The Mendelssohn Choir and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra celebrate a time-honored holiday tradition with the Highmark Holiday Pops, conducted this year by PSO Assistant Conductor and Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra Music Director Francesco Lecce-Chong. There will be lots of merriment and cheer, a holiday tune or two, and some very special guests, including Capathia Jenkins, The Three Rivers Ringers, and possibly Santa Claus himself!...
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Haydn’s Creation
The Mendelssohn Choir and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra bring Franz Josef Haydn's magnum opus The Creation to life, under the baton of PSO Music Director Manfred Honeck. After a trip to London in 1795, Haydn wanted to inspire the world with his music, much like Londoners still celebrated G. F. Handel, more than 40 years after his death. With The Creation, Haydn set out to...
The Mendelssohn Choir hires Matthew Mehaffey as Music Director
The Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh (MCP) is delighted to announce that Matthew Mehaffey will be its new Music Director. "The Mendelssohn Choir's national reputation attracted a significant number of outstanding candidates, making the Search Committee's job challenging and exciting,” says Robert Moir, a member of the Committee. “In the end, with overwhelming support from the choir members, the Committee and Board of Directors unanimously agreed...
Defying Gravity: Mendelssohn Choir + Steve Hackman at the Three Rivers Arts Festival
Join The Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh and conductor/composer/arranger Steve Hackman on June 6 for Defying Gravity, the headline performance for the Three Rivers Arts Festival. The MCP returns to the mainstage at the Three Rivers Arts Festival after a 40-year hiatus to perform this one-of-a-kind concert featuring Hackman's original compositions, arrangements and mash-ups of contemporary music. Hear the MCP as you've never heard it before!...
Mendelssohn Choir’s Duruflé Requiem Named One of 2015’s Best Concerts
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has named the Mendelssohn Choir's October 11, 2015 performance of Duruflé's Requiem one of the best classical concerts of 2015. The Requiem also marked the the final performance of Betsy Burleigh's tenure with the Choir, as she stepped down after ten years as Music Director, with "a deeply felt performance by the choir."
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