2018 - 2019 SEASON
EKKLÉSIA REED QUINTET - HUDSON LIBRARY & HISTORICAL SOCIETY
October, 27, 2019
Performing Jazz, Classical, Contemporary including works by local north-east Ohio composers, this free concert is not one to miss, come and experience a new sound!
EKKLÉSIA REED QUINTET - CLEVELAND PUBLIC LIBRARY
October, 5, 2019
Ekklésia Reed Quintet's Downtown Cleveland Debut! ERQ is excited to present on CPL's Music at Main series on October 5th at 2:00pm. Jazz favorites, and new compositions will be performed on this concert series.
EKKLÉSIA REED QUINTET - WRUW
September, 26, 2019
The Ekklésia Reed Quintet made their FM airwaves debut on WRUW's "Live From Cleveland" show. Selections included jazz standards and an arrangement of Gordon Goodwin's Hunting Wabbits by Travis Hogue-Smith.
JUDSON MANOR - EKKLÉSIA REED QUINTET
May 15, 2019 Â | Â 7:00pm
Ekklésia Reed Quintet is a chamber music ensemble of five instrumentalists who are members of the award-winning and professional wind ensemble Cleveland Winds: Stefanie Cohn (oboe), Emilio Rosario (clarinet), Thomas Lempner (saxophone), Travis Hogue-Smith (bass clarinet), and Philip Kish (bassoon).
Though strongly influenced by classical traditions, ERQ is open to the influence of world music, jazz, and improvisation. In addition to becoming established as the first professional reed quintet in Northeast Ohio, ERQ also aims to inspire younger wind players and to encourage the commissioning of new works for reed quintet by composers in and around Northeast Ohio.
HEIGHTS ART SERIES - EKKLÉSIA REED QUINTET
May 4, 2019 Â | Â 7:00pm
Ekklésia Reed Quintet is a chamber music ensemble of five instrumentalists who are members of the award-winning and professional wind ensemble Cleveland Winds.
The unique instrumentation of oboe (Stefanie Cohn), clarinet (Emilio Rosario), saxophone (Thomas Lempner), bass clarinet (Travis Hogue-Smith), and bassoon (Philip Kish) offers a rather new palette of color for chamber ensemble sound. Pioneered just over three decades ago by the Dutch quintet Calefax, the reed quintet has begun a whole new genre in the classical music world.
Though strongly influenced by classical traditions, this quintet is open to the influence of world music, jazz, and improvisation. ERQ will be performing works by Nico Muhly, Nina Simone, Mariano Mores, Ton ter Doest, and local composers Jack Ballard and Buck McDaniel.
In addition to becoming established as the first professional reed quintet in Northeast Ohio, ERQ also aims to inspire younger wind players and to encourage the commissioning of new works for reed quintet by composers in and around Northeast Ohio. improvisation. ERQ will be performing works by Nico Muhly, Nina Simone, Mariano Mores, Ton ter Doest, and local composers Jack Ballard and Buck McDaniel.
In addition to becoming established as the first professional reed quintet in Northeast Ohio, ERQ also aims to inspire younger wind players and to encourage the commissioning of new works for reed quintet by composers in and around Northeast Ohio.
Visit ERQ online at: https://ekklesiareedquintet.webs.com
MASTER'S RECITAL
May 3, 2019 Â |Â Â 8:00pm
I am thankful and pleased to invite music lovers, friends, and family to an evening of passionate and playful music of the clarinet repertoire. Join me for my final solo recital at Cleveland State University with outstanding colleagues: Pianist, Charles Fernandes and Cellist, McKinley Glasser.
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Live Stream Available:
https://livestream.com/CSUMusic/events/8666941
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Program selections include:
Pastorale Cevenole, Louis Cahuzac
Adagio e Tarantella, Ernesto Cavallini
Fantaisie, Philippe Gaubert
Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, Paul Hindemith
Piano Trio in B-flat major, Op. 11, Ludwig van Beethoven
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CSU WIND ENSEMBLE "VARIATIONS"
April 11, 2019 Â |. 7:00pm
CSU Wind Ensemble
John Perrine, conductor
Guest group: Midview High School Band
Josh Brunner, conductor
Program
Variations on America - Charles Ives/arr. W. Schuman/transcribed by William E. Rhoads
Variations on a Korean Folk Song - John Barnes Chance
Sketches on a Tudor Psalm - Fisher Tull
Concerto for Tubameister - Victor Davies (arr.Jc Sherman)
Admission is FREE and open to the public
THE CLEVELAND WINDS - "REP REVISITED"
April 7, 2019 Â | Â 7:00pm
The Cleveland Winds are proud to present "Rep Revisited" to celebrate the end of their 10th season of amazing performances! We are pleased to share the stage with the Bands from Mentor High School.
The Winds will repeat repertoire from our previous concerts, including Kathryn Salfelder's Cathedrals, Darius Milhaud's Suite Française, Frank Ticheli's Blue Shades, and Gustav Holst's First Suite in E-Flat.
Program notes are available at http://clevelandwinds.org/rep-revisited/.
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Live Stream Link Provided Below:
https://livestream.com/CSUMusic/RepRevisited
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CSU SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, UNIVERSITY CHORALE, UNIVERSITY CHORUS, ANDÂ Â CHORAL CLEVELAND ARTS
March 1, 2019 Â | Â 7:30pm
The Cleveland State University Symphony Orchestra, CSU Chorale, University Chorus, and Choral Arts Cleveland, with guest soloists in concert.
Dr. Victor Liva and Dr. Brian Bailey conduct.
PROGRAM
Brahms—Double Concerto in A minor, op. 102
Mozart—Requiem in D minor, K. 626
Free admission. Free parking for audience members who enter CSU's Central Garage 6:30pm–7:30pm. Enter Central Garage at E. 21st St. and mention the student performance for free parking.
SOLOISTS
William Barbini, violin.
Ovidiu Marinescu, cello.
Madelyn Hasebein, soprano.
Dawn Durdella, mezzo-soprano. Matthew Jones II, tenor.
Bryant Bush, bass.
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Live Stream Link:
https://livestream.com/CSUMusic/events/8584804
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EKKLÉSIA REED QUINTET DEBUT
January 28, 2019 Â | Â 7:30pm
The Ekklésia Reed Quintet, northeast Ohio's first professional reed quintet, will make their debut performance as part of Malone University's Faculty Artist Series in the Stewart Room located inside the Randal Campus Center.
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Ekklésia's program will Feature works by George Frideric Handel, Mark Zuckerman, Ton ter Doest, Robert J. Frank, George Gershwin, and Marc Mellits.
CSU CLARINET ENSEMBLEÂ HOLIDAYÂ EXTRAVAGANZA
November, 27, 2018 Â |Â Â 11:30am
The Cleveland State University Clarinet Ensemble, under the direction of Dr. Ellen Breakfield-Glick, will ring in the holiday season with their annual 'ugly Christmas sweater' concert inside the main lobby of the CSU Music Building. Performing works by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Walter Afanasieff, and Mariah Carey.
CSU SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
November 16, 2018 Â | Â 7:30pm
The Cleveland State University Orchestra, under the direction of Dr. Victor Liva, will perform their final concert of the Fall 2018 Season in Waetjen Auditorium at 7:30pm on November 16, 2018.
Dr. Victor Liva, conductor
Jimmie Parker, piano
Yeejee Kim, violin
Jimmie Parker – Piano Concerto
Bruce John Reiprich – Lullaby for Violin and Orchestra
Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47
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COMPOSERS ANDÂ HEROS
November 11, 2018. |. 7:30pm
This is a shared performance of the CSU Symphonic Wind Ensemble and the Cleveland Winds. The CSU Wind Ensemble under the direction of Dr. Birch Browning will perform pieces by contemporary American female composers: Kristin Kuster's Lost Gulch Lookout, Kathryn Salfelder's Crossing Parallels, and Julie Giroux's A Symphony of Fables.
Dr. Birch Browning, Conductor
The Cleveland Winds also under direction of Dr. Birch Browning, and Guest Conductor/Narator from ​Indiana University, Dr. Roby George, will perform Claude T. Smith's setting of Eternal Father, Strong to Save, Joseph Schwantner's New Morning for the World: Daybreak of Freedom, and Karel Husa's Music for Prague 1968.
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Dr. Birch Browning, Conductor
Dr. Roby George, ​Guest Conductor and Narrator
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Waetjen Auditorium, November 11, 2018 at 7:30pm
THIN BLUE LINE
October 5, 2018. | Â 7:30pm
The Cleveland State University Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Dr. Victor Liva, will premier a piano concerto in memorial of fallen Cleveland police officer David Fahey #2453 featuring the Cleveland Police Department Pipes and Drums alongside the CSU Orchestra. Also on the program, Beethoven Symphony No. 7 and the Neo-Tessares Saxophone Quartet will perform Philip Glass' Concerto for Saxophone Quartet and Orchestra.
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Dr. Victor Liva, conductor
Inna Onofrei, piano
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Neo-Tessares Saxophone Quartet
John Perrine, Soprano
Breegan Arnett, Alto
Allie Denham, Tenor
Tom Lempner, Baritone
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Onofrei - Concerto in Blue (World Premier)
Glass - Concerto for Saxophone Quartet and Orchestra
Beethoven - Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92
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Waetjen Auditorium, October 5, 2018 at 7:30pm
TRIBUTE TO LENARD BERNSTEIN
October 4, 2018 Â | 7:00pm
It's a two-for-one concert!
The Cleveland State University Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Dr. Birch Browning, will perform two works by Leonard Bernstein, "Overture to Candide" and "Four Dances from West Side Story," along with Vittorio Giannini's Symphony No. 3 For Band.
The CSU Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of Dr. John Perrine, will perform on the second half of the concert.
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Waetjen Auditorium, October 4, 2018 at 7:00pm
Livestream Available
Parking is available in the Central Garage next to the music building after 6 pm.
SOUND OF SILENCE
April 26, 2018 Â |Â Â 7:30pm
The Cleveland State University Department of Music in collaboration with the Audio & Visual Department will host a John Cage event in Drinko Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m. on April 26.
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Selections featured:
Aria (1958)
Radio Music (1956)
Sonata for Clarinet (1933)
Amplified Cactus Improvisation
Child of Tree (1975)
Four² (1990)
Water Walk (1959)
String Quartet in Four Parts (1950)
- I. Quietly Flowing Along
4'33" (1952)
John Cage/Communication -By Dr. Gregory D'Alessio (2018)
0'00" (1962)
Five (1988)
Experiences No. 1 (1945)
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THE CLEVELAND CONNECTION
April 22, 2018 Â | Â 7:30pm
Join the Cleveland Winds under the direction of Dr. Birch Browning, for a concert of wind band music with a Cleveland Connection on Sunday, April 22 at 7 pm in Waetjen Auditorium.
The centerpiece of the concert will be Dr. Andrew Rindfleisch's Three Lyric Songs for Solo Clarinet and Wind Ensemble with guest artist Garrick Zoeter from the Shenandoah University Conservatory.
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The rest of the concert repertoire will include Aaron Copland's El Salon Mexico, transcribed by Mark Hindsley; Clare Grundman's Second American Folk Rhapsody; Clint Needham's Legacies; and Sousa's Black Horse Troop.
Dan Rager will provide the historical context and Cleveland Connection for each piece.
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CSU SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
April 20, 2018. | Â 7:30p
The Cleveland State University Symphony Orchestra will be performing the annual Daniel Rains solo competition winners' concert, featuring undergraduate cellist, McKinley Glasser in a rendition of Dvorak's Cello concerto in A minor, and graduate student, Breegan Arnett in a performance of Jaques Ibert's Concertino da Camera for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra. The Orchestra wll be directed by Dr. Victor Liva and guest conductor, Dr. John Perrine, and will also perform Johannes Brahms' second Symphony.
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Dr. Victor Liva, Conductor
Dr. John Perrine, Guest Conductor
McKinley Glasser, Cello
Breegan Arnett, Alto Saxophone
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Dvorak - Cello Concerto in A minor
Ibert - Concertino da Camera
Brahms - Symphony No. 2 in D Major
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Waetjen Auditorium, April 20, 2018 at 7:30pm
LIVE LONG AND PROSPER
April 12, 2018 Â | Â 7:00pm
Join the Cleveland State University Symphonic Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Dr. Birch Browning, in a night of Space Music. The ensemble will perform music by Peter Meechan, Michael Daugherty, and John Williams.
We also welcome our guest ensemble, the Symphonic Band from Fireland High School, and their conductor, Dustin Wiley.
Waetjen Auditorium, April 12, 2018 at 7:00pm
Livestream Available
Parking for the concert is free in the Central Garage after 6 PM.
CSU SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
March 2, 2018Â Â |Â Â 7:30pm
The Cleveland State University Symphony Orchestra will be joined by Cleveland Orchestra Cellist and CSU faculty member, Bryan Dumm, in a performance of Ernest Bloch's Schelomo, Hebraic Rhapsodie. The orchestra will perform Dvorak's 7th symphony and the overture to La Clemenza di Tito, by Mozart on the program.
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Dr. Victor Liva, Conductor
Bryan Dumm, Cello
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Mozart- Overture to La Clemenza di Tito
Bloch - Schelomo, Hebraic Rhapsodie
Dvorak - Symphony No. 7 in D minor
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Waetjen Auditorium at 7:30pm.
Admission is free and open to the public. Parking is free starting at 7:00 if you notify the attendant.
NEW MUSIC FOR CHAMBER ORCHEST
April 18, 2018 Â | Â 7:30pm
The Graduate Composition recital of Nasim Khorassani & Jeremey Poparad featuring works for chamber orchestra.
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Yin-Yang (2018) - Jeremey Poparad & Nasim Khorassani
Ego, Superego (2018) - Jeremey Poparad
Pizzs and Harmonics (2017) - Nasim Khorassani
Wanted Fugitive (2018) - Nasim Khorassani
Fugitives (2018) - Jeremey Poparad
Hark (2018) - Jeremey Poparad
Lullaby (2015) - Nasim Khorassani
Hidden Sources (2018) - Jeremey Poparad
Decadence (2017-18) - Nasim Khorassani
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Drinko Recital Hall, April 18, 2018 at 7:00pm
CSU WIND ENSEMBLE:Â WE SHALL OVERCOME
February 22, 2018
Join the CSU Symphonic Wind Ensemble for a concert in tribute to the on-going Civil Rights Movement. The ensemble will perform Mark Camphouses A Movement for Rosa, James Stephenson's there are no words..., and Morton Gould's setting of We Shall Overcome.
We also welcome our guest ensembles: the Concert Winds and Wind Ensemble from Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School, and their Directors, Tricia Astey and Jason Wyse.
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Livestream Available
Parking for the concert is free in the Central Garage after 6 PM.
CLEVELAND OPERA & CLEVELAND WOMAN'S ORCHESTRA - MANON LESCAUT
November 22 & 24, 2019
Travis is excited to make his debut with the Cleveland Opera and the Cleveland Woman's Orchestra, whom is celebrating their 85th season, this fall in their upcoming production of Puccini's Manon Lescaut.
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Tickets are available on the cleveland opera's website. free refreshments will be provided at intermission.