2010 Events
October 12, 2010
Enfolding Studies with Rob Frankenberry at The Seasons Fall Music Festival in Yakima, Washington
Tuesday at 7:30PM
New Music Now
Robert Frankenberry, piano; Simon James, violin; Kevin Krentz, cello; Gilda Lyons, soprano
ERIC MOE: Ballad of the Sad Triad (Robert Frankenberry, piano)
LARRY ALAN SMITH: New Work for Solo Cello [US premiere] (Kevin Krentz)
PAULA KIMPER: Piano Piece TBA [world premiere] (Frankenberry)
ROGER ZAHAB: Enfolding Studies
GILDA LYONS: Owl-Light and Between Dog and Wolf for solo violin (Simon James, violin)
LARRY ALAN SMITH: Framing War, song cycle for voice and piano [world premiere] (Gilda Lyons, Frankenberry)
The Seasons Performance Hall
101 N Naches Ave
Yakima, WA 98901
http://www.theseasonsyakima.com
September 11, 2010
Duchamp and Cage at the Andy Warhol Museum
Performance for the
Twisted Pair: Marcel Duchamp/Andy Warhol exhibition & Duchamp symposium - Saturday at 8 pm
Roger instigates the Music on the Edge Ensemble in the first floor entryway:
Marcel Duchamp: La mariée mise a nu par ses célibataires, meme. Erratum musical.
...and the University of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in the 2nd floor exhibition area:
John Cage: Twenty-three (1988) for thirteen violins, five violas and five cellos
John Cage: Apartment House 1776 – a music circus (1976)
The Andy Warhol Museum
117 Sandusky Street
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15212-5890
email: information@warhol.org
August 13, 2010
Roger Zahab, violin & Robert Frankenberry, piano
Bridging Musicology and Composition:
The Global Significance of Bartok's Method
A Symposium and Festival
Organized by the Centre for Intercultural Musicology at Churchill College
Cambridge, England
From 12 to 14 August, 2010
Roger Zahab, violin & Robert Frankenberry, piano
Friday, August 13, 2010 at 6 pm
Philip N. Thompson: Emergence (1997)
Eric Moe: Blue Air (1996)
Judith Weir: Music For 247 Strings (1981)
J.H.Kwabena Nketia: Bolga Sonata (1958)
Roger Zahab: radiant (2004)
Béla Bartók: Second Sonata (1922)
Churchill College, Cambridge, England
May 29, 2010
interwoven graces
Phoenix Concerts presents its Hymn Tune Project with the
Finisterra Piano Trio - Simon James, violin, Kevin Krentz, cello and Tanya Stambuk, piano, & Gilda Lyons and Elaine Valby, voice
Hudson Opera House, Hudson, NY
May 28, 2010
interwoven graces (first performance)
The Hymn Tune Project
The Phoenix Concerts celebrates its fifth season with ten premieres commissioned for its new Ensemble-in-Residence,
Finisterra Piano Trio - Simon James, violin, Kevin Krentz, cello and Tanya Stambuk, piano, with Gilda Lyons and Elaine Valby, voice.
Each premiere will take as its starting point a traditional work, hymn, or spiritual and will be paired in concert with the original work that inspired it, performed by vocalists Gilda Lyons and Elaine Valby, in this one-hour program.
Church of Saint Matthew and Saint Timothy
26 West 84th Street, New York City
April 21, 2010
University of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Roger Zahab, director
Includes new works by Pitt composers:
Aaron Brooks, Charles Corey, Jim Holman, Charles Lwanga, Jonghee Kang, & Sean Malloy
Ravel: Mother Goose Suite (conducted by Mark Fromm)
Prokofiev "Classical" Symphony
8 pm, free admission
Bellefield Hall Auditorium
University of Pittsburgh
Oakland campus
April 19, 2010
Music Monday: Schubert Octet
The University of Pittsburgh Department of Music presents
Music Monday
8:00 pm
Sonata in c minor, op. 45 Edvard Grieg
III. Allegro animato
Danielle Rager, violin & Russell Spingarn, piano
Octet, op. 166 (1824) Franz Schubert
Roger Hendrix, clarinet (ca. 1830)
Danielle Bissert, horn
Mark Fromm, bassoon
Roger Zahab &, Wil Snead violins
Harry Gilliland, viola
Ben Grabowski, cello
Aaron Eberhart, contrabass
Bellefield Hall Auditorium
University of Pittsburgh
Oakland campus
April 15, 2010
Structure, Music, Space-music and conversation in H_edge by Cecil Balmond
Carnegie Museum of Art Culture Club
5:30–9 p.m.; $10; includes museum admission and two drink tickets.
Composer/performers present and discuss their work for the Balmond installation:
Charles Corey (vibraphone), Ben Harris (violin), Kerrith Livengood (flute), Matthew Heap (percussion), Sean Malloy (accordion, voice), Burkhardt Reiter (trombone) and Roger Zahab (violin)
The gallery dialogue begins at 6 p.m.
Structure, Music, Space-music and conversation in H_edge, on view in the exhibition Forum 64: Cecil Balmond
Carnegie Museum of Art
Pittsburgh, PA
April 10, 2010
night and starlight
Tuscarawas Philharmonic, Eric Benjamin music director
also on this concert: the Ohio premiere of Eric Benjamin's setting of Emily Dickinson:
"Hope is the thing with feathers" with the Oberlin College Women's Chorale under the direction of Dr. Jody L. Kerchner, and three movements from Holst's The Planets
Saturday at 7:30 pm
Dover High School Auditorium
520 North Walnut St
Dover, OH 44622
March 26, 2010
chamber music at the van kleek
evan mallory - cello
andrej savol - piano
roger zahab - violin
works by chopin (cello sonata)
shostakovich (piano trio, op. 8)
zahab (how to sing properly)
8 pm
420 north craig street
pittsburgh
add'l entrance on gold way
March 22, 2010
how to sing properly
Music Monday concert at 8 pm free admission
Felix Mendelssohn: Sonata in c minor (1824)
Wei Zhao, viola & Andrew Head, piano
Antonio Vivaldi: Spring Concerto
Wil Snead, solo violin
Roger Zahab: how to sing properly (2008)
Dmitri Shostakovich Piano Trio No. 1 Op. 8 (1923)
Frederic Chopin: Cello Sonata in G Minor Op. 65
Roger Zahab, violin
Evan Mallory, cello
Andrej Savol, piano
Bellefield Hall Auditorium
University of Pittsburgh
Oakland campus
March 17, 2010
University of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Roger Zahab, director
program includes:
Dvorak Symphony no. 6 in D major
8 pm, free admission
Bellefield Hall Auditorium
University of Pittsburgh
Oakland campus
March 14, 2010
Music of Robert Schultz
Roger plays Fantasy for violin and piano with pianist Yeeha Chiu
and Legend for string quartet with MaryBeth G. Schotting, violin,
Paul Silver, viola, Lauren Scott Mallory, cello and Robert Skavronski, bass
3:00 pm at
Kresge Recital Hall
College of Fine Arts
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh
February 28, 2010
Music on the Edge Chamber Orchestra
Roger Zahab, director
Sunday at 7 pm
Anthony Coleman – new work for chamber orchestra (premiere)
Amy Williams: Cineshape 5 for flute, string quartet, piano and percussion (premiere)
Stefan Wolpe: From Here on Farther (1969) for clarinet, bass clarinet, violin and piano
Mauricio Kagel: Pan (1985) picc and string quartet
Roger Zahab: Winter Dance (2003) for chamber orchestra
tickets through ProArts
Bellefield Hall Auditorium
University of Pittsburgh
Oakland campus
February 17, 2010
University of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Roger Zahab, director
rescheduled after the snowy events of the previous week!
Gustav Holst: St. Paul's Suite
Paul Hindemith: Septet for winds
Mozart: Prague Symphony
8 pm, free
Bellefield Hall Auditorium
University of Pittsburgh
Oakland campus
January 3, 2010
Christmas Concert
Saint-Saens: Christmas Oratorio (conductor)
Alastair Stout: Natalie's Book (violinist, with the composer as pianist)
3 pm
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Highland Park, Pittsburgh
2009 Events
December 20, 2009
some measures for living
Peggy Yoo, flute and Robert Frankenberry, piano
IonSound Project
sunday at 7 pm
Bellefield Hall Auditorium
University of Pittsburgh
Oakland campus
December 9, 2009
University of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Roger Zahab, director
Wednesday, at 8 pm
Pelléas and Mélisande Gabriel Fauré
The Swan of Tuonela, op. 22, no. 3 Jean Sibelius
Symphony no. 5 in E-flat major, op. 82 Jean Sibelius
Bellefield Hall Auditorium
University of Pittsburgh, Oakland campus
November 30, 2009
premiere of 'Tis a very good day of the year
The University of Pittsburgh Department of Music presents
Music Monday
at 8:00 pm
Tis a very good day of the year (first performance) Roger Zahab
( the first carol from my setting of Dickens' A Christmas Carol'
in a version for handbells)
University of Pittsburgh Handbell Ensemble:
Andrew Weber, Caitlin Kempf, Francis Dy, Oyinda Owoeye, Danielle Englert, Andrew Head, Jackie Bleakley, Kendra Parker-Pitts, Elizabeth Peters, Anna Powell
includes: String Sextet no. 2 in G, op. 36 by Johannes Brahms
with Roger Zahab and Wil Snead, violins,
Harry Gilliland and Wei Zhao, violas,
Ben Grabowski & Sarah Pendleton, cellos
Bellefield Hall Auditorium
Oakland campus
University of Pittsburgh
November 22, 2009
Legends, Songs and Dances
Roger Zahab, violin
with Alicia Bekeny, violin
a concert in support of the Heinz Chapel Building Fund
The music
J.S.Bach : Partita in d minor (BWV 1004, ca. 1720)
Béla Bartók : Sonata for Solo Violin (1944)
with short works by
Judith Weir: Rain and mist are on the mountain, I'd better buy some shoes
and
Roger Zahab : Battery Park, New York Harbor ; The Fens ; & commonwealth
Heinz Chapel
Sunday at 3 pm
admission $5
November 15, 2009
Roger's settings of Walt Whitman: A Glimpse & What think you I take my Pen in Hand to Record
Kris Rust, baritone.
Bill Larson, piano
Musicians in our Midst
7:30 pm in the Sanctuary
suggested donation: $10
First Unitarian Church of Pittsburgh
605 Morewood Avenue (at the corner of Ellsworth Avenue in Shadyside)
November 11, 2009
Boston premiere of Venus transported
Longitude in concert
Olga Patramanska and Lilit Hartunian, violins
Gabrielle Toscano, viola
David Russell, cello & instigator
8 pm in Pickman Hall,
Longy School of Music
November 6, 2009
Music at Epiphany: The University of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Three Equale, (1812)for four trombones Ludwig van Beethoven
Concerto in g minor (1938) for organ, strings & timpani Francis Poulenc
Adagio for strings (1936) Samuel Barber
Roger Zahab, conductor
Suite for trumpet & organ Alastair Stout
David Fenn, trumpet & Alastair Stout, organ
Symphony in b minor (Unfinished), (1822) D 759 Franz Schubert
Mark Fromm, conducting
Church of the Epiphany
1018 Centre Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15219 (next to the Mellon Arena)
free admission
November 1, 2009
Be Joyful premiere
A setting of words by David of Wales, Be Joyful was commissioned for the Calvary Episcopal Church Choir (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania),
its director, Alan Lewis, and the Music and Architecture Series
by James P. Cassaro. It will be performed along with new works by Amy Williams, Alan Lewis and John Becker at the 11 am service.
Calvary Episcopal Church
315 Shady Avenue at Walnut Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15206-4388
October 22, 2009
Lindsey Goodman sings Sung Water Mass
Opera Theater Pittsburgh's Guerilla Opera features Lindsey Goodman in the rarely performed Sung Water Mass for solo voice (in the Museum's Normandie Gallery) as well as the famed Stripsody by Cathy Berberian, Robert Frankenberry in songs by Jesse D'Aiello and Dennis Tobenski, and Maddy Landi, dancer/choreographer.
Guerilla Opera
Thursday, October 22,
6:00, 6:30, 7:00 p.m.
Museum of Art galleries
Opera breaks free from the concert hall! Performers from the Opera Theater of Pittsburgh enliven the galleries with spontaneous selections related to works of art on view and engage in conversation with visitors. Inspired by these tantalizing examples of the intersection of visual and performing arts, mark your calendars for Opera Theater's performance of Love Spell in the museum's hall of sculpture on Valentine's Day weekend; call 412.621.1499 for information and tickets.
Carnegie Museum of Art
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
October 18, 2009
Life rhythms at Heinz Chapel
University of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Sunday at 3 pm
Roger Zahab, conductor
Anna Rutz, harp
Ayo Oluranti, organ
Music:
G.F.Handel: Harp concerto in B flat, op. 4, no. 6
Ayo Oluranti Duru-Fere for organ, percussion and brass
Barber: Adagio for strings
Schubert: Unfinished Symphony
Heinz Chapel on the University of Pittsburgh Oakland Campus
(there is an admission fee for this concert)
October 3, 2009
Roger and Rob perform works by Akin Euba and J. H. Kwabena Nketia
Chamber music concert: Works by African composers.
Kelly Lynch, soprano - Yoruba Folk Songs;
Eric Moe - piano pieces by Nketia;
Robert Frankenberry and Roger Zahab - violin/piano sonata by Nketia;
Robert Frankenberry - Three Songs for Voice, Piano and Iyalu Drum (1963) by Akin Euba
Chatham University Music Festival: Sounds of Africa
3:30 - 4:30 p.m. James Laughlin Music Center
September 30, 2009
first performance of vioentelechron for violin and orchestra (2007)
program includes:
vioentelechron for violin and orchestra (2007) Roger Zahab, violin & conductor (Brahms)
Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto no. 1 in d minor, op. 15 (1854/58), Walter Morales, piano & conductor (Zahab)
free admission
University of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Bellefield Hall Auditorium, Wednesday at 8 pm
University of Pittsburgh, Oakland campus
July 26, 2009
Nathalie Shaw, violin & Robert Frankenberry, piano assisted by RZ, violin and viola
Sunday at 3 pm, admission is free
music by Witold Lutoslawski, James MacMillan, Betsy Jolas, Roger Zahab and Zoltan Kodaly
University of Pittsburgh's Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
July 22, 2009
reaching after
David Russell, cellist at 7:30 pm
Canyon Wren Recital Hall at the Icicle Creek Music Center as part of the Icicle Creek International Chamber Music Festival. Icicle Creek is situated in Leavenworth, WA on the campus of the Sleeping Lady Retreat Center.
June 28, 2009
entelechronicity between six persons
IonSound Project will perform entelechronicity between six persons on Sunday, June 28 at 10:30 am in Pittsburgh's Mellon Park at Fifth and Shady Aves. (Point Breeze/Squirrel Hill area). Presented by Citiparks for information call 412 255 8975
June 20, 2009
Eugene Phillips and friends
Eugene Phillips & Roger Zahab, violins
Paul Silver, viola
Lauren Scott Mallory and Hampton Mallory, cellos
Haydn: Lark Quartet, op. 64, no. 5
Schoenberg: String Trio, op. 45
Schubert: String Quintet in C major
2 pm in the Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
University of Pittsburgh Campus
June 7, 2009
Selected Melodies: Group A
Joydita Shakar, cello & Judith Gordon, piano
performed Selected Melodies as part of the Cello Seminar
Hubbard Hall, Cambridge, NY
May 9, 2009
blue emotion sensor and Cölle
Prism Projects presents: E n t e l e c h r o n i c i t y
David Skidmore, percussion & Roger Zahab, violin with Robert Dillon, percussion, and Robert Frankenberry, piano
St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Chelsea NYC
May 1, 2009
Atticus given NYC premiere by Jocelyn Dueck
Friday, May 1, 2009 at 8 pm
The Phoenix Concerts of St. Matthew and St. Timothy
26 West 84th Street, NYC 10024
April 15, 2009
University of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Vivald:i Concerto X for 4 violins in b minor, op. 3
Judith Weir: String Quartet
Igor Stravinsky: Octet for winds
Claude Debussy: La Mer
Roger Zahab, conductor (and violin 1 in the Weir Quartet)
University of Pittsburgh
Bellefield Hall Auditorium
March 22, 2009
Roger plays "i meet you. i remember you." by David Gerard Matthews
Eclectic Laboratory Chamber Orchestra
8:30PM Sunday, March 22
The Brew House – 2100 Mary Street, on Pittsburgh's South Side
March 8, 2009
entelechronicity between six persons
IonSound Project
Sunday, March 8, 2009 at 7:00 pm
Bellefield Hall Auditorium, University of Pittsburgh
March 6, 2009
David Lang: Illumination Rounds
Roger Zahab, violin, Eric Moe, piano
The Phoenix Concerts
Friday, March 6th at 8 pm the Church of Saint Matthew and Saint Timothy,
26 West 84th Street, in New York City.