Tue 4/5 @ 7:30PM
You would think there’d be a huge overlap in the audiences for the Cleveland Chamber Music Society’s year-long concert series, which brings nationally and internationally known chamber music groups to town, and ChamberFest Cleveland, the annual event that presents multiple small-ensemble concerts in a period of a few weeks. But, according to the groups, there’s not. They compared mailing list and found little overlap.
So they’ve joined to present a collaborative event in order to expose the two audiences to both groups. The Dover String Quartet, founded and based at Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute of Music, and ChamberFest founders, clarinetist Franklin Cohen, and his daughter, violinist Diana Cohen, and its new artistic director, pianist Roman Rabinovich (Diana’s husband), will perform together at the Maltz Performing Arts Center.
The Cleveland Chamber Music Society, founded in 1949, has presented the Dover Quartet on multiple occasions, and its violist, Milena Pajaro-Van de Stadt, performed at the 2019 ChamberFest.
“We knew we wanted the program to include a fabulous string quartet for Dover to play on its own,” says Diana Cohen, “but adding another violin, clarinet and piano to the cast immediately opened up the possibility for a beautiful Mozart trio featuring clarinet and viola, as well as the irresistible Concerto for Violin, Piano and String Quartet by Ernst Chausson, which remarkably, we have never programmed at the festival.”
The Dover Quartet — which also includes violinists Joel Link and Bryan Lee and cellist Camden Shaw — will play Maurice Ravel’s String Quartet in F major.
Tickets are $10-$40. Go here to get them.