Perspectives Festival
June 21-26, 2022
A music festival to connect and support professional musicians and audience through diversity and inclusion, to amplify voices of musicians of color and create sense of community.
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Performance on June 21, 2022 at 7pm
Works to include music by Florence Price, Astor Piazzolla, William Grant Still and Jose White.
Location: Memorial Park Church 8800 Peebles Rd. Alison Park, PA 15101 Free admission; donations accepted |
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Performance on June 23, 2022 at 6pm
Jazz and works by Florence Price and Jessie Montgomery
Location: Ebenezer Baptist Church 2001 Wylie Ave Pittsburgh, PA 15219 Free admission; donations accepted |
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Performance on June 26, 2022 at 7:30pm
Latin beats by various composers
Location: Insomnia Discotec 810 Brookline Boulevard Pittsburgh, PA 15226 Free admission; donations accepted |
About the Festival
The Perspectives Festival was brought to life by Katya Janpoladyan, an Armenian American cellist and chamber musician. Through her extensive playing and teaching experience, Katya recognized Pittsburgh's desperate need for a platform for musicians of color. From this need, the Perspective Festival was born. The original vision and framework was developed in 2018. Covid temporarily delayed the project but in 2022, Katya Janpoladyan and co-director Maureen Conlon Gutierrez Dorosh launched the Perspectives Festival in Pittsburgh.
The Festival strives to bring diverse performers together to facilitate a dialogue amongst musicians of varied backgrounds. A more inclusive composition of musicians also enables the Festival to reach audiences that have traditionally been excluded from chamber music.
This festival consists of three classical and contemporary chamber music and jazz concerts. The concerts will take place in three different locations: the Wexford, Hill District and Beecheview areas of Greater Pittsburgh. In addition to diverse performers, the concerts will feature composers of color.
Katya Janpoladyan and Maureen Conlon Gutierrez are extremely proud to be presenting a fantastic line up of outstanding musicians and composers.
The Festival is made possible by Pittsburgh Youth Concert Orchestra, Opportunity Fund, Heinz Foundation and Sphinx Organization.
The Festival strives to bring diverse performers together to facilitate a dialogue amongst musicians of varied backgrounds. A more inclusive composition of musicians also enables the Festival to reach audiences that have traditionally been excluded from chamber music.
This festival consists of three classical and contemporary chamber music and jazz concerts. The concerts will take place in three different locations: the Wexford, Hill District and Beecheview areas of Greater Pittsburgh. In addition to diverse performers, the concerts will feature composers of color.
Katya Janpoladyan and Maureen Conlon Gutierrez are extremely proud to be presenting a fantastic line up of outstanding musicians and composers.
The Festival is made possible by Pittsburgh Youth Concert Orchestra, Opportunity Fund, Heinz Foundation and Sphinx Organization.