Young composer Hannah Ishizaki's premiere of Spin, PSO, Tue 1/6 @ 8pm

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Published December 22, 2025 at 12:16 PM EST

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When I first started composing, I was about 12 years old. I had never heard my music played by musicians. Now the PSO presents the world premiere of my piece “Spin.”

1/6 Ishizaki: Spin Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 25 Korngold: Symphony (Emanuel Ax, p; Manfred Honeck, cond)
Learn more about this young composer and alum of the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony

1/13 Beethoven: Overture to The Consecration of the House, Triple Concerto, Symphony No. 3, Eroica
(Eroica Trio; Manfred Honeck, cond)

1/20 Shekhar: Lumina Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1 Strauss: Don Juan Strauss/Honeck/Ille: Suite from Arabella (Sheku Kanneh-Mason, c; Manfred Honeck, cond)

1/27 Music of Star Wars (Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, Daniel Singer, dir; Collegiate Trombone Choir, James Nova, dir; Lawrence Loh, cond)