Season Finale!

The Chamber Orchestra of Pittsburgh concludes its 2025-26 season with a celebration of new artists and a rarely performed work by classical music’s most familiar name. On May 2, 2026, 7:30pm at Rodef Shalom COP will perform the world premiere of Steel City Sounds, a commissioned work by composer Trevor Weston. The first half of the program will also feature the winners of COP’s 2025-26 Young Artist Concerto Competition, Ziyu Cai of Carnegie Mellon University and Eliza Rizk of Shady Side Academy. In the second half, COP will perform the Symphony No. 2 by Beethoven. 

Trevor Weston has received the George Ladd Prix de Paris from the University of California, Berkeley, a Goddard Lieberson Fellowship and the Arts and Letters Award in Music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and won the first Emerging Black Composers Project award sponsored by the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. His upcoming composition for COP incorporates the artistry of Pittsburgh legends into his Steel City Sounds, August Wilson, Billy Strayhorn, and Franco Harris. Of the work Weston says, “Steel City Sounds pays homage to three individuals of African descent, sons of Pittsburgh by birth or adoption, who have made huge contributions to American Culture.”

“Trevor Weston is such a talented composer,” says Artistic Director and Conductor Edward Leonard. “His work is original, exciting, and accessible – and will give our audience a wonderful experience.”

Tickets are $35 for adults if purchased in advance and $40 at the door, and $10 for students, and they are available online at www.copgh.org.

Reception to follow.