MainStage Live
VALERIE COLEMAN & FRIENDS
October 26, 2026, 7:30 PM
August Wilson African American Cultural Center, 980 Liberty Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15222
In partnership with the August Wilson African American Cultural Center, we are pleased to present RÊVERIE: Dreams of Harlem and Paris, featuring three founding members of Imani Winds.
Rêverie returns to the early twentieth century through the perspectives of Black artists at the center of “Le Jazz Hot” and the legendary Harlem Renaissance.
Valerie Coleman, GRAMMY-nominated founding flutist of Imani Winds, is a multi-talented composer, musician, and educator who was named Performance Today’s 2020 Classical Woman of the Year. This sizzling program brings together six powerhouse artists to perform three of Coleman’s compositions and works by Ravel, Debussy and Grant Still.
CLAUDE DEBUSSY Rêverie
VALERIE COLEMAN Matisseries
MAURICE RAVEL Sonata for Violin and Cello, M.73
WILLIAM GRANT STILL Summerland, from Three Visions
VALERIE COLEMAN Portraits of Langston
VALERIE COLEMAN Cotton Club Juba
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The August Wilson African American Cultural Center is a nonprofit cultural organization that generates artistic, educational, and community initiatives that advance the legacy of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson. One of the largest cultural centers in the country, focused exclusively on the African American experience and the celebration of Black culture and the African diaspora, the Center welcomes more than 100,000 visitors locally and nationally. Through year-round programming across multiple genres, such as the annual Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival, Black Bottom Film Festival, AWCommunity Days, TRUTHSayers speaker series, and rotating art exhibits in its galleries, the Center provides a platform for established and emerging artists of color whose work reflects the universal issues of identity that Wilson tackled, and which still resonate today.