Two Free ‘Music in the Gorno Library’ Concerts Showcase CCM Talent This April

Join UC Libraries at two upcoming concerts to be held in the Albino Gorno Memorial Music (CCM) Library Reading Room.

• 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 3: The CCM Philharmonia will perform Haydn’s Symphonies 6, 7 and 8 (“Morning, Noon and Night”) conducted by CCM graduate student Aik Khai Pung.
• 2 p.m. Sunday, April 14: The inaugural concert on the CCM Library’s 1888 Steinway Parlor Grand piano will feature music arranged by Clara Schumann, edited by CCM faculty member Jonathan Kregor, associate professor of composition, musicology and theory. The music will be performed by students of CCM’s Michael Chertock, associate professor of keyboard studies, and Awadagin Pratt, associate professor of keyboard studies. Dr. Kregor will give remarks about the music.

CCM and Greater Cincinnati Chinese Music Society Present ‘Beijing Melody in Vogue’ on Feb. 16

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CCM welcomes the Greater Cincinnati Chinese Music Society (GCCMS) for its annual spring festival concert at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 16 in UC’s Corbett Auditorium. Entitled Beijing Melody in Vogue, the concert features music that harmonizes the classical with the modern and unifies the East with the West!

The CCM Philharmonia will be joined by two renowned concert artists from China: Huqin player Jiang Kemei and Suona player Guo Yazhi. Mark Gibson and Hu Yongyan conduct. For more information on this concert, please visit www.cincinnatichinesemusicsociety.org.

‘Music in Cincinnati’ Reviews CCM’s Cage Centennial Celebration Conclusion

First year MM in Piano Performance student Kristofer Rucinski.

Mary Ellyn Hutton reviews the Nov. 29 conclusion to CCM’s month-long Cage Centennial Celebration for Music in Cincinnati.

Hutton writes: “the signal event of the evening was (Lou) Harrison’s (Piano) Concerto,” performed by first year Master of Music student Kristofer Rucinski.

You can read her full review here.

CCM’s Cage Centennial Celebration Concludes with Philharmonia Concert on Nov. 29

Guest conductor Neal Gittleman leads the CCM Philharmonia on Thursday, Nov. 29. Photography by Andy Snow.

CCM’s month-long Cage Centennial Celebration comes to a close at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 29 with the Philharmonia Orchestra’s annual “American Voices” concert, featuring special guests Percussion Group Cincinnati. CCM welcomes guest conductor Neal Gittleman for this concert.

“American Voices XV – Celebrating John Cage at 100” features Charles Ives’ Three Places in New England, John Cage’s 4’33″, Lou Harrison’s Piano Concerto (with Kris Rucinski, soloist) and John Cage’s Renga, with Music for Three (with Percussion Group Cincinnati).

CCM Video: CCM Philharmonia Performs Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7

CCM’s month-long Beethoven Festival resumes this evening with a performance by the Philharmonia Orchestra at 8 p.m. in Corbett Auditorium.

Above, you can view an excerpt of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92 performed at the festival opening concert on Friday, Sept. 14.

Tonight’s concert will open with Richard Strauss’ Don Juan, Op. 20 and will also include a double-bill of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2 in D Major and the famous and recognizable Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67. Jing Huan and Mark Gibson conduct.

CCM Celebrates the Music of Ludwig van Beethoven

CCM’s Concert Orchestra.

The CCM Philharmonia and Concert Orchestras open their seasons with a festival celebrating the legacy of Ludwig van Beethoven. Running from Sept. 14 through Oct. 12, the Beethoven Festival showcases the talents of CCM students and faculty in a concert series featuring a variety of the composer’s works, including six of his nine symphonies, two overtures, two concertos and a variety of chamber music.

Concerto Competition Winners Concert Showcases CCM’s Student Talent

Photography by Jing Huan.

As the final installment of our 2011-12 Orchestra Series, the CCM Philharmonia will feature the talents of some of CCM’s most gifted young soloists and conductors in an all-Mozart matinee concert at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, May 16 in UC’s Patricia Corbett Theater.

CCM Student Composer Wins The Atlanta Opera’s 24 Hour Opera Project Competition

CCM DMA student Jennifer Jolley.

Jennifer Jolley, a DMA student in CCM’s Composition Department, claimed honors from both the judges and audience in The Atlanta Opera’s 24 Hour Opera Project. Jolley’s ten-minute opera, Krispy Kremes and Butter Queens, with a libretto by Vynnie Meli, was written in twelve hours Friday night and early Saturday morning, and performed to a standing room only crowd in Atlanta Saturday night.

As previously reported, Jolley and fellow CCM student Jonathan Stinson were two of just five composers selected from across the country to compete in the competition.

CCM Student Composers Selected For Atlanta Opera’s 24 Hour Opera Project Competition

Jennifer Jolley, a DMA student in CCM’s Composition Department, and Jonathan Stinson, a composer/baritone studying in CCM’s Opera Department, are two of just five composers selected from across the country to compete in Atlanta Opera’s second annual 24 Hour Opera Project competition, running Jan. 20-21.

CCM Wins Big in National Opera Association’s Annual Production Competition

CCM's Spring 2011 Mainstage Production of Poulenc's 'Dialogues of the Carmelites.' Photography by Mark Lyons.

The National Opera Association has announced the results of its annual Opera Production Competition and CCM’s 2010-11 Mainstage, Studio and Undergraduate Series of Operas have again received some of the competition’s highest honors.