PIER PRESSURE

PIER PRESSURE

Music by Philadelphia Composers – Celebrating Five Years of Cherry Street Pier

Saturday, May 18, 2024; 6:00 pm

Orchestra 2001 Jazz Trio – Mark Allen, alto saxophone | Matt Davis, guitar | Nimrod Speaks, bass

Music by Billie Holiday, John Coltrane, Benny Golson, Lee Morgan, Clifford Brown, and others


Monday, June 3, 2024; 5:30 pm and 6:30 pm

Rachel Segal, violin | Samantha Wittchen, harp

Chuck Holdeman – Pier Music for violin and harp (2021; Premiere) 

Melissa Dunphy kommós for solo violin (2011)


Wednesday, October 23, 2024; 10:30 am and 1:30 pm (open rehearsals)

Kim Trolier, flute | Evan Ocheret, oboe | Doris Hall-Gulati, clarinet | Darryl Hartshorne, bassoon | Kathy Merhtens, horn

Vincent Persichetti Pastorale for Wind Quintet (1951)

Samuel Barber Summer Music for Wind Quintet (1956)

Andrea Clearfield Compass Kaleidoscope (2015)



Coming Soon:

Adam Silverman Downtown is the Battery for Percussion (2018)

Maurice Wright Set-Up Music for Percussion (1982)


This series funded by the Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia

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