Group of CCM Musicians Named Ensemble-in-Residence at Xavier

A contemporary chamber music ensemble of six CCM students and alumni is now ensemble-in-residence at Xavier University. All of the Above will offer concerts and work with Xavier students in rehearsals and beyond as ensemble-in-residence. The residency also includes outreach performances in schools and throughout Cincinnati.

CCM students and alumni in All of the Above, a chamber music group recently named ensemble-in-residence at Xavier University.

All of the Above musicians have made a name for their ensemble locally by performing with Classical Revolution Cincinnati and the MUSE concert series at the Cincinnati Art Museum. One of the goals of the ensemble is to create innovative musical experiences by challenging the aesthetics of the traditional classical concert, and the members believe that this new residency will enable their ensemble to bring their unique vision of art music to a wider audience.

The residency was in part created by the ensemble; All of the Above pianist Matthew Umphreys (MM Collaborative Piano 2014) is an adjunct professor at Xavier, and he approached the head of the music department to discuss the residency. Xavier has had ensembles-in-residence in the past, but not recently. The other members of All of the Above are CCM alumnus Walter Park (BM Violin Performance ’15) and CCM doctoral candidates Mikey Arbulu, clarinet; Caitlyn Chenault, cello; Nave Graham (MM Flute Performance ’14), flutist and David Abraham, percussion.

It can be difficult for students and young professional musicians to initiate a chamber ensemble, let alone a successful one. There are many constraints on their time, as young musicians often have multiple jobs, such as teaching lessons and freelance gigs, which lead to inconsistent availability.

The members of All of the Above have received the support of not only each other but also CCM faculty members, who coached the group on not only musical concerns but also the administrative challenges of running a music ensemble and creating cohesive artistic goals. However, Umphreys thinks that these concerns are secondary to the meat-and-potatoes of an ensemble: musical cohesion.

“I strongly believe that musical greatness is at the heart of any successful ensemble. Yes, we all are overloaded with ideas of business savvy and self-promotion, but this won’t get one very far if at the core there is an absence of intense capabilities and talent on one’s instrument,” Umphreys said.

“CCM has helped me become a better musician, no question. It has also taught me about hard work, dedication, tenacity, preparedness, how to collaborate with others, among many other skills– but this insatiable passion to be an incredible musician is the greatest thing I have taken from my time at CCM.”

All of the Above is a Pierrot-plus-percussion ensemble, which means that it uses the same instrumentation as Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire: flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano, plus percussion. In fact, there’s a good reason that All of the Above has the Pierrot ensemble at its core, aside from the broad range of contemporary music written for that instrumentation.

“One of my favorite projects as an ensemble was one of our first: we tackled Schoenberg’s famous Pierrot Lunaire,” Umphreys said. “Working on such a complex and difficult piece forced us to develop rehearsal and performance practices that we still use to this day, and we learned how to communicate effectively with each other.”

All of the Above’s first concert as ensemble-in-residence at Xavier University will take place at 4 p.m. on Oct. 30 in Xavier’s Long Recital Hall. Admission is free.

“This residency has definitely put our ensemble on the map within the (contemporary) music scene in Cincinnati,” Graham said. “Even if people aren’t familiar with contemporary classical music, they have likely heard of Xavier University. So now we have a springboard to reach out to people with our unique mission and music.

“I think the familiarity of an established academic institution will allow people to feel more comfortable coming out to our shows. If our prospective audiences believe in Xavier, and Xavier believes in us, then in some way, the Cincinnati community already believes in us.”
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Story by CCM graduate student Alexandra Doyle

 

CCM Celebrates Keyboard Mastery with the Annual Bearcat Piano Festival and Pianopalooza Events

CCM explores the world of classical piano this spring with the sixth installment of its annual Bearcat Piano Festival, starting on Monday, March 23, and culminating with the 10th edition of Pianopalooza on Saturday, April 4.

Guest artist Stephen Hough. Photo copyright Andrew Crowley.

Launched in 2010 by CCM Professor of Piano Awadagin Pratt, this year’s festival features an exciting new joint collaboration with Xavier University, which brings internationally renowned pianist Stephen Hough to CCM’s Corbett Auditorium at 8 p.m. on Monday, March 30. This special occasion will also serve as Xavier’s inaugural Father John Heim Concert. An extraordinary pianist, composer, writer, teacher and painter, Hough was a 2001 MacArthur Fellowship recipient and received the honor of being named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his services to the art of music in 2014. His performance will include works by Debussy and Chopin.

Hough is not the only internationally renowned performer to grace the CCM stage during the Bearcat Piano Festival this year. Russian pianist Sergei Babayan (Artist-in-Residence at the Cleveland Institute of Music) will perform in CCM’s Robert J. Werner Recital Hall at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, March 25. A Laureate of Belgium’s Queen Elisabeth Music Competition and multiple time first-prize winner in competitions such as the Casadesus (Cleveland) and Hammamatsu (Japan), Babayan will showcase the works of Pärt, Liszt, Vladimir Ryabov, J. S. Bach, Chopin and Rachmaninov.

Additionally, the Festival will serve as a homecoming for another associate from Xavier. Polina Bespalko, Director of Xavier’s Classical Piano Series and a CCM alumna (AD Piano, 2005; DMA Piano, 2014), will return to Robert J. Werner Recital Hall at 8 p.m. on Friday, March 27, for a free performance highlighted by Franz Liszt’s monumental Sonata in B Minor.

Guest artists for this year’s Bearcat Piano Festival will also come from across the northeastern United States. New York will be on display at 8 p.m. on Monday, March 23, in the Robert J. Werner Recital Hall as Professors Jerome Lowenthal of the Julliard School and Ursula Oppens of CUNY and Brooklyn College give a free joint performance of diverse piano works. Also, University of Michigan doctoral student pianists will make a second consecutive trip to CCM for a free concert at 4 p.m. on Sunday, March 29.

This series of performances ultimately leads to the tenth-annual installment of Pianopalooza, which takes the stage in Corbett Auditorium at 8 p.m. on Saturday, April 4. Under the direction of CCM Associate Professor of Piano Michael Chertock, the event is a diverse cornucopia of CCM’s piano faculty and students as well as the CCM Concert Orchestra conducted by Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Aik Khai Pung. This eclectic event will focus on Sergei Rachmaninoff, showcasing three of his masterworks: the Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp Minor, Op. 1; Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43; and the Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30.

The Bearcat Piano Festival and Pianopalooza events never fail to excite and intrigue, and this year is no exception. Make sure to not miss out on seeing a plethora of local and international talents showcase the entire breadth of the keyboards!

Event Information
All events listed below take place on the campus of the University of Cincinnati unless otherwise indicated. Some events do require purchased tickets; please see individual event information for single ticket prices and ordering information. Visit ccm.uc.edu/boxoffice/bearcatpianofestival for the most current information.

Tickets can be purchased in person at the CCM Box Office, over the telephone at 513-556-4183 or online now through our e-Box Office! Visit ccm.uc.edu/boxoffice for CCM Box Office hours and location.

All event dates and programs are subject to change. Visit ccm.uc.edu or contact the CCM Box Office at 513-556-4183 for the most current event information.

Parking and Directions
Parking is available in the CCM Garage (located at the base of Corry Boulevard off Jefferson Avenue) and additional garages throughout the UC campus. Please visit uc.edu/parking for more information on parking rates.

For detailed maps and directions, please visit uc.edu/visitors. Additional parking is available off-campus at the new U Square complex on Calhoun Street and other neighboring lots.

For directions to CCM Village, visit ccm.uc.edu/about/directions.
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2015 BEARCAT PIANO FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

8 p.m. Monday, March 23
BEARCAT PIANO FESTIVAL GUEST ARTIST RECITAL
Jerome Lowenthal and Ursula Oppens, piano
The Big Apple comes to CCM as esteemed artists Jerome Lowenthal (The Julliard School) and Ursula Oppens (CUNY and Brooklyn College) visit for an evening of diverse piano works, with a program featuring:
RZEWSKI: Four Hands
SCHUBERT: Four Impromptus, Op. 90
FAURÉ: Nocturne No. 6 in D-flat Major, Op. 63
FRANCK/CORTOT: Sonata for piano and violin (arr. for solo piano)
FAURÉ: Dolly Suite, Op. 56
Location: Robert J. Werner Recital Hall
Admission: FREE
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8 p.m. Wednesday, March 25
BEARCAT PIANO FESTIVAL GUEST ARTIST RECITAL
Sergei Babayan, piano
Artist-in-Residence at CIM, Sergei Babayan is acclaimed for the immediacy, sensitivity and depth of his interpretations. His philosophy that a recital should reveal a spiritual dimension results in playing that sustains a captivating intensity. A student of such legendary musicians as Gornostayeva, Naumov, Pletnev and Vlasenko at the Moscow Conservatory, Babayan won consecutive first prizes in several major international competitions, including the Casadesus and Hammamatsu. Since that time, he has appeared in recital internationally in the most important venues, and with the world’s best orchestras. Additionally Babayan is a frequent two piano collaborator with Martha Argerich.
Location: Robert J. Werner Recital Hall
Tickets: $15 general, $10 non-UC students, UC students FREE.
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8 p.m. Friday, March 27
BEARCAT PIANO FESTIVAL GUEST ARTIST RECITAL
Polina Bespalko, piano
Pianist and Xavier University professor Polina Bespalko returns to her alma mater to present the works of Prokofiev, Kapustin, Gubaidulina, Pärt and the monumental Liszt Sonata.
Location: Robert J. Werner Recital Hall
Admission: FREE
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4 p.m. Sunday, March 29
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PIANISTS
Guest artists from the University of Michigan perform as part of the sixth annual Bearcat Piano Festival!
Location: Robert J. Werner Recital Hall
Admission: FREE
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8 p.m. Monday, March 30
BEARCAT PIANO FESTIVAL GUEST ARTIST RECITAL
Stephen Hough, CBE, piano
Presented in cooperation with the Xavier University Classical Piano Series
The Inaugural Father John Heim, S.J. Concert
CCM’s Bearcat Piano Festival welcomes extraordinary pianist, composer, writer, teacher, painter and 2001 MacArthur Fellowship-recipient Stephen Hough to the stage for the inaugural Father John Heim Concert. Hough’s program will include Debussy’s La plus que lente, Estampes, L’isle joyeuxand Children’s Corner and Chopin’s Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23, Ballade No. 2 in F Major, Op. 38, Ballade No. 3 in A-flat Major, Op. 47 and Ballade No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 52. Appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2014 for his services to the art of music, Hough’s concert appearance is being presented in cooperation with the Xavier University Classical Piano Series, directed by Polina Bespalko.
Location: Corbett Auditorium
Tickets: $25 general, $15 non-UC/Xavier University students, $10 for UC and Xavier University students.
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8 p.m. Saturday, April 4
PIANOPALOOZA X
Michael Chertock, director
Featuring the CCM Concert Orchestra
Aik Khai Pung, conductor
Celebrate the art of the piano with the tenth installment of this popular concert, showcasing CCM’s most spectacular student pianists, with special appearances by CCM’s faculty artists. In honor of the tenth annual Pianopalooza, the Concert Orchestra will join CCM’s pianists for performances of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp Minor, Op. 1; Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43; and Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30.
Location: Corbett Auditorium
Tickets: $15 general, $10 non-UC students, UC students FREE.
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Programs and dates are subject to change. For the most up-to-date information, please visit us online at ccm.uc.edu.

CCM Season Presenting Sponsor and Musical Theatre Program Sponsor: The Otto M. Budig Family Foundation

Community Partner: ArtsWave

All-Steinway School Sponsor: The Corbett Endowment at CCM

CCM is proud to be an All-Steinway School.

CCM Announces Spring 2015 Calendar of Major Events

Click on the image above to view CCM’s Spring 2015 Calendar Booklet.

This spring, CCM proudly presents over 125 major public performances from Jan. 18 through May 17, ranging from faculty and guest artist concerts to fully supported drama, musical theatre and opera productions!

Download a copy of CCM’s Spring 2015 Calendar of Major Events today.

Highlights of CCM’s spring concert series include the return of Cincinnati’s premier fundraiser “A Moveable Feast” on Jan. 23; a CCM Jazz tribute to the music of Ray Charles on Feb. 15; a double-bill performance of Berlioz’s Te Deum and Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring by the CCM Philharmonia, Chamber Choir, Chorale and Cincinnati Children’s Choir on March 13; a star-studded Bearcat Piano Festival running March 23 – April 4; and a Spring Dance Concert featuring accompaniment by the CCM Chamber Choir, student percussionists, faculty artist James Tocco and student pianists running April 23 – 25.

The internationally acclaimed Ariel Quartet will also continue its 2014-15 concert series at CCM with performances on Jan. 27 and March 31. Recently hailed by The Strad for its “vitality, clarity of line, depth of sound and… impeccable sense of direction,” CCM’s string quartet-in-residence will perform works by Brahms, Bartók, Schubert, Stravinsky and more this spring.

CCM’s Mainstage Series will also resume in early 2015 with a production of Wendy Wasserstein’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning drama The Heidi Chronicles, running Feb. 11 – 15; a highflying trip to Neverland with Peter Pan: The Musical running March 5 – 8; and a production of Mozart’s magnificent opera Così Fan Tutte, running April 9 – 12.

Tickets for CCM’s Mainstage and Concert Series performances are on sale now.

Learn more about these and dozens of other performing and media arts events by referring to the list below. For more details about CCM’s Spring 2015 performance schedule, contact the CCM Box Office at 513-556-4183 or visit ccm.uc.edu.

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Event Information
All events listed here take place in CCM Village on the campus of the University of Cincinnati unless otherwise indicated. Admission is free to many CCM performances, although some events do require purchased tickets or reservations. Please see individual event information for details and ordering information.

All event dates and programs are subject to change. Visit ccm.uc.edu or contact the CCM Box Office at 513-556-4183 for the most current event information.

Purchasing Tickets
Unless indicated otherwise, tickets to CCM performances can be purchased in person at the CCM Box Office, over the telephone at 513-556-4183 or online at ccm.uc.edu/boxoffice.

Parking and Directions
Parking is available in the CCM Garage (located at the base of Corry Boulevard off Jefferson Avenue) and additional garages throughout the UC campus. Please visit uc.edu/parking for more information on parking rates.

For detailed maps and directions, please visit uc.edu/visitors. Additional parking is available off-campus at the new U Square complex on Calhoun Street and other neighboring lots.

For directions to CCM Village, visit ccm.uc.edu/about/directions.

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CCM SPRING 2015 CALENDAR OF MAJOR EVENTS

JANUARY

4 p.m. Saturday Sunday, Jan. 18
• Faculty Artist Series •
IT’S MY PARTY
Pat Linhart, soprano
Julie Spangler, piano
Come help Pat and Julie celebrate a BIG birthday for Pat.  How old is she? “Somewhere between 40 and Death.” A fun afternoon of celebration, reflection and just plain craziness that only Pat and Julie can provide!
Location: Patricia Corbett Theater
Admission: FREE

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CCM’s Moveable Feast benefit event returns on Friday, Jan. 23, 2015.

6:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 23
“A MOVEABLE FEAST” BENEFIT EVENT
Experience the unparalleled magic of CCM Village as you sample performances by our “stars of tomorrow.” Create your own menu and timetable of artistic selections, including jazz, musical theatre, piano, opera, drama, dance, choral, orchestra, E-media video productions and much more! Your ticket will help the Friends of CCM continue to support the hopes and dreams of CCM students through student travel funds and scholarships.
Location: CCM Village
Tickets: Special ticket prices and limited seating. For more information, contact CCM External Relations at 513-556-2100.

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4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 25
• Faculty Artist Series •
Amy Johnson, soprano
Kenneth Shaw, bass-baritone
Marie-France Lefebvre, piano
Featuring works by Brahms, Schoenberg, Chausson and Charpentier.
Location: Robert J. Werner Recital Hall
Admission: FREE

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7 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 25
• Jazz Series •
CCM JAZZ: COMPOSERS CONCERT
CCM Jazz Ensembles
Scott Belck and Craig Bailey, conductors
Featuring adventurous works from some of today’s most exciting and interesting composers, including Maria Schneider, Kenny Wheeler, Ellen Rowe and Jim McNeely as well as compositions from CCM Jazz students, faculty and alumni.
Location: Corbett Auditorium
Tickets: $12 general, $6 non-UC students, UC students FREE.

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From left to right: Amit Even-Tov, Jan Grüning, Alexandra Kazovsky and Gershon Gerchikov are the Ariel Quartet. Photography by Saverio Truglia.

8 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 27
• CCM String Quartet-in-Residence •
The Ariel Quartet
Grand Prize winners at the 2006 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and 2014 recipients of the prestigious Cleveland Quartet Award, the Ariel Quartet was recently hailed by the New York Times for its “gift for filling the pristine structures of Classicism with fire.” You can experience that fire for yourself as the Quartet presents Schulhoff’s Divertimento for String Quartet, Op. 14, Stravinsky’s Three Pieces for String Quartet and Schubert’s String Quartet No. 15 in G Major, D. 887.
Location: Corbett Auditorium
Tickets: $20 general, $15 non-UC students, UC students FREE

The Ariel Quartet’s 2014-15 CCM concert series is made possible by the generous contributions of The Corbett Foundation, Dr. & Mrs. Randolph L. Wadsworth, Mr. & Mrs. William A. Friedlander, Mr. & Mrs. Harry H. Santen, Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Stegman and Dianne & J. David Rosenberg.

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7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 28
• CCM Preparatory Department •
CCM Jazz Explosion and CCM Youth Jazz Orchestra
Jan Diehl, Bernardo Lopez, Bill Burns and Jennifer Grantham, music directors and conductors
The area’s most talented middle and high school jazz musicians perform classic and popular jazz music.
Location: Patricia Corbett Theater
Admission: FREE

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7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 29
• Starling Series •
Starling Showcase
Kurt Sassmannshaus, director
CCM’s finest violin soloists from college and pre-college in performance with orchestra piano.
Location: Robert J. Werner Recital Hall
Admission: FREE

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Zemlinsky First Prize-winner Ulrich Kreppein. Photo by Raf Thienpont.

8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 30
• Orchestra Series •
ON DISPLAY – CELEBRATING THE WINNER OF CCM’S ZEMLINSKY PRIZE FOR COMPOSITION
CCM Philharmonia
Mark Gibson, conductor
U. KREPPEIN: Flucht (Flight)
Winner of the 2013 Zemlinsky Prize for Composition
BEASER: Seven Deadly Sins (1984)
MUSSORGSKY, arr. M. RAVEL: Pictures at an Exhibition
Location: Corbett Auditorium
Tickets: $12 general, $6 non-UC students, UC students FREE.

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7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 31
• Opera Fusion: New Works Lab •
A collaboration between CCM Opera and Cincinnati Opera
Co-artistic directors Robin Guarino and Marcus Küchle
MEET JOHN DOE
Composed by Daniel Catán
Eduardo Diazmuñoz, conductor
Robin Guarino, director
Co-produced with the Gotham Chamber Opera and Cincinnati Opera

Composer Daniel Catán.

Funded by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, CCM Opera and Cincinnati Opera present a rare behind-the-scenes look at the creation of an original work! Groundbreaking Mexican composer Daniel Catán, creator of the operas Il Postino and Florencia en el Amazonas, began an adaptation of the 1941 Frank Capra film Meet John Doe, but it remained unfinished at his untimely death in 2011. Opera Fusion: New Works welcomes a creative team tasked with the completion of the work: Eduardo Diazmuñoz, Michaela Eremiášová, Jairo Duarte-López, and the composer’s widow, Andrea Puente Catán. Following a 10-day residency, the workshop will culminate in a public performance of excerpts of the new opera. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Story in 1942, Meet John Doe tells the story of Ann Mitchell, a newspaper columnist who unwittingly sparks a grassroots populist movement with a fictional letter to the editor from “John Doe” protesting society’s ills, and John Willoughby, a homeless former baseball player whom she hires to pose as the public face of John Doe.
Location: Memorial Hall, 1225 Elm Street, Cincinnati 45202
Admission: Admission is free, but reservations are required. Tickets available beginning Monday, Dec. 8 at 10 a.m. Please call the Cincinnati Opera Box Office at 513-241-2742 to reserve.

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8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 31
• Percussion Series •
A TRIP TO TRINIDAD AND BACK
CCM Steel Drum Band
Rusty Burge, director
CCM’s Steel Drum Band presents an evening of the traditional music of Trinidad, along with pop, folk and reggae compositions.
Location: Corbett Auditorium
Tickets: $12 general, $6 non-UC students, UC students FREE.

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FEBRUARY

8 p.m. Monday, Feb. 2
• Faculty Artist Series •
Rodney Stucky, lute and Baroque guitar
Mary Stucky, mezzo-soprano
The music of 17th century Spain, England and the Netherlands will be on display as Rodney and Mary Stucky perform the works of Jan Sweelinck, Nicolas Vallet, Francisco Guerau, Robert Johnson and José Marín.
Location: Cohen Family Studio Theater
Admission: FREE

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8 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 3
• Guest Artist Series •
4 & 4 Saxophone Quartet
One of South Korea’s premier chamber ensembles, the 4 & 4 Saxophone Quartet will perform works ranging from the traditional – a transcription of Dvorak’s String Quartet No. 12  – to recent compositions influenced by jazz and Americana, as well as a new adaptation of the Korean folk song “Arirang.” The 4 & 4 Saxophone Quartet recital at CCM will be the first recital by a Korean saxophone quartet in the United States.
Location: Robert J. Werner Recital Hall
Admission: FREE

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8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 3
• Faculty Artist Series •
Randy Bowman, flute
Location: Watson Hall
Admission: FREE

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2:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 6
• The Joseph and Frances Jones Poetker Thinking About Music Lecture Series •
THE STOPPED CLOCK: SOME MOMENTS IN TONALITY AND TECHNOLOGY SINCE 1950
Joseph Auner, Tufts University
In the second half of the 20th century, two technological advancements emerged to change the way we think about music: voltage-controlled modular synthesizers and the tape loop. For his lecture, Professor Joseph Auner will discuss how these and other developments helped alter how we listen to and think about acoustics, including the most basic triads and tonal materials.
Location: Baur Room
Admission: FREE

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8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 6
• Orchestra Series •
CCM Concert Orchestra
Annunziata Tomaro, guest conductor
S. WEIMER: Through the Frame
DELIBES: Sylvia Suite
SIBELIUS: Swan of Tuonela
SIBELIUS: Symphony No. 5 in E-flat Major, Op. 82
Location: Corbett Auditorium
Admission: FREE

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The CCM Chorale.

3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 8
• Choral Series •
MUSIC OF THE BARD – CHORAL SETTINGS OF SHAKESPEARE II
CCM Chamber Choir and Chorale, UC Men’s & Women’s Choruses, Cincinnati Children’s Choir and guest choir from Shanghai’s East China Normal University
Brett Scott, Christopher Albanese, Alexander Sutton, Daniel Blosser, Stephen Milloy, Robyn Lana and Yaru Tan, conductors
CCM’s Choral Department continues The Shakespeare Quadricentennial, a two-year commemoration of the playwright’s legacy through choral music spanning his 450th birthday this past April 23, 2014, and culminating on April 23, 2016, the 400th anniversary of his death. Each choir offers a Shakespearean choral setting from the Renaissance through our own time. Featured works include Frank Martin’s “Five Songs of Ariel” from The Tempest, Jaakko Mantyjarvi’s “Double, Double, Toil and Trouble” from Macbethand Matthew Harris’ “Shakespeare Songs” from Measure by Measure, The Two Gentlemen of Verona andHamlet.
Location: Corbett Auditorium
Tickets: $12 general, $6 non-UC students, UC students FREE.

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4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 8
• Winds Series •
CCM Chamber Players
Glenn D. Price, music director and conductor
Presenting a world premiere of Scott Lindroth’s Starshake, along with works by CCM composers.
Location: Cohen Family Studio Theater
Admission: FREE

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4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 8
• Faculty Artist Series •
Piotr Milewski, violin
Sandra Rivers, piano
Location: Robert J. Werner Recital Hall
Admission: FREE

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7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 10
• Faculty Artist Series •
Faculty Jazztet
Featuring Craig Bailey, James Bunte and Rick VanMatre, saxophone; Scott Belck, trumpet; Marc Fields, trombone; Russell Burge, vibraphone; James E. Smith, guitar; Phil DeGreg, piano; Aaron Jacobs, bass; Art Gore and John Von Ohlen, drums
Location: Robert J. Werner Recital Hall
Admission: FREE

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8 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 10
• Orchestra Series •
Café MoMus
Aik Khai Pung, music director
Join us for another journey in today’s sound world, accompanied by coffee, cakes and conversation!
Location: Cohen Family Studio Theater
Admission: FREE

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8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 11 (preview)
8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 12
8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 13
2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 14
2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 15
• Mainstage Drama Series •
THE HEIDI CHRONICLES
Written by Wendy Wasserstein
Richard E. Hess, director
Wendy Wasserstein’s groundbreaking and moving examination of feminism and its evolution from the 1960s through the 1990s, The Heidi Chronicles is the winner of the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play. Sexuality, feminism, education, gender equality, marriage, women’s rights; there’s no hot-button issue the play doesn’t touch. This penetrating comedy asks: “Will our ideals stand the test of time, and what do they cost us?”
Location: Patricia Corbett Theater
Tickets: $27-31 adults, $17-20 non-UC students, $15-18 UC students.

Mainstage Season Production Sponsor: Macy’s

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CCM’s Wind Orchestra. Photography by Dottie Stover.

8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 12
• Winds Series •
THE MUSIC OF STRAUSS, MACKEY, SPARKE AND MORE
CCM Wind Orchestra and Wind Ensemble
Featuring guest conductor Jerry Junkin, Dallas Wind Symphony
Glenn D. Price and Angela Holt, conductors
MACKEY: Aurora Awakes
Jerry Junkin, conductor
STRAUSS: Allerseelen
SPARKE: Dance Movements
GRAINGER: Colonial Song
WHITACRE: Sleep
DELLO JOIO: Scenes from The Louvre
Location: Corbett Auditorium
Tickets: $12 general, $6 non-UC students, UC students FREE.

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After serving as Ray Charles’ lead alto saxophonist for nearly 20 years, Bailey returns to his native Cincinnati as an assistant professor of jazz studies at CCM. Photo by Charlene Diehl.

7 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 15
• Jazz Series •
JAZZ+GENIUS+SOUL = THE MUSIC OF RAY CHARLES
CCM Jazz Ensembles
Scott Belck and Craig Bailey, conductors
Featuring guest artist Billy Osborne, vocals
Ray Charles re-defined the sound of the big band with his classic blend of soul, jazz, gospel and swing. New CCM jazz professor Craig Bailey, a Ray Charles alumnus and former lead alto saxophonist who spent nearly 20 years with the band, takes us back to the days of the great Ray Charles Orchestra by welcoming vocalist Billy Osborne to join the CCM Jazz Ensembles.
Location: Corbett Auditorium
Tickets: $12 general, $6 non-UC students, UC students FREE.

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8 p.m. Monday, Feb. 16
CCM Brass Choir
Timothy Northcut, music director
CCM’s nationally recognized brass ensemble performs classical, folk and popular selections.
Location: Corbett Auditorium
Admission: FREE

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8 p.m. Monday, Feb. 16
• Faculty Artist Series •
Ellen Harrison, composition
Location: Robert J. Werner Recital Hall
Admission: FREE

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CCM faculty artist Phil DeGreg.

8 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 17
UPDATE: This concert has been rescheduled to April 22
• Faculty Artist Series •
The Original Phil DeGreg and Friends
CCM celebrates the career of Professor of Jazz Studies Phil DeGreg with a concert of music composed by the faculty artist! DeGreg will be joined by guest artists Rick VanMatre, Rusty Burge, Kim Pensyl, Scott Belck, Marc Fields, Craig Bailey and more for this very special event.
Location: Patricia Corbett Theater
Admission: FREE

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2:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 20
• The Joseph and Frances Jones Poetker Thinking About Music Lecture Series •
LUIGI NONO’S FRAGMENTE-STILLE, AN DIOTIMA AND THE INEFFABLE
Michael Cherlin, University of Minnesota
The Romantic fragment, in poetry and music, points toward something that is ineffable – the sounds listeners hear point toward those that cannot be realized. Whether it is beyond or still within Romanticism, it is this aesthetic that Professor Michael Cherlin associates with Schoenberg and Webern, most particularly. Nono’s string quartet, a meditation on Diotima, continues that tradition. The lecture will explore the implications of this composition for a poetics of musical interpretation (whose falsifying “scientific” name is analysis).
Location: Baur Room
Admission: FREE
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8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 20
8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 21
2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 22
• Studio Opera Series •
L’INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEA (THE CORONATION OF POPPEA)
Music by Claudio Monteverdi
Libretto by Francesco Busenello
Brett Scott, conductor
Emma Griffin, director
Love, power, morality, corruption… Monteverdi’s final masterpiece, The Coronation of Poppea, is often described as his greatest achievement, combining mythic and very human themes and featuring some of his most glorious music. One of the first operas to use historical events and people, it tells the story of Nero’s infatuation with the young and beautiful Poppea as she tries to make him divorce his wife Ottavia and take her as his new queen and empress of Rome. The Coronation of Poppea is a rich, complex and thoroughly modern work; a world populated by ruthless and all-too-human characters where lust and ambition ultimately triumph over virtue.
Location: Cohen Family Studio Theater
Admission: Admission is free, but reservations are required. Tickets become available at noon on Monday, Feb. 16. Visit the CCM Box Office or call 513-556-4183 to reserve. Limit two tickets per order.

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8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 20
CAFÉ MOMUS PRESENTS THE CCM COMPOSITION COMPETITION
CCM Philharmonia
Mark Gibson, music director
CCM’s top orchestral ensemble presents recent works by the gifted students in the college’s internationally recognized composition program. The winning composer will write a new orchestral work to be premiered during the 2015–16 season.
Location: Corbett Auditorium
Admission: FREE

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4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 22
• Faculty Artist Series •
Tsun-Hui Hung, erhu (Chinese fiddle)
Location: Robert J. Werner Recital Hall
Admission: FREE

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8 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 24
Composition Department Recital
Location: Patricia Corbett Theater
Admission: FREE

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8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 24
• Guest Artist Series •
West Point Band’s Academy Wind Quintet
Location: Robert J. Werner Recital Hall
Admission: FREE

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8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 27
2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28 (matinee performance canceled)
2 p.m. Sunday, March 1
• CCM Opera d’arte – Undergraduate Opera Series •
ALCINA
Music by George Frideric Handel
Libretto by Riccardo Broschi
Brett Scott, conductor
Kenneth Shaw, director
Amy Johnson, producer
A sorceress, an enchanted island, disguised lovers and mistaken identities are woven together beautifully with some of Handel’s most memorable melodies.
Location: Cohen Family Studio Theater
Admission: Admission is free, but reservations are required. Tickets become available at noon on Monday, Feb. 23. Visit the CCM Box Office or call 513-556-4183 to reserve. Limit two tickets per order.

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7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28
• Starling Series •
Starling Chamber Orchestra
Kurt Sassmannshaus, music director
Showcasing the superbly talented young students from the Starling Preparatory String Project.
Location: Robert J. Werner Recital Hall
Admission: FREE

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MARCH

CCM presents ‘Peter Pan,’ Broadway’s timeless musical.

8 p.m. Thursday, March 5
8 p.m. Friday, March 6
2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, March 7
2 p.m. Sunday, March 8
• Mainstage Musical Theatre Series •
PETER PAN
Lyrics by Carolyn Leigh
Music by Morris “Moose” Charlap
Additional Lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green
Additional Music by Jule Styne
Based on the play by Sir James M. Barrie
Joe Locarro, guest director and choreographer
Roger Grodsky, musical director
“Second star to the right, and straight on ‘till morning!” Based on the famous story by James Barrie, Peter Pan tells the tale of the mischievous boy who can fly, who never ages and who spends his never-ending childhood adventuring on the spellbinding isles of Neverland as the playful leader of the Lost Boys. Featuring high-flying spectacle and timeless music, CCM Musical Theatre’s production of Peter Pan will thrill and delight audiences of all ages!
Location: Corbett Auditorium
Tickets: $31-35 adults, $20-24 non-UC students, $18-22 UC students.

CCM Season Presenting Sponsor & Musical Theatre Program Sponsor: The Otto M. Budig Family Foundation

Mainstage Season Production Sponsor: Macy’s

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2:30 p.m. Friday, March 6
UPDATE: This talk has been postponed due to weather-related flight delays.
• The Joseph and Frances Jones Thinking About Music Lecture Series •
SENSIBILITY TRIUMPHANT: C. P. E. BACH AND THE ART OF FEELING
Dr. Annette Richards, Cornell University

In Goethe’s Triumph der Empfindsamkeit (1777), sensibility, feeling and sympathy are brutally exposed as trivial obsessions with postures and props. Excess, bad taste and poor behaviour are the focus of Goethe’s hilarious critique of the craze unleashed by his own Sorrows of Young Werther. Embodied in this strange and funny text is satire aimed not only at the cult of Empfindsamkeit and at the works of the artist himself, but also at the conspicuous blurring of public and private spheres, the untoward exposure of personal proclivities and private feeling. Given the ubiquitous text-book designation of C. P. E. Bach as the architect of the ‘Empfindsamer Stil’ in music, Dr. Annette Richards takes another look at what ‘Empfindsamkeit’ might mean, especially for the composer’s late keyboard works. By examining this music (along with then-contemporary views on humor, satire and other cultural elements), the audience may have to reconsider Bach’s own claims about the competing aesthetics of public and private music.
Location: Baur Room
Admission: FREE

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8 p.m. Friday, March 6
• Orchestra Series •
CCM Concert Orchestra
Aik Khai Pung, music director and conductor
A. TRAVERS: Ruins of Ruins
Second prize winner of the 2013 Zemlinsky Prize for Composition
STRAVINSKY: Firebird Suite
FARBERMAN: Triple Play
COPLAND: Billy the Kid
Location: Patricia Corbett Theater
Admission: FREE

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5 p.m. Saturday, March 7
• Starling Series •
Starling Showcase
Kurt Sassmannshaus, music director
CCM’s finest violin soloists from college and pre-college in performances with orchestra.
Location: Robert J. Werner Recital Hall
Admission: FREE

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4 p.m. Sunday, March 8
• Winds Series •
CCM Chamber Players
Glenn D. Price, music director and conductor
RAVEL: Introduction and Allegro
VARESE: Octandre
TAKEMITSU: Rain Spell
STRAUSS: Suite for Winds in B-flat Major, Op. 4
Location: Robert J. Werner Recital Hall
Admission: FREE

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7 p.m. Sunday, March 8
• Jazz Series •
MODERN MASTERS: THE MUSIC OF ELLINGTON AND STRAYHORN
CCM Jazz Ensembles
Scott Belck and Craig Bailey, conductors
Featuring guest artist Todd Stoll, conductor and lecturer
Considered by many as the greatest American composer of all time, Duke Ellington embodied the elegance, dignity and sophistication of a classic era while his band personified the joy and exuberance of swing. Come celebrate Ellington’s music with CCM Jazz.
Location: Patricia Corbett Theater
Tickets: $12 general, $6 non-UC students, UC students FREE.

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8 p.m. Monday, March 9
• Guest Artist Series •
David Griffin, horn
CCM welcomes David Griffin of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for a guest artist recital.
Location: Robert J. Werner Recital Hall
Admission: FREE

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5 p.m. Wednesday, March 11
• Guest Artist Series •
Linda McAllister, soprano
Liza Kelly, mezzo-soprano
Jonathan Ware, piano
Miami University Professor Linda McAllister and Western Kentucky University Professor Liza Kelly join Jonathan Ware (resident pianist for the Internationale Meistersinger Akademie in Germany) for this special recital. Using readings and video projections, the trio will explore the relationship between Robert Schumann, his wife Clara and Johannes Brahms, as well as the Lieder compositions of all three.
Location: Robert J. Werner Recital Hall
Admission: FREE

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TRANSMIGRATION, CCM Drama’s festival of student-created new works.

7 p.m. Wednesday, March 11
7 p.m. Thursday, March 12
7 p.m. Friday, March 13
• Studio Drama Series •
TRANSMIGRATION 2015
A Festival of Student-Created New Works
Richard E. Hess, coordinator
Brant Russell, producer
TRANSMIGRATION, so named for “the movement from one place to another” or “the transition from one state of being to another,” is a festival of new works created by the acting students in CCM Drama. Six teams of actors craft and perform five original 30-minute shows. Performed simultaneously in different locations throughout CCM Village, TRANSMIGRATION will allow the audience to sample four different new works of their choosing in one spectacular evening. “Thanks to the drama program at UC’s College-Conservatory of Music,” observed CityBeat’s Rick Pender, “theater fans were offered a jolt of onstage vitality.”
Location: Various locations throughout CCM Village
Admission: Admission is free, but reservations are required. Tickets become available at noon on Monday, March 9. Visit the CCM Box Office or call 513-556-4183 to reserve. Limit two tickets per order.

Drama Studio Series Sponsor: Neil Artman & Margaret Straub

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8 p.m. Wednesday, March 11
• Winds Series •
TALES OF MYSTERY AND IMAGINATION
CCM Wind Orchestra
Glenn D. Price, conductor
Featuring Young Artist Concerto Competition Winners
DE MEIJ: Lord of the Rings
IANNACONE: After a Gentle Rain
COLGRASS: The Winds of Nagual
Location: Patricia Corbett Theater
Tickets: $12 general, $6 non-UC students, UC students FREE.

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8 p.m. Wednesday, March 11
8 p.m. Thursday, March 12
8 p.m. Friday, March 13
2 p.m. Saturday, March 14
• Studio Dance Series •
DANCE STUDENT CHOREOGRAPHER’S SHOWCASE
Deirdre Carberry and Andre Megerdichian, directors
Come experience the next generation of emerging choreographers as CCM dance majors take the stage with exciting and diverse new works.
Location: Cohen Family Studio Theater
Admission: Admission is free, but reservations are required. Tickets become available at noon on Monday, March 9. Visit the CCM Box Office or call 513-556-4183 to reserve. Limit two tickets per order.
The Dance Department gratefully acknowledges the support of the Corbett Endowment at CCM.

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8 p.m. Thursday, March 12
• Winds Series •
A BLAST FROM THE PAST
CCM Wind Ensemble
Angela Holt, conductor
Terence Milligan, guest conductor
DELLO JOIO: Scenes from The Louvre
HOLST: First Suite in E-flat
WEINBERGER: “Polka and Fugue” from Schwanda the Bagpiper
Location: Patricia Corbett Theater
Admission: FREE

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2:30 p.m. Friday, March 13
• The Joseph and Frances Jones Poetker Thinking About Music Lecture Series •
LESTER YOUNG: NEW DISCOVERIES 
Loren Schoenberg, Artistic Director, The National Jazz Museum in Harlem
As an American jazz tenor saxophonist and a member of Count Basie’s orchestra, Lester Young was one of the young genre’s most influential forces. In the last few years, a significant amount of previously unheard recordings have shed new light on his innovations. As Loren Schoenberg will attest, every surviving sound recorded by Young is vital, since there are no documents that capture the qualities that his peers remember most vividly.
Location: Baur Room
Admission: FREE

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Mark Gibson and the CCM Philharmonia.

8 p.m. Friday, March 13
• Choral and Orchestra Series •
MONUMENTAL: BERLIOZ AND STRAVINSKY
CCM Philharmonia, Chamber Choir, Chorale and Cincinnati Children’s Choir
Mark Gibson and Earl Rivers, conductors
Featuring faculty artist Michael Unger, organ and student artist Christopher Bozeka, tenor
CCM’s Mighty Harrison pipe organ and Philharmonia Orchestra dialogue as “Pope” and “Emperor” in Berlioz’s monumental Te Deum, featuring two mixed choirs, children’s choir and tenor soloist. Te Deumoriginally premiered in 1855 in Paris’ Saint-Eustache Church. This concert program also features Stravinsky’s monumentally influential The Rite of Spring.
Location: Corbett Auditorium
Tickets: $12 general, $6 non-UC students, UC students FREE.

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9 a.m. – 6 p.m. Saturday, March 14
OPERA SCHOLARSHIP COMPETITION
Hear tomorrow’s opera stars today as CCM hosts its prestigious national competition, featuring current and new students vying for tuition scholarships and cash awards.
Location: Corbett Auditorium
Admission: FREE

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4 p.m., Sunday, March 15
• CCM Ensemble-in-Residence •
CELEBRATE YOUTH!
Cincinnati Children’s Choir
Robyn Lana, music director
The 450 members of the Cincinnati Children’s Choir, including all seven CCM resident choirs and 12 satellite choirs from across the Tri-State area, will celebrate the artistry of youth, performing a variety of repertoire including traditional, folk and world music.
Location: Christ’s Church at Mason, 5165 Western Row Rd, Mason, OH 45040
Tickets: $12 general, $6 non-UC students, UC students FREE.

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8 p.m. Monday, March 23
• Piano Series •
BEARCAT PIANO FESTIVAL GUEST ARTIST RECITAL
Jerome Lowenthal and Ursula Oppens, piano
The Big Apple comes to CCM as esteemed artists Jerome Lowenthal (The Julliard School) and Ursula Oppens (CUNY and Brooklyn College) visit for an evening of diverse piano works, with a program featuring:
RZEWSKI: Four Hands
SCHUBERT: Four Impromptus, Op. 90
FAURÉ: Nocturne No. 6 in D-flat Major, Op. 63
FRANCK/CORTOT: Sonata for piano and violin (arr. for solo piano)
FAURÉ: Dolly Suite, Op. 56
Location: Robert J. Werner Recital Hall
Admission: FREE

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8 p.m. Tuesday, March 24
Sonic Explorations
Mara Helmuth, music director
Featuring an evening of electroacoustic and computer music by CCM students, faculty and guests.
Location: Cohen Family Studio Theater
Admission: FREE

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Guest artist Sergei Babayan. Photo copyright Christian Steiner.

8 p.m. Wednesday, March 25
• Special Event Series •
BEARCAT PIANO FESTIVAL GUEST ARTIST RECITAL
Sergei Babayan, piano
Artist-in-Residence at CIM, Sergei Babayan is acclaimed for the immediacy, sensitivity and depth of his interpretations. His philosophy that a recital should reveal a spiritual dimension results in playing that sustains a captivating intensity. A student of such legendary musicians as Gornostayeva, Naumov, Pletnev and Vlasenko at the Moscow Conservatory, Babayan won consecutive first prizes in several major international competitions, including the Casadesus and Hammamatsu. Since that time, he has appeared in recital internationally in the most important venues, and with the world’s best orchestras. Additionally Babayan is a frequent two piano collaborator with Martha Argerich.
Location: Robert J. Werner Recital Hall
Tickets: $15 general, $10 non-UC students, UC students FREE.

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8 p.m. Wednesday, March 25
• Choral Series •
SPRING SHOWCASE
UC Men’s and Women’s Choruses
Christopher Albanese and Alexander Sutton, conductors
The UC Men’s and Women’s Choruses and Cabaret Singers, comprised of students from all 13 UC colleges, perform a variety of classical, popular, folk and jazz tunes. UC Women’s Chorus presents “Oceania and the Ocean; Americana and Devotion,” featuring works of William Billings from The New England Psalm Singer, Irving Fine from Alice in Wonderland, and Jussi Chydenius, Craig Hella Johnson, Stephen Leek and Annea Lockwood. UC Men’s Chorus offers Gustav Holst’s Dirge for Two Veterans and Grieg’s Brothers Sing On. Combined Choruses perform Jeffrey Van’s A Procession Winding Around Me for solo guitar and chorus on a Civil War text by Walt Whitman.
Location: Corbett Auditorium
Tickets: $12 general, $6 non-UC students, UC students FREE.

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7 p.m. Thursday, March 26
THE MUSICAL THEATRE SENIOR SHOWCASE
A Friends of CCM Benefit
Created and performed by the Class of 2015 in Musical Theatre
The Friends of CCM invite you to see our musical theatre stars of tomorrow in action at the 23^rd edition of the “Not Famous Yet” showcase featuring the Class of 2015 prior to their New York City debut. The annual CCM Musical Theatre Young Alumni Award will be presented at the showcase.
Location: Patricia Corbett Theater
Tickets: Special ticket prices and limited seating. For more information, contact CCM External Relations at 513-556-2100.

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2 and 7 p.m. Friday, March 27
THE DRAMA SENIOR SHOWCASE
Enjoy the talents of the CCM Drama Class of 2015 in their exciting industry showcase prior to their professional debuts in New York and Los Angeles. The performance will be followed by the 12^th annual DOLLY awards recognizing excellence in the 2014-15 Drama Season and a reception in the Baur Room of UC’s Corbett Center for the Performing Arts.
Location: Patricia Corbett Theater
Admission: FREE

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8 p.m. Friday, March 27
• Piano Series •
BEARCAT PIANO FESTIVAL GUEST ARTIST RECITAL
Polina Bespalko, piano
Pianist and Xavier University professor Polina Bespalko returns to her alma mater to present the works of Prokofiev, Kapustin, Gubaidulina, Pärt and the monumental Liszt Sonata.
Location: Robert J. Werner Recital Hall
Admission: FREE

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4 and 8 p.m. Saturday, March 28
THE MUSICAL THEATRE SENIOR SHOWCASE
Created and performed by the Class of 2015 in Musical Theatre
Our musical theatre stars of tomorrow in action at the 23^rd edition of the “Not Famous Yet” showcase featuring the Class of 2015 prior to their New York City debut.
Location: Patricia Corbett Theater
Admission: Admission is free, but reservations are required. Tickets become available at noon on Monday, March 23. Visit the CCM Box Office or call 513-556-4183 to reserve. Limit two tickets per order.

CCM Season Presenting Sponsor & Musical Theatre Program Sponsor: The Otto M. Budig Family Foundation

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4 p.m. Sunday, March 29
• Winds Series •
PRISM XVIII
CCM Wind Orchestra, Wind Ensemble, Jazz Ensembles and Special Guests
Glenn D. Price, music director
Angela Holt, conductor
CCM proudly presents 60 minutes of crowd-pleasing, non-stop excitement by diverse performers throughout Corbett Auditorium. An annual favorite, the PRISM concert is perfect entertainment for the entire family!
Location: Corbett Auditorium
Tickets: $12 general, $6 non-UC students, UC students FREE.

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Guest artist Stephen Hough. Photo copyright Andrew Crowley.

8 p.m. Monday, March 30
• Prestige Event Series •
BEARCAT PIANO FESTIVAL GUEST ARTIST RECITAL
Stephen Hough, CBE, piano
Presented in cooperation with the Xavier University Classical Piano Series
The Inaugural Father John Heim, S.J. Concert
CCM’s Bearcat Piano Festival welcomes extraordinary pianist, composer, writer, teacher, painter and 2001 MacArthur Fellowship-recipient Stephen Hough to the stage for the inaugural Father John Heim Concert. Hough’s program will include Debussy’s La plus que lente, Estampes, L’isle joyeux and Children’s Cornerand Chopin’s Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23, Ballade No. 2 in F Major, Op. 38, Ballade No. 3 in A-flat Major, Op. 47 and Ballade No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 52. Appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2014 for his services to the art of music, Hough’s concert appearance is being presented in cooperation with the Xavier University Classical Piano Series, directed by Polina Bespalko.
Location: Corbett Auditorium
Tickets: $25 general, $15 non-UC/Xavier University students, $10 for UC and Xavier University students.

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8 p.m. Tuesday, March 31
• CCM String Quartet-in-Residence •
The Ariel Quartet
The Ariel Quartet’s 2014-15 CCM Concert Series comes to a stunning conclusion with a program featuring Haydn’s String Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 76, No. 4, Bartók’s String Quartet No. 5, Sz. 102 and Brahms’ String Quartet No. 3 in B-flat Major, Op. 67. This concert is dedicated to the loving memory of businessman and philanthropist William A. Friedlander. The Friedlanders’ generosity has helped to make the Ariel Quartet’s residency at CCM possible.
Location: Corbett Auditorium
Tickets: $20 general, $15 non-UC students, UC students FREE.

The Ariel Quartet’s 2014-15 CCM concert series is made possible by the generous contributions of The Corbett Foundation, Dr. & Mrs. Randolph L. Wadsworth, Mr. & Mrs. William A. Friedlander, Mr. & Mrs. Harry H. Santen, Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Stegman and Dianne & J. David Rosenberg.

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APRIL

5 p.m. Thursday, April 2
• Guest Artist Series •
Cleveland Orchestra Horns
Featuring Richard King, horn; Jesse McCormick, horn; and Lydia Brown, piano
Location: Robert J. Werner Recital Hall
Admission: FREE

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CANCELED
8 p.m. Thursday, April 2
• Guest Artist Series •
Pangaea Chamber Players
Formed and based in Oklahoma, this contemporary group performs works (from Weber to Rorem) as diverse as their ensemble!
Location: Watson Hall
Admission: FREE

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CCM celebrates 10 years of Pianopalooza!

8 p.m. Saturday, April 4
• Special Event Series •
PIANOPALOOZA X
Michael Chertock, director
Featuring the CCM Concert Orchestra
Aik Khai Pung, conductor
Celebrate the art of the piano with the tenth installment of this popular concert, showcasing CCM’s most spectacular student pianists, with special appearances by CCM’s faculty artists. In honor of the tenth annual Pianopalooza, the Concert Orchestra will join CCM’s pianists for performances of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp Minor, Op. 1; Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43; and Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30.
Location: Corbett Auditorium
Tickets: $15 general, $10 non-UC students, UC students FREE.

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8 p.m. Monday, April 6
CCM Brass Choir
Timothy Northcut, music director
CCM’s nationally recognized brass ensemble performs classical, folk and popular selections.
Location: Corbett Auditorium
Admission: FREE

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8 p.m. Tuesday, April 7
Classical Guitar Ensemble
Clare Callahan, music director
Featuring solos, duos, trios and quartets by CCM’s classical guitar majors.
Location: Robert J. Werner Recital Hall
Admission: FREE

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CCM’s Mainstage Series presents Mozart’s ‘Cosi Fan Tutte.’

8 p.m. Thursday, April 9
8 p.m. Friday, April 10
8 p.m. Saturday, April 11
2 p.m. Sunday, April 12
• Mainstage Opera Series •
COSÌ FAN TUTTE
Music by W.A. Mozart
Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte
Mark Gibson, conductor
Robin Guarino, director
Così fan tutte is in many ways Mozart’s most celebrated opera score and Da Ponte’s most inspired script. It is a comedy of innocence and experience, at times hilarious and other times bewildering, but always filled with heart and satire. Director Robin Guarino, who staged this masterpiece at the Metropolitan Opera last year, has a special love for this opera, with all its whimsy and ingenuity, and because of the passion that only Mozart can express through music. Sung in Italian with English supertitles.
Location: Patricia Corbett Theater
Tickets: $31-35 adults, $20-24 non-UC students, $18-22 UC students.

Mainstage Season Production Sponsor: Macy’s

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8 p.m. Thursday, April 9
8 p.m. Friday, April 10
2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, April 11
• Studio Musical Theatre Series •
MUSICALS REDUX: 110 IN THE SHADE
Lyrics by Tom Jones
Music by Harvey Schmidt
Book by N. Richard Nash
Vince DeGeorge, director and choreographer
Steve Goers, music director
CCM’s award-winning Musicals Redux series returns with a gem from the storehouse of forgotten American musicals. Based upon the play The Rainmaker by N. Richard Nash, 110 in the Shade tells the tale of Lizzie Curry, a forthright “old maid” living on a ranch with her father and brothers in the American southwest. When a charismatic con man posing as a rainmaker promises to bring relief to the drought-stricken area, he awakens new feelings of love and self-discovery in the heart of the lonely woman. With a lush score by the composers of The Fantasticks, 110 in the Shade is a lovely reminder of the “Golden Age” of American Musical Theatre.
Location: Cohen Family Studio Theater
Admission: Admission is free, but reservations are required. Tickets become available at noon on Monday, April 6. Visit the CCM Box Office or call 513-556-4183 to reserve. Limit two tickets per order.

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CCM faculty emeritus and guest artist Rick VanMatre.

7 p.m. Sunday, April 12
• Jazz and Orchestra Series •
RIVER RUNS – A CONCERTO FOR JAZZ GUITAR, SAXOPHONE AND ORCHESTRA BY CHUCK OWEN
CCM Philharmonia Concert Orchestra and Jazz Ensemble
Mark Gibson and Scott Belck, music conductors
Featuring faculty emeritus artist Rick VanMatre, saxophone
Our annual collaborative concert where Jazz and Orchestra meet. This year’s concert features a stunning five-movement work that Rufus Reid, acclaimed bassist and educator, describes as, “a tour de force of contemporary orchestral competition.” Nominated for two Grammy awards, this beautiful work will take your breath away.
Location: Corbett Auditorium
Tickets: $12 general, $6 non-UC students, UC students FREE.

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7 p.m. Sunday, April 12
• Winds Series •
CCM Chamber Winds
Glenn D. Price, music director and conductor
Location: Robert J. Werner Recital Hall
Admission: FREE

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7 p.m. Sunday, April 12
Guitar Chamber Music
Clare Callahan, music director
An evening of music for guitar with cello, violin, voice and other combinations.
Location: Watson Hall
Admission: FREE

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8 p.m. Tuesday, April 14
• Winds Series •
THE BRITISH HERITAGE
CCM Wind Orchestra
Glenn D. Price, conductor
HANDEL: Music from Royal Fireworks
TURNBULL: African Dances
BENNETT: Morning Music
ARNOLD: “Sarabande” from Solitare
WALTON: Crown Imperial
Location: Corbett Auditorium
Tickets: $12 general, $6 non-UC students, UC students FREE.

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8 p.m. Wednesday, April 15
• Winds Series •
HOT OFF THE PRESS!
CCM Wind Ensemble
Angela Holt, conductor
Featuring faculty artists Mark Gibson, piano; and Randy Gardner, French horn
This showcase features CCM faculty artists Mark Gibson and Randy Gardner in a rare concert performance with the Wind Ensemble! Music will include a national premiere by recent CCM graduate Thanapol Setabrahmana plus a world premiere by CCM professor Miguel Roig-Francolí.
Location: Corbett Auditorium
Admission: FREE

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8 p.m. Thursday, April 16
• Orchestra Series •
ANNUAL CONCERTO CONCERT
CCM Philharmonia Chamber Orchestra
Mark Gibson, music director
John Murton, Jiannan Cheng, Avishay Shalom and Levi Hammer, conductors
MENDELSSOHN: Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream
WIENIAWSKI: Concerto No. 2 in D Minor for Violin, Op. 22
HINDEMITH: Concerto for Woodwinds, Harp and Orchestra
HAYDN: Symphony No. 101 in D Major, “The Clock”
Location: Corbett Auditorium
Admission: FREE

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2:30 p.m. Friday, April 17
• The Joseph and Frances Jones Poetker Thinking About Music Lecture Series •
IS ETHNOMUSICOLOGY INHERENTLY FEMINIST?
Dr. Ellen Koskoff, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester
Dr. Ellen Koskoff will present excerpts from her recent book, A Feminist Ethnomusicology. In the process, she will raise several important questions. What, if anything, is feminist about ethnomusicology? What do fieldwork, ethnography and music contribute to the process of dismantling hierarchies of power based on gender? Furthermore, what does feminism contribute to a deeper understanding of social and musical difference?
Location: Baur Room
Admission: FREE

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7 p.m. Saturday, April 18
• Starling Series •
Starling Chamber Orchestra
Kurt Sassmannshaus, music director
Showcasing the superbly talented young students from the Starling Preparatory String Project.
Location: Robert J. Werner Recital Hall
Admission: FREE

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8 p.m. Saturday, April 18
• Percussion Series •
Percussion Ensemble
James Culley, coordinator
The ensemble will present recent percussion chamber works by innovative composers including James Tenney, Vinko Globokar, Michael Byron, Baljinder Sekhon and more.
Location: Patricia Corbett Theater
Admission: FREE

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3 p.m. Sunday, April 19
• Choral Series •
DAVE BRUBECK’S THE GATES OF JUSTICE
CCM Chorale and Brass Choir
Featuring the Phil DeGreg Trio and guest choir The Martin Luther King Chorale
Brett Scott, conductor
Originally premiered in 1969 for the dedication of Cincinnati’s Rockdale Temple, Dave Brubeck’s The Gates of Justice was a co-commission by CCM and the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, with a premiere conducted by Erich Kunzel. The text is drawn from the Hebrew Bible, speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Negro Spirituals, the writings of Hillel and lyrics by the composer’s wife, Iola Brubeck.
Location: St. Francis de Sales Parish, 1600 Madison Road, Cincinnati, OH
New venue: Knox Presbyterian Church, 3400 Michigan Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45208
Tickets: $12 general, $6 non-UC students, UC students FREE. Tickets will also be available beginning at 2 p.m. on the day of the performance at St. Francis de Dales Parish Knox Presbyterian Church; cash and check only at the door.

Sponsored by The CCM Harmony Fund: Challenging Hate and Prejudice through Performing Arts

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4 p.m. Sunday, April 19
• Winds Series •
CCM Chamber Players
Glenn D. Price, music director and conductor
WILSON: Dancing with the Devil
VILLA-LOBOS: Quintette Instrumental
HINDEMITH: Septet
GERSHWIN: Rhapsody in Blue
Location: Robert J. Werner Recital Hall
Admission: FREE

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8 p.m. Tuesday, April 21
Composition Department Recital
Location: Patricia Corbett Theater
Admission: FREE

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New Addition!
8 p.m. Wednesday, April 22
• Faculty Artist Series •
The Original Phil DeGreg and Friends
Newly rescheduled, due to a snow day on Feb. 17: CCM celebrates the career of retiring Professor of Jazz Studies Phil DeGreg with a concert of music composed by the faculty artist!
Location: Patricia Corbett Theater
Admission: FREE

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CCM Eminent Scholar in Chamber Music and Artist-in-Residence James Tocco.

8 p.m. Thursday, April 23
8 p.m. Friday, April 24
2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, April 25
• Special Event Series •
SPRING DANCE CONCERT – FEATURING STRAVINSKY’S LES NOCES (THE WEDDING)
CCM Ballet Ensemble
Jiang Qi and Michael Tevlin, directors
Earl Rivers, conductor
Featuring the CCM Chamber Choir, Percussionists and faculty artist James Tocco, along with members of his Piano Studio
Premiered in Paris in 1923, Stravinsky’s Les Noces captures the scenes and flavor of a Russian peasant wedding through the unique texture of four pianists, six percussionists, solo quartet and chorus.
Location: Corbett Auditorium
Tickets: $15 general, $10 non-UC students, UC students FREE.

The Dance Department gratefully acknowledges the support of the Corbett Endowment at CCM.

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CCM’s Studio Series presents ‘You’re Welcome (A Cycle of Bad Plays).’

8 p.m. Thursday, April 23
8 p.m. Friday, April 24
2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, April 25
• Studio Drama Series •
YOU’RE WELCOME (A Cycle of Bad Plays)
Written by Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen
Developed by Oliver Butler
Made by The Debate Society
Brant Russell, director
You’re Welcome is a collection of five small plays about creation and failure; a unified theatrical myth that tells the story of an invented band of performers and their catastrophic attempts at connection. The plays are about love, death, desire, tragedy, comedy, drunk driving, sexiness, beauty, loss, the battle between good and evil, a baby born wearing a hat. And theater. They’re about theater. Kind of the last word on theater. This is You’re Welcome—five plays that pretty much nail it. You’re welcome
Location: Cohen Family Studio Theater
Admission: Admission is free, but reservations are required. Tickets become available at noon on Monday, April 20. Visit the CCM Box Office or call 513-556-4183 to reserve. Limit two tickets per order.

Drama Studio Series Sponsor: Neil Artman & Margaret Straub

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New Addition!
7 p.m. Saturday, April 25
• Guest Artist Series •
Mark Applebaum, composition
Location: Watson Robert J. Werner Recital Hall
Admission: FREE

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7 p.m. Monday, April 27
• CCM Preparatory Department •
Cincinnati Youth Wind Ensemble & Jr. Wind Ensemble
Ann Porter and Jim Daughters, conductors
The area’s most talented middle and high school instrumentalists perform traditional and contemporary band music.
Location: Corbett Auditorium
Admission: FREE

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8 p.m. Wednesday, April 29
University of Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Brian Diller, music director and conductor
Comprised of non-music majors, UC’s campus orchestra is designed to provide students with an opportunity to rehearse and perform orchestral repertoire.
Location: Corbett Auditorium
Admission: FREE

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8 p.m. Wednesday, April 29
• CCM Preparatory Department •
CCM Prep Brass Choir
Paul Hillner, director
The area’s finest young brass musicians perform a concert of music composed and arranged for brass choir.
Location: Robert J. Werner Recital Hall
Admission: FREE

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New Addition!
7 p.m. Thursday, April 30
Electronic Media Senior Showcase
Location: Watson Hall
Admission: FREE

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MAY

7:30 p.m. Friday, May 1
7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 2
• CCM Preparatory Department •
SPRING YOUTH BALLET CONCERT
CCM Preparatory Ballet Company
Jonnie Lynn Jacobs-Percer, director
The CCM Youth Ballet Companies feature talented students from ages nine through adults, performing traditional and contemporary works choreographed by CCM and CCM Prep faculty.
Location: Patricia Corbett Theater
Tickets: $15 general, $10 non-UC students, UC students FREE.

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5 p.m. Sunday, May 3
• CCM Ensemble-in-Residence •
ANGELIC SPRING
Cincinnati Children’s Choir
Robyn Lana, music director
Come celebrate spring through song and the energy of youthful artistry with the 300 members of the Cincinnati Children’s Choir CCM Resident Choirs. Highlights include the Bel Canto Choir who will preview sacred and secular music to be performed at the Vatican and the World Expo in Milan this summer.
Location: Corbett Auditorium
Tickets: $12 general, $6 non-UC students, UC students FREE.

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7 p.m. Thursday, May 7
7 p.m. Friday, May 8
3 p.m. Saturday, May 9
• CCM Preparatory Department •
THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE, JR.
CCM’s Junior Musical Theatre Intensive Program
Dee Anne Bryll, director
Rebecca Childs, musical director
Based on the 1967 film of the same name, Thoroughly Modern Millie tells the story of Millie Dillmount, a small-town girl who comes to New York City to marry for money instead of love—a thoroughly modern aim! Winner of six 2002 Tony Awards including Best Musical, this comic pastiche performed by the talented members of the Jr. Musical Theatre Intensive program promises to delight audiences with its modern ways.
Location: Cohen Family Studio Theater
Tickets: $15 general, $10 non-UC students, UC students FREE.

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3 p.m. Sunday, May 10
• CCM Preparatory Department •
Cincinnati Junior Strings
Rachel Bierkan, director
Cincinnati’s first string ensemble for middle school students presents its annual spring concert, featuring music by a variety of composers.
Location: Muntz Theater, UC-Blue Ash Campus
Admission: FREE

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9 a.m.–3 p.m. Saturday, May 16
• CCM Preparatory Department •
CCM Preparatory Showcase
CCM Prep presents a full day of ongoing performances by theatre arts and dance students in Patricia Corbett Theater, with Achievement Festival Music Recitals all day throughout CCM Village! Audiences get the chance to experience the year’s worth of hard work and the talents of CCM Prep students from a variety of disciplines. For more information call 513-556-2595.
Location: CCM Village
Admission: FREE
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4 p.m. Sunday, May 17
• CCM Preparatory Department •
CCM Prep Jazz Extravaganza
Location: Patricia Corbett Theater
Admission: FREE

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SPONSORS

CCM recognizes and thanks the following corporations, foundations and individuals for their generous support:

CCM Season Presenting Sponsor and Musical Theatre Program Sponsor
The Otto M. Budig Family Foundation

Dance Department Supporter & All-Steinway School Sponsor
The Corbett Endowment at CCM

Community Partners
ArtsWave
The Greater Cincinnati Foundation
The Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr./ U.S. Bank Foundation
The Louise Taft Semple Foundation

Mainstage Season Production Sponsor
Macy’s

Opera Department Sponsor
Mr. & Mrs. Edward S. Rosenthal

Visiting Artists Sponsor
The Joseph and Frances Jones Poetker Fund of the Cambridge Charitable Foundation, Ritter & Randolph, LLC, Corporate Counsel

Ariel Quartet Sponsors
The Corbett Foundation
Dr. & Mrs. Randolph L. Wadsworth
Mr. & Mrs. William A. Friedlander
Mr. & Mrs. Harry H. Santen
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Stegman
Mr. & Mrs. J. David Rosenberg

Drama Studio Series Sponsor
Neil Artman and Margaret Straub

Community Outreach Sponsors
Buddy Roger’s Music
The Ladislas and Vilma Segoe Family Foundation

Mainstage Production Sponsor
Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC.

Orchestral Sponsor
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph W. Hirschhorn

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A preeminent institution for the performing and media arts, CCM is the largest single source of performing arts presentations in the state of Ohio.

All event dates and programs are subject to change. For a complete calendar of events, please visit us online at ccm.uc.edu.

UC’s College-Conservatory of Music: The Season is Yours – Get Swept Away!

CCM Professor Brett Scott Named Director of Cincinnati’s Musica Sacra Chorus

We are happy to report that CCM Assistant Professor of Ensembles and Conducting L. Brett Scott has been appointed as Music Director of Cincinnati’s Musica Sacra Chorus.

Scott was nominated by Dr. Helmut J. Roehrig, who founded Musica Sacra in 1965. Dr. Roehrig will now assume the title and duties of Music Director Emeritus, and will continue to be involved in some decision-making aspects of the Chorus.

Scott has been a faculty member at CCM since 2007. He conducts the CCM Chorale and the Opera D’Arte undergraduate operas, and is also director of Cincinnati Camerata.

He is currently Vice President of the National Collegiate Choral Association, and has conducted, taught and lectured in Canada, Portugal and Cuba as well as throughout the United States. At the recent 2013 Portugal International Choral Festival, he conducted the ESML Chamber Choir to Gold and a first place finish in their category.

CCM Productions Win Big at League of Cincinnati Theatres’ 2014 Awards Ceremony

Winners of the League of Cincinnati Theatres’ (LCT) 2013-14 Season Awards were announced on Monday night, with CCM faculty members, students and productions taking home a number of awards, including:

• Best Musical (Tie): CCM’s Les Miserables (tied with Carnegie Theatre’s Chicago)
• Choreography (Tie): Diane Lala and Patti James for CCM’s Singin’ in the Rain (tied with David Baum for Carnegie Theatre’s Chicago)
• Music Direction: Steve Goers for CCM’s Les Miserables
• Scenic Design: Mark Halpin for CCM’s Singin’ in the Rain
• Ensemble in a Musical: CCM’s Les Miserables
• Lead Actor in a Musical: Blaine Krauss in CCM’s Les Miserables
• Featured Actor in a Musical: Matthew Paul Hill in CCM’s Les Miserables
• Featured Actress in a Musical: Jenny Hickman in CCM’s Carrie

Faculty member Kelly Yurko also received a Special Contribution Award for her prosthetic design for Clifton Players’ production of The Whale. Congratulations to all of this year’s winners!

Three CCM Students Named As League of Cincinnati Theatres’ 2014 Rising Stars

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The League of Cincinnati Theatres (LCT) has announced its 2014 Rising Star Award-recipients and this year’s winners include current and former CCM students Kaitlyn Adams, Blaine Krauss and Kevin Semancik, along with recent Xavier University graduate Patrick Phillips. Congratulations to all of this year’s winners!

All four young artists have been awarded for their exemplary contributions to local theatre courtesy of Diet Dr. Pepper and Pepsi Beverages. This year’s winners were chosen from a pool of nominees recommended by their university or a theatre they have worked for. CCM’s Matt Hill and Shaun Sutton were runners up.

Rising Stars must be under 25 years of age and are nominated for their body of work by academic and theatre personnel. The award was created to recognize talented young people who have and will contribute to professional theatre in Cincinnati and the industry at large.

This year’s committee was chaired by LCT Board Members Cathy Springfield and Kirk Sheppard. Each winner receives $1000 to help them as they continue their careers courtesy of Diet Dr. Pepper and Pepsi Beverages, facilitated by Rick Gill.

You can learn more about Kaitlyn Adams, Blaine Krauss and Kevin Semancik below!

CCM Presents Cincinnati Premiere of Benjamin Britten’s Opera ‘Owen Wingrave,’ Nov. 21-24

From left to right: Edward Nelson as Owen Wingrave and Jason Weisinger as General Sir Phillip Wingrave in ‘Owen Wingrave.’ Photography by Mark Lyons.

CCM’s celebration of Benjamin Britten at 100 continues with the Cincinnati premiere of the composer’s penultimate opera Owen Wingrave, running Nov. 21-24 in Patricia Corbett Theater. CCM welcomes guest artist and alumnus Johannes Müller-Stosch to the podium for this Mainstage Series production, which features stage direction by CCM Professor of Voice Kenneth Shaw. The opera will be sung in English with supertitles.

Based on the 1893 Henry James short story of the same name and commissioned by the BBC in 1966, Owen Wingrave was completed for television in 1970. With music by Britten and a libretto by his frequent collaborator Myfanwy Piper, Shaw suggests that the opera offers “both drama and a touch of lightness, horror and hope, mystery and atmosphere, grandeur and intimacy.”

Owen Wingrave is often regarded as one of Britten’s most powerful scores. According to Shaw, the music of Owen Wingrave is exceptionally challenging, making it ideal for training students. The opera story is equally compelling and is centered on the titular Owen Wingrave, a pacifist born into a long line of military heroes who struggles to prove his inner strength to his disapproving family, even if it leads to his own mysterious end. “A secret is something that has resonance for all of us,” Shaw explains. “We keep secrets, and secrets are kept from us. For the Wingrave family, their secret doesn’t really have a full answer – it is a mystery.”

Cincinnati Public Television Broadcasts CCM Philharmonia Concert on June 10

Mark Gibson and the CCM Philharmonia. Photography by Dottie Stover.

CCM’s internationally-renowned Philharmonia Orchestra will be coming to a television near you this month courtesy of CET, Cincinnati Public Television. The CET Arts channel will premiere CCM’s Orchestra Series: Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 in D Minor at 8 p.m. on Monday, June 10.

This broadcast is part of an ongoing collaboration between CCM and CET, which will bring CCM’s world-class performances to PBS viewers throughout the Greater Cincinnati viewing area. CET Arts, which is celebrating three years on-air, brings the world stage to Greater Cincinnati and showcases the arts in our community.

Recorded in March, this performance was part of CCM’s day-long “Mahler Marathon,” which featured performances of Gustav Mahler’s Third and Fourth Symphonies and other selections by the CCM Philharmonia and Concert Orchestras. CCM Director of Orchestral Studies Mark Gibson conducted the entire “marathon” performance.

CCM Drama, Dance, Choral, Piano, Musical Theatre And More On Display This Weekend!

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CCM’s stars of tomorrow will be shining bright in a wide variety of concerts and productions running this weekend!

CCM’s 2012-13 Studio Series concludes with a production of Emily Mann’s powerful docu-drama Execution of Justice, running through April 20 in UC’s Cohen Family Studio Theater. Admission is free, but reservations are required. This production contains mature subject matter. Learn more about this production here.

CCM’s Ballet Ensemble also presents its annual Spring Dance Concert this weekend, with performances running through April 20 in Patricia Corbett Theater. This year’s program features unique collaborations with CCM’s Chamber Choir and Chamber Players. Learn more about this production here.

At 8 p.m. this Saturday, April 20, the CCM’s Chorale and Concert Orchestra join forces with a variety of special guests to present Benjamin Britten’s Spring Symphony and other works in Corbett Auditorium! Learn more about this performance here.

CCM’s annual celebration of the art of the piano returns at 7 p.m. this Sunday, April 21, as Pianopalooza VIII showcases our most spectacular student pianists! Learn more about this performance here.

CCM Ensembles Join with Xavier University Concert Choir and Cincinnati Children’s Choir to Perform Britten’s ‘Spring Symphony’

‘Spring Symphony’ composer Benjamin Britten, circa 1949. Photography by Roland Haupt; courtesy of http://www.britten100.org.

CCM’s Chorale and Concert Orchestra join forces with the Xavier University Concert Choir and Bel Canto Choir of the Cincinnati Children’s Choir for a performance of Benjamin Britten’s Spring Symphony and other works at 8 p.m. on Saturday, April 20, in UC’s Corbett Auditorium. The program will also include Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis for string orchestra and Edward Elgar’s concert overture In the South. Tickets are on sale now.

Britten’s Spring Symphony, Op. 44, was commissioned and dedicated to Serge Koussevitsky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, which shared the 1949 premiere with the Concertgebouw Orchestra in July (in Amsterdam) and August (with the BSO at Tanglewood). This choral symphony was written just four years after Britten’s widely acclaimed Peter Grimes opera when the composer was 35.