Fri 5/28 @ 7PM
The Cleveland-based Contemporary Youth Orchestra, founded 25 years ago, gives talented young musicians from across the region the opportunity to work with contemporary composers — both classical and pop — and perform their music, often alongside the composers. Typically they perform 3-4 concerts a year with a modern and contemporary repertoire
They’ve done frequent collaborative performances with rock & pop musicians such as Jefferson Starship, Kenny Loggins, Graham Nash, Bootsie Collins, Pat Benatar, Melissa Etheridge, Michael Stanley and Styx as part of their Rock the Orchestra concert series.
On Friday May 28, they’ll be performing the latest in the series, this one with mandolinist/singer/songwriter Chris Thile, a progressive bluegrass/folk musician who was a co-founder of Nickel Creek and the Punch Brothers (who have a close relationship with Oberlin College, where they’ve frequently performed and taught). After guesting many times on Garrison Keillor’s PBS show A Prairie Home Companion, he took over as host in late 2016 of the renamed Live From Here, which was cancelled last year due to the pandemic.
And, due to the pandemic, this edition of Rock the Orchestra, will be a streaming-only concert. It will feature four previously unrecorded songs by Thile and solo performances by the winners of the CYO Solo/Concerto contest: Michael Dabney, Anastasia Seckers, Meghan Slusarski and Alexis Wilson.
Tickets are $15; they are available here.
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