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Music Performance Showcase
Monday, April 1
8:00 pm
Bellefield Hall Auditorium
FREE and open to the public
Enjoy performances by members of the Pitt community.
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Jacob Fisher - Senior Capstone Album | Breakfast & Beats
Friday, April 5
Digital Release at Midnight
A new album release is on the way. Sources say it combines elements of funk, hip-hop, and jazz. This 25-minute instrumental is rumored to funk your socks off, so bring an extra pair.
Jacob Fisher is a fourth-year undergraduate music major at the University of Pittsburgh. Studying on the composition track, he was presented with the task of creating a senior capstone project. He always wanted to produce an instrumental album that best represents his musical tastes and abilities, and his 2024 creation, "BREAKFAST & BEATS," includes songs accumulated throughout his four years of undergraduate experience. Mr. Fisher requests first-time listeners to wear their best pair of headphones while enjoyin the best meal of the day.
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Ella Battistelli - Senior Capstone Recital
Friday, April 5
8:00 pm
Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
Ella Battistelli presents her Senior Capstone Recital on Friday, April 5 at 8:00pm in Frick Fine Arts Auditorium. She will be accompanied by Chris Catone. The recital is free and open to the public.
Ella Battistelli started playing the flute at the age of 9 and has loved it ever since. She is currently a flute performance major at the University of Pittsburgh and will graduate with a Bachelor of Arts in Music at the end of April. Ella plans to continue working as a Kindermusik Educator at Kathy’s Music in Mt. Lebanon and will attend Duquesne University in the fall to earn a Master of Music Therapy degree. She hopes to work with pediatric and adolescent populations in a hospital setting.
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AfroPop Ensemble
Monday, April 8
8:00 pm
Bellefield Hall Auditorium
FREE and open to the public
This concert features compositions and arrangements resulting from the interconnections between African music and the music of the African diaspora, with elements such as call and response, repetition, improvisation, and syncopation.
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Small Jazz Ensemble
Saturday, April 13
3:00 pm
The Understory
Members of the University of Pittsburgh Small Jazz Ensemble perform jazz standards and modern arrangements in the Understory.
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University Gamelan Ensemble
Saturday, April 13
8:00 pm
Bellefield Hall Auditorium
The University Gamelan Ensemble plays the gamelan music of the Sundanese people. Pitt's gamelan group includes students as well as community members. Participants in the gamelan program are encouraged to use Sundanese processes of learning as much as possible; oral transmission of musical parts is preferred over written notation and working together as an ensemble is more important than developing individual talent. This concert comes at the conclusion of The Politics of Contemporary Sound in Indonesia Symposium.
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Performers Collective Performance
Sunday, April 14
2:00 pm
Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
FREE and open to the public
University Faculty and Graduate Students perform original compositions. Featuring special guest artist Sarah Steranka on Flute.
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Treble Choral Ensemble
Sunday, April 14
3:00 pm
Heinz Memorial Chapel
FREE and open to the public
The Pitt Treble Choral Ensemble presents their Spring Concert in the beautiful ambience of Heinz Memorial Chapel.
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Bluegrass Ensemble
Sunday, April 14
8:00 pm
Bellefield Hall Auditorium
FREE and open to the public
Our newest ensemble, led by Bryce Rabideau, will perform a in wide variety of bluegrass styles. The ensemble is comprised of students, faculty, and staff, performing repertoire from traditional irish fiddle tunes to modern bluegrass favorites.
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Music Performance Showcase
Monday, April 15
8:00 pm
Bellefield Hall Auditorium
FREE and open to the public
Enjoy performances by members of the Pitt community.
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Jazz Salon
Tuesday, April 16
8:00 pm
Bellefield Hall Auditorium
FREE and open to the public
Join the Pitt Jazz Salon for their spring concert in the Bellefield Hall Auditorium.
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University of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Wednesday, April 17
8:00 pm
Bellefield Hall Auditorium
FREE and open to the public
The University of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Roger Zahab, Conductor
PROGRAM
Ludwig van Beethoven – Egmont Overture
Julia Perry (arr. Roger Zahab): Prelude for Strings (1946, rev.62)
conducted by Naama Perel-Tzadok
Juwon Adenuga: Afehyiapa (world premiere performance)
Julia Perry: Concerto no. 2 for Piano in Two Uninterrupted Speeds (1964-69) (U.S. premiere)
with Robert Frankenberry, piano
Claude Debussy: La Mer – Trois esquisses symphoniques
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Pitt Jazz Ensemble
Thursday, April 18
8:00 pm
Bellefield Hall Auditorium
FREE and open to the public
Pitt's student-based Jazz Ensemble performs live on the Bellefield Hall Auditorium stage under the direction of Ralph Guzzi.
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Pitt African Music & Dance Ensemble
Friday, April 19
8:00 pm
Bellefield Hall Auditorium
FREE and open to the public
Pitt African Music and Dance Ensemble (PAMDE) specializes in music and dance from Africa. It introduces students to various techniques of drumming, dancing, and other artistic expressions of Africa. Through drumming, voice, dance, and other musical and visual art forms, this ensemble brings to the stage a unique African theatrical experience.
This year, Yamoussa Camara and PAMDE will be joined by Timbeleza (Brazilian Samba) and the Point Park Dancers (under the direction of Yamoussa Camara).
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Jazz Voice Student Recital
Saturday, April 20
1:00 pm
Music Building, Room 132
Jazz Voice Recital from the studio of Sandy Dowe.
FREE and open to the public
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Pitt Men's Glee Club
Saturday, April 20
7:30 pm
First Baptist Church of Pittsburgh
The Pitt Men's Glee Club presents their annual Spring Concert at the beautiful First Baptist Church of Pittsburgh on N Bellefield Ave just behind the Music Building. The Glee Club will sing an a cappella concert featuring classical works by Billings, Clausen and Mendelssohn. The program also will feature Sea Shanties and barbershop arrangements of popular songs by Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers and Stevie Wonder.
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Heinz Chapel Choir
Sunday, April 21
3:00 pm
Heinz Memorial Chapel
FREE and open to the public.
Join the HCC to hear their spring concert program, Sing & Make Music, acknowledge our graduating seniors, and help us celebrate HCC’s 85th anniversary as we herald the close of the 2023-24 academic year.
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Irene Monteverde Dissertation Defense
Monday, April 22
1:00 pm
Music Building, Room 132
Irene Monteverde will defend, "Absence, Communion, Anarchy: Temporal Experience and the Objects of Pittsburgh's Erroll Garner". The committee consists of Aaron Johnson (chair), Michael Heller, Adriana Helbig, Christopher Nygren and Robin D. G. Kelley (UCLA).
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Pitt Jazz Wednesdays on the Hill - Honoring Sonny Clark
Wednesday, April 24
6:00 pm
Pitt Hill District Community Engagement Center
FREE and open to the public
The Pitt Jazz Wednesdays on the Hill concert series continues with a tribue to Pittsburgh great Sonny Clark. The final spring concert of the series takes place on Wednesday, May 15 with a tribute to guitarists Jimmy Ponder and George Benson.
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