April Concerts

Pittsburgh Area Concerts

PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Scherazade Plus Marsalis’ Fanfare
April 1, 2022 8:00 PM
April 3, 2022 2:30 PM

Wynton Marsalis: Fanfare
Britten: Piano Concerto No. 1
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scherazade

Bronfman Plays Rachmaninoff
April 22,2022 *:00 PM
April 24, 2022 2:30 PM

CloriaIsabel Ramos Triano: why?
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3
Mahler: Symphony No. 1

PNC POPS
Bugs Bunny at the Symphony
April 8, 9 & 10, 2022

“What’s up, Doc?” An enormously fun blend of classical music and classic animation! Bugs Bunny and his Looney Tunes pals return to Heinz Hall for Bugs Bunny at the Symphony in its 30th Anniversary Edition. The world’s most iconic Looney Tunes — from What’s Opera, Doc? to The Rabbit of Seville and a dozen others — will be projected on the big screen, while their exhilarating original scores are played live. This new edition features many new additions since its last Pittsburgh Symphony appearances, including 5 brand new Warner Bros. animated shorts.

CITY THEATRE
Paradise Blu
e by Dominique Morisseau
March 12 – April 3, 2022

MENDELSSOHN CHOIR OF PITTSBURGH
Toward the Unknown Region
April 2, 2022 7:30 PM – Hillman Center for Performing Arts
April 3, 2021 2:30 PM – Westminster Presbyterian Church

This concert will feature two dynamic works for chorus: Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Toward the Unknown Region and Jonathan Dove’s blistering song cycle The Passing of the Year, which contains an extended, challenging, beautiful solo piano part. The concert will also feature music by Jocelyn Hagen, Ellen Gilson Voth, and others.

SHADYSIDE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Good Friday Service: A Service of Choral Music and Readings
April 15, 2022 8:00PM

Easter Sunday Service: Chancel Choir, Brass and Organ
April 17, 2022 9:00AM & 11:00AM

MUSIC IN A GREAT SPACE
Shadyside Presbyterian Church
Eric Rieger, Tenor and J.J. Penna, Piano
April 3, 2022 3:00PM

A Recital of French music exploring the poetry and relationship of Verlaine and Rimbaud in a program featuring Gabriel Faure’s La bonne chanson and Benjamin Britten’s Les Illuminations.