Sat 3/2 @ 7PM
The Cleveland-based Contemporary Youth Orchestra provides talented young musicians with the opportunity not only to play in an orchestral setting but to work with contemporary composers and songwriters as they rehearse and perform their works.
For their spring concert, which they’ve optimistically dubbed Bloom “in anticipation of spring and new beginnings,” they’ll play music by composers such as Mason Bates who served as the first composer-in-residence at the Kennedy Center in New York; Icelandic film/theater/dance composer Jóhann Jóhannson, who blends traditional instruments with electronics; and Jennifer Jolley, who uses music to address timely topics such as climate change, the #MeToo movement and Putin’s authoritarianism. (All are just in their 40s.) And they’ll be working on site with 29-year-old composer/educator Gala Flagello, whose specialty is collaborating with ensembles and artists as she creates music. Like Jolley, she addresses social issues such as the environment, mental health and gender equity in her music. She’ll be joining the orchestra to perform her piece Vitality.
The concert takes place at the Tri-C Metro campus Auditorium. Get tickets here.
Cuyahoga Community College Metro Campus, Cleveland, OH 44115