Eric Moe, Theophilus Root, and Ryan McMasters

Name: Eric Moe, Theophilus Root, and Ryan McMasters
Start: 2025-02-23T16:00:00-05:00
Location: Bellefield Hall Auditorium

Schedule

Sun, 23 Feb, 2025 at 04:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Bellefield Hall Auditorium | Pittsburgh, PA

Works by Ezra Sims, Vincenzo Ruffo, Johnny Reinhard, and world premieres by Eric Moe, Julia Werntz and Ryan McMasters
University of Pittsburgh faculty Eric Moe joins newly formed group Theophilus Root and Pittsburgh Composer Ryan Macmasters for the closing concert of BEYOND: MICROTONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL 2025.
about BEYOND: MICROTONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL 2025
The Beyond: Microtonal Music Festival 2025 is a follow-up to Music on the Edge's very successful Beyond Festivals in 2020, 2018 and 2015 which according to the Post-Gazette "made a compelling case for the continued integration of microtonal music into Pittsburgh’s performing arts scene and provided a look at the vibrant community that already exists." Our last festival was in March of 2020, just days before the pandemic struck. We are very excited to present the Beyond festival again in 2025 together with our festival partners City of Asylum, Carnegie Mellon University and WQED.
Microtonal music is music that uses tuning systems other than, or in addition to, the standard twelve-note equal tempered system that is the norm in Western popular and classical music. This norm has been evolving with many composers in all idioms currently using a variety of tuning approaches influenced by world music, early music, and physics and acoustics, to name a few.

The fourth Beyond: Microtonal Music Festival will explore connections between early music tuning and contemporary works, microtonal sound installations and sound environments, transnational microtonal jazz, as well as a wide variety of other approaches to microtonal composition. There will be five world premieres, works by local composers Paul Gallagher, Ryan McMasters, Eric Moe, Amy Williams and Mathew Rosenblum, and videos by Pittsburgh artists who have created visual responses to the music. Featured artists include JACK Quartet, Ekmeles, Ellen Fullman, Dsilton, Theophilus Root, Eric Moe, Ryan McMasters and Scott Pauley. We look forward to seeing you at the concerts and talks.
full festival passes can be found at:

https://ci.ovationtix.com/36300/store/packages/143994