2015 Beyond Microtonal Music Festival
Copresented with The Andy Warhol Museum Friday, February 27-Sunday, March 1. View the complete schedule.
Music on the Edge
Music on the Edge: Violist Jessica Meyer and Guitarist Seth Josel
Copresented with The Andy Warhol Museum
SOLD OUT: Music on the Edge: Amernet String Quartet
Copresented with The Andy Warhol Museum
This concert is SOLD OUT. Find out about all our next concerts from Music on the Edge.
Music on the Edge and The Andy Warhol Museum will present Amernet String Quartet at the Warhol in a concert that includes music by Elliott Carter, Eric Moe, Amy Williams, and Chinary Ung.
Music on the Edge: MOTE Chamber Orchestra
Roger Zahab conducts I give you the end of a golden string by Judith Weir (Master of the Queen’s Music),
Meridian Arts Ensemble
Music on the Edge opens its 2014–15 season with Meridian Arts Ensemble. A sextet comprising five brass players and a percussionist, Meridian is America’s leading brass group exploring the music of today. Meridian’s program will feature two compositions by Andrew Rindfleisch, In the Zone and Four Fanfares for Two Trumpets, along with his arrangements of music by Stephen Foster (Ring de Banjo), James Thornton (When You Were Sweet Sixteen) and Walter Kollo (Warte, Warte nur ein Weilchen).
Moe Appointed Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Music
The University of Pittsburgh has appointed Eric Moe Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Music, an endowed position held previously by Professor of Music Emeritus Akin Euba. Moe’s appointment to the Mellon Professorship begins the latest chapter in a distinguished career that has been punctuated by critical acclaim and accolades from fellow composers, performers, and audiences alike.
Preview of Music of Burr Van Nostrand
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette classical music critic Elizabeth Bloom previewed Saturday's Music of Burr Van Nostrand concert.
Pittsburgh Symphony Performs Pitt Composers
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra will present the next installment in its yearlong celebration of Pittsburgh composers over the weekend of February 7–9 with a program that features new compositions by Department of Music faculty members Mathew Rosenblum and Amy Williams and graduate student Bomi Jang. Rosenblum, Williams, and Jang are three of the five composers commissioned by the PSO to contribute one movement each to a five-movement composition titled The Elements.
Music on the Edge and The Consortium Present Anthony Coleman
Music on the Edge and The Consortium will present a a solo piano concert by Anthony Coleman on Friday, February 21 at 8 p.m. at First Unitarian Church in Shadyside. Admission is $10 at the door. Bassist Jason Ajemian will open the evening.
Lecture: Composer-Pianist-Conductor Anthony Coleman Discusses His Music
From the Sarajevo Jazz Festival to the Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow, Poland, Anthony Coleman’s musical odyssey has taken him through many cultures and led him to wear many hats as composer, improvising keyboardist, and teacher. Coleman joined the NEC faculty in 2006, returning to a school where he himself studied in the 1970s, during the birth of NEC’s Contemporary Improvisation program (then called Third Stream).