The Department of Music is part of the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences of the University of Pittsburgh. The department serves the University's undergraduate student body, music majors and music minors, and...
As the first professional musical ensemble with in-residency status at Pitt, IonSound Project gives a concert of new works by Pitt's graduate student composers each spring. The group also gives two concerts of their own programming at Bellefield Hall Auditorium, and performs at venues around the city. Find out about IonSound Project's 2012–13 season, CreatION Sound.
IonSound Project comprises flutist Peggy Yoo, clarinetist Kathleen Costello, violinist Laura Motchalov, cellist Elisa Kohanski, pianist Rob Frankenberry, and percussionist Eliseo Rael—six of the most in-demand young musicians in the Pittsburgh area. Collectively, they perform with such ensembles as the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Alabama Symphony, the Pittsburgh Opera, the Wheeling Symphony, the Erie Philharmonic, the Youngstown Symphony, and the Canton Symphony, and they have also appeared with the Columbus Symphony and the Charleston Symphony.
