This Saturday, June 3rd, the Chamber Orchestra of Pittsburgh has it's season finale concert at Rodef Shalom. Edward Leonard conducts Strauss' Metamorphosen, along with the Mendelssohn Double Concerto for Violin, Piano, and String Orchestra featuring Maureen Conlon Gutierrez, violin and Rodrigo Ojeda, piano. Rodrigo, Edward and Executive Director Andrew Swenson, stopped by to chat about the concert.

Manfred Honeck conducts music first heard in Pittsburgh – Leonard Bernstein’s Symphony No. 1, Jeremiah, featuring mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano.  Plus Beethoven’s Leonore Overture No. 3, Haydn’s Symphony No. 88 and Stravinsky’s Suite from The Firebird. 

Manfred Honeck conducts music first heard in Pittsburgh – Leonard Bernstein’s Symphony No. 1, Jeremiah, featuring mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano.  Plus Beethoven’s Leonore Overture No. 3, Haydn’s Symphony No. 88 and Stravinsky’s Suite from The Firebird. 

Anna Singer spoke with composer Bryan Field about his early education with music, his mentors and early compositions, and then his newest works which are Three Passions for our Tortured Planet, (all proceeds from this one go to charities to help fight against climate change) and Bryan Field- Vocal Works (which features a social justice song). 

Jacob Joyce and Brian Worsdale talk about the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra and the Three Rivers Young People's Orchestra's upcoming performance at the League of American Orchestras national conference on June 14th.  The conference is hosted by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra at Heinz Hall from June 14th-16th.  They also discussed Arturo Marquez, and Jacob's busy schedule in the summer that will take him around the world. 

The “Stand with Ukraine” concert.   Recorded at the Campbell Memorial Chapel on the Chatham University campus on April 21, 2022, members of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and other local musicians performed music in support of Ukraine.   Jim Cunningham hosts.