2012 Events
April 21, 2012
Akron Chronogram premiered by the Akron Symphony Orchestra and conductor Christopher Wilkins
with videography by Laura Ruth Bidwell
in collaboration with the Akron Art Museum
world premiere
at 8 pm
E.J.Thomas Hall for the Performing Arts
Akron, Ohio
April 6, 2012
more suspicions of nakedness
suspicion of nakedness - second performance
Lindsey Goodman, flute at 8 pm
Bowling Green University
Ohio
April 5, 2012
suspicion of nakedness - first performance
Lindsey Goodman, flute
at 7:30 pm
Allegheny College
Meadville, PA
January 30, 2012
Flute Force frequently dances a Tambourin/Dabke
Superb flutists known collectively as Flute Force (Rie Schmidt, Sheryl Henze, Elizabeth Brown and Wendy Stern) will perform Tambourin/Dabke (from my setting of Dickens' A Christmas Carol) at the following locations and times:
• January 30, 2012, at SUNY Fredonia. 4 p.m. masterclass and evening concert.
• January 31, 2012, at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario Canada. Lunchtime Concert followed by workshop.
• February 2, 2012, at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. 1:30 p.m. concert.
• February 3, 2012, at West Virginia University. Concert.
• March 19, 2012, at Northern Kentucky University. Concert.
• March 23, 2012, at Cincinnati Art Museum. Concert.
• March 24, 2012, at Dennison University, Granville, Ohio. Masterclass and concert.
• March 26, 201, at Baldwin Wallace College. Masterclass.
• March 27, 2012, at University of Akron. Concert, 7-10 pm.
April 12, 2012, Christ and St. Stephen's Church New York City
January 20, 2012
Contemporary Viola Music
Friday Afternoon Musicale, 4:00 pm
Roger Zahab, viola and Robert Frankenberry, piano
Music by Benjamin Britten, Elizabeth Brown, Akin Euba, Elizabeth Maconchy, Jeffrey Nytch and Roger Zahab
James Laughlin Music Center
Chatham University
Pittsburgh, PA
January 19, 2012
Lindsey and Rob take some measures for living to Marshall
Chrysalis -
Lindsey Goodman - flute/voice & Robert Frankenberry - piano/voice will perform ...some measures for living on thursday at 8:00 pm in a concert with music by Eli Tamar, Eric Moe, Gilda Lyons, Joseph Schwantner and Kieren MacMillan - free
to the public.
Smith Recital Hall
Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia
January 8, 2012
Roger's Autumn Songs
Soprano Kelly Lynch and pianist Walter Morales perform Music by Pittsburgh composers: Reza Vali, Roger Zahab and Robert Schultz; Featuring flutist Alberto Almarza, at 3:00 pm
Sunday Afternoon Vocal series
James Laughlin Music Center
Chatham University
Pittsburgh, PA
2011 Events
December 2, 2011
how to sing properly
performed by RZ, violin; Paula Tuttle, cello and Pauline Rovkah, piano
Candlelight Celebration
8 pm
Campbell Memorial Chapel
Chatham University
Pittsburgh, PA
November 29, 2011
Chrysalis - some measures for living
Lindsey Goodman - flute & Robert Frankenberry - piano will perform ...some measures for living on tuesday at 8:00 pm in a concert with music by Eli Tamar, Eric Moe, Gilda Lyons, Joseph Schwantner and Kieren MacMillan
University of Mount Union
Presser Hall
Alliance, Ohio
November 28, 2011
Roger's duos for violins
Shepherd's Tune (1998)
meggie's (2005)
Jennifer Hess and RZ, violins
Bellefield Hall Auditorium
University of Pittsburgh
October 20, 2011
An Evening wih Steven Stucky
Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble
readings from the works of Rachel Carson
Atlantic Drift (2006) Judith Weir
Wil Snead and Roger Zahab, violins
Duetti per violini (1979-83) Luciano Berio
Jennifer Hess and Wil Snead, violins
The Sojer and the Throut (1999) Barbara White
Jennifer Hess and Roger Zahab, violins
Sonata for solo violin (1944) Béla Bartók
I Tempo di ciaccona
Roger Zahab, violin
Sad Birds (from Miroirs – 1904-5) Maurice Ravel
Album Leaves (2002) Steven Stucky
Robert Frankenberry, piano
Tres Pinturas Steven Stucky
Roger Zahab, violin and Robert Frankenberry, piano
James Laughlin Music Center - Founder's Room/Welker Room
Chatham University
7:30 pm
September 25, 2011
Across Time
Roger Zahab, violin and Robert Frankenberry, piano, with violinist Wil Snead perform Leos Janacek: Sonata, Tison Street: Arias, Ton -That Tiet: Metal Terre Eau, Takemitsu: Distance de Fee, Dennis Tobenski: Duo (first performance), Judith Weir: Atlantic Drift and short pieces by Roger Zahab. Sunday at 7 pm Admission is Free.
James Laughlin Music Center
Chatham University
Pittsburgh, PA
September 11, 2011
Memorial Concert at Chatham ...and stars will appear
Roger's meditation for string quartet ...and stars will appear will be performed along with Barber's Adagio by MaryBeth Glasgow Schotting, JJ Johnson, Paula Tuttle and the composer at 3 pm
Chatham University
Chatham Chapel
Pittsburgh, PA
September 11, 2011
a smoldering kiss from Celliola
Celliola and Friends:
Cynthia Fogg, viola
Tom Flaherty, cello
Rachel Huang, violin
Gwendolyn Lytle, soprano
Genevieve Feiwen Lee, piano
William Peterson, organ; Jonathan Wright, violin; Alma Zook, oboe; Kyoko Kurita, cello; James Lipson, baritone;
Hsuanwei Fan, tenor; Joel Fishbein, tenor; Elizabeth Kokemoor, alto; Lisa Lam, violin; Jose Munoz, viola; Marisa Weisberger, flute; Jeremy Wright, violin; Joanne Wright, flute;
Viola and cello:
Roger Zahab: smoldering kiss
Eric Moe: And Life Like Froth Doth Throb
Solo Cello:
Tom Flaherty: Remembrance of Things Present
Violin and Cello:
Ravel: Sonata for Violin and Cello
Soprano, Viola, Cello, Piano
Fogg/Flaherty: Songs of the Viola
I. Grand Pause
II. Frets
III. Heartbeat of the Universe (premiere)
Cast of Dozens and Singing Audience:
Stunned Unity (premiere)
at 3:00 PM
Bridges Hall of Music
150 E 4th Street
Claremont, California
August 25, 2011
aria Ada
Thursday, 6:30 - 7:30 pm Tanya Maggi and David Russell premiere Roger Zahab's brand new "aria Ada" (only 3 months old) alongside his "barcarolla Teo" (almost 3 yrs!!) Shaw Pong Liu, Tanya Maggi and David also play works of Beethoven, Saariaho and Michael East. and a new piece by Shaw Pong. Admission is free.
Hyde Park Library, Hyde Park, MA
35 Harvard Ave
Hyde Park, MA
August 21, 2011
moving house - chamber music
Roger Zahab violin, Evan Mallory - cello/piano & Andrej Savol, piano
the music: Beethoven Piano Trio in D Major "Ghost", op. 70, no. 1; Brahms selections from Waltzes, op. 39 & Prokofiev Sonata for violin and piano (no. 1) in f minor, op. 80; sunday afternoon at 2 pm
420 N. Craig Street
Pittsburgh, PA
August 14, 2011
time + memory = music
Roger Zahab, composer/violinist, briefly talks about time and memory and joins with pianist Robert Frankenberry and Michael Early, electric guitar in a short concert of works by John Cage, Tamar Diesendruck, Jonathan Bailey Holland, Michael Early, and John Fitz Rogers as well as his own music.
Sunday at 1:30 pm
Noble Lounge
Vermont College of Fine Arts
Montpelier, VT
June 25, 2011
Benefit for Tornado Relief (entelechronicity between six persons)
Music on the Hill hosts a fundraising event with
IonSound Project to benefit tornado relief efforts in Alabama
Music by Brahms, Dvorak, Kolm and Zahab (entelechronicity between six persons) at 4 pm
Beulah Presbyterian Church
2500 McCrady Road
Churchill, PA 15235
May 2, 2011
BMOP Club Concert #3: cellist David Russell plays reaching after
Monday at 7:30pm
Doors open for full bar service at 7:00pm
program:
Stratis Minakakis ŕ 6 (2010) for solo soprano
Jennifer Ashe, soprano
Rudolf Rojahn Hedda (2007) for solo violin
Gabriela Diaz, violin
Paul Méfano Involutive (1958) for solo clarinet
Amy Advocat, clarinet
Roger Zahab reaching after (2003) for solo cello
David Russell, cello (Boston premiere)
Julia Werntz Five Vignettes from the Garden by the Sea (2009) for violin and cello
Gabriela Diaz, violin
David Russell, cello
Katarina Miljkovic For Amy (2010) for Bohlen-Pierce clarinet and electronics
Amy Advocat, clarinet
for tickets: http://www.bmop.org/season-tickets/club-concert-3-0
Club Oberon in Harvard Square
Boston, Massachussetts
April 13, 2011
University of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Charles Ives: Fugue (from the Fourth Symphony) (1909) Roger Zahab, conducting
Charles Ives: Set for Theatre Orchestra - Charles Corey, conducting
Burkhardt Reiter:
Amnesiac Responses (2010) premiere performance
Igor Stravinsky: Firebird Suite (1910/19) - Roger Zahab, conducting
8 pm, free admission
Bellefield Hall Auditorium on the University of Pittsburgh's Oakland campus
April 4, 2011
violin solos by Randall Woolf and Roger Zahab
The University of Pittsburgh Department of Music presents
Music Monday at 8:00 pm
Roger Zahab: For Robert Fairman
Randall Woolf: I Have No Ax To Grind
with performances by
Alexandra Spallione, Cheng Li & Dominique Dela Cruz, flutes,
Emily McNall, oboe, Yingzhen Han, clarinet, Audrey Lim, violin, Nicholas Stamatakis, piano, Ellyn Mayher, piano, Kathryn Zoerb, cello and voice, Andrew Gidley, voice, Harry Jamison, piano and Roger Zahab violin
music by
C.P.E. Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, Carl Reinecke, Andrew Gidley, Jesse Gagich, Harry Jamison,, Randall Woolf, Roger Zahab and Kathryn Zoerb
Bellefield Hall Auditorium on the University of Pittsburgh's Oakland campus
April 1, 2011
Seattle Percussion Collective : bicoastal
the program includes: In Memoriam…Esteban Gomez by Robert Ashley, Beaten Paths by Milton
Babbitt, Letters from the Earth by Sarah Bassingthwaighte (World
Premiere), Transition by Nat Evans (World Premiere), Music for Magnets
by Paul Kikuchi (World Premiere), Canon #5 by Larry Polansky, I Riti:
Ritual March by Giacinto Scelsi, and Bicoastal by Roger Zahab.
Chapel Performance Space
Wallingford, Seattle WA
8 PM
$5-15 Donation at the door
March 5, 2011
Music on the Edge and The Andy Warhol Museum present entelechron
entelechron - comprising pianist Robert Frankenberry, cellist David Russell, violinist Roger Zahab and guest percussionist Bill Sallak will perform music of John Cage on Saturday, March 5th at 8 pm. The program will include Nocturne for violin and piano, Water Music for pianist, Child of Tree, Harmonies from Apartment House 1776, one each from Etudes Australes, Etudes Boreales, Freeman Etudes, and Music for Four.
Robert Frankenberry, David Russell, and Roger Zahab are well known to Pittsburgh New Music audiences for their performances with The Music on the Edge Chamber Orchestra (which Zahab directs), IonSound Project, and the Music on the Edge Ensemble. Frankenberry, Russell, and Zahab have performed together since 1994 when they convened to premiere Zahab's Illegible Streets. As a performing subsidiary of Ohio entelechron (an imaginative utility providing continuous service in all dimensions) their repertoire encompasses more than seven hundred years of music often involving consultants and guest artists.
The Andy Warhol Museum
117 Sandusky Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15212
information@warhol.org
Tickets in advance through ProArtsTickets: general admission $15, students and seniors $10. At the door: General admission $20, students and seniors $15.
March 3, 2011
An Evening With Joan Tower & PNME
When: Thursday, March 3, 2011 at 7PM
Parking: We recommend the Theater Square Garage.
Price: $50 per person, includes light refreshments (click here to RSVP and pay online)
Note: There is not an actual "ticket" to purchase. Just make a donation for $50 per person and indicate "Joan Tower" in the comments field.
Joan Tower is widely regarded as one of the most important American composers living today. During a career spanning more than fifty years, she has made lasting contributions to musical life in the United States as composer, performer, conductor, and educator. Her works have been commissioned by major ensembles, soloists, and orchestras, including the Emerson, Tokyo and Muir quartets, soloists Evelyn Glennie, Carol Wincenc, David Shifrin, John Browning, and the orchestras of Chicago, New York, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and Washington DC among others. You may remember Joan's Petroushskates from the opening concert of PNME's 2010 summer season. Learn more about Joan here.
Join PNME Artistic Director Kevin Noe and members of the PNME team for this special evening featuring music, refreshments, and an opportunity to spend time with one of the world's most fascinating and inspirational composers.
for more information: http://www.pnme.org/Tower.html
Where: The Residence Lounge at The Encore on 7th, 100 7th Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222
March 2, 2011
University of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Wednesday at 8 pm
free admission
program:
Joan Tower: Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman no. 5 (for four trumpets)
Eric Benjamin: Rhapsody on an Astral Theme
Amy Williams: Pulse Stream
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
Roger Zahab, conducting
Bellefield Hall Auditorium on the Oakland campus
February 14, 2011
Music Monday
The University of Pittsburgh Department of Music presents
Music Monday
8:00 pm - free admission
J. S. Bach: Allemanda & Sarabande from Partita in b minor, BWV 1002
in memory of Joshua Adam Kizina
Daron Hagen: Suite for Violin (1984)
Roger Zahab, violin*
Eric Moe: Where Branched Thoughts Murmur Through the Wind (2000)
Giacomo Puccini - Yvar Mikhashoff: Trittico Fantasy (1991)
Robert Frankenberry, piano+
J. S. Bach: Cello Suite #6 in D, BWV 1012
Paula Tuttle, violoncello*
Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel: Andante espressivo – Lied. Allegretto from Trio in d minor, op. 11
Naomi Latoracca, piano
Jeff Borrebach, cello
Roger Zahab, violin
* faculty artist; + guest artist
Bellefield Hall Auditorium
University of Pittsburgh Oakland campus
February 6, 2011
Lindsey Goodman and Rob Frankenberry take some measures for living
Prism Projects presents Lindsey Goodman, flutes, Robert Frankenberry, piano and Eva Rainforth, soprano
Roger Zahab: …some measures for living
Amy Williams: First Lines
Eli Tamar: Vicious Circles
Joseph Schwantner: Black Anemones
Gilda Lyons: Chrysalis
Jeffrey Nytch: From the Soul of Silence
at 4:00 pm on Sunday, free will offering
St. Peter's Episcopal Church
346 W. 20 St. (8-9 Aves)
in Chelsea, NYC
February 2, 2011
University of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra performs Zahab, Saint-Saens & Debussy
Zahab: American Fields and Geometry I (premiere of version for full orchestra)
Saint-Saëns: Violin Concerto no. 3 in b minor with Rebecca Theophanous, violin soloist
Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Roger Zahab, conductor
Wednesday at 8 pm
Bellefield Hall Auditorium
on the University of Pittsburgh Oakland campus
free admission
January 30, 2011
Angelic Consort and secret device: NYC premieres
NEW YORK VIOLA SOCIETY presents Collegial Concert I
J.J. Johnson, viola & Gary Adler,piano will perform Roger's Angelic Consort after which J.J. will activate Zahab's secret device for sola viola. The full program includes:
Ernest Bloch Suite Hebraique for Viola and Piano (1950)
Emily Bookwalter, Viola & Nelson Padgett, Piano
Robert Schumann Märchenbilder for Viola and Piano, Op.113
Adam Kramer, Viola & Nelson Padgett, Piano
George Rochberg Sonata for Viola and Piano (1979)
Brenton Caldwell, Viola & Yi-Fang Huang, Piano
Ladislav Vycpalek Suite for Solo Viola, Op.21
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000) - Chahagir (1945) & Jhala (1995)
Ann Roggen, Viola
Roger Zahab Angelic Consort – for viola and piano
Roger Zahab secret device – for viola solo
J.J. Johnson, Viola & Gary Adler, Piano
William Bergsma Fantastic Variations on a Theme from Tristan (1961)
David Cerutti, Viola & Peggy Kampmeier, Piano
at 2:30 p.m., free admission
Bruno Walter Auditorium
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
40 Lincoln Center Plaza, NYC
January 24, 2011
...some measures for living in Pittsburgh with Lindsey Goodman and Rob Frankenberry
Monday at 3:00 pm; free admission
This program will also feature soprano Eva Rainforth
Roger Zahab: …some measures for living
Amy Williams: First Lines
Eli Tamar: Vicious Circles
Joseph Schwantner: Black Anemones
Gilda Lyons: Chrysalis
Jeffrey Nytch: From the Soul of Silence
PNC Bank Recital Hall in the Mary Pappert School of Music, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh PA
January 10, 2011
winter world
Roger Zahab, violin and viola; Robert Frankenberry, piano
with Wil Snead, violin
the music
Bela Bartok: Second Sonata (1922)
Nicola LeFanu: A Postcard and a Letter (2008)
Ursula Mamlok: 2000 Notes (2000)
Mathew Rosenblum: RedDust Motes (2007)
David Stock: Chameleon (2001)
Alastair Stout: The House on the Edge of the Tide (1994)
Orianna Webb: Sonata for viola and piano (2000/7)
Roger Zahab: tambourin/dabke(2010) for violin and piano
ck@cu257 for 2 violins and piano (2008)
Walsh Sonata (1980)
8 pm at
Bellefield Hall Auditorium
on the University of Pittsburgh Oakland campus,
free admission