JUNE 21 – MONDAY

Re:Sound New Music Festival, featuring 10 artists, continues this week and is available to view on-demand through June 30. Free, but access code required. View lineup here and click here to register.

JUNE 22 – TUESDAY

6:00 pm – National Sawdust: Fire This Time. Poet and musician Lynne Procope considers the legacy of James Baldwin in a conversation with Imani Winds oboist Toyin Spellman-Diaz. Register for Zoom and view here.

7:00 pm – DaCapo Chamber Players: Paean To Merging Cultures. Bruce Adolphe hosts a concert exploring sounds of Native American history merged with African American history in Valerie Coleman’s Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes, and as memorialized in Kyle Gann’s Hovenweep. View here.

JUNE 23 – WEDNESDAY

12:00 pm – Kronberg Academy with Kirill Gerstein. Architect Rafael Viñoly has been designing and developing an evolution of the grand piano built around the “Pianistic Idea” of a more ergonomic, slightly curved keyboard. Register here for the free Zoom seminar. LIVE

3:00 pm – American Composers Orchestra: Toulmin Orchestral Commission Program Part I. Leanna Primiani’s 1001 played by ROCO Houston, Hilary Purrington’s Harp of Nerves by the Philadelphia Orchestra, Andrea Reinkemeyer’s Water Sings Fire by the Louisiana Philharmonic,  and Wang Jie’s Symphony No. 1 by the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. Register and view here.

5:00 pm – Baryshnikov Arts Center & Tippet Rise present Aizuri Quartet in What’s Past is Prologue I. The first of two concerts of music by female composers of the past millennia includes Hildegard von Bingen’s Columba aspexit, arranged for string quartet by Alex Fortes, Gabriella Smith’s Carrot Revolution, and Rhiannon Giddens’s At the Purchaser’s Option, inspired by an 1830s advertisement selling a young female slave with or without her 9-month- old baby. View here until July 7.

7:00 pm – Collingwood Festival: Footsteps of Chopin. Daniel Vnukowski talks to Dr. Alan Walker, musicologist and author of Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times, interspersed with recorded excerpts by Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli and Artur Rubinstein, the story of the  journey that led Walker to a treasure trove of documents buried deep within the archives in Warsaw, his personal relationship with the music of Chopin, and a side notes from some of the “obnoxious” 19th-century music critics who despised Chopin’s music. The event will be followed by a Q&A. Register and view here.

8:00 pm – Cleveland Chamber Choir rebroadcast on Ovations, Scott MacPherson, conducting. The ensemble’s “Madrigals of All Seasons” concert from May, plus selections from its recent CD, “I Sing to Use the Waiting.” WCLV 104.9 Ideastream Public Media or online. Free.

JUNE 24 – THURSDAY

1:15 pm – Midtown Concerts: The Violators, a renegade consort of viols, recorders, voices, and “air viol” (aka English concertina), in a program of airs, consort songs, and country dances from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods in Great Britain. View here.

6:00 pm – American Composers Orchestra Listening Party. Derek Bermel hosts an hour-long Zoom listening party of live archival recordings made from ACO performances at Carnegie Hall from 1985-2012. Program includes David Diamond’s Symphony No. 9, Hannibal Lokumbe’s African Portraits, Earl Kim’s Violin Concerto, Melinda Wagner’s Falling Angels, Derek Bermel’s Voices with Bermel, Laurie Anderson’s Songs for A E., Frank Zappa’s Autumn Fall, John Adams’s My Father Knew Charles Ives, and Philip Glass’s Symphony No. 9. Register and view here.

7:00 pm – ChamberFest Cleveland: Emerging into Light, Julie Albers, cello (pictured), Diana Cohen, violin, Franklin Cohen, clarinet, Sterling Elliot, cello, Ayane Kozasa, viola, Nathan Meltzer, violin, Roman Rabinovich, piano. Ludwig van Beethoven’s Magic Flute Variations in E-flat for cello and piano, Bedřich Smetana’s Piano Trio in g, Op. 15, Felix Mendelssohn’s String Quintet No. 2 in B flat, Op. 87. The Grove Amphitheatre, 425 N. Commons Blvd, Mayfield. Free, but reservations required.

7:00 pm – Encore Chamber Music Institute Blooming Artist Concert No. 1. Young Artists perform string quartets by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Schubert. Dodero Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets available online.

JUNE 25 – FRIDAY

12:00 pm – Carnegie Hall Selects: Bernstein’s The Gift of Music. Leonard Bernstein made more than 400 appearances at Carnegie Hall, beginning with his debut in 1943 with the New York Philharmonic. Produced for the 75th anniversary of his birth and narrated by Lauren Bacall, the film features footage from the Bernstein archives and early television ventures, including the 1947 Prague Spring Festival — possibly the earliest extant film of the conductor. View here until July 2.

4:00 pm – Encore Chamber Music Institute Blooming Artist Concert No. 2. Young Artists perform string quartets of Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Schubert. Dodero Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets available online.

7:00 pm – Encore Chamber Music Institute Blooming Artist Concert No. 3. Young Artists perform string quartets of Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Schubert. Dodero Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets available online.

7:00 pm – ChamberFest Cleveland: Romp (Around the World), Diana Cohen, violin, Alexi Kenney, violin, Nathan Meltzer, violin, Yura Lee, viola, Ayane Kozasa, viola, Julie Albers, cello, Franklin Cohen, clarinet, Alexander Cohen, percussion (pictured), Jeremy Sreejayan, percussion, Zubin Hathi, percussion, Roman Rabinovich, piano. Béla Kovács’ Shalom Aleichem, Antonín Dvořák’s Terzetto in C, Op. 74, Rolf Wallin’s Scratch for amplified balloon, Friedrich Hermann’s Capriccio No. 1 for 3 violins, Franghiz Ali-Zadeh’s RƏQS (Dance), Yotam Haber’s From The Book, Tanya Tagaq’s Sivuni Tinni, The Beatles’ Come Together (arranged by the Ebene Quartet), & Hawa Kasse Mady Diabate’s Tegere Tulon. The Grove Amphitheatre, 425 N. Commons Blvd, Mayfield. Free, but reservations required.

7:00 pm – Church of the Western Reserve, Daniel Gilbert, clarinet, Donna Lee, piano & Keith Robinson, cello. Late works of Johannes Brahms: Clarinet Sonatas in f and E-Flat, Op. 120, Nos. 1 & 2 and Piano Trio in a, Op. 114. Church of the Western Reserve, 30500 Fairmount Boulevard, Cleveland. Free.

8:00 pm – Local 4 Music Fund: She Scores, Andrea Belding-Elson & Emily Cornelius, violins, Derek Snyder & Jeffrey Singler, cellos, Ann Gilbert, bass, Gunnar Hirthe, clarinet & Mell Csicsila & Andrew Pongracz, percussion. Music by female-identifying living composers, with a focus on our region, in collaboration with Cleveland Composers Guild. Jenny Conner’s Truth Twixt Visions Twined (1999), Margaret Brouwer’s Lament (2002) & Running Wild (2015), Lauren Spavelko’s Mosaic’ (2017), Cara Haxo’s Shatter (2017), Marta Ptaszynska’s Scintilla (1984), Nancy Van de Vate’s Two for Two (2009), Olga Hans’ Bass Dance (2015) & Gay Kahkonen’s Horizon (2021). Live streamed only from Lorain County Community College. Watch here. Free.

JUNE 26 – SATURDAY

7:00 pm – ChamberFest Cleveland Festival Finale. Alexi Kenney, violin, Nathan Meltzer, violin, Yura Lee, viola, Ayane Kozasa, viola, Sterling Elliott, cello, Julie Albers, cello, Franklin Cohen, clarinet, Roman Rabinovich, piano. Hildegard of Bingen’s “O Virtus Sapientiae,” Robert Schumann’s Three Romances for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 94, Franklin Cohen, clarinet Roman Rabinovich, piano. Sofia Gubaidulina’s String Trio & Johannes Brahms’ Piano Quartet No. 1 in g, op. 25. St. Paschal Baylon, 5384 Wilson Mills Rd., Highland Hts. Free, but reservations required.

8:00 pm – Local 4 Music Fund: She Scores, Emily Cornelius & Andrea Belding-Elson, violins, Esther Nahm, Lisa Whitfield & Amber Dimoff, violas, Jeffrey Singler & Derek Snyder, cellos, Mary Kay Robinson flute & Gunnar Hirthe, clarinet. Music by female-identifying living composers, with a focus on our region, in collaboration with Cleveland Composers Guild. Cara Haxo’s Windows’ (2019), Dawn Sonntag’s Tattler Creek (2017), Inna Onofrei’s Dali Miniatures (2018), HyeKyung Lee’s A-ri-a-rang (2012) & Margi Griebling-Haigh’s From A Train Window (2012/18). Live streamed only from Pilgrim UCC. Watch here. Free.

JUNE 27 – SUNDAY

4:00 pm – Karel Paukert, organ. Music from Prague. Holtkamp organ. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 2747 Fairmount Blvd., Cleveland Hts. Freewill offering.

Approx. 6:15 pm – Akron Symphony at the Bridgestone Senior Players Championship, Christopher Wilkins, conducting. 30 musicians perform family friendly patriotic, summer concert music by such familiar composers as Aaron Copland, John Philip Sousa, Scott Joplin and John Williams at the conclusion of the tournament. Wentz Financial Group Driving Range. Free. More information here.

8:00 pm – Local 4 Music Fund: She Scores, Andrea Belding-Elson, violin, Esther Nahm & Lisa Whitfield, violas, Jeffrey Singler, cello, Mary Kay Robinson & George Pope, flutes, Gunnar Hirthe, clarinet, Emily Laurence, harp, Emma Donkin, piano & Eric Charnofsky, narrator. Music by female-identifying living composers, with a focus on our region, in collaboration with Cleveland Composers Guild. Melissa Dunphy’s Captain Samuels Speaks To The Sea (2012), Natsumi Osborn’s Veiled Expanse (2016), Nancy Galbraith’s Rustic Breezes (2020) & Emma Donkin’s Incandescence (2020). Live streamed only from Pilgrim UCC. Watch here. Free.