Sonorous Spontaneity

Sonorous Spontaneity

A program featuring works by Chopin, Schubert, Scarlatti, and the Pittsburgh premiere of Stefania de Kenessey’s “Spontaneous D- Combustion”.

Dr. Nanette Kaplan Solomon, Professor Emerita from Slippery Rock University, introduces the program she will be performing this Friday, November 19 at 4 pm: “Sonorous Spontaneity”, featuring works by Scarlatti, Chopin, Schubert, and the Pittsburgh premiere of Stefania de Kenessey’s “Spontaneous D-Combustion” in this video.

If you missed the performance on November 19, 2021, you can still watch it at this link.

Nanette Solomon, piano

03. November 2021 by alyssa.starr
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“Cabaret” 2021 – Chatham Choir

This concert from was performed by the Chatham Choir on October 16, 2021, featuring your favorite Jazz and Musical Theatre standards!

16. October 2021 by rovkah
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Romantic Piano: Russian Favorites

On October 15, 2021, pianist/conductor Walter Morales performed a program of Russian music favorites, featuring works by Glinka-Balakirev, Scriabin and Rachmaninov.

Alexander Scriabin: Three Pieces, Op, 2

– Etude

– Prelude

– Impromptu á la Mazur

Alexander Scriabin: Prelude and Nocturne for the left hand, Op. 9

Mikhail Glinka: The Lark (piano transcription by Mily Balakirev)

Sergei Rachmaninov: Fantasy Pieces, Op. 3

– Elegy

– Prelude

– Melody

Sergei Rachmaninov: Eighteen Variation from Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini (transcribed for solo piano by Robert Schultz)

Watch the performance here!

15. October 2021 by rovkah
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Book of Sounds: “Simple Lines of Inquiry” by Ann Southam

In the first fall 2021 concert of the Friday Afternoon Musicale series on September 17, 2021, pianist James W. Iman performed “Simple Lines of Inquiry” by Ann Southam. Watch the preview here. “Simple Lines of Enquiry is a major statement, an hour-long solo work that delivers the most complete expression yet of Southam’s remarkable intervallic language, a style that makes the spaces between as interesting as the notes themselves.” – Brian Morton

If you missed this concert, you can watch it at this link.

17. September 2021 by rovkah
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Spring 2021 Student Recital

It’s that time of the year again for the music department: recital time. Our students have submitted recordings of their repertoire for our third-ever virtual student recital; for the third time, we are incredibly proud of their ability to connect with music in a global pandemic through virtual lessons!

Therefore, it is our pleasure to announce that the Spring 2021 virtual student recital is now available for viewing on the ChathamU Music YouTube channel. Click here to listen!

Three piano students have shared what it was like to take virtual music lessons this semester. Their statements are below:


To all of our students, faculty, and staff: we hope you enjoy the rest of the spring, all of the summer, and look forward to seeing you in the fall. Have a safe and relaxing break!

28. April 2021 by rovkah
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Poets of the Piano: Contrasts

March 19 was the premiere of our last Friday Afternoon Musicale of the 2020-2021 school year. Nathan Carterette, deemed “exuberant yet sensitive” by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, performed pairs of contrasting piano works by Bach, Schubert, Chopin, Debussy, and Medtner and Rachmaninoff. This is an introduction to the program.

We look forward to continuing this concert series in the 2021-2022 school year. Until then, enjoy Nathan Carterette’s performance and all our virtual concerts on the ChathamU Music YouTube channel!

28. April 2021 by rovkah
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Capturing the Daydream: Chatham Choir Spring Concert 2021

On April 10, 2021 the Chatham Choir performed four works under the direction of Stacey Brett Davern for the Spring virtual concert.

Sanctus (00:3803:20) – Michael McGlynn – With Nick Graef as soloist

Dawn (03:2106:35) – Eric William Barnum and Robert Bode

Opening Up from Waitress (06:3610:10) – Sarah Bareilles, arr. Mac Huff With Morgan Schreyer, Eliza Moore, Carly Cygrymus, and Jaelyn Taylor as soloists, and Amy Kapp as accompanist

From Rivers (10:1115:01) – Caroline Shaw

With Carly Cygrymus as soloist.

Watch the performance here!

10. April 2021 by rovkah
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Songs That Inspire: A Vocal-Organ Duo Recital

Stacey Brett Davern, soprano and Chatham University Music Faculty, and Dr. Bradley Fitch, organist/pianist at Grove City College and Christ United Methodist Church, performed a vocal-organ duo recital for our February Friday Afternoon Musicale. Featuring favorites of song and the organ, their program was just what we needed for a late-winter uplifting. We promise it will inspire you!

Watch the performance here!

15. March 2021 by rovkah
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Songs of Isolation and Hope

For our January Friday Afternoon Musicale, music faculty members Kelly Lynch, soprano, and Walter Morales, piano, performed a recital that reflected on themes of isolation, sadness, loss, and hope of reconciliation in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and the new year. They performed works by Beethoven, Donaudy, Tosti, Rachmaninoff, and Weill.

Watch the recital here.

15. March 2021 by rovkah
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Beethoven: Innovations and Variations

In celebration of Beethoven’s 250th birthday, pianist, conductor, and vocal coach, Walter Morales, performed the 24 Variations on “Venni Amore,” WoO 65, Beethoven’s first major set of variations for solo piano. His program also included the Variations in C minor, WoO 80. Morales has written that the work “requires considerable virtuosity, with each variation presenting a different technical challenge so that it almost seems like a set of etudes. However, it is the sometimes violent emotional content that dominates.” Like much of Beethoven’s life, so have our lives been affected by many emotional experiences within the past year—the emotional ubiquity of the composer’s music is precisely the quality which makes it just as relevant as if it had been composed yesterday, despite it being 250 years since his birth!

Watch the December Friday Afternoon Musicale at the following link: Beethoven: Innovations and Variations.

12. March 2021 by rovkah
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