Fri 3/1 @ 7PM
If you’re a lover of cello music, you’ll certainly want to grab tickets to the Cleveland Cello Society’s fundraiser I Cellisti! 2024. For one thing, all the money raised goes to funding scholarships for the next generation of cello players. And for another, the event features are host of world-class musicians including Cleveland Orchestra members.
The theme for this event is “Cello Plus One,” with six duos, featuring cello plus another instrument performing a variety of music from the early 19th century to contemporary pieces. Cleveland Orchestra Principal Cello Mark Kosower will pair with the orchestra’s Principal Flute Joshua Smith, for German composer Franz Danzi’s Duo Op. 64, No. 1-3. Cleveland Institute of Music faculty members Sharon Robinson (cello) and Jaime Laredo (violin) will play Czech composer Erwin Schulhoff’s Duo, WV 74. The orchestra’s First Assistant Principal Cello and Richard Weiss and former Principal Keyboardist for the orchestra Joela Jones will perform Introduction and Allegro for cello and accordion by Hungarian/British composer Mátyás Seiber.
Other pairs, all playing music by living composers, include Cleveland Orchestra members, cellist Tanya Ell and clarinetist Robert Woolfrey, with Ofer Ben-Amots’ Cantillations; Baldwin Wallace cello professor Khari Joyner and Oberlin faculty member, violist Christopher Jenkins playing American Haiki by Paul Wiancko; and Bowling Green professors, cellist Brian Snow and percussionist Dan Piccolo, with Caroline Shaw’s Boris Kerner.
The grand finale will feature four Cleveland Orchestra cellists — Kosower, Weiss, Ell and Brian Dumm — playing a cello quartet arrangement of the overture to Gioachino’s Rossini’s opera, The Barber of Seville. The concert takes place at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Cleveland Heights. Get tickets, all general admission seating, here.
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