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For its third season, Franklin and Diana Cohen’s ChamberFest Cleveland will expand to ten concerts, to be presented from June 19 through June 29 at several venues. The festival includes a family concert and a world premiere collaboration with GroundWorks DanceTheater.
The roster of artists includes violinists Noah Bendix-Balgley, Yehonatan Berick, David Bowlin, Jinjoo Cho, Diana Cohen, Yura Lee and Amy Schwartz Moretti; violists Yehonatan Berick, Yu Jin, Yura Lee and Dimitri Murrath; cellists Julie Albers, Gabriel Cabezas and Robert deMaine; bassist Nathan Farrington; pianists Roman Rabinovich and Orion Weiss; clarinetist Franklin Cohen; oboists Alex Klein and Xiomara Mass; bassoonist Fernando Traba; harpsichordist Carolyn Warner; percussionists Scott Christian, Alexander Cohen and Luke Rinderknecht; and pipa and ruan player Min Xiao-Fen. The Festival Speaker will be composer, performer, writer and educator Patrick Castillo.
The schedule follows (performer details yet to be announced):
June 19, Thursday, 8:00 pm – “Celebrate THREE!” Rachmaninoff’s Suite No. 2 for Two Pianos, Op. 17, Kevin Puts’s And Legions Will Rise for Violin, Clarinet & Marimba, Martinu’s Four Madrigals for Oboe, Clarinet & Bassoon, H. 266 & Fauré’s Quartet for Piano & Strings in C minor No. 1, Op.15. Mixon Hall, Cleveland Institute of Music, 11021 East Boulevard.
June 20, Friday, 8:00 pm – “Melange a Trois.” Haydn’s Trio for Piano & Strings No. 39 in G major, “Gypsy”, Kodály’s Serenade for Two Violins & Viola, Op. 12, Zelenka’s Trio Sonata No. 5 in F major, ZWV181 & Paul Schoenfield Trio for Clarinet, Violin & Piano. Harkness Chapel, Case Western Reserve University, 11200 Bellflower Rd.
June 21, Saturday, 11:00 am – “Triple Scoop, Family Concert.” An interactive hour of musical fun for 6-12 year olds and their grownups. MOCA Cleveland, 11400 Euclid Ave.
June 21, Saturday, 5:00 pm – “The Harmony of Numbers.” Xenakis’s “Kottos” for Solo Cello & J.S. Bach’s “Goldberg Variations” arranged for String Trio. MOCA Cleveland, 11400 Euclid Ave.
June 22, Sunday, 3:00 pm – “Revolving Thirds: From Darkness to Light.” Mozart’s Quartet for Oboe & Strings in F Major, K. 370, Penderecki’s Quartet for Clarinet & String Trio & Schubert’s String Quartet No. 15 in G major, D.887. Dunham Tavern Barn, 6709 Euclid Ave.
June 25, Wednesday, 8:00 pm – “Snap, Crackle, Pluck.” Kenji Bunch’s The 3 Gs for Viola, Edgar Meyer’s Meyer-Bell No. 3, Min Xiao-Fen’s Works for Chinese Pipa & David Bruce’s Movement from “Gumboots.” The Wine Spot, 2271 Lee Road Hts.
June 26, Thursday, 8:00 pm – “Love Triangle.” Clara Schumann’s Romances for Violin & Piano, Op. 22, Robert Schumann “Fairy Tales” for Clarinet, Viola & Piano, Op. 132 & Brahms’s Quintet for Piano & Strings in F minor, Op. 34. Mixon Hall, Cleveland Institute of Music, 11021 East Boulevard.
June 27, Friday, 8:00 pm – “Three Bouncing Czechs.” Janácek’s Sonata for Violin & Piano, Erwin Schulhoff’s Sextet for Two Violins, Two Violas & Two Cellos & Dvorák’s Piano Quartet No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 87. Fairmount Presbyterian Church, 2757 Fairmount Blvd.
June 28, Saturday, 8:00 pm – “Past, Present, Future,” with GroundWorks DanceTheater. Three Short Works for Three Percussionists, Shostakovich’s Trio for Piano & Strings in E minor No. 2, Op. 67 & Tan Dun’s “Ghost Opera,” (first performance), choreographed by GroundWorks DanceTheater. Kulas Hall, Cleveland Institute of Music, 11021 East Boulevard.
June 29, Sunday, 3:00 pm – “3X!” Osvaldo Golijov’s “Last Round” for Two String Quartets & Bass, Beethoven’s Trio for Piano & Strings in D major, Op. 70, No. 1 “Ghost” & Tchaikovsky’s String Sextet in D minor “Souvenir de Florence,” Op. 70. Mixon Hall, Cleveland Institute of Music, 11021 East Boulevard.
Tickets are now available online.
Published on ClevelandClassical.com May 3, 2014.
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