To Do Around Town :: ChamberFest Cleveland is Back and… “[It’s] About Time!”

ChamberFest Cleveland, co-founded by Cleveland Institute of Music faculty Franklin Cohen and his daughter Diana, is back for a second year with an expanded program of concerts running from June 20 to June 30, AND it kicks off with a fabulous concert right here “at home” in CIM’s acoustically opulent Mixon Hall.

Musicians participating in this year’s ChamberFest Cleveland series include Alexander Cohen*, Amy Schwartz Moretti*, David McCarroll, Diana Cohen*, Dimitri Murrath, Franklin Cohen*, Gabriel Cabezas*, Julie Albers*, Matan Porat, Noah Bendix-Balgley, Orion Weiss*, Patrick Castillo, Robert deMaine, Scott Christian*, Steve Moretti, Yehonatan Berick, Ying Fu and Yura Lee. (Artists with an asterisk are either CIM faculty, alumni or both!)

To purchase festival passes or individual tickets, visit the ChamberFest Cleveland website at: chamberfestcleveland.com. Unless otherwise noted, tickets for these events are $40 for adults, $25 for adults under 35 and $10 for student with valid ID (show at will-call).

CFC @ Mixon Series | Continuum: The Divine Cosmos
(Live on WCLV 104.9 FM)
Thursday, June 20 at 8 p.m.
Works by Porat, Mozart and Messiaen
Prelude: FREE recital by renowned cellist Gabriel Cabezas
Postlude: VIP After Party@L’Albatros
Cleveland Institute of Music | Mixon Hall
11021 East Boulevard, Cleveland
L’Albatros | 11401 Bellflower Road, Cleveland
Tickets: $55 for concert and after party

CFC @ Transformer Station
Friday, June 21 at 9 p.m.
Works by Mozart, Schnittke, Janáček and Handel-Halvorsen
Prelude: Browse the galleries
Postlude: Mingle with musicians
Transformer Station | 1460 West 29th Street, Cleveland

Let’s Dance!
Sunday, June 23 at 3 p.m.
Works by Boccherini, Prokofiev, Beethoven and Schickele
Prelude: Speaker Patrick Castillo & complimentary refreshments at 2 p.m.
Harkness Chapel | 11200 Bellflower Road, Cleveland
Tickets: Free for children under 18 (ticket still required for entry)

CFC @ Mixon Series | Layers: The Architecture of Time
(Live Broadcast on WCLV 104.9 FM)
Wednesday, June 26 at 8 p.m.
Works by Biber, Norman and Brahms
Prelude: Pulitzer Prize Winning composer Andrew Norman at 7 p.m.
Postlude: Q&A with musicians
Cleveland Institute of Music | Mixon Hall
11021 East Boulevard, Cleveland

Movie Night + Wine Spot
Thursday, June 27, starting at 7 p.m.
Cedar Lee Theatre at 7 p.m. & The Wine Spot at 9 p.m.
Improvised Film Score
Cedar Lee Theatre | 2163 Lee Road, Cleveland
The Wine Spot | 2271 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights
Tickets: $40 film, concert & wine tasting / $20 film only

A Tempo
Friday, June 28 at 8 p.m.
Works by Ginastera, Gershwin, Messiaen and Schumann
Prelude: Composer/Speaker Patrick Castillo at 7 p.m.
Harkness Chapel | 11200 Bellflower Road, Cleveland

CFC @ Mixon Series | Riot (Like It’s 1913!)
Saturday, June 29 at 8 p.m.
Works by Haydn, Brahms and Stravinsky
Prelude: Speaker Patrick Castillo at 7 p.m.
Postlude: Reception in the garden after the concert, weather permitting.
Cleveland Institute of Music | Mixon Hall
11021 East Boulevard, Cleveland

Mirrors
Sunday, June 30 at 3 p.m.
Works by Purcell, Britten and  Mendelssohn
Prelude: Conversation at 2 p.m.
Postlude: Complimentary ice cream from Mitchell’s
Dunham Tavern | 6709 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland

Music at Noon | Live Event & Broadcast on WCLV 104.9 FM
Wednesday, June 26 at 12 p.m.
Be a part of the live studio audience for this ChamberFest broadcast from the Ideacenter at at PlayHouse Square, and bring your lunch!
Ideacenter | Smith Studio
1375 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio
Free, no tickets required.

For lots more information and to purchase tickets, visit the ChamberFest Cleveland website at: chamberfestcleveland.com.  

CIM Out & About :: Keith Fitch Premieres New Work at the League of Composers Season Finale, June 17

Any time that you see Keith Fitch in the halls of the Cleveland Institute of Music, he’s likely to be in a hurry. This composer and head of the CIM composition department keeps a brutal schedule balancing the work of teaching with his art—composing (and a beautiful garden to boot!).

But, don’t look for him to be at CIM on June 17…because the composer will be in New York City for the League of Composers/ISCM season finale concert at which his League-commissioned work In Memory (2013) will have its world premiere.

Season Finale 2013: Reflections & Memories
Hosted by John Schaefer
Monday, June 17 at 8 p.m.
Louis Karchin and James Baker, conductors
Oboist Liang Wang and soprano Sharon Harms, soloists
Robert Riggs, guest speaker
Miller Theatre, Columbia University
2960 Broadway, New York City

In addition to Fitch’s new composition, the following works will be performed:

Bruce Adolphe Crossing Broadway (2007)
Eve Beglarian Waiting for Billy Floyd (2010)
Wang Jie Oboe Concerto for the Genuine Hearts of Sadness
   (2013, World premiere, League commission)
Elliott Carter Call (2003)
Leon Kirchner Suite from Lily (1973)

The League of Composers/ISCM seeks to have “new music” (20th and 21st century) play a more prominent role and obtain a more appreciated place in the lives of the concert music-loving public. The League’s mission is to engage audiences by presenting performances of new music of the highest caliber written by emerging and established living composers in the context of 20th and 21st century masterpieces.

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit leagueofcomposers.org.

CIM Alumni Invite you to join them during Lunch and Listen to a Free Concert, July 2, 9, 16 & 23

Mark your Calendar! The popular Cleveland Institute of Music summer alumni concert series is back again—join them (and us) for Lunch & Listen concertsTuesdays in July!

Enjoy your lunch on CIM’s terrace at noon, and then head inside to the elegant and acoustically opulent Mixon Hall for a free 30-45 minute concert presented by some of CIM’s talented alumni at 12:30 p.m.

• July 2 Marshall Griffith, piano; Linda White, flute; and a special friend
• July 9 Paul Kosower, cello and Anita Pontremoli, piano
• July 16 Ariel Clayton, violin and Andris Koh, cello
• July 23 Cathy Weinfield, oboe

Complementary beverages are served on the patio before each concert.

CIM in the Community :: Coventry Concert Night features CIM Musicians, June 10

This Monday night, the Coventry Village Library will host another wonderful concert showcasing the talents of recent graduates of the Cleveland Institute of Music.

Coventry Concert Night
Monday, June 10 at 7:30 p.m. 
Featuring the Coventry Trio
   Mary Kausek, oboe
   Drew Sullivan, clarinet
   Jeiran Hasan, flute
Coventry Village Library | Meeting Room
1925 Coventry Road, Cleveland Heights

The Trio will perform selections from Bialosky, Binkerd, Stravinsky, Telemann, Gould, Debussy and more as part of this community engagement concert.

CIM Alumni :: Recent Graduate Kathleen Raab sings Cosette in SBCT’s production of Les Mis, July 12-28

Soprano Kathleen Raab, a voice student of Dean Southern who graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Music with a Bachelor of Music this spring has taken her talent back home for the summer.

This new CIM alumna (also holding the title of Miss South Bend 2012) will be using her award-winning voice for the South Bend Civic Theatre’s production of Schonberg’s Les Miserables this July—performing the role of Cosette.

Les Miserables directed by David Case
Running from July 12 thru July 28
SBCT | Wilson Mainstage Auditorium
403 N. Main Street | South Bend, Indiana
Box Office: 574-234-1112 | Weekdays, Noon-6 p.m.

For more information about the production or for tickets, visit http://sbct.org or call 574-234-1112.

(Source: addins.fox28.com)

To Do Around Town :: Celebrate Summer with the 24th Parade the Circle & Circle Village, June 8

Kick off the sunny season in the Circle with Parade the Circle and Circle Village and march to the beat of your own drum all summer long…but, first, you’ve got to make your drum!

Parents, bring your kids to see the fun folks from the Cleveland Institute of Music (Tent #24) so they can decorate a drum created from repurposed mailing tubes. Conventional? Nope. Cool? You bet!

Parade the Circle & Circle Village
Saturday, June 8 from 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
The Parade begins at Noon
Decorate a Drum with CIM | Tent #24
Wade Oval in University Circle

The Parade, presented by the Cleveland Museum of Art, begins at 12 noon and incorporates the drama and artistry of colorfully crafted floats, puppets, costumes, dancers, and musicians. Circle Village, which includes arts and crafts activities from a ton of UC organizations as well as live music and luscious local food, is presented by University Circle Inc. Both events this year are having fun with the theme of re-use, recycle and repurposing materials to make art.

CIM Alumni :: This Week Irene Roberts makes her San Francisco Opera debut in The Tales of Hoffmann

KUDOS to mezzo soprano and Cleveland Institute of Music alumna Irene Roberts (MM 2008, a student of Mary Schiller and Dean Southern), who will make her San Francisco Opera debut as Giulietta in their production of Jacques Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann which opens this week and runs into early July 2013.

Jacques Offenbach  The Tales of Hoffmann
June 5, 11, 14, 20, 23, 27, 30 and July 3 & 6
San Francisco Opera Theater
301 Van Ness Avenue | San Francisco
Sung in French with English supertitles
Running time: 3:30 with two intermissions

The opera tells the story of a sensitive poet who searches for love and repeatedly finds it lies just beyond his reach. For more information or, if you’re in the area, to purchase tickets, visit sfopera.com.