A two-week calendar is published every Monday. Dates with no scheduled events are not listed.
JANUARY 20 – MONDAY
12:00 pm – 5:00 pm – Martin Luther King Jr. Community Open House at Severance Hall, with ongoing activities in the Smith Lobby and Bogomolny-Kozerefski Grand Foyer in addition to the following scheduled performances. 12:15 pm Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, 1:30 pm An Afrikan Epic with Dr. Mark Lomax, II, 2:45 pm An Afrikan Epic Conversation, 4:15 pm Cleveland Orchestra Youth Chorus. Click here for details. Severance Hall, 11001 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland. Free.
JANUARY 21 – TUESDAY
7:30 pm – Tuesday Musical Fuze Series: Gabriela Montero, pianist & improviser. “Westward,” an homage to the physical, cultural and psychological emigration westward of three early-20th century Russian pianist-composers: Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev and Stravinsky. The program will conclude with Montero improvising the piano score to Charlie Chaplin’s The Immigrant. 6:30 pm conversation with Montero. Stage Door at E.J. Thomas Hall, University of Akron, 198 Hill St. Tickets available online.
JANUARY 22 – WEDNESDAY
12:15 pm – Brian Wentzel, organ. Music by Heinrich Scheidemann. Beckerath Organ. Trinity Lutheran Church, W. 30th & Lorain, Cleveland. Freewill offering.
JANUARY 23 – THURSDAY
7:00 pm – fp (fresh perspectives): Theresa May, trumpet & curator. “Classic, New, Borrowed & Blue.” An evening of chamber music and collaborative projects for brass instruments, voice, piano & animation. Program includes Regina Harris Baiocchi’s miles per hour (solo trumpet with projected animations by P. Stoops) and premieres to include Ahmed Alabaca’s chant + vocalise (flugelhorn, horn, trombone, voice & piano) after Rachmaninov & Buck McDaniel’s i want to die while you love me (solo piano, brass ensemble, and voice). Snap House Studios, 2530 Superior Ave. #500, Cleveland. $0-$15 pay what you can! Register here.
7:30 pm – UA Faculty Recital: James Marron, classical guitar, Carrie Culver, soprano. Solo guitar works by Pujol & folk songs by Britten, Copland, & deFalla. Guzzetta Recital Hall, 157 University Ave., Akron. Free.
JANUARY 24 – FRIDAY
4:30 pm – CIM Symphony Orchestra, Shun Yao, conducting, Brendon Sill, bassoon. Moni Guo’s Night Ghost (2018), Mozart’s Bassoon Concerto & Schumann’s Andante (Piano Quartet) & Symphony No. 4. Kulas Hall, Cleveland Institute of Music, 11021 East Boulevard, Cleveland. Free.
7:00 pm – CityMusic Chamber Series, Masha Andreini and Mari Sato violins, Yael Sanemaud Cohen, viola, Anna Bowman Hurt, cello, Tracy Rowell, bass & Elizabeth DeMio, piano. Louise Ferrenc’s Piano Quintet No. 1, Opus 30 & Schumann’s Piano Quintet in E-flat, Opus 44. Wine & cheese reception at 6:30 pm. Praxis Fiber Workshop, 15301 Waterloo Rd., Cleveland. Freewill offering.
7:30 pm – American Brass Quintet, Kevin Cobb & Louis Hanzlik, trumpet, Eric Reed, horn, Michael Powell, trombone & John D. Rojak, bass trombone. Program to be announced. Donald P. Pipino Performing Art Series. Ford Family Recital Hall, DeYor Center, Federal Plaza, Youngstown. Tickets available online.
7:30 pm – KSU Voice Division Recital: Commemorating May 4, with faculty members, students & alumni, Jay Dorfman, guitar & Kathy Poremba, Karen Prasser, Donna Oberlin & Gréta Pásztor, piano. Classical selections & popular songs from the Vietnam era along with poetry and readings on the themes of War, Protest, Kent State & Peace. Ludwig Recital Hall, Kent State University, 1325 Theatre Drive, Kent. Free. Click here for live stream.
JANUARY 25 – SATURDAY
7:00 pm – Classical Revolution Cleveland at Heights Arts. Performers include Victor Beyens & Ariel Clayton Karas, violin, Henry Samuels, bass & Chris Neiner, piano. A celebration of the centenary of the Roaring 20s with a mix of classical, jazz, and classically-inspired jazz. Composers include Scott Joplin, Django Reinhardt & Amy Beach. Heights Arts, 2175 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights. Free.
7:30 pm – Canton Symphony Orchestra, Matthew Jenkins Jaroszewicz, conducting, Heather Cooper, organ. Berlioz’ Roman Carnival Overture, Guilmant’s Organ Concerto No. 1, Widor’s Toccata (arr. for organ & orchestra by Richard Proulx) & Saint-Saëns’ Symphony No. 3. 6:30 Concert Prelude with David Kienzle. Umstattd Hall, 1001 Market Ave. N., Canton. Tickets available online.
7:00 pm – Groupmuse: Jeremy Bass, guitar & theorbo, Malina Rauschenfels, soprano. Narváez’s Fantasía 1, Canción del Emperador, Dowland’s A Fancy, Piccinini’s Toccata prima, Cavalli’s Lamento di Procri, Pinel’s Echos indiscrets, De Visée’s Pieces en La mineur, Guerau’s Pasacalles por 8o punto alto, Murcia’s Pasacalles por el, Murcia/Corelli’s Obra por 5o tono & Del Puerto’s Fantasia (Sonata No. 3) & Perdida (Poemas del ocaso y la noche). Private home in Cleveland Hts., address given upon RSVP. $15 suggested donation.
JANUARY 26 – SUNDAY
1:00 pm – Marshall Griffith, piano, Virginia Crabtree, flute & Kallen Bierly, violin. Program include music by Beethoven & Bernstein. Presented by Beachwood Arts Council. Refreshments to follow. Beachwood Community Center, 25225 Fairmount Blvd., Beachwood. Free.
3:00 pm – Greater Cleveland Flute Society Choirs Collaboration Concert, with Erie Waters Flute Choir & Venner Clarinet Choir. Program includes Handel’s Arrival of the Queen of Sheba, Mendelssohn’s Trauermarsch & Frescobaldi’s Toccata. Judson Park Auditorium, 2181 Ambleside Dr., Cleveland. Free.
5:00 pm – Kent Keyboard Series Student Scholarship Gala Concert, with faculty pianists Kent McWilliams, Donna Lee, Drew Le & Hana Chu & graduate, and undergraduate pianists of the Glauser School of Music. Works for multiple piansts & Tchaikovsky’s The Sesons. A complimentary reception will follow. Ludwig Recital Hall, Kent State University, 1325 Theatre Drive, Kent. Tickets available online.
5:00 pm – Jiří Trtík & Nikolay Pushkarev, piano four hands. Trtík’s In the Air: A Musical Journal (depicting famous sights & picturesque places in Europe) & duets by Satie & Dvořák. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 2747 Fairmount Blvd., Cleveland Hts. Freewill offering.
JANUARY 28 – TUESDAY
7:00 pm – Oberlin Guest Lecture: Nan Harrison Washburn, conductor. Historical women composers. Kulas Recital Hall, Oberlin Conservatory, 43 South Professor St, Oberlin. Free.
JANUARY 29 – WEDNESDAY
12:15 pm – Brian Wentzel, organ. Music by Heinrich Scheidemann. Beckerath Organ. Trinity Lutheran Church, W. 30th & Lorain, Cleveland. Freewill offering.
7:30 pm – CMA Performing Arts Series: Hamjid Al-Saadi, voice & santur (zither), Dena El Saffar, joza (bowed string instrument), Tim Moore, percussion & ensemble. Traditional Iraqi maqam (melodic mode) music featuring sophisticated melodies, infectious rhythms & eloquent poetry. Gartner Auditorium, Cleveland Museum of Art, 11150 East Boulevard. Tickets available online.
7:30 pm – Oberlin Winter Term Opera: Rachel Peters’ The Wild Beast of the Bungalow (premiere), with libretto by Royce Vavrek, directed by Christopher Mirto, conducted by Joseph Hodge. Click here for synopsis. Warner Concert Hall, Oberlin Conservatory, 43 South Professor St, Oberlin. Free but reservations required.
JANUARY 30 – THURSDAY
2:00 pm – Joanna Huang, piano, Sarah Miller, cello & James Hettinga, cello. Fritz Kreisler’s Liebesleid (arr. Rachmaninoff), Schumann’s Five Pieces in Folk Style, Op. 102, Boccherini’s Cello Sonata No. 6 in A & Friedrich A. Kummer’s Cello Duet in C, Op. 22, No. 1. Arts Renaissance Tremont Stepping Out Series. Rocky River Senior Center Auditorium, 21014 Hilliard Blvd. Free (donations welcome) but seating reservations required: call 440.333.6660
7:30 pm – Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst, conducting. Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 6, Frank Bridge’s The Sea & Dukas’ The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. Severance Hall, 11001 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland. Tickets available online.
JANUARY 31 – FRIDAY
7:00 pm – Africa—>West Percussion Trio, Jamie Ryan, Ryan Korb & Josh Ryan. “Bach and the Global Sarabande,” exploring intersections between Africa & Bach’s Germany, concluding with the trio’s Myth of the Metals. Gamble Auditorium, Baldwin Wallace Conservatory, 96 Front St., Berea. Free.
7:00 pm – Arts Renaissance Tremont: Amici String Quartet, with Cleveland Orchestra members Takako Masame & Miho Hashizume, violins, Lynne Ramsey, viola & Ralph Curry, cello. Beethoven’s Quartet in E-flat, Op. 74 “Harp” & Quartet in F, Op. 18, No. 1. Pilgrim Congregational Church, 2592 W. 14th St., Tremont, Cleveland. Free.
7:00 pm – Cleveland Bluegrass Orchestra, with Cleveland Orchestra members Trina Struble, fiddle, Mark Dumm, banjo, Jeffrey Zehngut, mandolin, Henry Peyrebrune, guitar & Derek Zadinsky, bass. Bluegrass classics & original arrangements. John Knox Presbyterian Church, 25200 Lorain Rd., North Olmsted. Freewill offering.
7:30 pm – Oberlin Winter Term String Quartet Intensive, featuring four student string quartets. Works by Beethoven & Mendelssohn. Kulas Recital Hall, Oberlin Conservatory, 43 South Professor St, Oberlin. Free.
7:30 pm – Oberlin Winter Term Opera: Rachel Peters’ The Wild Beast of the Bungalow (premiere), with libretto by Royce Vavrek, directed by Christopher Mirto, conducted by Joseph Hodge. Click here for synopsis. Warner Concert Hall, Oberlin Conservatory, 43 South Professor St, Oberlin. Free but reservations required.
7:30 pm – Operatic Monodrama: Moon in the Mirror, with Hai-Ting Chinn, mezzo-soprano & Shuai Wang, piano, based on the Chinese folk-tale, The Lady of the Moon. Music by Stephen Dembski, libretto by Zhang Er & Martine Bellen, produced by Andrew Rindfleisch, stage direction by Christine McBurney & projections design by Kasumi. Presented by the CSU School of Music in collaboration with the Confucius Institute. Program includes Chen Yi’s Northern Scenes. Waetjen Auditorium, Cleveland State University, 2100 Euclid Ave. Free.
7:30 pm – Kate Reid, jazz voice (University of Miami Frost School of Musiic), with Dave Morgan, bass. Songs from the Great American Songbook. Bliss Recital Hall, Youngstown State University, 1 University Plaza. Tickets available online.
8:00 pm – Cleveland POPS, Carl Topilow, conducting, with the Fly Dance Company, an all-male theatrical hip hop company. Program includes pop music by composers from the swing era, Broadway and the movies. Severance Hall, 11001 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland. Tickets available online.
FEBRUARY 1 – SATURDAY
2:00 pm – Oberlin Winter Term Phlox Choir, Olivia Fink, director. Florence Price’s The Moon Bridge, Kari Watson’s Reluctance, Abbie Betinis’ Be Like the Bird, Michael Bussewitz-Quarm’s The Silver Swan & Mari Esabel Valverde’s Le Papillons. Sponsored by Oberlin Students for Gender Inclusivity in Music. Fairchild Chapel (Bosworth Hall), Oberlin College, 50 W. Lorain St. Free.
7:30 pm – BlueWater Chamber Orchestra, Daniel Meyer, conducting, with Ken Johnston & Emily Cornelius, violins & Laura Pedersen, soprano. “A Classical Feast.” Saint-Georges’ Symphonie Concertante in G, Op. 13, Beethoven’s “Ah, Perfido!” & Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 in g. Plymouth Church, 2860 Coventry Rd., Shaker Hts. Tickets available online.
7:30 pm – Oberlin Winter Term Opera: Rachel Peters’ The Wild Beast of the Bungalow (premiere), with libretto by Royce Vavrek, directed by Christopher Mirto, conducted by Joseph Hodge. Click here for synopsis. Warner Concert Hall, Oberlin Conservatory, 43 South Professor St, Oberlin. Free but reservations required.
8:00 pm – CIM Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta, guest conductor. Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber & Respighi’s Fontane di Roma (Fountains of Rome) & Pini di Roma (Pines of Rome). Maltz Performing Arts Center, 1855 Ansel Road in University Circle, Cleveland. Free but reservations required.
8:00 pm – Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst, conducting. Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 6, Frank Bridge’s The Sea & Dukas’ The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. Severance Hall, 11001 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland. Tickets available online.
FEBRUARY 2 – SUNDAY
2:00 pm – Cleveland Orchestra Family Concert: The Bernstein Beat, Vinay Parameswaran, conducting, hosted by Jamie Bernstein. A one-hour concert introducing kids to Leonard Bernstein’s music. Severance Hall, 11001 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland. Tickets available online.
3:00 pm – Firelands Symphony Orchestra, Carl Topilow, conducting. “Super Ball Symphony.” Sandusky State Theatre, 107 Columbus Ave., Sandusky. Free.
2:00 pm – Oberlin Winter Term Phlox Orchestra, Nan Harrison Washburn & Sophia Bass, conducting. Marianna Martines’ Sinfonia in C Major (1770, excerpt), Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel’s Oratorium nach den Bildern der Bibel (1831, excerpt), Natsumi Osborn’s The Sleeping Earth (2019, premiere), Louise Farrenc’s Symphony No. 3 (1847, excerpt), Jessica Hunt’s The Eagle Tree (2018), Rachel Gibson’s New work TBA (2019, premiere), Mary Watkins’ Soul of Remembrance (Five Movements in Color, 1993), Lili Boulanger’s D’un matin de prIntemps (1917, arr. Washburn, Mari Esabel Valverde’s her first snow (2008), Alice Gomez’ 112 Degrees (2017) & Florence Beatrice Price’ Juba Dance (Symphony No. 1 in e, 1932). Sponsored by Oberlin Students for Gender Inclusivity in Music. Fairchild Chapel (Bosworth Hall), Oberlin College, 50 W. Lorain St. Free.
3:00 pm – Cleveland Youth Wind Symphonies I & II, Daniel Crain & Melissa Lichtler, conducting. Program to be announced. Waetjen Auditorium, Cleveland State University, 2100 Euclid Ave. Tickets: $5 at the door.
3:00 pm – M.U.S.i.C. – Stars in the Classics Mid-Winter Musical Salon. Performers include Regina Laza, violin, Sean Lim, violin, Moises Lopez Ruiz, flute, Jean Furman, soprano, Daniel Fridley, bass-baritone, Dylan Glenn, baritone, Gastón Frydman, piano, Arseniy Gusev, piano & Alexander Kostritsa, piano. Program includes Romances by Schumann and Rachmaninoff, dances by Brahms and de Falla & love songs by Mozart, Purcell, Piaf. Private home in Cleveland Heights. $50 includes reception with food & drink. Reserve online.
7:00 pm – Dominick Farinacci & Spirit of the Groove, with CityMusic Cleveland String Quartet. The next generation of jazz artists join CityMusic musicians in a preview of the March residency with bassist, composer & arranger John Clayton. Bop Stop, 2920 Detroit Avenue in Ohio City, Cleveland. $15. Reserve online.
7:30 pm – Oberlin Winter Term Opera: Rachel Peters’ The Wild Beast of the Bungalow (premiere), with libretto by Royce Vavrek, directed by Christopher Mirto, conducted by Joseph Hodge. Click here for synopsis. Warner Concert Hall, Oberlin Conservatory, 43 South Professor St, Oberlin. Free but reservations required.
