‘Music in Cincinnati’ Hails CCM Students Debut Album As ‘Phenomenal’

Mary Ellyn Hutton reviews CCM student Carmine Miranda‘s debut solo album (Bach: 6 Cello Suites) for Music in Cincinnati, calling the recording “phenomenal.”

She writes, “Miranda’s approach is virtuosic and musically persuasive. Tempos tend to be brisk (if not pushed now and then), but he brings to bear interpretive insights — his term is “folkloric” — which make the set as a whole a delight.” You read Hutton’s full review here.

Read our recent profile of Miranda here. Bach: 6 Cello Suites is available digitally on iTunes, Amazon and elsewhere.

CCM Student’s Solo Debut To Be Released By Centaur Records

Centaur Records releases CCM student Carmine Miranda’s solo debut recording.

Already an accomplished cellist, CCM doctoral candidate Carmine Miranda (BA, 2010; MM, 2012) is now making his professional solo recording debut!

Two years ago, Miranda recorded Bach’s six solo suites for cello at age 22. Now, his recording is being released under Centaur Records, and is already available digitally on iTunes, Amazon and elsewhere.

CCM’s Classical Guitar Ensemble Performs Tonight

CCM’s Classical Guitar Ensemble provides a musical alternative to this evening’s election coverage with its annual fall concert at 8 p.m. tonight (Nov. 6) in UC’s Robert J. Werner Recital Hall. Admission to this concert is FREE.

Beethoven Festival Continues With Free Concert This Sunday

Maestro Mark Gibson. Photography by Jing Huan.

CCM’s Beethoven Festival continues with a FREE afternoon of chamber music beginning at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 16!

CCM Philharmonia music director and conductor Mark Gibson, piano, will be joined by Joseph Bucci, oboe; Adam Butalewicz, clarinet; Randy Denler, bassoon; Corey Tarbell, horn; Yabing Tan, violin; and Nathaniel Chaikin, cello for this afternoon concert in UC’s Robert J. Werner Recital Hall.

Ariel Quartet’s CCM Debut Receives Rave Reviews

The acclaimed Ariel String Quartet made its official debut as a CCM quartet-in-residence before a capacity crowd in UC’s Robert J. Werner Recital Hall last night.

“If the artistry of their playing and the electricity in the hall are any indication, the Ariel has the potential to revive the glory days of the LaSalle Quartet, quartet-in-residence from 1953 to 1988, the last full-time resident quartet at the school,” Janelle Gelfand writes for the Cincinnati Enquirer. You can read her full review here.

“Violinists Gershon Gerchikov and Alexandra Kazovsky, violist Jan Grüning and cellist Amit Even-Tov play with energy, consummate technique and an esprit de corps that bode exceedingly well for CCM and the community,” Mary Ellyn Hutton writes for Music in Cincinnati. You can read her full review here.

If you missed last evening’s performance, be sure to mark your calendars for Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012. Tickets are still available for the next installment in the Ariel Quartet’s 2012-13 CCM concert series… but they won’t be for long!

The Ariel String Quartet Makes Its CCM Debut Tonight

CCM has a new String Quartet-in-Residence, the Ariel Quartet. They will make their Inaugural Concert on September 11 at the Robert J. Werner Recital Hall. (L-R) Jan Gruning on viola, Amit Even-Tov on cello, Alexandra Kazovsky on violin and Gershon Gerchikov on violin. Photographed at CCM on Wednesday, August 29, 2012.
– The Enquirer/ Liz Dufour

“The Ariel String Quartet is a breath of fresh air in chamber music,” Janelle Gelfand writes for the Cincinnati Enquirer. Read Gelfand’s profile of CCM’s newly appointed string-quartet-in-residence here.

The Quartet makes its CCM debut at 8 p.m. tonight in CCM’s Robert J. Werner Recital Hall on the campus of the University of Cincinnati. Learn more about the Quartet’s debut performance here.

Mary Ellyn Hutton also previews tonight’s Ariel Quartet concert and more of this month’s upcoming performances for Music In Cincinnati. Read her September preview here.

LISTEN: The Ariel Quartet Featured on WVXU’s Around Cincinnati

Tomorrow evening, the Ariel Quartet opens our 2012-13 series of major events with its CCM debut.

In the latest installment of WVXU’s “Around Cincinnati,” Anne Arenstein speaks with Quartet members Amit Even-Tov and Jan Grüning about the concert, the Quartet’s 10th anniversary together and their new quartet-in-residence status at CCM.

You can listen to the entire interview here.

Looking Back At CCM’s Original Production of ‘Into the Woods’

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In anticipation of this month’s anniversary production of Into the Woods, we present a look back at CCM’s 1991 production of Into the Woods, the show that celebrated the initial creation of CCM’s endowed chair of Musical Theatre.

CCM Musical Theatre is the oldest program of its kind in the country. Established in 1969, the innovative program was used by the National Association of Schools of Theatre in formulating the guidelines for accreditation of musical theatre programs nationwide.

Likewise, at the time of its inception in 1991, the Patricia A. Corbett Distinguished Chair of Musical Theatre was the only academic chair of its kind in the United States, the American equivalent of the Chair in Musical Theatre endowed by Cameron Macintosh in honor of Stephen Sondheim at Oxford one year later.

CCM Showcases the Art of the Piano July 5 – 16

Next week, CCM welcomes 24 internationally trained pianists and nine world-class master teachers for the inaugural Art of the Piano master class series and Liszt competition.