by Daniel Hathaway
HAPPENING TODAY:
2:00 pm – Cooper International Piano Competition. Concerto Round Session 1. Four pianists each perform a full concerto with piano accompaniment in Warner Concert Hall at the Oberlin Conservatory: Yangting Wang (Beethoven No. 1), Qinyaoyao Ji (Prokofiev No. 3), Yixen Shen (Grieg), Anwen Deng (Schumann). Watch the webcast here.
2:00 pm – Ohio Light Opera presents Lerner and Loewe’s Brigadoon in Freedlander Theatre at The College of Wooster.
6:00 pm – Piano Cleveland’s Piano Days presents Utsav Lal (pictured) in a concert of Indian Classical Music with New Interpretations during a full night of Indian culture at the Dodero Center for Performing Arts in Gates Mills.
7:00 pm – Cooper International Piano Competition. Concerto Round Session 2. Two pianists each perform a full concerto with piano accompaniment in Warner Concert Hall at the Oberlin Conservatory: Sawako Harada (Prokofiev No. 3), Anna Avramidou. (Tchaikovsky No. 1). Watch the webcast here.
TODAY’S ALMANAC:
On this date in 1796, Cleaveland was established as a settlement by the surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company and named after their leader, General Moses Cleaveland. (Although Cleaveland supervised the design of what would become our modern downtown, he returned home shortly thereafter and never returned to Ohio.) [Read more…]
Ohio Light Opera has five of its six summer shows running at The College of Wooster, The Cleveland Orchestra welcomes conductor Petr Popelka and violinist Veronika Eberle to Blossom, Young violinists begin the semifinal rounds of the Cooper Competition at Oberlin, Piano Cleveland presents The 5 Browns in Playhouse Square, and Kent Blossom Music Festival schedules its annual Young Artist Concert Series.
Already no strangers to Northeast Ohio, Imani Winds are quickly turning last summer’s debut at the Kent Blossom Music Festival into an annual event. For the second year in a row, the wind quintet visited Kent State University’s Ludwig Recital Hall on July 2 to perform on the Festival’s Faculty Concert Series.
When Utsav Lal first received a performance offer from Piano Cleveland, he was pleasantly surprised. “ I know the bulk of their work involves pretty straight-ahead classical piano and the Competition,” he said in a recent interview. “I do things a little differently, so it’s nice that they’re interested in what I’ve been working on.”
The participants in the Cleveland International Piano Competition (CIPC) aren’t just expected to perform well — they need to speak articulately about their music making, too. So when the jury sat down with the 2024 contestants for individual interviews, they asked: what’s one project you would like to do?
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