Cleveland Orchestra principal clarinet Franklin Cohen will leave the ensemble after 39 seasons next summer, having set a record as the longest-serving solo clarinetist in the orchestra’s history. He will be named Principal Clarinet Emeritus upon his retirement. [Read more…]
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CIM musicians and performers with local ties win Grammy Nominations (updated)
Cleveland Institute of Music faculty members Jason Vieaux, Jaime Laredo, Alan Bise and Bruce Egre and pianist Daniil Trifonov are among the nominees for the 57th Grammy Awards, to be presented in Los Angeles on February 8. [Read more…]
Cleveland Orchestra appoints three new players
Bassoonist Gareth Thomas, violinist Analisé Denise Kukelhan and oboist Corbin Stair will join the ranks of The Cleveland Orchestra during the winter and spring of 2015. [Read more…]
Next Cleveland Orchestra neighborhood residency slated for Broadway Slavic Village
The Cleveland Orchestra will build its next neighborhood residency around a free, public concert on April 10, 2015 at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Slavic Village.
Community activities, concerts and educational presentations will take place throughout the community in Spring 2015. Planned in partnership with neighborhood businesses, organizations and schools, details of the residency will be announced in 2015.
Opera Circle seeks choristers for Cavalleria rusticana
Opera Circle is seeking both volunteer singers and paid chorus leads of all voice types (sopranos, altos, tenors, basses) to join the production of the one-act opera Cavalleria rusticana by Mascagni, to be performed on Friday, November 21 and Sunday, November 23, 2014 at First Baptist Church in Shaker Heights. The chorus will be singing partly off stage from music and partly on stage from memory. The paid chorus leads will need to memorize the on stage sections. For volunteers, memorization is optional. Email Opera Circle or call 216.441.2822. Click here for general information.
Cleveland Orchestra: Hilary Hahn cancels
On the advice of her physician, violinist Hilary Hahn has withdrawn from this weekend’s Cleveland Orchestra concerts with guest conductor James Gaffigan. She will be replaced by soprano Yulia van Doren, and Johann Sebastian Bach’s solo cantata, Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut, BWV 199 will be substituted for the previously-scheduled Bach violin concertos. The program also includes Johannes Brahms’s Schicksalslied with the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, and Felix Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 5, “Reformation.”
Jung-Min Amy Lee, associate concertmaster of The Cleveland Orchestra, will replace Hahn for the masterclass with students from area colleges and universities in Reinberger Chamber Hall on Tuesday, October 21 at 4:00 pm. The event is free and open to music teachers, students and parents, but tickets are required.
Welser-Möst to continue with Cleveland Orchestra until 2022
The Cleveland Orchestra announced on October 2 that its music director, Franz Welser-Most, has extended his contract until 2022, reaching beyond the Orchestra’s centennial season (2017-2018) and, at the end of 20 years, becoming its second longest-serving music director after George Szell.
The Orchestra noted that Welser-Möst is looking forward to increasing the institution’s emphasis on education and community engagement.
Describing the special qualities of the region, Welser-Möst said, “We have a highly sophisticated audience in Northeast Ohio…whose enthusiasm for their hometown orchestra is matched by their understanding of the work and support needed to maintain such an ensemble.”
Of the orchestra itself, Welser-Möst said, “I love the spirit of The Cleveland Orchestra, and there is no greater joy for me than collaborating with these musicians. Their collective dedication to excellence at every performance is inspiring and humbling.”
Good Company announces new composer competition
Good Company: A Vocal Ensemble announces a new composer competition open to composers born after January 1, 1990 or who are full time, post-high school students. The ensemble welcomes original, previously-unperformed works for four-part mixed chorus, either a cappella or with piano or organ accompaniment lasting from 3-5 minutes, to be submitted by November 1. The winning piece will be performed on May 17, 2015 and its composer will receive a cash award of $500. Details here.
Jinjoo Cho makes final round of Indianapolis Violin Competition
by Mike Telin
Cleveland based violinist Jinjoo Cho has been named one of six contestants to be advanced to the final round of the 9th Quadrennial International Violin Competition of Indianapolis. [Read more…]
Quire Cleveland announces details of its seventh season
by Daniel Hathaway
Quire Cleveland will begin its 2014-2015 season under its founder and artistic director Ross W. Duffin with three performances of “The Flower of Flanders: Masterpieces of Renaissance Polyphony.” The concerts, which will concentrate on Franco-Flemish composers of the fifteenth and sixteenth century including Josquin, DuFay, Lassus and Ockeghem, will take place on Friday, September 26 at 7:30 pm at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Cleveland Heights, on Saturday, September 27 at 7:30 pm at Mary Queen of Peace Church in Old Brooklyn, and on Sunday, September 28 at 4:00 pm at Historic St. Peter’s Church in downtown Cleveland. [Read more…]