by Mike Telin
BlueWater Chamber Orchestra will kick off its 2026-27 season at 7:30 pm on Saturday, October 3 at the Church of the Covenant in University Circle.
Under the direction of Daniel Meyer, “Awakening” will feature Reena Esmail’s Testament from Vishwas — a work that blends Western orchestral traditions with Hindustani classical elements — and Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen, for 23 solo strings, written at the end of the Second World War.
Flutist Anthony Trionfo will join Meyer and BWCO in Lukas Foss’s Renaissance Concerto. Composed in 1985, the four movement piece was inspired by such composers as Rameau and Monteverdi. Reserve pay-what-you-wish tickets here.
In addition to his busy performing career, Trionfo is devoted to creating positive change in society and eliminating barriers for musicians. In 2020, he curated the panel discussion “Learning to Listen: A discussion addressing the nuances of the Black experience within classical music.” Its success allowed him to create the “Illuminate!” series, presented by the Sphinx Organization along with fellow musicians Steven Banks and Randall Goosby, which explored intersections of allyship, ethnicity, pedagogy, queerness, and race in the music field.
Trionfo is a founder of the Umoja Flute Institute, a non-profit dedicated to providing flutists of African descent with the tools needed to succeed and thrive at all levels of music making. He also serves on the Aspen Music Festival and School’s Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access (IDEA) Committee. Read more about Anthony Trionfo here.
BlueWater’s season continues on Saturday, November 7 at 7:30 at the Church of the Covenant with “Becoming.” Daniel Meyer leads Gabriel Fauré’s Masques et bergamasques along with Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1.
The program also includes Howard Hanson’s Concerto for Organ, Harp and Strings, featuring organist Jonathan Moyer as soloist. Reserve pay-what-you-wish tickets here.
Moyer serves as the David S. Boe chair and associate professor of organ at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and is organist of the Church of the Covenant in Cleveland. He has been a visiting lecturer in organ at the Hochschule für Musik in Lübeck, Germany.
He plays a vast repertoire from the Renaissance to the 21st century, and has performed throughout the United States, and in Europe and Japan. The Baltimore Sun has described his playing as “ever-expressive, stylish, and riveting.”
Moyer’s recent European recitals include the St. Jakobikirche (Lübeck), the Ludgerikirche (Norden), the Laurenskerk (Alkmaar), the Marktkirche, (Hannover), and St. Sulpice (Paris). He has performed J.S. Bach’s complete Clavierübung III at the German Reformed Church in Budapest.
In the U.S., he has been a featured soloist at the National Convention of the Organ Historical Society (Rochester, NY), and at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception (Washington, DC).
Published on ClevelandClassical.com September 30, 2026
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