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Tickets are on sale now for the concert, part of the ongoing Solo & Chamber Music Series. It will begin at 7:30 p.m.
Brooklyn-based composer, pianist, and conductor Dan Schlosberg’s music has been performed by numerous prestigious musical groups and in venues such as Carnegie Hall and the Sydney Opera House.
He has received the Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, two ASCAP Morton Gould Awards, and a 2023 Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Music in a Play (Montag, Soho Repertory Theater).
In addition to collaborations with Angel Blue, the Imani Winds, Anthony McGill, Ariana DeBose, Tony Kushner, and Ben Stiller, he was the pianist for Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story, and a featured soloist in Only an Octave Apart with the New York Philharmonic and on NPR’s Tiny Desk.
He is the music director of Heartbeat Opera, for which his radical re-orchestrations of classic operas have been praised as “flat-out brilliant,” “the vision of a master sculptor,” (New York Times) and “ingenious” (Wall Street Journal).
Current and recent projects include The Extinctionist, a new opera for Heartbeat Opera ("a work of remarkable impact" - Opera News); a new music-theater work based on The Beggar’s Opera (Little Island, NYC); music direction and new orchestrations for Anthony Roth Costanzo’s solo Marriage of Figaro (Little Island, NYC); music direction and new orchestrations of Show/Boat: A River (Target Margin/NYU Skirball); music direction for Anthony Roth Costanzo and Justin Vivian Bond’s Only an Octave Apart (Wilton’s Music Hall in London, Spoleto Festival, Gate Theatre in Dublin); composition and music direction for Jeremy O. Harris’s A Boy’s Company Presents (upcoming); a new orchestration of Poul Ruders’s opera The Handmaid’s Tale (Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity); and music direction and orchestrations for Fake Friends’ The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse (The New Group/Signature Theatre NYC).
Demarre McGill has gained international recognition as one of the premier flutists of his generation, celebrated for his lyrical expressiveness and technical prowess.
He is the winner of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant and the Sphinx Medal of Excellence and has appeared as a soloist with renowned orchestras including the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the San Francisco, Seattle, Pittsburgh, Dallas, Grant Park, San Diego, Chicago, and Baltimore Symphony Orchestras.
His captivating performances have earned him critical acclaim and a distinguished place in the world of classical music.
Born in Chicago, he began studying the flute at age 7 and attended the Merit School of Music. In the years that followed, he studied with Susan Levitin and earned a Bachelor's degree from The Curtis Institute of Music and a Master's degree from The Juilliard School.
Currently serving as the principal flute of the Seattle Symphony, McGill has previously held principal flute positions with the Dallas Symphony, San Diego Symphony, Florida Orchestra, and Santa Fe Opera Orchestra. He has also served as acting principal flute with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.
McGill has coached and presented master classes around the world and throughout the U.S., and has served on the faculties of several prestigious orchestras and festivals. A champion for accessibility and relevance in classical music, he actively promotes the works of underrepresented composers and engages in projects that highlight diverse cultural perspectives.
His media credits include appearances on PBS's “Live from Lincoln Center,” A&E Network's “The Gifted Ones,” NBC's “Today Show,” NBC Nightly News, and, along with his brother Anthony, on “Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood.”
He is a Yamaha Performing Artist.
Tickets
Tickets are free to full-time Pitt State students with valid student ID; $10 for youth under 18 and those over 65; and $15 for the general public.
Season ticket packages also are available.
Tickets can be purchased in the following ways:
They also may be purchased at the door 30 minutes prior to each concert, based on availability.
