Pittsburgh New Music Net

Short notice, but there’s a fascinating event happening next Friday (the 17th) at 1107 Greenfield Ave. — a festive holiday party/experimental music show. If you’re a fan of food, beer, the end of the semester, Christmas, creepy basements, apples, and awesome improvisatory music, or even just some of the aforementioned things, you don’t want to miss this one. Music starts at 8:00, party continues, all are invited to stay and partake. A modest donation ($3) to help defray refreshment costs is requested, beverages and food welcomed.

IonSound Project and the Pittsburgh Chamber Music Society are pleased to announce the New Music Day-Pass for Sunday March 8, 2009. Purchase tickets to hear the Bugallo-Williams Piano Duo and IonSound Project with KnotDance and a light dinner in between, all for $20! Please see details below:

3 p.m. at Frick Fine Arts Auditorium (650 Schenley Dr. Pittsburgh, PA 15260)
Bridges Fine-tuned, Part II: Featuring the Bugallo-Williams Piano Duo premiering Amy Williams’ new composition for piano, with music by Gyorgy Kurtag, Machaut, Frescobaldi, Purcell, J.S. Bach, Conlon Nancarrow, and Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring for piano four hands.

5:15 p.m. at Bellefield Hall 2nd Floor Lobby ((315 S. Bellefield Ave. Pittsburgh PA 15213)
Share a light meal with the artists, including vegetarian and omnivorian deli sandwiches, salad, drinks, and dessert.

7 p.m. at Bellefield Hall Auditorium
IonSound Project, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Music’s Ensemble-in-Residence, will give a concert titled Hometown Heroes, featuring music by John Adams, Patrick Burke, Eric Moe, Jonathan Kolm, David Stock, Philip Thompson, and Roger Zahab, with choreography by KnotDance.

Purchase your New Music Day-Pass for $20 by contacting The Pittsburgh Chamber Music Society at
412-624-4129 or info@pittsburghchambermusic.org.
Visa or MasterCard accepted for phone orders

Or send order form and check payable to Pittsburgh Chamber Music Society to

Pittsburgh Chamber Music Society

315 S. Bellefield Ave, Room 305

Pittsburgh, PA 15213

The next 10 people who register for Pittsburgh New Music Net will receive free tickets to the Biava Quartet’s premiere of David Stock’s String Quartet No. 8 on Saturday, February 7 at the New Hazlett. Also on the program are Shostakovich String Quartet No. 8 in c minor, Op. 110 and Mendelssohn String Quartet in f minor, Op. 80., so there really is something for everyone. 

Registering is free and simple. Scroll down the right-hand column to “Meta” and click “Register.” After you’re signed up I’ll send you an e-mail to confirm that you’ll be attending the concert and your name will be placed on the will-call list. It’s that easy.

The next five people who register for Pittsburgh New Music Net will receive free tickets to Alia Musica’s Winter Concert  this Sunday night. The concert takes place at Frick Fine Arts Auditorium at 7 p.m. and features music by Kerrith Livengood, Christopher Ruth, Matt Gillespie, Alia director Federico Garcia, and includes works by guest composers Alec Summers and Christian Kriegeskotte.

Registering is free and simple. Scroll down the right-hand column to “Meta” and click “Register.” Once you’re a registered member you can add your own 2¢ to any of the posts on PNMNet. (You know you’ve been dying to do that.)

While most of the media attention this week is deservedly on the PSO’s “Special Concerts” with John Adams, there’s still more new music happening over the weekend. Music on the Edge presents the remarkable clarinetist Jean Kopperud and the equally remarkable Stephen Gosling on piano. The duo will perform an entire recital of premieres, including a new piece by Eric Moe and several short pieces by David Felder for clarinet, bass clarinet, and processed sound. If you were at the MOTE concert honoring Eugene Phillips last January, you may remember that Felder was also featured as Lehar composer-in-residence and his sonically rich works for acoustic instruments and live electronics were very well received.

Also, MOTE is offering everyone who shows up a free cup of hot chocolate (even though by Saturday the forecast is calling for a high of 18° …woohoo!) so how can you go wrong?

(Full disclosure: promoting MOTE is part of my job at Pitt, and I also like hot chocolate.)