Beginning this month (June), a new series launched called Sounds of Summer, a public performance series featuring CSU Keyboard Area piano students during the Museum’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Community Days. As part of the Mandel Community Days, the Museum offers free admission throughout the weekend for residents of the City of Cleveland, East Cleveland, Brooklyn, Euclid, Garfield Heights, Maple Heights and Warrensville Heights.

The Sounds of Summer series provides students with the opportunity to engage with the broader community, showcase their artistic talents in a prominent cultural venue and represent Cleveland State in a highly visible civic setting.

The free, noontime concerts will take place on select Saturdays now through August, and are open to the public. The programming highlights the broad scope of our piano students’ work — ranging from classical solo piano repertoire and chamber music with piano, voice and instrumentalists, to pop/rock arrangements, as well as a Museum premiere of a new duet piano work by CSU alum composer/pianist Ryan Farrell, who is also known as Dr. F from Mushroomhead, the top Billboard-charting Cleveland metal band.

The performers include students from all levels of study at CSU — from College Credit Plus participants, undergraduate piano minors and majors all way through to graduate students. They will perform both individually and collaboratively, showcasing the impressive breadth and quality of musical work emerging from Cleveland’s public university.

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