CONCERT - Cleveland Contemporary Players
Andrew Rindfleisch, Music Director presents Lisa Moore, piano

Dynamic soloist and contemporary music specialist Lisa Moore presents an exciting concert of groundbreaking new works for the piano.

Program: Seven Etudes by Don Byron, To His Coy Mistress by Frederic Rzewski
American Berserk by John Adams, For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise by Martin Bresnick

LECTURE - Harold Meltzer

Composer Harold Meltzer (New York) presents his music.

CSU Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Combos
John Perrine and Howie Smith, directors

Keyboard Conversations - Celebrating Chopin with Jeffrey Seigel

Chopin for Lovers
Every compositon on the program is inspired by a different woman in the composer's love life - "bring a significant other and enrich your lives with some of the most stirring romantic music ever written!"

The Cleveland Composers Guild
In Celebration of 50th Anniversary Season

"Mostly Two Pianos - Pieces for Two Pianos unless otherwise noted" Music of Rollin, Chobanian, Lissauer, Rayer, Griebling and Sonntag For further information: www.clevelandcomposers.org

CSU Orchestra
Victor Liva, conductor and John Perrine, saxophone

Music of Debussy, Dvorak and Massenet

CSU Wind Ensemble
Howard Meeker, conductor and Vadim Vilinov, guest conductor

Featuring
The Strongsville Community Band, Ken Mehalko, conductor

Music of Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture, Shenandoah (Ticheli), Masquerade (Persichetti)

MTNA State Music Competition
Free and Open to the Public

Sponsored by the Division of Keyboard Studies at Cleveland State.

Guest Recital
Oni Buchanan, piano

In collaboration with the Department of English.

LECTURE - Frank J. Oteri

Composer and new music activist Frank J. Oteri (American Music Center, New York) presents his music.

WCLV Live Broadcast Faculty Ensembles

Featuring Special Guest TBA

Guest Recital
The Osso Quartet with John Perrine, saxophone.

A multi-media presentation featuring the music of singer/songwriter Sufjan Stevens.

LECTURE - Jeff Stadelman

Composer Jeff Stadelman (University at Buffalo) presents his music.

The Cleveland Chamber Winds Inaugural Performance
Birch Browning, conductor

Concert Repertoire:
Giannini - Symphony No. 3, first movement
Mihaud - Suite Francaise
Schoenberg - Theme and Variations, Op. 43a
Hesketh - Danceries Welcher - Circular Marches

For more information go to:www.clevelandwinds.org

Cantores Cleveland
Pre-concert Lecture 7:20 pm and Concert 8:00 pm

Professional Early Music Ensemble "La Bella Musica: Singing the Italian Renaissance"

For more information go to: cantorescleveland.org

WCLV Live Broadcast
Almeda Trio

Cara Tweed, violin Ida Mercer, cello Robert Cassidy, piano

They will be playing works by Beethoven, Copland, and Mendelssohn.

Musica D'Arte
Elizabeth Unis Chesko - soprano, Sean Gabriel - flute, Christine Hill and Eric Ziolek - piano

Special Guest Diane Mather - cello

LECTURE - Keith Fitch

Composer Keith Fitch (Cleveland Institute of Music) presents his music.

CSU Percussion Ensemble
Matthew Bassett, conductor

CONCERT - No Exit Quartet

CSU welcomes Cleveland's newest contemporary music ensemble!

LECTURE - Josh Levine

Composer Josh Levine (Oberlin College) presents his music.

Keyboard Conversations - Celebrating Chopin with Jeffrey Seigel

Chopin the Passionate Patriot
He was a proud Polish person and the Polish national dances, the Polonaise and the Mazurka, had special meaning to him. "Listen the Dance." Program includes some of the buoyant and poignant Mazurkas, three Polonaises, and the poetic G Minor of the seven-year old composer, the brooding C Minor, and the heroic A Flat, one of the most familiar pieces of music ever written.

WCLV Live Broadcast - Iron Toys

Iron Toys, the saxophone/woodwind quartet founded in 2004 by Tom Reed, Rich Shanklin, George Shernit and Howie Smith, performs a diverse repertoire blending classical, jazz and avante-garde styles. Because of the doubling skills of its members, the group has over twenty instruments available for any given performance.

Tom Reed (soprano, alto and tenor saxophones; and Eb soprano, Bb and bass clarinets) is Professor of Music at Ashland University, principal clarinetist of the Ashland Symphony Orchestra, and bass clarinetist and saxophonist for the Akron Symphony Orchestra. He performs regularly with the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra and the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, and has performed with the Cleveland Orchestra, the Jazz Unit, the Dayton Philharmonic, and the Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra of Columbus. Tom has also been soloist with the Akron, Mansfield and Ashland Symphonies, and has recorded with the Akron Symphony and the Paul Ferguson Jazz Orchestra.

Rich Shanklin (soprano, alto and tenor saxophones; flute and alto flute, and Bb clarinet) has been a faculty member at the University of Akron since 1982, where he teaches classical and jazz saxophone, coaches saxophone quartets, and teaches courses in Jazz History, Jazz Arranging, Woodwind Pedagogy and the Business of Music. He has also directed the Vocal Jazz Ensemble. He is a member of the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra, the Jazz Unit, and the Blossom Festival Band, and has also played woodwinds for countless performances at Playhouse Square as a member of the pit orchestra.

George Shernit (soprano, alto and baritone saxophones; flute and alto flute; Bb and bass clarinets) received a Bachelor of Arts in Music Theory/Composition and a Master of Arts in Saxophone Performance from Cleveland State University. As a freelance musician for 30 years, he has performed with the Cleveland Orchestra, the Blossom Festival Band, and numerous Broadway shows and entertainers. He also toured with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and the road show of “Annie.” For the past twenty years he has worked in the wholesale music business, including 7 years in Austin, Texas, as national sales manager for Jupiter Band Instruments.

Howie Smith (soprano and alto saxophones; and Eb soprano, Bb and bass clarinets) has presented concerts and workshops throughout the United States, Canada, South America, Europe and Australia, and has worked with musicians, composers and ensembles as varied as Anthony Braxton, Gary Burton, Dizzy Gillespie, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Elvis Presley, John Cage, Pauline Oliveros, the Cleveland Orchestra and the Tone Road Ramblers. His recorded performances are equally diverse and his extensive catalogue of compositions includes works for conventional big bands and combos; for string, wind and percussion ensembles; for electronics; and for mixed media. Recordings of his work may be heard on the Philips, Polydor, Albany, Optimism and Sea Breeze labels. He was coordinator of jazz studies at Cleveland State University from 1979 through 2005 and has been associated with Yamaha as an artist and clinician since 1971.

CSU Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Combos
John Perrine and Bill Ransom, Conductors

Student Composition Workshop - Jon Nelson, trumpet

Cleveland Contemporary Players Artist in Residency Series
Andrew Rindfleisch, Music Director

Trumpet virtuoso Jon Nelson presents a workshop and master class, performing new student works in progress.

CSU Wind Ensemble

Howard Meeker, conductor with a Special Guest Ensemble, North Royalton High School Wind Ensemble, Marty Lydecker, conductor.

Keyboard Conversations - Celebrating Chopin with Jeffrey Seigel

Chopin the Storyteller
This program will include the four Ballades of Chopin, each an epic tone poem in sound. A Ballade is a narrative musical form - a story is being told, but what is the story and how does a composer tell the story in tones without words? Also on the program will be a charming Novelette of Robert Schumann whose 200th birthday the musical world also celebrates in 2010.

WCLV Live Broadcast

CSU Faculty Duo Eric Eichhorn, Violin and Angelin Chang, Piano Playing Brahms, 3 Sonatas for Violin and Piano.
Violin Sonata No. 1 in G major, Rain Sonata, Op. 78, 1878-79
Violin Sonata No. 2 in A major, Thun Op. 100, 1886
Violin Sonata No.3 in D minor, OP. 108, 1886-8

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LECTURE - John Zorn

Cleveland Contemporary Players Artist in Residency Series
Andrew Rindfleisch, Music Director

The American iconoclast and innovative composer/improviser John Zorn presents his music.

Co-presented with the Cleveland Museum of Art's performing arts series.

CONCERT - John Zorn and the New Masada Sextet

Cleveland Contemporary Players Artist in Residency Series
Andrew Rindfleisch, Music Director

Gartner Auditorium in the Cleveland Museum of Art
Admission: $34, student discounts available.

The Cleveland Museum of Art, In University Circle 11150 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44106

Call 1-888-CMA-0033 or 216-421-7350 for ticket information.

Co-presented with the Cleveland Museum of Art's.

Clarinet Choir Concert
Theodore Johnson, Director

An evening of solos and ensemble pieces for clarinet. Works by - Crussell, Grieg, Horovitz, Weber, Brahms and Cavalini.

FREE CONCERT - League of Composers-ISCM Chamber players

Cleveland Contemporary Players Artist in Residency Series
Andrew Rindfleisch, Music Director

The dynamic ensemble's three day residency culminates with this exciting concert of new chamber works.

Thursday, April 15, at 7:30 pm / Drinko Hall

Graduate Recital

Cleveland State graduate student Matthew Skitzki follows up an NPR interview, CD release, concerto performance with the Cleveland State Orchestra, and his debut at Nighttown with this solo piano recital.

CSU Faculty Trio

Arthur Klima, Viola; Theodore Johnson, Clarinet; Eric Ziolek, Piano
Playing: W.A.Mozart - Kegelstatt Trio in E-flat K.498 (for clarinet, viola and piano)

CSI Wind Ensemble
Howard Meeker, conductor

Keyboard Conversations - Celebrating Chopin with Jeffrey Seigel

Chopin and the Future
As well as being one of the most popular composers, Chopin was also one of the most influential. The program will include works of Chopin that caress the ear but also point to the future, as well as Chopin-inspired works of Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Faure, Scriabin, Lutoslavski, Symanowski, and a dreamy, poetic Nocturne by the American composer Lowell Lieberman.

CSU Orchestra and CSU Chorus and Choral
Victor Liva and Brian Bailey, conductors

Beethoven - Fantasy in C minor for piano, chorus and orchstra op. 90, 1808
Beethoven - Mass ic C major, Op. 86 1807
Faculty Guest Artist: Robert Cassidy, piano

CSU Chamber Orchestra
Victor Liva, conductor