CONCERT - Cleveland Contemporary Players
Andrew Rindfleisch, Music Director presents Lisa Moore, piano

Dynamic soloist and contemporary music specialist Lisa Moore presents an exciting concert of groundbreaking new works for the piano.

Program: Seven Etudes by Don Byron, To His Coy Mistress by Frederic Rzewski
American Berserk by John Adams, For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise by Martin Bresnick

Photo by Matthew Fried

LECTURE - Harold Meltzer

Composer Harold Meltzer (New York) presents his music.

CSU Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Combos
John Perrine and Howie Smith, directors

Keyboard Conversations - Celebrating Chopin with Jeffrey Seigel

Chopin for Lovers
Every compositon on the program is inspired by a different woman in the composer's love life - "bring a significant other and enrich your lives with some of the most stirring romantic music ever written!"

The Cleveland Composers Guild
In Celebration of 50th Anniversary Season

"Mostly Two Pianos - Pieces for Two Pianos unless otherwise noted" Music of Rollin, Chobanian, Lissauer, Rayer, Griebling and Sonntag For further information: www.clevelandcomposers.org

CSU Orchestra
Victor Liva, conductor and John Perrine, saxophone

Music of Debussy, Dvorak and Massenet

CSU Wind Ensemble
Howard Meeker, conductor and Vadim Vilinov, guest conductor

Featuring
The Strongsville Community Band, Ken Mehalko, conductor

Music of Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture, Shenandoah (Ticheli), Masquerade (Persichetti)

MTNA State Music Competition
Free and Open to the Public

Sponsored by the Division of Keyboard Studies at Cleveland State.

Guest Recital
Oni Buchanan, piano

In collaboration with the Department of English.

LECTURE - Frank J. Oteri

Composer and new music activist Frank J. Oteri (American Music Center, New York) presents his music.

Photo By Jeffrey Herman

WCLV Live Broadcast Faculty Ensembles

Featuring Special Guest TBA

Guest Recital
The Osso Quartet with John Perrine, saxophone.

A multi-media presentation featuring the music of singer/songwriter Sufjan Stevens.

LECTURE - Jeff Stadelman

Composer Jeff Stadelman (University at Buffalo) presents his music.

The Cleveland Chamber Winds Inaugural Performance
Birch Browning, conductor

Concert Repertoire:
Giannini - Symphony No. 3, first movement
Mihaud - Suite Francaise
Schoenberg - Theme and Variations, Op. 43a
Hesketh - Danceries Welcher - Circular Marches

For more information go to:www.clevelandwinds.org

Cantores Cleveland
Pre-concert Lecture 7:20 pm and Concert 8:00 pm

Professional Early Music Ensemble "La Bella Musica: Singing the Italian Renaissance"

For more information go to: cantorescleveland.org

WCLV Live Broadcast
Almeda Trio

Cara Tweed, violin Ida Mercer, cello Robert Cassidy, piano

They will be playing works by Beethoven, Copland, and Mendelssohn.

Musica D'Arte
Elizabeth Unis Chesko - soprano, Sean Gabriel - flute, Christine Hill and Eric Ziolek - piano

Special Guest Diane Mather - cello

LECTURE - Keith Fitch

Composer Keith Fitch (Cleveland Institute of Music) presents his music.

CSU Percussion Ensemble
Matthew Bassett, conductor

CONCERT - No Exit Quartet

CSU welcomes Cleveland's newest contemporary music ensemble!

LECTURE - Josh Levine

Composer Josh Levine (Oberlin College) presents his music.

Keyboard Conversations - Celebrating Chopin with Jeffrey Seigel

Chopin the Passionate Patriot
He was a proud Polish person and the Polish national dances, the Polonaise and the Mazurka, had special meaning to him. "Listen the Dance." Program includes some of the buoyant and poignant Mazurkas, three Polonaises, and the poetic G Minor of the seven-year old composer, the brooding C Minor, and the heroic A Flat, one of the most familiar pieces of music ever written.

STUDENT WORKSHOP - Jon Nelson, trumpet

Trumpet virtuoso Jon Nelson presents a workshop and master class, performing new student works in progress.

Keyboard Conversations - Celebrating Chopin with Jeffrey Seigel

Chopin the Storyteller
This program will include the four Ballades of Chopin, each an epic tone poem in sound. A Ballade is a narrative musical form - a story is being told, but what is the story and how does a composer tell the story in tones without words? Also on the program will be a charming NOvelette of Robert Schumann whose 200th birthdya the musical world also celebrates in 2010.

LECTURE - John Zorn

The American iconoclast and innovative composer/improviser John Zorn presents his music.

Co-presented with the Cleveland Museum of Art's performing arts series.

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Photo by Scott Irvine

CONCERT - John Zorn and the New Masada Sextet

Gartner Auditorium in the Cleveland Museum of Art
Admission: $34, student discounts available.

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The Cleveland Museum of Art, In University Circle 11150 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44106

Call 1-888-CMA-0033 or 216-421-7350 for ticket information.

Co-presented with the Cleveland Museum of Art's.

CONCERT - League of Composers-ISCM Chamber players

The dynamic ensemble's three day residency culminates with this exciting concert of new chamber works.

Keyboard Conversations - Celebrating Chopin with Jeffrey Seigel

Chopin and the Future
As well as being one of the most popular composers, Chopin was also one of the most influential. The program will include works of Chopin that caress the ear but also point to the future, as well as Chopin-inspired works of Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Faure, Scriabin, Lutoslavski, Symanowski, and a dreamy, poetic Nocturne by the American composer Lowell Lieberman.

Beethoven Triple Concerto - Featuring The Almeda Trio

CSU Orchestra and CSU Chorus and Choral
Victor Liva and Brian Bailey, conductors

CSU Chamber Orchestra
Victor Liva, conductor

Violin/Piano Recital
Masters Degree Candidate - Karen Dahl, Violin
Faculty Member - Robert Cassidy, Piano