| March 21, 2014 | ||
| 8:00 pm | ||
| March 23, 2014 | ||
| 2:30 pm |
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra continues its Year of the Pittsburgh Composer with a performance of Nancy Galbraith’s Euphonic Blues. Euphonic Blues was premiered in 2012 by the Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic Orchestra for the 100th anniversary celebration of the Carnegie Mellon School of Music. Donald Runnicles will also lead the orchestra in Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No. 1 and highlights from Wagner’s Ring.
Nancy Galbraith resides in Pittsburgh, where she is Professor of Composition at Carnegie Mellon University. In a career that spans three decades, her music has earned praise for its rich harmonic texture, rhythmic vitality, emotional and spiritual depth, and wide range of expression.
Galbraith has had six works performed by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, beginning with the 1988 premiere of Morning Litany, directed by the eminent Russian conductor Gennady Rozhdetsvensky. The orchestra followed with performances of Danza de los Duendes in 1992, Piano Concerto No. 1 in 1995, and Tormenta del Sur in 2001. In 1998 the PSO commissioned and premiered A Festive Violet Pulse for a celebration welcoming its new music director Mariss Jansons. De profundis ad lucem was commissioned by California University of Pennsylvania to celebrate its 150th anniversary and was premiered there by the PSO in 2002. The work received its European premiere with the Limburgs Symfonie Orkest in the Netherlands in 2011.