
Rachel Barton Pine with Gilles Vonsattel, piano
All Brahms Program: Sonata #1, G Major, Op. 78; Sonata #5, E-flat Major, Op. 120, #2; and Sonata #3, D minor, Op. 108
February 27 - February 28
von der Heyden Studio Theater
Presented by Duke Arts Presents
“a startlingly visceral, colorful listening experience.”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Two people in an art museum argue over the validity of a work that questions the very meaning of meaning. One is accepting if detached, the other is troubled but engaged. Visitors come and go, choosing their journeys, inviting us into surreal scenes of love, loss, alienation, attraction, and wonder.
Theatre of Music (a.k.a. The Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble) has joined forces with composer Steven Bryant to create an immersive, multi-disciplinary work inspired by Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte. Challenging accepted notions of reality, Magritte has shown us time and again that the eye may well lie to us… But what of our ears? Should we trust them? The Treachery of Sounds explores the porous and transient nature of reflection.
Single Tickets Available Tuesday, June 17.
Music by Steven Bryant
Stories, scenarios, and lyrics by Kevin Noe and Lindsay Kesselman Choreography by Gary Abbott
Directed by Kevin Noe
Performers
Erika Boysen, Flute
Gunnar Hirthe, Clarinet
Nathalie Shaw, Violin
Norbert Lewandowski, Cello
Oscar Micaelsson Piano, Actor
Ian Rosenbaum, Percussion
Lindsay Kesselman, Singer, Actor
Zan de Spelder, Lighting Designer
Chris McGlumphy, Sound Designer
Caroline Dahm, Dancer
Tristian Griffin, Dancer
Steven Bryant, Composer, Creator, Sound cues
Kevin Noe, Director, Singer, Actor, Creator
The Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble (PNME) was founded by Pittsburgh composer, David Stock, in 1976, and since then has commissioned and premiered over 300 works by composers including John Cage, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Michael Daugherty, David Lang, Derek Bermel, Pierre Jalbert, and Kevin Puts. Current Artistic Director, Kevin Noe, assumed that post in 2000 and implemented a new artistic vision that completely transformed the company: incorporating the drama, lighting, sound, and stage design of theatre into PNME’s concerts. PNME’s Pittsburgh audience has grown by over 600% since 2002, and the wildly successful experiment continues as a fully realized performance style dubbed the PNME “Theatre of Music.”
Today’s PNME is a fixed ensemble (flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion, soprano, and bass-baritone) of artists from around the world, chosen through a rigorous audition process, who perform a summer festival season in July at City Theatre in Pittsburgh’s vibrant South Side neighborhood each year.
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All Brahms Program: Sonata #1, G Major, Op. 78; Sonata #5, E-flat Major, Op. 120, #2; and Sonata #3, D minor, Op. 108
Groundbreaking multidisciplinary artists Wen Hui and Eiko Otake weave a complex and deeply personal tapestry, inviting the audience to consider war as a history, an inheritance, and a present-day reality.
Program includes Schubert’s “Quartetsatz;” Mozart’s Viola Quintet, C Major, K. 515; and Dvorak’s String Quartet, G Major, Op. 106
Dambudzo is a live anti-genre work by acclaimed choreographer nora chipaumire, combining sound, painting, sculpture and performance to confront colonial legacies.
Choreographer Wanjiru Kamuyu leads audiences through a sensorial, contemplative journey into the body as a tapestry of memories and then a site of liberation.
Performing their program “The Passenger” with Louise Alenius’s Piano Trio (2025); Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s Piano Trio, OP. 24; Franz Schubert’s Piano Trio #2, E-flat Major, Op. 100
Presenting “Such Stuff as Dreams are Made On,” The King’s Singers bring the Romantic era to life with exquisite vocal works exploring love, nature, mystery, and the human spirit.
Pianist and composer Conrad Tao has been dubbed “the kind of musician who is shaping the future of classical music” by New York Magazine.
The artists originally scheduled on this date are no longer be able to appear on next season’s Chamber Arts Series. We are actively securing a replacement ensemble of comparable stature and will share updates as soon as we are able.