret Theatre
111 9th St
free

CAPA Antithesis, the new-music ensemble of Pittsburgh CAPA 6-12, presents its winter concert, under the direction of Alia Musica member (and CAPA teacher) Lenny Young. This concert will also see the debut of a brand new music group, CAPA Electro-Acoustic Ensemble, under the direction of composer Alec Summers. Music includes original works by the directors and students, plus pieces by Charles Mingus, Carl Bergstrom-Nielsen, Tom Johnson and local composer Dave Bernabo.

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What a great concert last night with the Bugallo-Williams piano duo—a great wrap up for Music on the Edge’s 2011-12 season. Pittsburgh’s new music scene is really moving along!

In fact, I’m excited to announce the Hear/Now festival on April 13 and 14. It’s coproduced by the Kelly Strayhorn Theater and Alia Musica.—I’m really honored to have helped curate a pretty cool line-up for this first time.

I don’t even know where to start mentioning the highlights and keeping the list short without leaving out some of the coolest stuff! Performers include eighth blackbird’s Tim Munro, DJ Spooky, Attack Theater’s Dave Eggar, PNME’s Conor Hanik, Pittsburgh’s own Eric Moe and Michael Johnsen… there are numbers by Alia Musica, ELCO, OvreArts, and Freya Quartet, multimedia acts by Chris McGlumphy, Alisha Wormsley, and a party at the Shadow Lounge with Ben Opie and DJ Soy Sos.

And the music that is being played! We’ll get to hear Varèse (Alia Musica is playing Octandre), Cage (in Tim Munro’s own solo-flute version of the Aria for solo voice), Feldman and Worinen played by PNME’s Conor Hanik, a Philip Glass quartet performed by Freya Quartet… I get to premiere a piece by George Tsontakis with Alia Musica too

Not to mention the plenty of music by Pittsburgh composers: Mathew Rosenblum’s wonderful Circadian Rhythms, piano music by him and Eric Moe (performed by Eric himself), John Newkom’s string quartet, a premiere by John Arrigo-Nelson, the music of Luke Mayernik…

For details and discount tickets visit the Kelly Strayhorn website. The event is also announced on Facebook, so make sure to like the organizations involved!

Now rescheduled for Friday 2/17.

CAPA Cabaret Theater
111 9th St
Free Admission

CAPA High School’s Antithesis Ensemble, directed by Greg Davis and Lenny Young, presents an evening of “non-traditional” music focusing on the theme of graphic notation. The program includes major works by composers such as Kagel and Cardew in addition to compositions by CAPA Students.

CAPA’s Cabaret Theatre
111 9th St
free

Antithesis presents a concert featuring music by forerunners of the “Ambient” movement including Satie, Cage, and Reich as well as works by students of CAPA 6-12.

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Take your senses on a trip! – come see CAPA’s Contemporary Music Ensemble, Antithesis, perform this Monday, May 17th @ 7:00 p.m. in CAPA’s Cabaret Theatre (where Dowe’s Theatre used to be).

The program will contain a variety of pieces, many of which are original works by CAPA students.  The program will include a variety of works, many of which are student compositions.  The works on the program are very diverse, ranging from fully-composed works to chance music to theremin improv with spoken voice.

More information can be found on the Facebook event page.

On Monday, May 17th, Antithesis, CAPA High School’s new music ensemble, will present its annual concert.  The concert is at 7pm in CAPA’s Cabaret Theater (where Dowe’s used to be).

The program will include a variety of works, many of which are student compositions.  The works on the program are very diverse, ranging from fully-composed works to chance music to theremin improv with spoken voice.

On Tuesday, March 30th, come see CAPA High School’s new music ensemble, Antithesis, perform alongside percussionist/composer Lukas Ligeti and Ben Opie (saxophonist of Opek and Thoth Trio) at Garfield Artworks, 4931 Penn Ave.  The concert begins at 7:30 pm and admission is $10, open to all ages.  Hope to see you there!