East Liberty Presbyterian Church

Ruth Donalson's Piano Program
2016-02-29 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Halifax) | ELPC – Second Floor Parlor, 116 S Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15206, United States
Enjoy and hour of piano music with Mrs. Ruth Donalson! Take a stroll down memory lane as requests will be honored. Come join her for this time of musical relaxation.

Essence of Joy - Penn State University
2016-03-06 15:00 - 16:30 | ELPC – Sanctuary, 116 South Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15206, United States
Essence of Joy – The 25th Season
Essence of Joy, a choral ensemble in the Penn State School of Music, was organized in 1991 by Anthony Leach to perform sacred and secular music from the African and African-American choral traditions. During the 2015 – 2016 academic year, repertoire by the following composers will be featured: Adolphus Hailstork, M. Roger Holland II, Moses Hogan, Glenn Burleigh, Raymond Wise, Undine Smith Moore, Mark Lehnowsky, Nolan Williams Jr., Stanley Spottswood, Kenneth Louis and Rosephanye Powell. The choir will begin its annual Spring Break Tour on Sunday, March 6 at East Liberty Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh, PA. Dr. Anthony Leach, music director of Essence of Joy is professor of music/music education at Penn State.
NOTE: Essence of Joy will also be singing during the 11:00 AM morning worship service.
Dr. Anthony Leach

Interactive Music-Making Workshops - Join the CEEMI Band!
2016-04-07 19:00 - 20:00 | East Liberty Presbyterian Church, 116 S. Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15206, United States
CEEMI is an innovative piece of technology that turns any WiFi compatible device – a smartphone, tablet, desktop or laptop computer – into a collaborative electronic musical instrument on the fly. It was specially designed for the performance of music by groups of people without prior musical training.
The CEEMI Band will create music together in a series of free weekly collaborative creative music workshops happening this spring and culminating in a public performance. Members of the CEEMI Band will create new music together in a safe and fun environment, through the combined usage of CEEMI, simple games and other creative strategies accessible to all. It will be led by Gil Teixeira, CEEMI’s creator and sound programmer, and is aimed at teens and young adults regardless of their musical background or skills. The only requirement is that CEEMI Band members must bring along their own smartphone or tablet to every session.
There will be a public performance on a day, time and place as yet to be determined.
Please register HERE.
GIL TEIXEIRA BIO
Gil Teixeira is a musician, sound artist and creative leader that has developed in recent years a keen interest in the exploration of technology in collaborative music making contexts. He is a founding member of the instrumental post-rock band La La La Ressonance, creator of CEEMI (a Collaborative Experiential Electronic Music Instrument) and has led creative projects in the USA, Portugal, Norway, UK and Tanzania. He’s currently based in Pittsburgh, PA.

Hope Academy Spring Recitals
2016-04-24 16:00 - 17:00 | East Liberty Presbyterian Church, 116 S. Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15206, United States
Hope Academy’s young singers and musicians are presenting a recital on Sunday, April 24 in the Sanctuary.

This is a good opportunity for families interested in private music instruction for their children to come and see Hope Academy’s program in action and meet the teaching artists.
End of the year recitals will take place on Sunday, May 22 from 2 pm to 6 pm.
Everyone is invited and it’s all FREE! For information about parking in East Liberty, click here.

RECITAL SCHEDULE
SUNDAY, APRIL 24

Kathleen Andrews – Suzuki Violin and Violin students
Patricia Pavlack – Suzuki Piano students
Kristine Rominski – Flute students and Flute Choir
Monica Stephenson – Voice students

Colour of Music Black Classical Musicians' Virtuosi
2016-04-29 19:30 - 21:30 | East Liberty Presbyterian Church, 116 S. Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15206, United States
The 20-piece Colour of Music Virtuosi is an elite group of musicians selected as ambassadors of the Colour of Music Festival. They perform innovative repertoire incorporating the works of composers of African descent alongside traditional classical works. Each performance will include the ‘father’ of black classical music and predecessor to Mozart, Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges’ Violin Concertos No. 1 and No. 2 (performed only for the second time in the United States) as well as works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, including his Adagio and Fugue in C Minor, and Symphony No. 29 in A Major.
There are thousands of prodigiously talented classical principals, composers, and performers of African descent throughout the world. Yet their opportunities to grace concert stages of major American orchestras are rare to non-existent. The Festival has sought to change this and we are thankful for Carnegie Mellon’s keen interest in presenting this sampling of the Colour of Music Festival and its exceptional talent. Lee Pringle, Festival Founder and General Manager
Maestro Marlon Daniel, Music Director of New York-based Ensemble Du Monde, Artistic Director of Festival International Saint-Georges, and Principal Guest Conductor of the Sofia Sinfonietta in Bulgaria, will serve as conductor. “The selections chosen for our debut in Pittsburgh are première pieces rarely performed. Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges’ Violin Concerto No. 1 with soloist Jessica McJunkins and No. 2 with soloist Josh Henderson have never been performed in Pittsburgh. I am excited about conducting his works and those of his contemporary Mozart,” said Marlon Daniel, Conductor.
Tickets are $35 for adults; $25 for seniors 65 +; $10 students. Purchase tickets online with a credit card; or at the door with cash or check.
To Purchase tickets ONLINE click here
or call (866) 441-9962
Hope Academy and ELPC families can request comp tickets HERE.
ABOUT THE COLOUR OF MUSIC FESTIVAL
Based in Charleston, South Carolina and organized in 2013, the Colour of Music Festival, Inc., presents a diverse classical repertoire of Baroque, Classical and 20th century music at the highest of musical standards to diverse audiences. Now in its fourth year the Colour of Music Festival offers a musical kaleidoscope highlighting the impact and historical significance of black classical composers and performers on American and world culture. The fourth annual Colour of Music Festival will take place October 19-23, 2016 at various venues throughout historic Charleston, South Carolina. www.colourofmusic.org

Warhol Youth Invasion - HAT Co Band Performance
2016-05-13 17:00 - 22:00 | The Warhol Museum, 117 Sandusky Street, Pittsburgh, 15212, United States
Hope Academy’s teen theater company (HAT Co) band will rock it out with original songs and popular covers as part of The Warhol Museum’s Youth Invasion.
The evening includes live music, performances, art-making, a fashion show, food, prizes and fun as teens take over the Warhol.
The event runs from 5 to 10 pm, with HAT Co band performing in the lobby from 8:15 to 8:45 pm.
HAT Co band and singers performing at The Warhol Youth Invasion
Henry Schultz – keyboard
Desmond Rucker – drums
James Jaap – bass
Mimi Thomas – ukulele, vocals and songwriting
Laela Lumsden – vocals and songwriting
Anna Ungarino – vocals
Zoe Zielinski – vocals and percussion

The Brass Roots and Organ Spring Concert
2016-05-20 19:30 - 21:00 | ELPC – Sanctuary, 116 South Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15206, United States
Please join us for this sonic spectacular to close our 5th season of Cathedral Concerts at East Liberty Presbyterian Church. The Brass Roots will be joined by Dr. Ed Moore at the organ in an exciting program of music by Strauss, Mussorgsky, Bach, Saint-Saëns, and more!
The concert is free and a freewill offering will be received.

Hope Academy End of the Year Recitals
2016-05-22 14:00 - 18:00 | East Liberty Presbyterian Church, 116 S. Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15206, United States
Hope Academy’s young singers and musicians are presenting an afternoon of recitals on Sunday, May 22, 2016

This is a good opportunity for families interested in private music instruction for their children to come and see Hope Academy’s program in action and meet the teaching artists.
Families should review our Recital Etiquette Guidelines here.

RECITAL SCHEDULE – by time and teaching artist
SUNDAY, MAY 22

2:00 pm – Percussion and Piano
Students of Bronwyn Higgins
MUSIC ROOM
2:00 pm – Flute, Trumpet and Flute Choir
Students of Kristine Rominski and Karen Sloneker
CHAPEL
3:00 pm – Cello, Viola, Violin, Piano
Students of Ana Diaz, Sarah Greenwald and Lee Kikuchi
SANCTUARY
3:00 pm – Guitar, Bass, Voice, Piano
Students of Emma Cox, Monica Stephenson and Anqwenique Wingfield
SOCIAL HALL
4:00 pm – Piano, Guitar and Bass
Students of Laura Reynolds Carmichael, Helga Scheibert, Michael Chapman, Pat Pavlack and Gabe D’Abruzzo
SANCTUARY
5:00 pm – Suzuki Violin
Students of Kathleen Andrews and Liza Barley
SOCIAL HALL
6:00 pm – Wanna CEEMI? Flashmob
Everyone is invited to make music together with their smartphone or any other WiFi compatible device!
Front steps of East Liberty Presbyterian Church (Penn Avenue side of the building) weather-permitting
Or the Narthex inside the Penn Avenue entrance, if it is raining
The “Wanna CEEMI?” campaign consists of a series of flashmob-inspired events that will take place throughout this spring/summer in and around the Pittsburgh PA area. Thanks to CEEMI’s collaborative music-making technology, anyone that shows up or passes by will be able to take part in this fun, spontaneous music-making experience. No prior musical training is required, only a smartphone or any other WiFi compatible device.

Wanna CEEMI Flash Mob
2016-05-22 18:00 - 19:00 | PA
Everyone is invited to make music together with their smartphone or any other WiFi compatible device!
Join us on the front steps of East Liberty Presbyterian Church (Penn Avenue side of the building) weather-permitting
Or the Narthex inside the Penn Avenue entrance, if it is raining
The “Wanna CEEMI?” campaign consists of a series of flashmob-inspired events that will take place throughout this spring/summer in and around the Pittsburgh PA area. Thanks to CEEMI’s collaborative music-making technology, anyone that shows up or passes by will be able to take part in this fun, spontaneous music-making experience. No prior musical training is required, only a smartphone or any other WiFi compatible device.

WYEP SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL - HAT Co Band Performance
2016-06-25 15:00 - 22:00 | Schenley Plaza, 4100 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, 15260, United States
Hope Academy’s teen theater company (HAT Co) band will rock it out with original songs and popular covers as part of WYEP’s Summer Music Festival.
WYEP’s Reimagination is releasing a CD of original songs and HAT Co’s Mimi O’Malley has a song on it (“Ghost Girl”). HAT Co is performing at 3 pm. Evening performances include Boy & Bear at 7:15 pm and Lucius at 8:00 pm.
Bring a blanket, some food and have some fun with us at this free all-day music festival!
HAT Co band and singers performing at WYEP’s SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL
Henry Schultz – keyboard
Desmond Rucker – drums
James Jaap – bass
Zoe Zielinski – vocals and percussion
Mimi O’Malley – vocals and guitar/ukulele
Laela Lumsden – vocals
Candace Burgess – vocals
Anna Ungarino – vocals
Kira Mukogosi – vocals

Here is a detailed schedule:
3PM WYEP REIMAGINATION SHOWCASE (Main Stage)
featuring HAT Co (at 3 pm), Funky Fly Project, The Incandescents
I Made It Market (Schenley Drive)
Children’s Activities (Schenley Tent)
Bike Valet by Bike PGH
5:30 MARGARET GLASPY
Emotions and Math is Margaret Glaspy’s debut album, to be released by ATO Records on June 17. After cutting her teeth in New York and Boston, where she was a touring musician and played in other people’s bands, Emotions and Math signals an assured new direction for Glaspy, who’s 27 and grew up in Red Bluff, California. She self-produced the album, which frames her revealing ruminations in shards of jagged guitar rock. There is early buzz for the album; Rolling Stone hailed first single “You and I” for its “hot barbs of electric guitar.”
7:00 BOY & BEAR
Named a “Top 5 Australian Acts You Need To Know Now” by USA Today, Boy & Bear is Dave Hosking (lead singer/guitars), Killian Gavin (vocals/guitars), Tim Hart (drums, vocals, guitars), Jon Hart (vocals/keys/mandolin) and Dave Symes (bass). Their last album, Harlequin Dream received several ARIA Award nominations, including Best Group, Best Rock Album and Producer Of The Year. This followed their award-winning debut LP Moonfire, which won five ARIA awards in 2011. The quintet made their first trip to the States in two years when they appeared at SXSW 2014, and followed it with a sold-out spring headline tour in support of Harlequin Dream. The band made their U.S. late night television debut on Conan. The band’s new album, Limit Of Love, was released October 9, 2015.
8:45 LUCIUS
Vocalists Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig, backed by bandmates Dan Molad, Pete Lalish and Andy Burri–spent more than 250 days on the road in the past year. They’ve headlined all over the US and Europe, including Bonnaroo, Newport Folk Festival, Lollapalooza, End of The Road, Reading and Leeds Festivals and more and shared the stage with a variety of musicians including Roger Waters, Jack White, Mavis Staples, Jeff Tweedy, Sara Bareilles, The Head and the Heart, Tegan and Sara, and David Byrne. Their critically acclaimed debut LP, Wildewoman (2013) was followed by Good Grief in 2015.

Violinist Elias David Moncado
2016-07-15 19:00 - 20:30 | East Liberty Presbyterian Church, 116 S. Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15206, United States
Rising violin star Elias David Moncado will perform as part of a cultural exchange with New Castle’s Eintracht Maennerchor and Platin Scala of Wenden, Germany. The 15-year-old phenom is one of the top violinists of his age in the world.
Join us in welcoming this incredibly talented young man to America. One day we expect to hear people say “I was there when Elias made his debut in the USA!”
Tickets are $10; $8 for seniors/students; $5 for children. Read more and purchase tickets at Brown Paper Tickets.

Chancel Choir Rehearsal
2016-09-01 19:00 - 20:30, 2016-09-08 19:00 - 20:30, 2016-09-15 19:00 - 20:30, 2016-09-22 19:00 - 20:30, 2016-09-29 19:00 - 20:30, 2016-10-06 19:00 - 20:30, 2016-10-13 19:00 - 20:30, 2016-10-20 19:00 - 20:30 and 6 more dates | ELPC – Sanctuary, 116 South Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15206, United States
The Chancel Choir rehearses on Thursday evenings from 7–8:30 pm, in the Sanctuary from September through early June. Sunday morning rehearsals are at 10:00 am, in preparation for the worship service. The choir provides musical leadership at our Sanctuary worship service on Sundays at 11 am.
No audition is required, just the desire to learn and have fun as we prepare to lead worship. The choir is open to everyone in high school and older.
Dr. Ed Moore is the director of the Chancel Choir and Gabe D’Abruzzo is the accompanist.
Come join us and make a joyful noise!

Community Sing with Ysaÿe Barnwell
2016-10-01 19:00 - 21:00 | ELPC – Social Hall, 116 South Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15206, United States
Ysaÿe Barnwell, former member of Sweet Honey in the Rock, returns to ELPC after last leading an inspirational Community Sing here in 2013.
Click here to download a poster.
This event is free and open to the public. A freewill offering will be received.

Watch this YouTube video where Dr. Barnwell leads a TED Talk in a Community Sing.

David Higgs Organ Concert
2016-10-16 15:00 - 17:00 | ELPC – Sanctuary, 116 South Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15206, United States
Susan G. Whitaker Memorial Organ Recital

Co-sponsored with The Organ Artists Series of Pittsburgh
David Higgs is the chair of the organ department at the Eastman School of Music.
Tickets for this event are $12 at the door. Students with ID are free. ELPC members and friends should contact Dr. Ed Moore following Sunday worship, or Norma Meyer during the week for tickets.

PROGRAM
Variations de Concert
Joseph Bonnet
(1884-1944)
Three Chorales: No. 2 in B minor
César Franck
(1822-1890)
Variations on a Noel
Marcel Dupré
(1886-1971)
Intermission
From Gospel Preludes: What a Friend We Have in Jesus
William Bolcom
(b. 1938)
Bolero de Concert
Louis-James-Alfred Lefébure-Wély
(1817-1869)
Three Impressions Op. 72, No. 1:
1. Harmonies du soir
Sigfrid Karg-Elert
(1877-1933)
Prelude and Fugue on B-A-C-H
Franz Liszt
(1811-1886)
BIOGRAPHY
One of America’s leading concert organists, David Higgs is also Chair of the Organ Department at the Eastman School of Music. He performs extensively throughout the United States and abroad, and has inaugurated many important new instruments including St. Stephan’s Cathedral, Vienna; the Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas; St. Albans Cathedral, England; St. Canice’s Cathedral, Kilkenny, Ireland; and the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola in New York City. His performances with numerous ensembles have included the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Orpheus Ensemble, Chanticleer, and the Empire Brass. For more than twenty years the San Francisco Symphony featured his holiday organ recitals at Davies Symphony Hall, and now the Los Angeles Philharmonic/Hollywood Bowl continues that tradition each year at the Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Mr. Higgs performs, teaches, and adjudicates at festivals and competitions throughout the world, including the International Organ Festivals and Competitions of Bremen, Germany; the Leipzig Bach Competition, Germany; the Gottfried Silbermann Competition in Freiberg, Germany; Calgary, Canada; Dublin, Ireland; Odense, Denmark; Varzi, Italy; Redlands and San Anselmo, California; and the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival. In England he has appeared several times at the Oundle International Festival and Organ Academy, the St. Albans International Festival and Competition, and the Cambridge Summer Festival; in France, at the Xavier Darasse International Competition in Toulouse; and in Japan, at several venues, most recently an all-Bach recital for the composer’s birthday at Izumi Hall in Osaka. His performances for colleagues include national, regional and pedagogy conventions of the American Guild of Organists, as well as national conventions of the American Pipe Organ Builders Association, the American Institute of Organbuilders, the Westfield Center, and the Organ Historical Society; and in London, the Annual Congress of the Incorporated Association of Organists, and the International Congress of Organists.
A native of New York City, Mr. Higgs held his first position as a church organist at age ten; as a teenager, he performed classical music as well as rock, gospel, and soul music. He earned the Bachelor and Master of Music degrees at the Manhattan School of Music, and the Performer’s Certificate from the Eastman School of Music. His teachers have included Claire Coci, Peter Hurford, Russell Saunders, and Frederick Swann. In New York City, he was Director of Music and Organist at Park Avenue Christian Church, and later Associate Organist of the Riverside Church, where he also conducted the Riverside Choral Society. After moving to San Francisco in 1986, he became Director of Music and Organist at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Berkeley, Director of Church Music Studies at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley, and Organist/Choir Director at Temple Emanu-El in San Francisco.
In addition to his significant performing career, Mr. Higgs has distinguished himself as a pedagogue. He was appointed to the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music upon graduation from that institution, and has been a member of the faculty of the Eastman School of Music since 1992. His students have won prizes in prestigious international competitions, and hold important positions in leading academic and religious institutions.
Mr. Higgs has recorded for Delos International, Pro Organo, Arsis, Loft, and Gothic records.

PSO Brass Spectacular
2016-10-23 18:00 - 20:00 | ELPC – Sanctuary, 116 South Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15206, United States
The Philadelphia Orchestra Brass and members of the Boston Symhony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, and National Symphony Orchestra Brass join the Pittsburgh Symphony Brass in a “A Brass Spectacular” to keep the music going in Pittsburgh.
#musiciansofsteel #themusicwontstop
For more information:
www.musiciansofthepso.org

Hope Academy Teaching Artists in Concert
2016-11-19 17:00 - 18:30 | ELPC – Chapel, 116 South Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15206, United States
Please join us for this special concert in ELPC’s chapel, featuring teaching artists from Hope Academy of Music and the Arts – Kathleen Andrews, Ben Barson, Laura Carmichael, Anna Elder, Ryan McMasters, Gizel Rodriguez and Gil Teixeira.

Throughout the year, these artists give private instruction to hundreds of students, and now it is their turn to take the stage as performers.
This performance is free and open to the public. A freewill offering will be received.

PROGRAM
Scherzo from F-A-E Sonata, WoO post. 2:3 – Johannes Brahms
Kathleen Andrews, violin and Laura Carmichael, piano
Nonantzin – Salvador Moreno, arr. by Ben Barson
Maldigo del alto cielo – Violeta Parra, arr. Ben Barson
Kolavalik by Natalio Rodriguez
Gizelxanath, soprano
Ben Barson, baritone saxophonist
Beast – James Tenney
Ryan McMasters
Poveri Fiori from the opera Adriana Lecouvreur by Francesco Cilea
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes from Roberta by Jerome Kern
Gizelxanath, soprano
Laura Carmichael, piano
Arpemolo by G. Teixeira
Danza Característica by L. Brouwer
Gil Teixeira, guitar
Selections from ‘sea garden’
WOLFTRAP
Anna Elder, soprano
Kathleen Andrews, violin
Ryan McMasters, bass and electronics

Chancel Choir Rehearsal
2016-12-01 19:00 - 21:00 | ELPC – Sanctuary, 116 South Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15206, United States
The Chancel Choir typically rehearses on Thursday evenings from 7–8:30 pm, in the Sanctuary from September through early June. Sunday morning rehearsals are at 10:00 am, in preparation for the worship service. The choir provides musical leadership at our Sanctuary worship service on Sundays at 11 am.
No audition is required, just the desire to learn and have fun as we prepare to lead worship. The choir is open to everyone in high school and older.
Dr. Ed Moore is the director of the Chancel Choir and Gabe D’Abruzzo is the accompanist.
Come join us and make a joyful noise!
