Roger Zahab - Calendar

2019 Events

January 12, 2019
Music Awakens at Connecticut Music Educators Association

Rob Frankenberry conducts Roger's Music Awakens (words by Walt Whitman) at the CMEA Southern Regional Choir
Saturday at 3 pm

Platt High School
Meriden CT

2018 Events

December 7, 2018
Nathalie Shaw weaves spell against sadness

Conservatoire du 14e arrondissement Darius Milhaud presents
Voyage across centuries 1700,1800, 2000
Nathalie Shaw performs Roger's spell against sadness along with music by Telemann, R. von Oesterreich, Leilei Tian, and Wolfram Graf; with Marion Ferme - recorders and Laurent Durupt, harpsichord, piano and electronics

at 7:45 pm
Auditorium Calmel
26, rue Mouton Duvernet
75014 Paris, France

December 5, 2018
University of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

Roger conducts
Pyotr Tchaikovsky - Romeo and Juliet
Daniel S. Godfrey - A Conversation with Memory
for clarinet and orchestra
in memory of Roger Hendrix
-premiere performance with faculty soloist Mary Beth Malek
Johannes Brahms: Symphony no. 4 in e minor, op 98

at 8 pm, Bellefield Hall Auditorium
University of Pittsburgh
Oakland Campus

December 3, 2018
Music Monday

Roger performs Burr Van Nostrand's Phaedra Antinomaes and David Leisner's Sonata for violin and guitar with James Ferla.
also on the program - music by
William Shield, Claude Debussy, Catherine McMichael, Ludwig van Beethoven,
and songwriters
Connor Lindsay, Benjamin Volk, Emma Lebo, Max Snyder,
Jordan Bender, Peter Hu, and Dan Rothman

Performed by
Emma-Leigh Jones, Amal Saeed, & Yuto Iwaizumi, violins
Avery Bazell, Lily Carley, Gillian Reed, Alyssa Zamloot, flutes
Shumeng Yang, piano
Harrison Wayne, singer
Connor Lindsay, guitar
Benjamin Volk, singer & drums
and others to be announced

at 8 pm
Bellefield Hall Auditorium
University of Pittsburgh
Oakland campus
free admission

November 29, 2018
Roger's Autumn Songs performed by Danielle Buonaiuto and Jason Wirth

Old Stone House in Brooklyn presents Autumn in New York
Join us at the Old Stone House of Brooklyn for an evening of songs by New York composers, including John Corigliano, John Musto, Gilda Lyons, Daniel Felsenfeld, Ellen Mandel, and Juliana Hall, exploring poems and stories through song that evoke the beauty of the sights, sounds and smells of New York in the changing season, and, also, some that reflect upon the concerns and issues we face this autumn in New York, including politics, homelessness and hunger, and loneliness at the holidays with a mix of compassion, honesty, optimism, and hope.

Also featuring music of: Kala Pierson, Roger Zahab, Leslie Uyeda, and Michael Oberhauser.

Tickets available online and at the door. Space is limited.
Buy Tickets: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3758444

at 7:30 pm
Old Stone House of Brooklyn
336 3rd St, Brooklyn, New York 11215

November 11, 2018
Tanguera Tango Ensemble

Tanguera Tango Ensemble
Claudine Joelle Robins, piano
Suzanne Mueller, cello
Roger Zahab, violin

music by R. Rikki Bell (Too Soon), Reinhold Gliere (Berceuse), Frank J. Oteri (Memory Now I Can't Recall), Astor Piazzolla (Oblivion, La Muerte del Angel) , Andre Previn (Song), Reed Robins (Tanguera), and Roger Zahab (little tango, afterimage, how to sing properly)

Music from Good Shepherd
sunday evening at 5 pm

Good Shepherd Roman Catholic Church
1950 Batchelder Street
Brooklyn, NY (718) 998- 2800

November 5, 2018
The University of Pittsburgh Department of Music presents Music Monday

The Northern Hags. A Connaught jig. - Irish traditional
A scorching to this (love), woe be him who it is upon. From Mary Madden.
The lovely lad. A Munster single Jig from Ned Goggin
Sonia Cromp, violin

From a Rose Garden (1988) - David Macbride
in memory of the composer
Ralph's Inexpensive Caprice (1981) - Roger Zahab
Elegie (1944) - Igor Stravinsky
in memory of those recently cut down in hate-filled violence in Louisville and Pittsburgh

Roger Zahab, violin*

The Dialogue of Marquiolin and Yudiminour (2018) - Damon Honeycutt
(a part of Children of the Final Sun a sonic palimsest - first performance)

Duets, op. 39 (selected) - Reinhold Gliere

David Skrovanek, cello & Roger Zahab, violin*

Suite No. 5 in C minor for Violoncello Solo, BWV 1011 J. S. Bach -Paula Tuttle, cello*

Quartet in g minor, op. 27 (1877-78) - Edvard Grieg
I. Un poco Andante - Allegro molto ed agitato

D J Hinton & Jason Ong, violins
Grace Chu, viola
Alex Johnson, cello
* faculty member

at 8 pm - free admission
Bellefield Hall Auditorium
University of Pittsburgh Oakland Campus

October 17, 2018
University of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

Roger conducts
Gustav Mahler: Scherzo from the Fifth Symphony
Aaron Copland: Quiet City
with undergraduate soloists Matthew Rosenblatt, trumpet &
Dan Rothman, English horn
Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto no. 1 in d minor, op. 15
with faculty artist Tina Faigen

at 8 pm, Bellefield Hall Auditorium
University of Pittsburgh
Oakland campus

September 16, 2018
Orson Rehearsed

The Chicago College of Performing Arts presents a New Mercury Collective production:
Daron Hagen's Orson Rehearsed
starring Robert Orth, Robert Frankenberry, Omar Mulero, in association with Atlas Arts Media and Fifth House Ensemble.
Sunday at 2:30 pm

The Studebaker Theater, 410 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL

September 15, 2018
Orson Rehearsed

The Studebaker Theater, 410 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL

June 10, 2018
the music/garden on rose & suspicion of nakedness

performed by George Pope, flute with David Fisher, piano in the garden

Chamber Music Society of Ohio
The Guest House in Bath

May 30, 2018
The Folk Tune Project - entelechron

entelechron returns to The Phoenix Concerts in a celebratory program of new works for piano trio. Their program doubles as a CD Release Party as The Phoenix Concerts launches its first CD - The Folk Tune Project - on Roven Records in spring 2018, featuring series commissions by Juhi Bansal, Robert Carl, Daron Hagen, Katarina Leyman, Gilda Lyons, Jorge Martin, Frank J. Oteri, Glen Roven, and Dan Sonenberg performed by entelechron members of The Phoenix Players, Roger Zahab, violin, David Russell, cello, and Robert Frankenberry, piano, with Gilda Lyons and Elaine Valby, voice.

at 12:10pm
In partnership with Downtown Music at Grace
33 Church Street / White Plains, NY

May 29, 2018
The Folk Tune Project - entelechron

at 7 pm
The Phoenix Concerts
Saint Matthew & Saint Timothy / 26 W 84th / New York, NY

May 26, 2018
Kamraton - 'Burgh Sounds II.

Kamraton performs Roger's The Shades of Hegemony and
works by Mathew Rosenblum & Eric Moe (with Roger assisting as conductor) and Amy Williams.
at 7:30 pm

Bellefield Hall Auditorium
on the University of Pittsburgh Oakland campus

May 14, 2018
PRISM projects presents Rob Frankenberry at the piano

Monday, May 14 at 7:30 PM
Rob Frankenberry, Piano

David Del Tredici - Opposites Attract; Ballad in Yellow
Eric Moe - Frozen Rain, Summer Dreams
Daron Hagen - Piano Variations
Roger Zahab - at the piano
Michael Laster - Piano Sonata (first performance)

St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Chelsea
346 W. 20th Street (between 8 - 9th Aves)
New York City, NY 10011

May 12, 2018
Music on the Edge presents flutist Lindsey Goodman - returning to heights unseen

Renowned new music champion Lindsey Goodman performs works from her new solo album featuring Pittsburgh composers Roger Dannenberg, David Stock, and Roger Zahab - suspicion of nakedness.
for tickets

Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
University of Pittsburgh Oakland Campus

May 8, 2018
Roger's Circular Dancing - CAPA Antithesis / CAPA Rock Ensemble Spring Concert

CAPA Antithesis performing works by Philip Corner, Karheinz Stockhausen, Ornette Coleman, Charles Ives and Roger Zahab

CAPA Rock Ensemble performing arrangements by student members
at 7 pm

in the Cabaret at CAPA
Pittsburgh Creative and Performing Arts
111 9th St, Pittsburgh, PA 15222

April 18, 2018
University of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Roger Zahab - director, Devon Tipp, assistant conductor

Erik Satie - Trois gnossiennes (1890 - (arranged 2018 for medium-sized orchestra by Roger Zahab)
Tison Street - Bagatelles for violin and orchestra (1987)
Roger Zahab, violin, Devon Tipp, conductor
Laura Schwartz - Murmur (2018, premiere) for string orchestra and xylophone
Antonin Dvorak - Symphony no. 9 in e minor, From the New World, op. 95

Bellefield Hall Auditorium
University of Pittsburgh Oakland campus
8 pm, free admission

April 9, 2018
Recent Harmony

David Del Tredici - Ballad in Yellow and The Last Violin (Rob Frankenberry, piano and Roger Zahab as the last violin)
Tison Street - Round, Gigue, and Peroration (RZ & Shannon McTaggart - violins, Sarah Albani-viola, Alex Johnson-cello)
Eric Moe - Frozen Rain, Summer Dreams (Rob Frankenberry, piano)
Eric Gratta - beneath the sky (Christian Clark, piano)
Roger Zahab - Rendezvous, River (Sarah Albani - viola, RZ - piano, premiere of these versions)
Frederic Chopin - Fantaisie-Impromptu in c-sharp minor (Rodica Constantine,piano)

Bellefield Hall Auditorium
University of Pittsburgh Oakland campus
free

March 24, 2018
I doubt this is over ...IonSound Project: Overhear/Here

also music by Torke, Lyons, Reich, Ravel and Satie

Bellefield Hall Auditorium at 7 pm
Tickets available at the door only. General admission $20. Non-Pitt students/seniors $15, Pitt students and children under 12 free.

March 18, 2018
Chamber Music from Pitt

Recent chamber music for strings by Eric Gratta (Night Out East), and Roger Zahab (opening out) leading to Felix Mendelssohn's Octet for strings performed by musicians from Pitt.
Admission is free. Open to the public.

Sunday at 3 pm
Admission is free. Open to the public.

Heinz Memorial Chapel
University of Pittsburgh Oakland campus

February 21, 2018
University of Pittsburgh Orchestra, Roger Zahab, director

Ludwig van Beethoven - Scherzo from Seventh Symphony
Marco Giusto - Four Pieces for Orchestra (premiere)
W.A.Mozart - Sinfonia Concertante K 297b with Cynthia Warren - oboe, Mary Beth Malek - Clarinet, Linda Fisher - bassoon, and Jason Allison - horn
Igor Stravinsky - Rite of Spring (abridged,. Tom Kennedy)

Bellefield Hall Auditorium
University of Pittsburgh Oakland campus
free

January 27, 2018
Music for friends/in honor of masters

Music for one, two or three stringed instruments surrounding J S Bach's Sonata in g minor for solo violin, BWV 1001 includes Judith Weir's Atlantic Drift (three short duos from the British composer dedicated to American friends), Peter Maxwell Davies' Sonatina for violin alone after Bach's Sonata III in C, and various short works by Roger Zahab written to celebrate his students at Pitt.
Performed by Pitt faculty violinist Roger Zahab with DJ Hinton, violin, Sarah Albani, viola and Alex Johnson, cello.
Saturday at 8 pm
Admission is free. Open to the public.

Heinz Memorial Chapel
University of Pittsburgh Oakland campus

2017 Events

December 6, 2017
University of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Roger Zahab, director

Giovanni Gabrieli - Canzona X (1597) for brass
David Stock - Triflumena (1978)
Daron Hagen - Music from "Shining Brow" for brass quintet
Lou Harrison - Suite for Symphonic Strings
Luidwig van Beethoven - Symphony no. 7 in A major, op. 92 (1812)

Bellefield Hall Auditorium
University of Pittsburgh
Oakland campus

November 5, 2017
Town and Country - present history

The 26th Tiffany Concert Season presents
The University of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra strings:
W.A.Mozart: Adagio and Fugue in c minor, K. 546
Igor Stravinsky: Concerto in D for string orchestra (1946) conducted by Devon Tipp
Bradley Turner: A Shameless Ploy to Get You to Love Me (2017) (premiere) for violin and cello
R. Rikki Bell: Coal River Mountain - an aerial view for string quartet (2016)
Eric Gratta: Night Out East for string quartet (2014)
Roger Zahab and DJ Hinton violins
Sarah Albani, viola
Eric Gratta, cello

Roger Zahab: night and starlight (1998)
Antonin Dvorak: Serenade in E major, op. 22
I. Moderato - II. Tempo di Valse
conducted by Roger Zahab

Ticket Pricing: General $15; Senior $10; Students $10. Tickets can be purchased at the door. Please call 412-323-1070 for information
Sponsored by the Allegheny Historic Preservation Society, Inc.

Historic Calvary United Methodist Church Located in Allegheny West, North Side 971 Beech and Allegheny Aves.
Pittsburgh

October 11, 2017
Homecoming 2017 featuring Guy Klucevsek, composer and accordionist

University of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Roger Zahab, Director
Igor Stravinsky: Concerto in D for String Orchestra
Guy Klucevsek: Wave Hill, Flying Vegetables of the Apocalypse, Largo: Variations and Theme (Dvorak-Klucevsek), Stolen Memories, Ratatatatouille
Johannes Brahms: Variations on a Theme of Joseph Haydn, op. 56a

Bellefield Hall Auditorium
University of Pittsburgh Oakland Campus

October 5, 2017
Introductory notes for a display of avian finery in Arizona

David Russell performs Introductory notes for a display of avian finery in his recital Solitary Adventures for solo cello along with work by Lee Hyla, Jonathan Harvey, Samuel Nichols, Judith Weir, Andrew Rindfleisch, Tamar Diesendruck and Luciano Berio at 5 pm

Arizona State University School of Music
Katrin Concert Hall
Tempe, Arizona

September 25, 2017
tapping points for snare drum premiered by Matt Dudack

The Noble Snare - 25 Years #4 concert
Matt Dudack gives the first performance of Roger's tapping points.
Finale concert :"Single Stroke Roll Meditation"
Volume 4 Concert
A Minute of News, by Eugene Novotney - Ben Toth
2 for 1, by Ralph Shapey - Rob Falvo
* Isoceles, by Christopher Burns - Trevor Saint
LO, by Gustavo Aguilar - Gustavo Aguilar
* Tapping Points, by Roger Zahab - Matthew Dudack
Scrape Rim Skin, by Salvatore Martian - Bob McCormick
Scraps of Echos, by John Welsh - Kay Stonefelt
Basic 10, by Robert Ashley - Bill Sallak
Rapeo, by William Ortiz - Jude Traxler
The Single Stroke Roll Meditation, by Pauline Oliveros
* World premiere

7:30-9pm
Guzzetta Recital Hall
University of Akron, Ohio
Contact Info:
330-972-8301
concerts@uakron.edu 

September 9, 2017
returning to heights unseen - Lindsey Goodman, flute, launches her indiegogo campaign

performance of some of the newly commissioned works for flute from Lindsey's upcoming album:
Roger Dannenberg: Separation Logic
Roger Zahab: suspicion of nakedness
Evan Williams: if/else
David Stock: A Wedding Prayer
Judith Shatin: For the Fallen
Elaine Lillios: Sleep's Undulating Tide

To donate towards the release of the album:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/returning-to-heights-unseen#/

PearlArts Studios
201 North Braddock Avenue
Pittsburgh
7:00 - 9:00pm

June 2, 2017
Delgani String Quartet performs Venus transported in New York City

Delgani String Quartet performs Lou Harrison's String Quartet Set, Roger Zahab's Venus transported, Damon Honeycutt's Children of the Final Sun, Fred Glesser's Apophis, Nick Grieneisen's Short piece for string quartet and tabla and R. Rikki Bell's Coal River Mountain-An Aerial View
Concert at 8 pm,
suggested donation: $20 general, $10 students

St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Chelsea, New York City
346 W. 20 St. (8-9 Aves) NYC, NY 10011

April 19, 2017
University of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Roger Zahab, director

Roger conducts works by Gilda Lyons and Hector Berlioz (Symphonie Fantastique) 8 pm, free admission

Bellefield Hall Auditorium
University of Pittsburgh Oakland campus

April 1, 2017
Quartetto di Venezia performs Zahab string quartets

Music on the Edge presents Quartetto di Venezia in a program of works by Curt Cacioppo, Kendall Kennison, Robert Maggio, and Roger Zahab: ...and stars will appear, Venus transported and fierce boys with stilettos.

Andy Warhol Museum
Tickets in advance: $15/10
at the door: $20/15
Web site: music.pitt.edu or call 412-624-4125

March 28, 2017
Quartetto di Venezia performs Zahab string quartet at West Chester University

Quartetto di Venezia celebrate their 32nd anniversary with performances of new American music by: Curt Cacioppo, Kendall Kennison, Robert Maggio, and Roger Zahab ( ...and stars will appear, Venus transported and fierce boys with stilettos.) at 8:15 pm

West Chester University
Ware Family Recital Hall

March 27, 2017
Quartetto di Venezia gives NYC premieres of Zahab string quartets

Prism Projects presents Quartetto di Venezia in a program of works by Curt Cacioppo, Kendall Kennison, Robert Maggio, and Roger Zahab: ...and stars will appear, Venus transported and fierce boys with stilettos.

at 8 pm
suggested donation $20/15 for students and seniors

St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Chelsea
346 W. 20th Street (between 8 - 9th Aves)
New York City, NY 10011

March 26, 2017
Circular Dancing with the Tuscarawas Philharmonic at 3 pm

Eric Benjamin conducts the Tuscarawas Philharmonic in Roger Zahab's Circular Dancing, Copland's Our Town, Purcell's Chacony. Mary Bontrager performs Tomaso Vitali's Chaconne, and the Philharmonic Chorus and Soloists and Malone University Chamber Chorus join in for Bach's Cantata #78 - Jesu du der mine Seele and Leondard Bernstein's Chichester Psalms.

Performing Arts Center
Kent State Tuscarawas campus
330 University Dr. NE
New Philadelphia, OH 44663

March 26, 2017
Quartetto di Venezia performs Zahab string quartets at Haverford College (near Philadelphia)

Haverford College
Roberts Hall, Marshall Auditorium.
Admission prices are $20 (Gen), $15 (Sr), $10 (Stu), $5 (7-17), Tri-college community (free). For more information: 610-896-1011.

March 23, 2017
Quartetto di Venezia performs Zahab string quartets

Quartetto di Venezia in a program of works by Curt Cacioppo, Kendall Kennison, Robert Maggio, and Roger Zahab: ...and stars will appear, Venus transported and fierce boys with stilettos. at 8 pm. Concert is free and open to the public

Goucher College
Merrick Lecture Hall 1021 Dulaney Valley Rd, Towson, MD 21286, USA

website: http://www.goucher.edu/music

February 22, 2017
University of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Roger Zahab, director

Roger will conduct a new work by Nicholas Grieneisen, and two works by Sergei Prokofiev - the "Classical" Symphony and the Second Piano Concerto with Harry Jamison as soloist. 8 pm, free admission.

Bellefield Hall Auditorium
University of Pittsburgh Oakland Campus

January 29, 2017
A Social Engagement with music by J.S.Bach and six Americans | Roger Zahab, violin

Sunday at 3 pm
This program is built around Bach's Partita in b minor for solo violin - a set of four dances with division-type variations - and music by American composers which reflect a stunning array of concerns and points of view.

(in alphabetical order)
J. S. Bach - Partita I in b minor BWV 1002 (ca. 1720)
Linda Kernohan - With the Angels - in memoriam Tyler Clementi (2016)
David Mahler - Maxfield's Reel (1983)
Ursula Mamlok - From My Garden (1983)
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson - Blue/s Forms (1972)
Christian Wolff - Bread and Roses (1976)
Roger Zahab - spell against sadness (2015), teleport 7.3 (2001), winterspring (2012)

Heinz Memorial Chapel
university of Pittsburgh Oakland campus

January 22, 2017
Schubert's String Quintet in C major

Sunday at 3 pm
Franz Schubert: Quintet in C major for strings, D.956 - op. post. 163, 1828
Roger Zahab and Jennifer Sternick, violins
Sarah Albani, viola
Stefan Poost and David Skrovanek, cellos

Schubert's String Quintet in C major, one of the greatest and most far reaching works in music, will be performed by a group of friends who connected at Pitt and who continue to explore together.

Heinz Memorial Chapel
University of Pittsburgh Oakland campus