Problem pregnancies have not been top of mind for composers but Carnegie Mellon University faculty member Katherine Pukinskis has organized the Pittsburgh debut of her "One in Four, One in Eight" and brings the Agarita Ensemble and Attack Theater Dance to three locations - McGee Medical Center, the Attack Theater headquarters, and Westminster Presbyterian Church. The tickets are free but reservations are desirable at music.cmu.edu/events
Agarita arrives from Texas with violinist Sarah Silver Manzke who has a great musical tradition. Her father, Paul Silver, has been a violist in the Pittsburgh Symphony for many years and retired before the pandemic. Her mom, Linda Silver, is a beloved music educator in Mount Lebanon.
The composer transcribed 100,000 words of interviews with area medical professionals on the topic of bringing new life into the world with complications and the one in eight rate of solving life threatening trouble that results from the creation of new families. Kate Pukinskis has worked at the Pittsburgh Symphony in Operations and studied in Chicago with Shulamit Ran while finishing her Phd at the University of Chicago. in Pittsburgh she studied with Nancy Galbraith and Leonardo Balada - receiving her Bachelors and Masters degrees at CMU. There are pre-concert talks and post-concert receptions at each location. There is also newly commissioned artwork by Pittsburgh artist Morgan Overton.
Before joining the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University, Dr. Pukinskis held faculty positions at Amherst College, Harvard University, and the Longy School of Music at Bard College.
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