School of Music Upcoming Events

April 11 - 19

Pittsburgh Trio performs concert of Russian masters
The Pittsburgh Trio will perform an all-Russian program as part of the Rachmaninoff Festival at 3 pm this Saturday, April 11 in Alumni Concert Hall. Members include PSO violinist Jennifer Orchard and PSO cellist Mikhail Istomin, Associate Professor of Piano Sergey Schepkin. The program features Rachmaninoff’s Elegiac Trio in G minor and the Trio in A minor by Tchaikovsky ("In Memory of a Great Artist"), as well as several short Rachmaninoff pieces for strings and piano. General admission is $10 and tickets will be available at the door. All college students are free with student ID!

Piano Masterclass – Maxim Mogilevsky
Pianist Maxim Mogilevsky of the prestigious Toradze Studio leads a Rachmaninoff Festival masterclass Monday, April 13 at 2 p.m. in Kresge Recital Hall. This event, which is sponsored by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, is free and open to the public. *Note: student pianists will be pre-selected.

Chamber Music @Lunchtime
Hear beautiful chamber music performed by a select group of music students at 12 p.m. in Alumni Concert Hall on Tuesday, April 14. This free concert is part of a spring lunchtime chamber music series, which takes place April 14, 21 and 28.

Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic
Alumnus Gil Rose, director of orchestral studies candidate, leads the Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic in concert at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 14 in Oakland's historic Carnegie Music Hall. The program that includes Mozart's Overture to La Clemenza di Tito and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6. Artist Diploma candidate Vivian Choi is featured on Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor. Doors open at 7 p.m. and the concert begins at 8 p.m. Tickets are $5 for general admission, $4 senior citizens and free to all college students with ID. Don't wait in line; order tickets in advance from the School of Music's online Box Office today at http://music.cmu.edu.

Rachmaninoff Piano Spectacular
On Wednesday, April 15 at 8 p.m., experience the Rachmaninoff Festival Piano Spectacular! Carnegie Mellon School of Music faculty members Enrique Graf and Sergey Schepkin perform an all-Rachmaninoff piano recital along with Vakhtang Kodanashvili, Maxim Mogilevsky and Svetlana Smolina of the Toradze Piano Studio. This event is sponsored by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Tickets are just $5 for CMU faculty, staff and students, and will be available for purchase in the College of Fine Arts after Convocation this week at 1:30 p.m.

Jazz and the Digital Age
The School of Music merges technology with traditional sound in a unique jazz concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 19 in the Carnegie Library of Homestead's Music Hall. Hear one of Carnegie Mellon's Jazz Ensembles, directed by David Pellow, perform a new arrangement by Dr. John Wilson for jazz band, soloists and digital string orchestra. The "orchestra" is comprised of five Carnegie Mellon music students who have recorded 20 digital tracks that will be time-stretched to synchronize with the live band. This computer accompaniment stems from a project by Professor Roger Dannenberg (School of Computer Science). This research has been sponsored by Microsoft through the Computational Thinking Center. This event, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by WDUQ 90.5 FM.