Sat 5/11 @ 7PM
Starting in 2022, Chicago-born, New Jersey-based flutist/composer Allison Loggins-Hull became the Cleveland Orchestra’s Daniel R. Lewis Composer Fellow, a three-year appointment now in its second season. She brings a fresh outlook to music with interests that span from symphonic and chamber music, film scores and electronic compositions and she often works with African-American cultural themes. Last year, she led a flute ensemble backing a performance by Lizzo (herself a flutist) at the Met Gala.
This spring, she’s curated a series of intimate performances, called the In Community Chamber Concert Series, which wraps up with a “finale” at Severance Music Center. There she’ll be joined by members of the Cleveland Orchestra in several pieces she’s chosen and one she’s composed, a commission from the Cleveland Orchestra which will be getting its world premiere. That unnamed new work closes the program which opens with fellow African-American flutist/composer Valerie Coleman’s Portraits of Langston (performed last week by the ensemble at Karamu), Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov’s String Quartet No. 1 and American jazz pianist/composer Jason Moran’s Cane, previously performed on Loggins-Hull’s program at Fatima Center in April.
It’s free but you must have a ticket. Go here.
Cleveland, OH 44106