Sundown Jazz Series
Kip Reed Trio
with Matt Perko and Dan Wilson

Because of the supporting roles they play within a jazz group bass players all too often fail to receive the credit they deserve for the success of those groups. In order to focus more attention on those individuals this year’s Sundown Jazz Concerts will feature trios led by some of this area’s finest bassists.

The season’s first concert, featuring the Kip Reed Trio, will take place at 4:00 on Sunday, September 14, in Cleveland State University’s Drinko Recital Hall, located in the Music Communication Building at 2001 Euclid Ave.

An east coast native currently splitting his time between New York City and Cleveland, electric bassist Kip Reed has played with many major artists spanning several genres.  His love of Brazilian, African and other world-beat music combined with his background in rock, funk, and jazz make him one of the most in-demand bass players on the east and north coasts. 

In his nearly 30-year career, he has recorded or performed with Brazilian superstars Bebel Gilberto, Ivan Lins and Tania Maria, jazz legends Brother Jack Mcduff, Larry Coryell and Joe Lovano and disco divas Donna Summer and Gloria Gaynor.  He has been featured on recordings alongside bass greats Anthony Jackson and Freddie Washington and can be heard on Chuck Mangione's Chesky release, "The Feeling's Back." Most recently, he appears on Nancy Wilson's Grammy-winning CD, "Turned to Blue."

For the concert at CSU Kip will be joined by guitarist Dan Wilson and drummer Matt Perko.
 
As always, this concert is free and open to the public.

Drinko Recital Hall

Keyboard Conversations
with Jeffrey Seigel

Haydn and Mozart: Humor and Heartache
Haydn's zesty Fantasy in C, the boisterous Gypsy Rondo, and the darkly expressive C Minor Sonata, Mozart's poignant B Minor Adagio and the vivacious G Major Sonata.

Waetjen Auditorium

CSU Orchestra
Victor Liva, conductor

Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony no. 5
Carl Maria von Weber Overture to Der Freischutz
Mozart flute concerto no. 2 in D major
Sean Gabriel, flute soloist

Waetjen Auditorium

Sundown Jazz Series
Dave Morgan Trio

The Sundown Jazz Concert for October 5 will present the Dave Morgan Trio, with Chris Anderson on trombone, Dan Murphy on piano, and Dave Morgan on bass.

Dave Morgan is a bassist and composer/arranger who performs regularly with the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra, the Jazz Unit, and with artists including trumpeter Jack Schantz and saxophonist Howie Smith.  He composed and arranged an evening of music for saxophonist Joe Lovano that has been released on the CD "The Surprise of Being--Live at Birdland" by the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra featuring Joe Lovano.  He also performs and records with the Russ Schmidt trio, featuring drummer Jim Rupp.  He has accompanied many leading artists who have performed at the Nighttown jazz club in Cleveland, including Benny Golson, James Moody, Jiggs Whigham, Larry Coryell, Cedar Walton, and Mose Allison.  He was recently awarded a "New Works: Creation and Presentation" grant from Chamber Music America to compose new music for the Jazz Unit.   His clarinet concerto, “Reflections and Meditations,” was recently recorded by the American Wind Symphony Orchestra, and “Three Vignettes” for Alto Saxophone and String Orchestra, as recorded by the Beethoven Academy Orchestra, was recently released by Centaur Records.

Chris Anderson, one of this region’s finest trombonists, has been playing trombone for over 24 years, primarily in northeast Ohio.  During that time he has performed with some of the area’s best in the classical, jazz, gospel, Latin, and other musical idioms.  In addition to writing many different styles of music, he has demonstrated his performance versatility through engagements with the Canton Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Jazz Orchestra, Jazz Heritage Orchestra, and many others.

Dan Murphy is a jazz pianist from the Akron/Cleveland area who leads his own trio and quartet, and is constantly performing with many top local artists, including vocalists Helen Welch and Barbara Knight, saxophonists Bobby Selvaggio and Ernie Krivda, trumpeter Jack Schantz, and trombonists Paul Ferguson and Chas Baker.  Mr. Murphy has also backed-up visiting artists such as Kevin Mahogany, Slide Hampton, Jiggs Whigham, and Paquito D’Rivera, to name only a few.  He is featured on Bobby Selvaggio's quartet CD entitled “Visions Transitions,” as well as on Selvaggio's soon-to-be-released recording, “Modern Times.”  Mr. Murphy is also featured on singer Helen Welch's CD entitled “One Dream.”  He has performed with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, and has toured extensively in the U.S. and Japan with the World Famous Glenn Miller Orchestra.  He has also written arrangements for and recorded with the GMO.

As always, the concert is free and open to the public.

Drinko Recital Hall

CSU Chamber Orchestra & Choirs
Victor Liva, conductor
Besty Burleigh, conductor

CSU Chamber Orchestra
Serenade for Strings Dvorak

University Chorus
Magnificat in D Major  Johann Pachelbel
Alleluia  Randall Thompson
Ain't Got Time To Die  Hall Johnson

University Chorale
Mirjam's Siegesgesang, D.942   Franz Schubert
Sharon Shaffer, soprano
Magnificat  Giles Swayne

Drinko Recital Hall

CSU Wind Ensemble & Jazz Ensemble
Howard Meeker, conductor
John Perrine, conductor

Waetjen Auditorium

WCLV Live Broadcast
Cleveland Chamber Winds
Birch Browning, conductor

Program
Chansons et Dances,Op. 50 (1898) – Vincent d'Indy

Concerto for Flute and 8 Winds (1980) – William Alwyn (1905 – 1985)
Sean Gabriel, soloist

Octet, Op. 216 (1892) – Carl Reinecke (1824 – 1910)
Movement 1, CSU Chamber Winds

Petite Symphonie, Op. 90 (1885) – Charles Gounod (1818 – 1893)

Drinko Recital Hall

**** SPECIAL THURSDAY SERIES ****

VERB BALLETS
in a preview performance of
Ulysses Dove's Vespers

and two new solos choreographed by
Hernando Cortez

Be among the first to see Vespers before Verb's program at the
Ohio Theatre on October 24th!

MUSIC MAJORS: Attendance will be taken

Free and open to the public

Drinko Recital Hall

CSU Jazz Ensemble & Combos
John Perrine, conductor

Drinko Recital Hall

STUDENT WORKSHOP
Cleveland Contemporary Players presents
Verge Ensemble

Drinko Recital Hall

CONCERT
Cleveland Contemporary Players presents
The Verge Ensemble

The versatile ensemble from Washington D.C. in concert performing works by Steve Antosca, Larry Austin, Chinary Ung, Jeffrey Mumford, Jefferson Friedman, and Adam Silverman.

Drinko Recital Hall

WCLV Live Broadcast

Drinko Recital Hall

STUDENT WORKSHOP
Cleveland Contemporary Players presents
Four Pianists and Betsy Jolas, composer

Drinko Recital Hall

CONCERT
Cleveland Contemporary Players presents
Celebrating Betsy Jolas

Pianists from around the country converge to present a concert of music by French composer Betsy Jolas (in residence), Steve Reich, Olivier Messiaen, Elliott Carter, and a performance of the rarely heard version of Ameriques by Edgard Varese (arranged by the composer for two pianos-eight hands).

Drinko Recital Hall

Jazz Ensemble & CSU Chamber Winds

Drinko Recital Hall

Faculty Recital
Elizabeth Unis Chesko, Soprano

Musica D'Arte

Drinko Recital Hall

Sundown Jazz Series ****ARTIST CHANGE****
Organ Ism with Dave Thomas, Bill Ransom and Howie Smith

The Sundown Jazz Concert for November 16, originally scheduled to present the Glenn Holmes Trio, will now feature Organ Ism, with David Thomas, Bill Ransom and Howie Smith.

David Thomas, a native of Youngstown, Ohio, is a graduate of Case Western Reserve and Cleveland State University.  He toured with Dizzy Gillespie, recorded with jazz saxophonist Phil Woods, and has performed with most of Cleveland’s finest jazz musicians.  As an educator he has been an instructor at the Cleveland School of the Arts, Cuyahoga Community College, Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland State University.  He is currently on the faculty at John Adams High School.

Drummer and percussionist Bill Ransom is equally at home with classical, jazz, R&B and rock.  He has toured and recorded with leading artists including Patrice Rushen, Beth Hart, Marion Meadows, Cecil Bridgewater, Diane Reeves, Mary Wilson, and James Newton.  He spent much of the 90's on the road with contemporary saxophonist Najee and R&B crooner Gerald LeVert and was featured percussionist on Mr. LeVert's solo debut, "Private Line."  For the past several years he has directed "Jazz Meets Hip Hop" for the Tri-C JazzFest and is a consultant to both the Shaker Heights school system and Cleveland Music School Settlement.  His debut CD, Generations, was released nationwide in November 2005 on Bongo Time Records.

Saxophonist/composer Howie Smith has presented concerts and workshops throughout the United States, Canada, South America, Europe and Australia, and has worked with musicians, composers and ensembles as varied as Anthony Braxton, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Gary Burton, John Cage, Dizzy Gillespie, Pauline Oliveros, Elvis Presley, the Cleveland Orchestra and the Tone Road Ramblers.  His recorded performances are equally diverse and his extensive catalogue of compositions includes works for conventional big bands and combos; for string, wind and percussion ensembles; for electronics; and for mixed media.  Recordings of his work may be heard on the Philips, Polydor, Albany, Optimism and Sea Breeze labels.

Organ Ism came into existence in early 2007 and its repertoire comes from original compositions by members of the group, and new takes on music of the past 50 years, most of which is not usually associated not with jazz musicians, but with people such as Willie Nelson, Elvis Presley, Paul Simon, the Dixie Chicks, or Queen.

As always, this concert is free and open to the public.

Drinko Recital Hall

LECTURE
Cleveland Contemporary Players

Composer Marc Mellits (New York) presents his music.

Room 311

CSU Wind Ensemble and CSU Chamber Orchestra
Howard Meeker, conductor
Victor Liva, conductor

Waetjen Auditorium

CSU Percussion Ensemble
Matt Bassett , conductor

Waetjen Auditorium

CSU Orchestra
Victor Liva , conductor

Waetjen Auditorium

Clarinet Class Recital

Drinko Recital Hall

CSU Chorus and Chorale
Betsy Burleigh, conductor
with the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Chorus

Waetjen Auditorium

Keyboard Conversations
Jeffrey Seigel

Basking in Beethoven
Für Elise (who was she and why did Beethoven write this composition for her?), the rhapsodic, virtuoso 32 Variations in C Minor, and the "Farewell Sonata" in E Flat - who was leaving, and why was Beethoven so deeply affected?

Waetjen Auditorium

Sundown Jazz Series
Peter Dominguez with Ki Allen, vocalist

The Sundown Jazz Concert for December 14 will present bassist Peter Dominguez and vocalist Ki Allen.

Peter Dominguez grew up in Milwaukee playing bass with his father, pianist and singer Frank DeMiles.  He earned baccalaureate and masters degrees at the University of Wisconsin, where he studied with Roger Ruggeri and Richard Davis.  In 1980 he was the first recipient of the Milton J. Hinton scholarship competition award and continued doctoral studies with Dr Lucas Drew at the University of Miami, Coral Gables.  

Mr. Dominguez served as Professor of Double Bass and Jazz Studies at Michigan State University from 1984 to 1996, and was instrumental in developing their Jazz Studies Program.   He is currently Professor of Jazz Studies and Double Bass at Oberlin College Conservatory of Music. 

For over thirty years Peter Dominguez has performed in a variety of musical styles and appeared in venues throughout the Americas and Europe.  He continues to perform, record, and tour with an impressive array of Classical, Jazz, and Latin artists.  His latest CD entitled ‘How About This” features master drummer Billy Hart and pianist Rick Germanson.    

Singer Ki Allen has worked with practically every rhythm section in northeast Ohio, enjoying particularly long and fruitful associations with pianists Neal Creque and David Thomas, and guitarists Bob Fraser and Bob Ferrazza.  She constantly challenges herself and, as a result, her repertoire is ever expanding.  She has the uncanny ability to charm a young audience while, at the same time, managing to surprise jazz aficionados.

Through her performances in concerts, television, radio and nightclubs Ms. Allen has developed a broad array of devoted fans.  Whether her listeners are jazz or blues enthusiasts, Ms. Allen always finds a way to show them something new about the music they know and love.  

Drinko Recital Hall

Sundown Jazz Series
Ed Stephens Trio with
Dan Wenniger & Carmen Castaldi

Bassist Ed Stephens has been playing professionally for the past fourteen years.  During that time, because of his versatility, Stephens has performed jazz, classical, metal, rock, and R & B with the likes of Roberto Ocasio’s Latin Jazz Project, Abdulla,h The Byron Nemeth Group, Afrocubist, and various other blues and funk groups.  Although he is self-taught on electric bass, Stephens earned a degree as a performance major on double bass from Cleveland State University, studying with Harry Barnoff, and Ann Gilbert.  He has also studied privately with Scott Haigh.  His influences range from Charlie Haden, Lamar Gaines and Stanley Clarke to Ornette Coleman, Geddy Lee, Beethoven, and Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris.

Drummer Carmen Castaldi, like many other Cleveland jazz musicians of his generation, was strongly influence by guitarist Bill DeArango and saxophonist Tony “Big T” Lovano.   He was a student of legendary drum teacher Bob McKee, and also studied music at the Berklee School of Music in Boston, with Alan Dawson and Joe Hunt as his primary teachers.   

Castaldi spent several years in the 1980s and 90s as the house drummer at the Four Queens Jazz Club in Las Vegas, backing notables Joe Henderson, Ernie Watts, Barney Kessel, Cedar Walton, and many others.  He returned to Cleveland in the mid-1990s, and since that time has toured the world as a regular sideman with Blue Note recording artist Joe Lovano.  In addition to leading his own group and backing others here in Cleveland, Castaldi also teaches privately.

Saxophonist Dan Wenniger has played with Aphrodisiatics, Fuzzhead, Lounge Kitty, Nitebridge and Pureplex.  His group, the Oblique Orchestra, was the regular house band at monthly improv session called Texture that took place at Duck Island. 

As always, this concert is free and open to the public.

Drinko Recital Hall

WCLV Live Broadcast - CSU Faculty Recital
Almeda Trio
Robert Cassidy, piano*
Cara Tweed, violin
Ida Mercer, cello

Featuring Haydn's Trio in G Major, Hb. 25, Shostakovich's Trio in E-Minor, Op. 67, and Brahms' Trio in C Major. Op. 87

* denotes CSU Faculty

Drinko Recital Hall

STUDENT WORKSHOP
Cleveland Contemporary Players presents
Pat O'Keefe, clarinet

The virtuoso clarinetist Patrick O’Keefe in workshop performing and demonstrating the most advanced repertoire for clarinet and bass clarinet.

Drinko Recital Hall

Concert in Progress
Howie Smith

Musical Array Supports Solo Performance
Howie Smith will be the only performer on stage for his annual Concert in Progress, but an array of saxophones, electronics, voices, percussion, and a 9-channel surround sound system will share the spotlight.  Elements of ritual and performance art are incorporated into his work titled The Speed of Time.  This piece was composed and first performed in 1994, modified for a performance in 2001, and has undergone further revision for the concert on February 8.

Smith is a saxophonist and composer who has performed throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, South America and Australia.  He has worked with musicians and composers as diverse as Anthony Braxton, Dee Dee Bridgewater, John Cage, Dizzy Gillespie, Mike Nock, Elvis Presley, Pauline Oliveros, the Cleveland Orchestra, and the Tone Road Ramblers.  His compositions include works for conventional big bands and combos; string, wind and percussion ensembles; electronics; and mixed media.  Recordings of his work may be heard on the Philips, Polydor, Albany, and Sea Breeze labels.

In 1985, he became the first jazz musician to be awarded the Cleveland Arts Prize for music composition, and has been the recipient of an individual artist fellowship by the Ohio Arts Council on seven different occasions.

Smith has been an artist/clinician for Yamaha since 1971, has been a member of the faculty in the Music Department at Cleveland State University since 1979, and was chair of the CSU Art Department from 2003 to 2007.

The concert is free and open to the public.

Drinko Recital Hall

LECTURE
Cleveland Contemporary Players

Renowned composer Chen Yi (University of Missouri-Kansas City) presents her music.

Room 311

The French pianist, Pierre Réach, studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris, where he obtained diverse Premiers Prix in the classes of Yvonne Lefébure, Yvonne Loriod, Germaine Devèze, Jean Hubeau, Marcel Beaufils. Later he was accepted in the Improvement Cycle, where he studies with Paul Badura-Skoda, György Sebök, Géza Anda. Under the advice of Alexis Weissenberg he studied during several years with Maria Curcio in London. The teaching of this great pedagogue on master-pieces by Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert had deeply marked him.

Pierre Réach has received numerous awards in several international competitions : the First Prize in Olivier Messiaen International Piano Competition in Paris (he became then the assistant of Yvonne Loriod, for several years, in the CNSM of Paris), a Medal in the Artur Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Israël, First Prize in the Pozzoli International Competition in Milano, and three Second Prizes : in Maria Canals and Jaén Competitions (Spain), and Casella (Italy).

Pierre Réach has appeared, in solo recitals and with orchestras, around the world: in Japan with NHK and Osaka Philharmonic, with KBS of Seoul, BBC and Hallé Orchestra of Manchester, Philharmonique and National of Radio-France, Capitole of Toulouse, OPPL (France), etc. He has performed in well established concert halls in Paris: Salle Gaveau, where he has played twice Bach's Goldberg Variations (BWV 988); Salle Pleyel with Radio France Orchestras, in the Opéra Comique, where he has played Schubert's Winterreise with the English tenorMartyn Hill, in a mise en scène by Hans Peter Cloos; and in the Théâtre des Champs Elysées. In October 2002 he had a concert tour in China and since than goes back every year. He played in different festivals: Nohant, Saint Riquier, Lisztomania de Chateauroux, Prades, Menton, Strasbourg, Vaison la Romaine etc in France, Brescia-Bergamo, Fenice in Venezia, Pomerigi Musicali, festival Liszt de Grottammare in Italy where he received the Franz Liszt Prize, Saint Petersburg, Tokyo, Seoul and Shanghai.

Pierre Réach is known as one of the best interpreters of the Goldberg Variations (BWV 988). He has recorded them twice and received excellent reviews. His recordings shows clearly the originality of his repertoire, going from Mozart (sonatas, rondos) to Stravinsky (Petrouchka), Schubert (Musical Moments, Klavierstücke), Olivier Messiaen (Huit Préludes and Regards sur l'Enfant Jésus), Piano Concerto by Jean Cras, or Franz Liszt piano transcription of Symphonie Fantastique by Berlioz (he is one of the very few pianists in the world who has played in a recital this dramatically virtuoso' masterpiece). On the other side, he has re-discovered the French Romantic composer Charles-Valentin Alkan. He has recorded, and plays the piano sonata, Les Quatre Ages de la Vie, frequently. Lately two new CD for Saphir Productions have come out, Felix Mendelssohn Trios with violonist Gerard Poulet and cellist Christoph Henkel, and Beethoven Hammerklavier sonata and Bagatelles. He is now preparing the integral of Beethoven sonatas.

Pierre Réach's teaching of piano and chamber music is an important part of his musical activities. Professor at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique de Paris, and at the Superior School of Music in Barcelona (ESMUC), Pierre Réach is constantly in demand for masterclasses in several countries: South Corea, Japan, Portugal, Israel, USA, Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, Canada etc. In January 2005 he was nominated Professor Honoris Causa of the Shanghai Conservatory. He is also invited to be a member of the jury by several international competitions (Piano Masters of Monte Carlo, Olivier Messiaen, Maria Canals , San Remo, Grands Amateurs, Zatin in Ukraine, Sonoda in Japan, etc).

Drinko Recital Hall

Drinko Recital Hall

Sundown Jazz Series
Tim Powell Trio
featuring
Bob Fraser & Rock Wehrmann

The Sundown Jazz Concert for February 15 will present the Tim Powell Trio, with Bob Fraser on guitar, Rock Wehrmann on keyboards, and Tim Powell on bass.

During the past 25 years bassist Tim Powell has performed with such diverse acts as Harry Connick, Jr., Rosemary Clooney, the Moody Blues, Kansas, Yes, Rod Stewart, Chet Atkins, Chuck Berry, Tommy Tune, Roger Williams, Frankie Avalon, and Myron Floren, to name only a few.  As the first-call player for all Playhouse Square Centre Productions in Cleveland, some of the national touring company shows he has recently performed with include “The Color Purple,” “Legally Blonde,” “Wicked,” “Spamalot,” “ The Producers,” “Chicago,” “ Thoroughly Modern Millie,” and  “Ragtime.”  Tim has also performed and/or recorded with the Cleveland Orchestra, the Akron Symphony, the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra, the Blossom Festival Band, the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra, Joe Augustine, Harold Danko, Paquito D’Rivera, Joe Lovano, and Clark Terry, among many others.

Bob Fraser is one of Ohio’s most innovative jazz guitarists.  A much sought after studio musician, Fraser can be heard on numerous national ads, and has appeared on recordings by Maureen McGovern, Tony Lavorgna, Pat Pace and Ernie Krivda.  An auxiliary member of the Cleveland Orchestra and the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra, he has also performed with many touring celebrities and shows at the Palace and State theaters, as well as extended-run musicals at the Cleveland pPlayhouse.  He has performed with Grover Washington, Bill Dobbins, Chip Stephens, Tommy Tune, Roger Williams, Rita Moreno, Mitzi Gaynor and many others.   He is also a regular member of Jack Schantz’ Jazz Unit

ROCK WEHRMANN is in much demand in the Midwest as an arranger, producer, soloist and accompanist. He has appeared as a featured soloist with the Cleveland Orchestra, and performed at the presentation of the Pulitzer Prizes. His background includes a degree in pipe organ from Kent State University, the position of Artist-in-Residence for Moog Music, and appearances on recordings by prominent jazz artists such as Pat Metheny, Chick Corea, and Herbie Hancock. His company, Sudden Realizations, produces music and sound design for films and broadcast.

As always, the concert is free and open to the public.

Drinko Recital Hall

WCLV Live Broadcast - CSU Faculty Recital

Featuring Sonatas for Horn and Piano by Beethoven, Margaret Brouwer, and Brahms' Trio for Violin, Horn, and Piano in E-flat Major, Op. 40.

Richard King, Horn
Robert Cassidy, Piano*

Guest Artist: Stephen Rose, Violin

* denotes CSU Faculty

Drinko Recital Hall

CSU Orchestra
Victor Liva, conductor

The Cleveland State University Symphony Orchestra, directed by Victor Liva, will feature the 2008-09 Daniel Rains solo competition winners.  Undergraduate winner, Nora Karakousoglou, will perform Edward Elgar's soulful Cello Concerto in E minor.  Sharon Shaffer, graduate competition winner, will perform Mozart's concerto aria, "non piu, tutto ascoltai, non temer, amato bene,"  from the opera, Idomeneo.  The Orchestra will be featured in a rendition of Ludwig van Beethoven's exuberant Symphony number Seven. 

Admission is free and open to the public

Waetjen Auditorium

Guest Recital
Andreas Klein, piano

German-born pianist Andreas Klein presents a program of Beethoven, Sonata Opus 110; Schubert, Sonata in B flat major, D960; and Liszt, Sonata in B minor

Drinko Recital Hall

CSU Chamber Orchestra
Victor Liva , conductor

The Chamber Orchestra will perform George Friderich Handel's Concerto Grosso, opus six, number eleven, the Serenade for Strings by Joseph Suk, as well as other works. 

Admission is free and open to the public

CSU Jazz Ensemble & Combos
John Perrine , conductor

Drinko Recital Hall

CSU Chorus and Chorale
Betsy Burleigh, conductor

Sundown Jazz Series
Glenn Holmes Trio

The Sundown Jazz Concert for March 8 will present the Glenn Holmes Trio, with Drene Ivy on piano, Paul Samuels on drums, and Glenn Holmes on bass.

Glenn Holmes is a native Clevelander who earned degrees in String Bass & Music Theory from Miami University (Ohio) and a Master of Music degree in Theory/Composition from Wichita State University.  He has performed as a guest soloist in both the classical and jazz idioms, is a former member of the Wichita Symphony Orchestra, and is a published composer.  Past performances have included associations with Andy Narell, Keith Copeland, Eddie Daniels, Joe Williams, Jimmie Heath, Benny Bailey, Clark Terry, and Cindy Blackman, to name only a few.

Currently Glenn is an adjunct faculty member at Cleveland State University and also teaches at the Cleveland Music School Settlement.  As a free-lance musician he is working with the Eric Gould Trio, the Bill Ransom Quintet and the Jazz Heritage Orchestra.

Pianist Drene Ivy studied piano at the Cleveland Music School Settlement and the Cleveland Institute of Music.  By the age of 21 he had already performed on six albums, and he is the composer of over 200 songs spanning a wide range of genres, including gospel, classical, easy listening, jazz and Latin jazz.  Drene is also an accomplished playwright.  His current work, Saved, is a musical drama for the Easter season spanning from Biblical antiquity to modern church times.

Drene Ivy has been an instructor of jazz composition and techniques and piano theory for the Houston Board of Education, and has also taught Jazz History at Cleveland State University.  He has appeared as guest clinician at the famed Edwin Hawkins & Walter Hawkins Music & Arts Seminar, where he served as staff clinician teaching keyboard performance.

Drummer Paul Samuels grew up in Cleveland Heights, and studied with percussionist Robert Matson of the Cleveland Orchestra and drummer Bob McKee.  Playing drums in and around the Cleveland area he was influenced by local musicians Lawrence “Jacktown” Jackson, Greg Bandy, Lamar Gaines, Bill DeArango, Jamey Haddad, Val Kent, Skip Hadden, Ace Carter and Neal Creque.

He has recorded, performed or toured internationally with musicians such as James Moody, David “Fathead” Newman, Pat Martino, Jack McDuff and popular rhythm and blues artist Gerald Levert.  He currently devotes his time to teaching for the Jazz Studies Program at Oberlin College.  His debut CD, Speak, features Greg Osby on saxophone, Dan Wall on organ, and Jamie Haddad on percussion.

As always, the concert is free and open to the public.

Drinko Recital Hall

CSU Wind Ensemble
Howard Meeker, conductor

Waetjen Auditorium

Keyboard Conversations
Jeffrey Seigel

The Longevity of the Short Piece
Byte-size musical jewels and gems - masterpieces in miniature! Mendelssohn Songs Without Words, Grieg Lyric Pieces, Brahms Intermezzi, and Chopin Nocturnes.

Waetjen Auditorium

WCLV Live Broadcast
Red Stick Saxophone Quartet

5
Sun

Sundown Jazz Series
Lamar Gaines & David Thomas

Lamar Gaines began playing piano at cabarets and house-rent parties, and was soon playing with various jazz quintets in nightclubs throughout the city.  He learned how to play bass lines on the organ - an instrument he began playing in the 1950’s - and after awhile he decided to play the real thing.

He began to play the bass professionally in 1963, working with drummer Fats Heard, pianist George Peters, and various vocalists at the Old Tangiers in Akron.  Engagements playing shows at exclusive supper clubs followed, and he became a member of the house band at Cleveland’s Theatrical Grill.  Gaines appeared daily on live TV with the Mike Douglas Show, the One O’clock Show, the Don Webster Variety Show, and the Three On The Town Show, playing with traveling jazz greats who came through the area.  He also performed for many years at the Boarding House with his own band that featured countless Cleveland musicians and visiting artists.

Lamar Gaines has played with such notable pianists as Earl “Fatha” Hines, Errol Garner, Teddy Wilson, Dorothy Dunegan, Freddy Cole, Wynton Kelly, Monte Alexander, Willie Pickens, and Clevelander “Skeets” Ross.  He has also performed with many jazz legends, including Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell, Charlie Byrd, Sonny Stitt, James Moody, Jackie McLean, Rashaan Roland Kirk, Milt Jackson, Joe Williams, Sonny Fortune, and Carmen McRae. 

Pianist David Thomas, a native of Youngstown, Ohio, is a graduate of Case Western Reserve and Cleveland State University, and has recently completed doctoral studies at Kent State University.  He toured with Dizzy Gillespie, recorded with jazz saxophonist Phil Woods, and has performed with most of Cleveland’s finest jazz musicians.  As an educator he has been an instructor at the Cleveland School of the Arts, Cuyahoga Community College, Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland State University.  He is currently on the faculty at John Adams High School.

This will be the final concert in this year’s Sundown Jazz Series.  As always, the concert is free and open to the public.

Drinko Recital Hall

6
Mon

CSU Percussion Ensemble
Matthew Bassett, conductor

Waetjen Auditorium

STUDENT WORKSHOP
Cleveland Contemporary Players presents
Carlton Vickers, flute

Flutist and new music specialist Carlton Vickers presents a workshop on contemporary flute composition and performance.

Drinko Recital Hall

WCLV Live Broadcast

Drinko Recital Hall

CSU Chamber Orchestra and Chamber Winds
Victor Liva, conductor
Birch Browning, conductor

The Chamber Orchestra, under the direction of Dr. Victor Liva, will perform the premiere of work entitled Strange Dreams, composed by student composition competition winner, Carol Dieball.  The Chamber Orchestra will also perform a rendition of Edward Elgar's Introduction and Allegro for string orchestra and solo string quartet.

The Chamber Winds, under the direction of Dr. Birch Browning, will perform Emile Bernard's
Divertissement for Wind Instruments, op. 36.

Drinko Recital Hall

CSU Wind Ensemble
Howard Meeker, conductor

Waetjen Auditorium

CSU Opera Workshop
Elizabeth Unis Chesko, director

Drinko Recital Hall

CSU Chorus and Orchestra
Betsy Burleigh and Victor Liva, conductors

Waetjen Auditorium

CSU Jazz Ensemble & Combos
John Perrine, conductor

Drinko Recital Hall

Keyboard Conversations
Jeffery Seigel

Musical Pictures
Inspiring sights in glorious sound! The sonic splendor of Rachmaninoff's Etudes Tableaux, Debussy's colorful and exotic Préludes, and Mussorgsky's astonishing musical gallery of Pictures at an Exhibition.

Waetjen Auditorium

Clarinet Class Recital

Drinko Recital Hall