2022 Events
November 7, 2022
Entelechron Robert Frankenberry, piano, voice David Russell, cello Roger Zahab, violin, viola
Monday at 8 pm
Trio (2006) Jonathan Bailey Holland
Tendre Noix au Torchon (2011) Eric Moe
for violin and piano
And Life Like Froth Doth Throb (1997) Eric Moe
for viola and cello
Deep Ecology (2020) Eric Moe
for cello and electroacoustic media
O Viridissima (2015) Judith Weir
for violin, cello and piano
Three Chorales (2015-16) Judith Weir
for cello and piano
Falling (2012) Amy Williams
Brigid's Flame (2009) Amy Williams
for piano
Intimate Lines (1997) on poems of Walt Whitman Roger Zahab
for tenor and violin
the young person's guide to convergence (2015/rev. 2020) Roger Zahab
for violin and cello
free admission
Bellefield Hall Auditorium
October 22, 2022
Zelienople, night and starlight, and Signs of Life performed in Squirrel Hill
Zelienople, night and starlight, and Signs of Life, Edgewood Symphony, Walter Morales cond.
at 7:30 pm
Katz Performing Arts Center - JCC of Greater Pittsburgh
October 12, 2022
University of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Roger Zahab conducting
Gilda Lyons - La Novia de Tola (2013)
Camille Saint-Saens - Third Concerto for Violin
Gustav Mahler - Adagietto from the Fifth Symphony
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Symphony no. 40 in g minor, K 550
Matthew Alford, Violin
Roger Zahab, Conductor
at 8 pm EST
to attend in person at Bellefield Hall Auditorium or watch the live-stream on YouTube
August 4, 2022
exempli gratia premiered
Roger's work for solo violin, exempli gratia, was premiered by the composer on the
VCFA Composer/Improviser/Performer Showcase
Vermont College of Fine Arts
College Hall Gallery
Montpelier, VT
July 7, 2022
Concert of Ukrainian Words and Music
A celebration of Ukrainian language and music, featuring faculty and students of Pitt's Summer Language Institute and Department of Music with special guest, musician and folklorist Jurij Fedynsky. Streamed LIVE from Frick Fine Arts Auditorium on the University of Pittsburgh's Oakland campus.
June 24, 2022
Carla Kihlstedt - Twenty-Six Little Deaths
Carla Kihlstedt, voice/violin
Present Music
Roger Zahab, guest conductor
Jan Serr Studio
Peck School of the Arts
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
2155 N Prospect Ave
Milwaukee, WI 53202
June 23, 2022
Carla Kihlstedt - Twenty-Six Little Deaths
Carla Kihlstedt, voice/violin
Present Music
Roger Zahab, guest conductor
Jan Serr Studio
Peck School of the Arts
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
2155 N Prospect Ave
Milwaukee, WI 53202
April 20, 2022
University of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Roger Zahab, director, Cullyn D. Murphy, assistant conductor
State Anthem of Ukraine - "Ukraine has not yet perished" -Mykhailo Verbytsky, Arr. Marek Toporovsky
Circular Dancing (1995/2000, 2022 version) - Roger Zahab
first performance of new revised version
Concerto in b minor for solo cello and orchestra, op. 104 (1895)-Antonin Dvorak
I. Allegro
Alicia Loui, solo cello
Black On White (2005) - Alastair Stout
Roger Zahab, conductor
Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture (1869/70) - Pyotr Ilitch Tchaikovsky
Cullyn D. Murphy, conductor
livestream on YouTube
Bellefield Hall Auditorium
University of Pittsburgh
April 11, 2022
University of Pittsburgh Music Department presents Music performance showcase
program -
Suite Morceaux Benjamin Godard
Annika Froese, flute
Jiayin Yang, piano
Hoert doch der sanften Floeten Chor JS Bach
Avery Bazell, Lily Carley, Annika Froese, flutes
Jiayin Yang, piano
Barbara Hois, piccolo+
Flutes in the Garden Gary Schocker
1. Madonna Lilies
2. Ants/Peonies
Avery Bazell, Lily Carley, Annika Froese, flutes
It Never Was You - from Knickerbocker Holiday Kurt Weill - music
Maxwell Anderson - lyrics
Samyuktha Arunkumar, voice
Robert Frankenberry, piano*
Sonata in C Major, TWV 41:C2 G P Telemann
Cantabile
Vivace
Leanna Chae, flute
Lydia Freethy, piano
Grand Polonaise, Op. 16 (abbreviated) Theobald Boehm
Connor Mahaney, flute
Lydia Freethy, piano
Sonata I in b minor, TWV 40:105 Georg Philipp Telemann
Alex Preble & Roger Zahab+, violins
Duettino Eugene Bozza
Anna Gershenson & Linda Fisher+, bassoons
Intermezzo Concertant Trio Heinrich Romberg
Runa Shuda, flute
Virginia Yu, violin
Rebekah Colacot, cello
Nocturne in E flat Major , op. 9, no. 2 Frederic Chopin
Lydia Freethy, piano
Summer Music Samuel Barber
Karinna Martin, flute
Ellie Mountz,oboe
Claire Cheng, clarinet
Niobe Tsoutsouris, French horn
Linda Fisher, bassoon+
+faculty artist
* guest artist
University of Pittsburgh
Monday at 8 pm
Bellefield Hall Auditorium
April 9, 2022
9/10: Love Before the Fall by Daron Hagen
The Chicago College of Performing Arts, Roosevelt University & The New Mercury Collective present the
world premiere staged college production
Music, Libretto, & Direction by Daron Hagen
Maddy Dammann (Lulu)
Cole Dziedzic (Cory)
David Kronenberg (Tony)
Camden McLean (Trina)
Alexis Neal (Orfeo)
Roger Zahab (Charon)
Victoria Zamora (Bibi)
Murray-Green Library, Roosevelt University
2 PM
April 7, 2022
9/10: Love Before the Fall by Daron Hagen
The Chicago College of Performing Arts, Roosevelt University & The New Mercury Collective present the
world premiere staged/filmed production
Music, Libretto, & Direction by Daron Hagen
Cameron Dammann (Orfeo)
Robert Frankenberry (Cory)
Carlos Jaquez Gonzalez (Tony)
Barbara Grecki (Lulu)
CeCe Jude Hastreiter (Bibi)
Gilda Lyons (Trina)
Roger Zahab (Charon)
La Storia Restaurant
1154 Dearborn Street
Chicago, IL 60610
March 19, 2022
Music: Work and Play
with Roger Zahab, violin, and Rob Frankenberry, piano
Play is the work of music.
Builsa Work Song J. H. Kwabena Nketia
Absent Friends
Dagarti Work Song
Pastorale (1942) Germaine Tailleferre
Prelude (1946, rev. 1962) Julia Perry (arr. Roger Zahab)
Nocturne (1947) John Cage
Blue/s Forms (1972) I. Plain Blues Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
(solo violin)
Whitman Fragments (2021) Aaron Wyanski
1. To You
2. Song of Myself
3. Reconciliation
4. A Song of Joys
5. This Compost
6. Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances
7. Lingering Last Drops
8. I Am He that Aches with Love
9. Memories
10. Assurances
11. What am I After All
Robert Frankenberry, voice & Roger Zahab, violin
Hearts and Homes John Blockley, arr. David Mahler
Abundance (2021) David Mahler
Pirt D'nour
Somebody Else's Beer
Study in Polyrhythm no. 3 (2006) Akin Euba
In the moment (2014) Roger Zahab
III. After Pieter Breughel The Elder, Philip Galle, engraver: Prudentia (1559-60)
IV. Hans Sebald Baham: The Prodigal Son returns to his father's home (1540)
V. Giovanni Antonio Canal: Mestre ca. 1744 barcarolla
CLP - Main (Oakland) in the North Wing Music Room, Second Floor
4400 Forbes Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15213 United States
Phone: 412-622-3114
Email: info@carnegielibrary.org
February 23, 2022
Roger gives the world premiere of Julia Perry's Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
Julia Perry's Concerto for Violin and Orchestra was written in 1963-1965 and Roger Zahab gives the too long overdue premiere in the University of Pittsburgh's Bellefield Hall Auditorium at 8 pm
JEAN SIBELIUS: Finlandia (1899/1900)
JULIA PERRY: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (1963-1965) FIRST PERFORMANCE
Roger Zahab, violin soloist
Cullyn D. Murphy, conductor
INTERMISSION
MAX BRUCH: Romance, op. 85 for solo viola and orchestra
Elyssa Allen, viola soloist
FRANZ SCHUBERT: "Unfinished" Symphony No. 8, D. 759 (1822)
Roger Zahab, conductor
first performance of Julia Perry's Concerto for violin and orchestra
2021 Events
December 8, 2021
University of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Roger Zahab, director with Cullyn D. Murphy and Miranda Bartira Sousa, assistant conductors
Ludwig van Beethoven - Egmont Overture, op. 84
Julia Perry (arr. Roger Zahab) - Prelude for strings (1946, rev. 1962) - Roger Zahab, conductor
Johannes Brahms - Serenade in A major, op. 16. (1858/59, revised version 1875) (I & II) - Cullyn D. Murphy, conductor
Alberto Nepomuceno - Serie Brasileira (Brazilian Suite) (1891, first performance in the United States) - Miranda Bartira Sousa, conductor
Bellefield Hall Auditorium
University of Pittsburgh
December 6, 2021
first performance of Aaron Wyanski's Whitman Fragments, Eric Gratta's due anime, and a rare appearance of Eric Moe's Tendre noix au torchon
University of Pittsburgh Music Department presents
Music performance showcase
December 6, 2021, Monday at 8 pm
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach - Duetto in G, BR-WFB B 8/ Fk 61
Robbie Fishel & Roger Zahab, violas
Justin Parker, Elof Loelv & Mikky Ekko - Stay
as sung by Rihanna
Diya Arya, vocalist & Chloe Weiss, piano
Eric Gratta - due anime [un cuore] an apology (2021, first public performance)
Robbie Fishel & Roger Zahab, violas
W.A.Mozart - two Bassett Horn duets, KV 487
Josquin des Prez - Cela sans plus (that without more)
Katrina Rakusan, clarinet
Roger Zahab, viola and piano
W. A. Mozart - Trio in E flat, "Kegelstatt" KV 498 (1786)
Claire Cheng, clarinet; Peter Busscher, piano; Roger Zahab, viola
Harry Warren, Mack Gordon - At Last
Logan Weiss, voice & Robert Frankenberry, piano
Evaristo Felice dall'Abaco - Sonata in d minor, op. 1, no. 2
John Crookson, cello & Roger Zahab, violin
Aaron Wyanski - Whitman Fragments (2021, first performance)
Robert Frankenberry, voice & Roger Zahab, violin
Eric Moe - Tendre Noix au Torchon (2011)
Roger Zahab, violin & Robert Frankenberry, piano
Dmitri Shostakovich - Quartet no. 1, op. 49
Keith Boone - Little Fish, Big Pond
Anna Gorske & Katherine Shiyun Yang, violins
Elyssa Allen, viola; William Han, cello
Bellefield Hall Auditorium
University of Pittsburgh
November 8, 2021
Music performance showcase
Trietto Secondo (1731) G. P. Telemann
Eoin Olswold, flute
Rebekah Colacot, cello
Roger Zahab, violin
Mikrokosmos (1926-1939) Bela Bartok
24. Pastorale
32. In Dorian Mode
33. Slow Dance from Volume 2
67. Thirds against a single voice
69. Study in chords from Volume 3
Roger Zahab, piano
remembering (2021 first performance) kei slaughter
Eoin Olswold, flute
Rebekah Colacot, cello
Roger Zahab, piano
That'll show him - from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Stephen Sondheim
Christina Vlachos, vocalist
Robert Frankenberry, piano
States United - Minnesohiota (2021 first performance) David Mahler
Pirt D'nuor
Somebody Else's Beer
Abundance
Roger Zahab, violin
Robert Frankenberry, piano
Goodie Bag Still Woozy
Indiana Adrienne Lenker
Lucas DiBlasi, vocalist, guitar
Believe (from The Polar Express) Alan Silvestri and Glen Ballard
Arranged by Sandra Eithun
The First Noel Arranged by Cynthia Dobrinski
Epitaph: behold the upright man (2006, arr. 2020) Roger Zahab
In memory of Steve Sortino, for Roxanne Dillie
dedicated to Ryan Marsden and the University Handbell Ensemble
University Handbell Club - Director: Emily Robertson
Ryan Marsden and Emily Robertson, co-conductors
Ben Adams, Lydia Bailey, Beck Barrett, Lydia Freethy, Kelly Friday, Jesse Kimball,
Abby Kocher, Jackie Koo, Sarah Lindley, Evelyn Markle, Ryan Marsden, Audrey Perrelli,
Emily Robertson, James Wang, Marissa Wycinsky
Trio in G Major Carl Stamitz
Grace Kim, flute
Annika Froese, flute
Rebekah Colacot, cello
Suite No. 2 G. F. Handel
Teegan Barnett, flute
Angela Qiu, violin
Kristian Swann, cello
Nocturne in F, Opus 4, No. 2 R. Boscha,
ed. D. Owens
Connor Mahaney, flute
Sarah Moore, harp
Andante and Rondo, Opus 25 Franz Doppler
Connor Mahaney, flute
Runa Shuda, flute
Virginia Yu, piano
Monday at 8 pm
Bellefield Hall Auditorium
October 27, 2021
suspicion of nakedness - Lindsey Goodman, flute
on her faculty recital at 7:00 PM
program:
Dannenberg Separation Logic
Fielder G.A.T.E. Drills
Zanter Persistence of Memory
Kennedy LXXXIII. Pickerington, OH
Beglarian I Will Not Be Sad In This World
Beal Slovakia
Zahab suspicion of nakedness
Lillios Among Fireflies
Glenville State College
Glenville, West Virginia
October 25, 2021
University of Pittsburgh Music Department presents Music performance showcase "new" & new music
program
Sonatina No. 60 "Happy Birthday!" Isaac Mastalski
Elyssa Allen & Robbie Fishel, violas
Mikrokosmos (1926-1939) Bela Bartok
98. Thumbs Under
99. Hands Crossing from Volume 4
Nicholas Johnbosco, piano
Fantasia VI Orlando Gibbons
(1583-1625)
Miriam Layne & Roger Zahab, violins
Partita in E major, BWV 1006: Gigue J. S. Bach
Katherine Yang, violin
Bond and State (2004 Brooklyn, NY) Roger Zahab
Roger Zahab, violin
Ballad and Dance (1950) Gyorgy Ligeti
Katherine Yang & Roger Zahab, violins
Aftermath (2017) Tom Flaherty
Roger Zahab, violin
Mikrokosmos (1926-1939) Bela Bartok
148. Dance in Bulgarian Rhythm 1
153. Dance in Bulgarian Rhythm 5
154. Dance in Bulgarian Rhythm 6
from Volume 6
Eric Moe, piano
Monday at 8 pm
Bellefield Hall Auditorium
October 6, 2021
University of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in its return to live performance
Roger Zahab, director
Cullyn D. Murphy, assistant conductor
Wednesday at 8 pm
Bellefield Hall Auditorium
Harry's Wondrous World (from Harry Potter) John Williams
(arranged by Andrew Levin)
Suite - From Holberg's Time, op. 40 (1884) Edvard Grieg
Cullyn D. Murphy, conducting
Romanian Folk Dances (1917) Bela Bartok
Roger Zahab, conducting
Flock (2020, first performance) Nicholas Grieneisen
October 4, 2021
University of Pittsburgh Music Department presents Music performance showcase -
Monday at 8 pm
Mikrokosmos (1926-1939) Bela Bartok
nos. 1- 4 Four Unison Melodies from Volume 1
Chloe Weiss, piano
Little Suite for Autumn (1979) Peter Schickele
Robbie Fishel, viola & Roger Zahab, violin
Early Work (2012) Jason Belcher
Jason Belcher, piano
Cantilena for viola and piano (2000) Orianna Webb
Roger Zahab, viola & Rob Frankenberry, piano
Mikrokosmos (1926-1939) Bela Bartok
37. In Lydian mode
38. Staccato and Legato 1
39. Staccato and Legato Canon
40. In Yugoslav Style
from Volume 2
Cullyn D. Murphy, piano
For Friendship for violin and viola (2019) Judith Weir
Jennifer Sternick, violin & Roger Zahab, viola
Mikrokosmos (1926-1939) Bela Bartok
97. Notturno
100. In Folk Song Style
101. Diminished Fifth
102. Harmonics
from Volume 4
Mark Micchelli, piano
out the picture/the other half for disappearing solo piano (2021) Cullyn D. Murphy
Mark Micchelli, piano
The Wanderer for viola and piano (1960) Akin Euba
(arr. Roger Zahab, 2021)
Roger Zahab, viola & Rob Frankenberry, piano
Susuwatari Devon Osamu Tipp
Devon Osamu Tipp, shakuhachi
Symbology 1 & 3 for any instruments (3 or above) (2005) Nicole Mitchell
Ramin Akhavijou - piano, Jason Belcher - melodica, Mark Micchelli - accordion,
Cullyn D. Murphy - toy piano, and Devon Osamu Tipp - melodica
Bellefield Hall Auditorium
October 3, 2021
suspicion of nakedness - Lindsey Goodman, flute
Lindsey Goodman performing
Deemer The Road From Hana
Zahab suspicion of nakedness
Lillios Sleep's Undulating Tide
during a department-wide presentation
at 7:00 PM
Ohio Northern University
Ada, Ohio
August 4, 2021
Roger's d mo in memory of Diane Moser premiered
COMPOSER/IMPROVISER/PERFORMER SHOWCASE
Wednesday, August 4, 2021 at 4 pm College Hall Chapel
d mo (first performance) Roger Zahab
Roger Zahab, violin & Robert Frankenberry, piano
along with works by
Greg Brown, Gaea Schell, John Paul Labno, David Krebs, Anthony Carafone, Carla Kihlstedt, Ingrid Laubrock,
Gordon Green, Oscar Suh-Rodriguez, Eric Donnelly, Liss Leigh,Ras Burnett, and Andy Jaffe
College Hall Chapel at 4 pm
Vermont College of Fine Arts
Montpelier, Vermont
March 21, 2021
smoldering kiss, barcarolla Teo, and aria Ada in Brooklyn and everywhere
Concerts on the Slope presents performances by violist Liuh-Wen Ting and cellist Ben Larsen of Roger's complete family of duos for the Maggi/Russell gang
livestreamed at 3:00 PM at
concerts on the slope
February 10, 2021
roger's a h for mandolin
a h was given its first performance by the composer on mandolin
in a live streamed Composer/Performer Showcase from Vermont College of Fine Arts
internet
January 30, 2021
transplanted dances
Roger's transplanted dances will be performed at 7:30 pm by the Berks Sinfonietta
along with Barbara White's The Sojer and the Throut and Antonin Dvorak's String Quartet no. 1, "American", op. 96