Fri 4/13 @ 7:30PM
The Cleveland Cello Society is marking its 20th birthday by presenting a series of concerts with the last three winners of its Collegiate Scholarship Competition, all with flourishing careers in music.
The final concert will be played by Dane Johansen, who won in 2002. He’s just celebrated an anniversary of his own: he’s been a member of the Cleveland Orchestra cello section for two years.
His appointment marked a return to town for Johansen, who studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music as well as at Conservatoire National Superieur de Paris and the Juilliard School and spent five years with the New York-based Escher String Quartet. In addition, in May 2014, he walked the nearly 600-mile Camino de Santiago in Spain with his cello on his back, performing Bach’s Suites 36 times along the way. Anything is bound to be easy after that!
And somehow he has retained his enthusiasm for Bach. His program at the Music Settlement will include the Suite No. 5 in C minor and the Goldberg Variations arranged for string trio by Dmitry Sitkovetsky. Performing with him will be two fellow Cleveland Orchestra members, violinist Jessica Lee and violist Joanna Patterson Zakany.
General admission is $15.
Cleveland, OH 44106