CLEVELAND CHAMBER SYMPHONY presents NEOSonicFest with the Ohio Contemporary Ballet , free!
Sunday April 19th, 4:30pm, 2026

Steven Smith Music Director
Featuring the music of Margaret Brouwer
with special guest the Ohio Contemporary Ballet
Margaret Brouwer, Mandala
featuring Ohio Contemporary Ballet
Margaret Brouwer, Inner Voices
Margaret Brouwer, City Life
***World Premiere
Donald Erb, Harold’s Trip to the Sky
Concert will be live streamed here

Cleveland Chamber Symphony

Young & Emerging Composer Concert

Sunday April 12th, 7:30pm, 2026

Baldwin Wallace University - Gamble Auditorium

Steven Smith, Music Director

Now in our 46th year, this year's Young and Emerging Composers Concert features select student orchestra compositions from 5 Northeast Ohio Universities.

Radiance - Joseph Ardo - University of Akron School of Music

Guardian of Light - Faith Rawlins - Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music

Confessions - Lucas Sparrow - Bowling Green College of Musical Arts

Jigsaw Tableaux - Owen Axelberd - Cleveland Institute of Music

Freed From This Chamber - Jacob Sims - Kent State School of Music

A FREE performance, donations accepted at the door

Live Streaming HERE

We are delighted to invite you to an upcoming concert featuring a vibrant and diverse program of chamber music, including a world premiere and works that draw inspiration from history, landscape, and folk traditions.

The program includes Daniel Kessner’s Sonatina Bassa, a three-movement work for bass flute and piano that blends classical structure with gently jazz-influenced melodies, showcasing the instrument’s distinctive, velvety sound.

In David Lang’s Lend/Lease, written for piccolo and 18 wooden blocks, unusual instrumentation reflects the historic partnership between the United States and the United Kingdom during the early years of World War II. The piece was composed for a celebration of the London Sinfonietta and captures the spirit of international cooperation.

We will also perform Margi Griebling-Haigh’s From a Train Window, a vivid single-movement trio originally commissioned by Cleveland Orchestra cellist Diane Mather. The music traces the emotional and visual experience of a train journey—from uncertain beginnings to rushing landscapes and, finally, a peaceful departure into the distance.

Selections from Béla Bartók’s 44 Duos for Two Violins highlight the composer’s deep connection to Eastern European folk music. These short, inventive works transform traditional melodies into engaging concert miniatures filled with rhythmic vitality and character.

Nature provides the inspiration for Robert Manno’s Three Scenes from the Mountains, a musical portrait of the Northern Catskills. Each movement evokes a distinct landscape: rippling water stirred by wind, the quiet beauty of a meadow at dawn, and the solitude of a forest at night.

Finally, we are thrilled to present the world premiere of Relatively Speaking by Chamber Collective percussionist Dylan Moffitt. Written for ocean drum and amplified radio, the piece explores unexpected sound worlds and the interplay between natural resonance and fragments of broadcast sound.

On Thursday, March 19 at 7:00 PM, the Cleveland Composers Guild presents An American Mosaic in collaboration with John Carroll University. This program explores American cultural traditions through themes of place and migration, pairing new works for voice and piano with American classics performed by the JCU Wind Ensemble. The concert will be held at Saint Francis Chapel on the JCU campus. Music by CCG members Ryan Charles Ramer, Lorenzo Salvagni, Matthew C. Saunders, Stephen Stanziano, Robert Rollin, and Jeffrey Quick.

"Speech of Chief Seattle" by Ryan Charles Ramer
"Mamma mia, dammi cento lire" by Lorenzo Salvagni
"Ganz Alleine" by Matthew C. Saunders
“All The Colors/De Colores” by Stephen Stanziano
"Romance" by Robert Rollin
"Auswandererlied" by Jeffrey Quick

Opus 216 performs works by the CCG in the Ames Family Atrium.

"Tango del Alma" by Inna Onofrei
"Summer Night, Windows Open" by Matthew C. Saunders
"A Nuptial Promenade" by Lorenzo Salvagni
"Distant Cries" by Stephen Stanziano
"Variations on Happy Birthday" by Ryan Charles Ramer
"Play This At Your Wedding" by Jeffrey Quick
"The Joining Rite" by Jeremy Piper
"The Wind and the Rain" by Stephen Stanziano
"El Gitano" by William F. Rayer

"The Cleveland Carousel Waltz" by Chris Neiner

Chamber Works by:

Richard Stout
Songs of Correspondence for mezzo-soprano and string quartet from letters of Willa Cather
Daniel Doriff
Dance Etude #3 for two marimbas
Lou Harrison
First Concerto for Flute and Percussion
Dan Levitan
Invention #1 and #2
Donald Miller
Three Short Songs of Love

TICKETS: Tickets (through Eventbrite): https://www.eventbrite.com/e/song-festival-concert-tickets-1092386018989?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

WEBSITE:  https://dainusvente2025.com/

Kristina Kliorytė

XI North American Lithuanian Song Festival

Šiaurės Amerikos lietuvių XI Dainų šventė

Cleveland - 2025.VI.27-29

Karel Paukert Obit

The eclectic afternoon begins with the world premiere of Cleveland composer Ty Alan Emerson’s piece for percussion and electronics, The Percussionists’ Grimoire. A grimoire is a book of magic spells and like those texts, numerology and symbolism inspire the musical choices of the work. Instruments utilized in this collection range from solo tambourine to drum set. There is also an electronic solo work comprised of sounds from a waterphone. This first installment, composed for and performed by Dylan Moffitt, is made possible through the Ohio Arts Council Individual Artists Opportunity Grant.

CCC

Talented student musicians from across Northeast Ohio will premiere works specially written for them by professional, local composers. A light dessert reception will follow the concert.

Program
Kyrie by Lorenzo Salvagni
Queen of the Wolves by Cara Haxo
Ukrainian Folk-Song Mash-up by Robert Rollin
End Title by Matthew C. Saunders
Prayer by James Wilding
Are You Real or Make-Believe? by Stephen Stanziano
Piece for Sam by Ryan Charles Ramer
Metaphormania by Sebastian Birch
Be Yourself by Inna Onofrei
Around the World In 80 or so Measures by Jenny Conner

On Sunday, April 13 at 4:00 PM, the Sestina Cleveland choir and Cleveland Composers Guild are presenting a collaborative concert at Holy Rosary Church in Little Italy. Reception to follow! Complimentary cake and coffee served after the concert.

Music on the program is listed below.

Choir Music
"Arise, My Beloved" by Lorenzo Salvagni
"Hymn" by Ryan Charles Ramer
"Fog" by Inna Onofrei
"The Peace Within" by Nicholas Puin
"Shout to the Lord" by Eric Charnofsky
"Lamentationes Jeremiae Prophetae" by Jeffrey Quick
"Three Carols" by Anna O’Connell
"O Magnum Mysterium" by Geoffrey Peterson

Chamber Music
"Aura" for piano by Inna Onofrei
"Another Chance" for piano by Nicholas Puin

3pm Concert at Cleveland State University’s Drinko Recital Hall

Program Includes:

Margi Griebling-Haigh's Vistas Desde el Balcón
Geoffrey Peterson's Seasons Journey
Ryan Charles Ramer's Animal Dreams
Sebastian Birch's Ephemeral Timelines
Jeremy Piper's Majestic Foothills of Mt. Yasparia
Lorenzo Salvagni's Scherzo
Cara Haxo's Says the Almanac

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Works by:

1.Ryan Charles Ramer, Le Coeur VGM, piccolo and tape (circa  6 minutes)
2. Nicholas Puin, A different perspective, piano solo (circa 5 minutes)
3. Inna Onofrei, Lullabies, voice and piano (circa 8 minutes)
4. Chris Neiner, Hills, Thrills and Flying Turns, clarinet, violin, cello and piano (circa 4 minutes)
5. Cara Haxo, Verbs of Perception, trombone and piano (circa 10 minutes)
6. Margi Griebling-Haigh, Sieben Zungenbrecher Lieder, voice, bass, piano (circa 8 minutes)
7. Matthew Saunders, Piano Trio (circa 9 minutes)
8. Stephen Stanziano, Among the living, flute trio (circa 5 minutes)

Reena Esmail's BLAZE featuring violin and tabla, and Missy Mazzoli's work for viola and fixed media, TOOTH and NAIL. Come and meet Cincinnati composer, Ellen Ruth Harrison, and hear her unique SALAD BAR, featuring flute and viola. There'll be plenty of dancing with Gabriela Lena Frank's jazzy MANHATTAN SERENADES, and local composer Ty Emerson's PAN DANCES.

Rounding out the program are some important works that helped change the sonic landscape in the 20th Century: Lou Harrison's VARIED TRIO and Astor Piazzolla's LE GRAND TANGO.

FREE

Cleveland Chamber Collective

Free concert at Miller South featuring the music of NEO Composer Laurie Lafferty in a side by side performance with the student wind ensemble at Miller South School for the Visual and Performing Arts. 

This extraordinary concert, set for Sunday, September 15, 2024, at 7:00 p.m., will transform Baldwin Wallace University's Gamble Auditorium into a sanctuary of sound, paying homage to two recently departed musical luminaries of Northeast Ohio.

Honoring Musical Titans

H. Leslie Adams (1932-2024) - A Cleveland native and recipient of the 2015 Cleveland Arts Prize Lifetime Achievement Award, Adams' compositions have graced stages worldwide. From his renowned Twenty-Six Etudes for Solo Piano to his soul-stirring art songs, Adams' musical legacy continues to inspire and move audiences globally. ' "Cityscape Lights - the world premiere of Adams' newly revised masterpiece for piano and orchestra. Soloist Mark George, former CCS pianist and current Executive Director of the Music Institute of Chicago, returns to Cleveland for this special performance.

Loris Ohannes Chobanian (1933-2023)- A prolific composer with over 300 scores to his name, Chobanian's impact on the musical world spans decades. His works have been commissioned by prestigious organizations including the Cleveland Ballet and the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra. Loris Chobanian's "Legends for String Orchestra"-

Steven Smith, Conductor

Mark George, Soloist

Free concert featuring works by NEO Composer Gene Milford.

Admission fee, featuring music of NEO Composer Gene Milford.

Free concert featuring music by NEO composer Gene Milford.

Several free concerts featuring music by NEO Composers Gene Milford and Laurie Lafferty.

Several free concerts featuring music by NEO Composers Gene Milford and Laurie Lafferty.

Opera Scenes Concert, FREE

Creatoivity: Learning Through

Experience (Junior Concert) Cleveland Music School Settlement, FREE

A new, hour-long work by local composer Ty Emerson, for the full ensemble with electronic playback. Cast as a Requiem, the work focuses on the events of January 6. In place of the Latin text, the piece features quotes from Shakespeare, Cervantes, Elizabeth I, as well as political figures, testimony, texts and tweets. The band is really stretching themselves, technically and emotionally as we prepare for the premiere.

A new, hour-long work by local composer Ty Emerson, for the full ensemble with electronic playback. Cast as a Requiem, the work focuses on the events of January 6. In place of the Latin text, the piece features quotes from Shakespeare, Cervantes, Elizabeth I, as well as political figures, testimony, texts and tweets. The band is really stretching themselves, technically and emotionally as we prepare for the premiere.

Cleveland Chamber Collective