2012-13 Concert Calendar
In honor of Chatham Global Focus Year of Scandinavia, the Chatham Music Program presents Scandinavian Music Festival: The Nordic Sound.
Friday Afternoon Musicale
Musicales are held at 4:00 pm in James Laughlin Music Center.
September 21: Musical Horizon: Beethoven, Schumann and Gareth Farr; Henry Wong Doe, piano
October 19: Romantic Giants: Schubert and Schumann; Sha Wang, Piano
November 16: The Nordic Sound: Denmark, Music by Kuhlau, Gade, Nielsen, Langgaard; Walter Morales, piano
January 18: The Nordic Sound: Sweden, Music by Berwald, Sjögren, Stenhammar, Petersen-Berger; Walter Morales, piano
February 15: Music for Flute, The Nordic Sound: featuring music by Finish and Danish composers; Deidre Huckabay, flute, and the Pittsburgh Trillium Ensemble
March 22: The Nordic Sound: featuring music of Scandinavian composers, Students of the Music Program
April 19: The Nordic Sound: Norway, Music by Halvorsen, Grieg, Sinding, Tellefsen; Walter Morales, piano
Chamber Music series
Performances are held in the James Laughlin Music Center, unless stated otherwise.
Admission is $15. Free for Chatham students, faculty and staff.
September 30, 7:00 PM: Reminiscences: A retrospective from Caccini to Tchaikovsky plus “8 Reminiscences” by Robert Schultz (the Pittsburgh premiere); Tina Faigen, piano
January 6, 7:00 PM: New Music and Great Classics: works by Alia Musica composers plus Webern, Ligeti and Martinu; Arabesque Winds and Freya String Quartet
February 2, 7:00 PM: Duets: Music for Viola and Piano, Featuring Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 147 by Dmitri Shostakovich; Erina Goldwasser, viola, and Jerald Lee, piano
April 9, 7:00 PM: Duets: Music for Cello and Piano, Featuring Sonata Op. 19 for Cello and Piano by Sergei Rachmaninov; Michael Lipman, cello, and Yeeha Chiu, piano
Faculty/ Guest Artist Recital series
Performances are held in the James Laughlin Music Center, unless stated otherwise.
Sunday October 28, 3:00 PM: The Nordic Sound: Music by Jean Sibelius, Carl Nielsen and other Scandinavian composers; Roger Zahab, violin, and Walter Morales, piano
November 18, 3:00 PM: Duets: Music for Two Pianos, Featuring 20th and 21st century works by Barber, Bowles, Debussy and James Romig (world premiere); Ashlee Mack and Katie Palumbo, piano
January 25, 7:00 PM, Campbell Memorial Chapel: The Nordic Sound: Vocal music by composers from Iceland, Finland, and Norway; Keith Reed, bass-baritone, and Walter Morales, piano
March 3, 7:00 PM: Multiple Perspectives: Music by Mozart (D minor Piano concerto, K 466), Benjamin Britten and John Cage; Pauline Rovkah, piano, and University of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Roger Zahab, conductor
Sunday Vocal series
Performances are held at 3:00 p.m. Campbell Memorial Chapel
Sunday September 9: Handel Arias and Duets
Sunday November 4:The Nordic Sound: A Hommage to Kirsten Flagstad, the Great Norwegian Soprano
Sunday March 10:Celebrating Wagner’s Nordic Tales
Sunday April 21: The Best of Verdi’s Otello
Chatham Choir
Cabaret Benefit: October 20, 7:00 p.m., James Laughlin Music Center
Candlelight: December 7 at 8:00 p.m., Campbell Memorial Chapel
Chatham Choir in “Singing City”: April 20 at 7:30 p.m., Petersen Events Center, University of Pittsburgh
Music Student Recitals
Performances are held at 7:00 p.m. in Campbell Memorial Chapel
December 10
April 22