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Pitt's Department of Music

The Music at Pitt Podcast

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The Music at Pitt Podcast

Pitt's Department of Music

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For the first time in over a year and a half, the Music at Pitt Podcast is coming to you not from host Philip Thompson’s home studio but from the Music Building on the Pitt Campus. Our guest for this episode is Deanna Witkowski and we are havin
Our guest for this episode of the Music at Pitt Podcast is Professor Aaron Johnson. Known around the department and the music world as Dr. A.J., he is an Assistant professor of Jazz Studies in Pitt’s Department of Music where he teaches courses
For this episode of the podcast we feature three of our graduating seniors: Jordan Bender (pictured), Walt Yang, and David Zahniser. Jordan, Walt, and David are going to talk to us about their Senior Capstone Projects which, as you might imagin
Our guest for this episode of the podcast is Michael Heller, Associate Professor of Music for the Department of Music and editor of the journal Jazz and Culture published by University of Illinois Press. He’s the author of Loft Jazz: Improvisin
Our guest for this episode of the podcast is Rizky Sasono, a PhD student in ethnomusicology and a singer/songwriter who has performed around the world with his band Risky Summerbee and the Honeythief. He is also a member of a Teater Garasi/Gara
Our guest for this episode of the Music at Pitt podcast is composer/pianist Eric Moe, the University of Pittsburgh’s Andrew Mellon Professor of Music and co-director of Music on the Edge. He is a composer of what the New York Times calls "music
Our guest for this episode of the Music at Pitt Podcast is Jazz Studies PhD student Lee Caplan. Lee is researching Jazz Aesthetics with a focus on 18th-century philosopher Edmund Burke’s ideas of the sublime and how those in turn connect to the
This episode of the Music at Pitt Podcast is a very special one as it will include as many of our ensemble directors as could possibly be here talking about the projects they and their students have been working on over the course of the semest
Our guest for this episode of the podcast is Nicole Mitchell, internationally acclaimed flutist, composer, and Director of the Pitt’s Jazz Studies program. She joins us today to talk about the 50th Annual Jazz Seminar and Concert which will be
Our guest for this episode of the Music at Pitt Podcast is composer, sound designer, and software developer Phil Lamperski. Phil graduated from Pitt in 2007 with a BA in Music and a BS in Psychology. He went on to earn an MA in Music from UC Sa
Our guest for this episode of the Music at Pitt Podcast is Deanna Witkowski, a Jazz Studies grad student who is new to the program, but certainly not new to the jazz scene. Deanna brings her experience as a nationally renowned pianist, vocalist
Our guest for this episode of the Music at Pitt Podcast is recent graduate Mariam Shalaby. Mariam graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 2018 with a BPhil in Music through the Honors College and Department of Music and a BS in Natural S
Our guest for this episode of the Music at Pitt Podcast is Deane Root, the music department’s newest Professor, Emeritus. Deane recently retired from more jobs than most of us hold in a lifetime, including being the Director of the Center for A
Our guest for this episode of the Music at Pitt Podcast is Deane Root, the music department’s newest Professor, Emeritus. Deane recently retired from more jobs than most of us hold in a lifetime, including being the Director of the Center for A
Our guest for this episode of the Music at Pitt Podcast is Jim Cassaro, Head of the Theodore M. Finney Music Library and Professor of Music. Jim is a librarian-musicologist who specializes in seventeenth-century French music, with a particular
Our guest for this episode of the Music at Pitt podcast is Devon Tipp. A PhD candidate at the University of Pittsburgh, Tipp’s music draws influence from his Japanese and Eastern European roots, his experiences as a jeweler and painter, and his
Our guest for this episode of the Music at Pitt Podcast is Lily Turner, a freshly minted Pitt graduate from Blacksburg, Virginia. As a student at Pitt she was a double major in Computer Science and Music, specifically pursuing the Global and Po
Our guest for this episode of the Music at Pitt Podcast is musicology doctoral student Larissa Irizarry. Larissa is receiving significant recognition for her research into 21st-century opera and 1970s rock where she explores depictions of gende
Our guest for this episode of the Music at Pitt Podcast is composition and theory doctoral candidate Wang Xinyang. Born in Guangyuan City, Sichuan Province, China, Wang Xinyang is a composer of classical music, currently based in Pittsburgh. He
The Music at Pitt Podcast has been on hiatus while Pitt has been transitioning to remote learning, but we’re back and recording from the Lawrenceville Offices of the Department of Music (aka host Phil Thompson's home studio) and conducting inte
Our guest for this episode of the Music at Pitt Podcast is Charles Lwanga, a composer, theorist, master drummer, and ethnomusicologist. Charles completed his PhD in composition and theory here at Pitt in 2012 and recently completed his second P
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