Pittsburgh Performs is a four-concert series that highlights innovative local and regional musicians. This program speaks to the core of Chamber Music Pittsburgh’s mission to celebrate the diverse range of genres, instrumentation, and eras that chamber music represents. Each pay-what-you-wish performance takes place at a community-centric venue, many in underserved neighborhoods. This season, as we approach our semiquincentennial, we asked some of Pittsburgh’s boldest and most thoughtful artists to reflect on our nation’s complex and varied histories. Join us for two distinct programs that honor our roots and point to a future full of possibility.
Upcoming Performances
A Hip Hop 250, featuring INEZ and the Hip Hop Orchestra
INEZ, Michael Chapman and members of the Hip Hop Orchestra, Curators
Saturday, June 13, 2026, 5:00pm | East Liberty Presbyterian Church
Wednesday, June 17, 2026, 7:00pm | August Wilson Center for African American Culture, 2nd floor studio
Tickets are pay-what-you-wish.
As we mark the US Semiquincentennial, Chamber Music Pittsburgh honors the groundbreaking art forms and original voices that have helped shape American music and culture. Guardians of Sound’s Hip Hop Orchestra, a nonprofit creative ensemble that merges traditional hip-hop beats with acoustic orchestral instruments, joins singer-songwriter-producer INEZ, proud Homewood resident, Pittsburgh native, and musical powerhouse, in an electrifying program that explores what America 250 means to we, all the people.
Artists:
Guardians of Sound’s Hip Hop Orchestra
INEZ
The Cowboy Evolves: Journeys Through the Music of the Americas
Carlos Clark, Curator
Rescheduled date to be announced | City of Asylum, North Shore
Rescheduled date to be announced | Vanka Murals, St. Nicholas Croatian Catholic Church, Millvale
* Tickets for the Millvale concert include a FREE tour of the famous Maxo Vanka Murals! Tour starts at 6:30pm. *
Tickets are pay-what-you-wish.
Chamber Music Pittsburgh marks the US Semiquincentennial by celebrating the histories, voices and viewpoints of pan-American creators, performed by artists from throughout the Americas who have made Pittsburgh their home. Featuring music by composers from the United States, Uruguay, and Brazil, concert curator Carlos Clark, Paul J. Ross Fellow at the Pittsburgh Symphony, interweaves storytelling and performance, illuminating the complex and evolving identities of the featured composers. This Pittsburgh Performs concert offers a colorful, vibrant vision of hope and discovery, and provides a uniquely personal reflection on our complex history.
Artists:
Carlos Clark, bassoon
Jennifer Orchard, violin
Omari Abdul-Alim, violin
Sean Juhl, viola
Bronwyn Banerdt, cello
Amaury Morales, piano
Program:
Florence Price Adoration
Fantasy No. 1
Miguel del Águila Malambo
Heitor Villa-Lobos Divagacão (1946)
Preludio No. 2 (1913)
Wynton Marsalis Meeelaan
Please note: While most of St. Nicholas Croatian Catholic Church is ADA accessible, there are five steps between the concert level and the restrooms.
