Featuring members of the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra
In partnership with Violins of Hope Pittsburgh
Our program this year is about hope, reaching out toward the infinite, and finding our place in the world both near and far from home. Texts are taken from such diverse sources as Edgar Allen Poe, Henry Wadsworth...
Category Archives: Choir
Coming Home
Please join us at this FREE concert to meet MCP’s new Music Director Daniel Singer!
Home. It’s a state of mind, a physical place, a yearning inside each of us to find a place we can call home. This musical journey will explore this shared human condition—from our physical home on earth to a spiritual home beyond...
For the Human: Brahms’ Requiem
The Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh opens the 2023-2024 season with a performance of Brahms' soulful, yet hopeful Ein Deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem), with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. It is Brahms' longest composition, and while it uses sacred text, it is not a requiem in the traditional Latin sense, rather focusing on hope and comfort. The concert begins with an a cappella performance of Latvian composer...
Handel’s Messiah
Join the Mendelssohn Choir and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra as they perform Handel's beloved masterpiece, Messiah....
Highmark Holiday Pops
It's the most wonderful time of the year! The Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra are feeling that gingerbread feeling during Pittsburgh's favorite holiday musical tradition: the Highmark Holiday Pops!...