Resonance Works

Resonance Works is an artist-driven, collaborative, multi-modal performing arts company dedicated to exploring the confluence of artist, audience, music, and space through performances that empower musicians and engage audiences.

Artist-driven programming sets Resonance Works apart. We create our seasons to showcase outstanding professional artists from Pittsburgh and beyond, performing in a variety of venues in Pittsburgh. Our artists are creative partners in every way - performers, administrators, board members, and donors - and our work has quickly become an important part of the professional arts ecosystem in Pittsburgh. We are committed to maintaining a rich and vibrant community of professional musicians, and work to produce performances that complement the work of larger organizations such as the symphony, the opera, and the ballet.

A multi-modal approach: We present a variety of musical performances that include, but are not limited to opera, chamber music, orchestral music, and choral music, often with integrated elements of dance, visual media, and spoken word. Our venues are chosen to enhance and inform each of our performance projects, and celebrate spaces throughout the city. Exciting collaborators include Cello Fury, Texture contemporary Ballet, Pittsburgh CAPA and the University of Pittsburgh Department of Theater Arts.

In our first three seasons, the spectrum of our programming has included fully-staged operas by Verdi, Donizetti, Massenet, and Menotti; orchestral works by Shostakovich, Mahler, Bach, de Falla, Piazzolla, Debussy, Respighi, and Copland; vocal works by Britten, Pergolesi, Rorem, Bernstein, and Pittsburgh's own Nancy Galbraith; and chamber works by Barber, Bach, Boulanger, and many others later in the alphabet. In addition to our mainstage productions, we offer a popular Resonance Chamber @ The Cloak Room chamber music series with programs curated by our artists that riff off of our mainstage projects.

Our 2016-17 season:

RE: Rediscover, Renew, Reinvent
September 23 & 25, 2016
featuring Cello Fury, baroque flutist Stephen Schultz, pianist Uliana Kozhevnikova
music of Vivaldi, Britten, Stravinsky, and Pittsburgh's Nancy Galbraith

Amahl & the Night Visitors
December 16 & 18, 2016
Our holiday tradition of Menotti's beloved tale, this year paired with music of Vivaldi, Vaughan Williams, and Theofanidis
featuring violinist Sandro Leal-Santiesteban

...in Excelsis
February 9 & 11, 2017
featuring PSO trumpeter Neal Berntsen, award-winning countertenor Andrey Nemzer, violist Jason Hohn
and the American premiere of Sir James MacMillan's GLORIA

Side by Side by Sondheim
March 4 & 5, 2017
the Tony award winning revue celebrating Sondheim's early works

Verdi's Falstaff
May 12 & 14, 2017
In partnership with the University of Pittsburgh Department of Theater Arts

Resonance Chamber @ The Cloakroom
Tuesdays, 7:00-9:00 pm at the Livermore
October 4, December 6, January 31, February 21, April 11