Calendar of Events

February 2021

Veena Akama-Makia
Mezzo-SoPrano

Virtual Performance
Available only on our YouTube Channel
Friday, February 19
8:00 P.M. EST
Free "admission"
Join us as we celebrate African-American History Month with this special performance by Cameroonian-American mezzo-soprano Veena Akama-Makia. Akama-Makia is an award-winning vocalist who has studied and performed in both America and Europe. A graduate of the University of Central Arkansas, she also holds a Masters in Performance and Literature from the famed Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York.

Accompanying Ms. Akama-Makia is Rochester-based Evan Ritter.  A graduate of the Eastman School of Music, Ritter is an award-winning pianist and composer from Dallas, Texas.  A passionate chamber musician, Ritter is currently a masters student at the Eastman School of Music.

This performance will include works by Florence Price, Antonín Dvořák, Margaret Bonds, and Francesco Santoliquido.
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Mezzo-soprano Veena Akama-Makia
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Pianist Evan Ritter

April, 2021

Aubrey Holmes, Violin &
Stefanie Watson, Piano

Violinist Aubrey Holmes returns to the Marilyn Horne Museum and Exhibit Center accompanied by pianist Stefanie Watson for a performance of works by Elgar, Coleridge-Taylor, Beach, and Schumann.

A violinist and educator, Holmes holds Master of Music degrees from the famed Boston Conservatory, and Kent State University.  He has performed with orchestras around the U.S. and gave his Carnegie Hall debut with the Heimat Quartet in 2019.

Stefanie Watson is a recital collaborator, educator, choral pianist, and church musician. She has served as a rehearsal pianist for the Princeton Festival opera productions and holds a Master of Collaborative Piano from Rutgers University. Stefanie also participates as a pianist in instrumental ensembles, including the Garden State Philharmonic, Adelphi Orchestra, and the Eastern Wind Symphony.

Virtual Performance
Available only on our YouTube Channel
Premieres Friday, April 30
8:00 P.M. EST
Free "admission"
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Violinist Aubrey Holmes
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Pianist Stefanie Watson

March, 2022

London Museum Private Tours

Live virtual tours
March, 2022 -  Day to be announced
Available only for Pitt faculty, students, staff and museum members. Limited availability.
Free "admission"
The Marilyn Horne Museum and Exhibit Center and UPB Interdisciplinary Arts are offering this exceptional program of special tours of one of London's most spectacular museums. Led by expert art historians, the two tours will include arms and armor and 18th-century French paintings. Available by invitation only, these live tours will give first priority to Pitt students and museum members. Space is limited. Reservations open in February. Tour dates to be announced. First priority will be given to Pitt students.
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Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Swing, oil on canvas. The Wallace Collection, London.