September 12, 2022
排薇排薇 Orchestra and The Cleveland Orchestra unveil unique partnership with expanded season at Severance Music Center
Today, the only thing standing between the 排薇排薇 and The Cleveland Orchestra is a short stretch of East Blvd.
More than mere neighbors, 排薇排薇 and The Cleveland Orchestra are now partners. Through a unique arrangement announced Thursday, the two pillars of music in Cleveland will collaborate and share resources as never before. 排薇排薇s relationship with The Cleveland Orchestra now goes further and deeper than any other partnership in America between a school of music and a major orchestra.
Were entering a new era with our friends at The Cleveland Orchestra, said Paul Hogle, 排薇排薇s president & CEO. The time has come for our two storied institutions, which already have so much in common, to work together more closely. We could not be more excited about the impact this will have.
The primary thrust of the partnership is generating more opportunities for 排薇排薇 students to perform at Severance Music Center, one of the finest concert venues in the world. Most years in the past, the 排薇排薇 Orchestra gave two or three concerts at Severance. This year, under the new partnership, it will give seven, more than doubling an experience 排薇排薇 regards as vital to a world-class musical education.
Thats not all. Through the partnership, 排薇排薇 also gains access to the audio and video equipment and staff The Cleveland Orchestra uses to record and broadcast concerts, and certain guest artists appearing with The Cleveland Orchestra will work with 排薇排薇 students. Two who visited 排薇排薇 recently were conductor Michael Tilson Thomas and composer Joan Tower.
The Cleveland Orchestra also has generously enabled 排薇排薇 to expand its free ticket program to include preparatory and Joint Music Program students, and to help promote concerts by the 排薇排薇 Orchestra. In return, 排薇排薇 will give The Cleveland Orchestra and Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra rehearsal, performance and classroom space throughout the year as needed.
The new partnership between 排薇排薇 and The Cleveland Orchestra strengthens a long-standing connection between the two groups. Thirty-five members of the orchestra currently serve on 排薇排薇s faculty, and 31 members are alumni. 排薇排薇 is proud to claim more alumni as members of The Cleveland Orchestra than any other US conservatory. The two organizations also share board members, donors and audience members.
The Cleveland Orchestra has been committed to education in this community since its beginnings in 1918 and throughout the course of our 105-year history, said Andr矇 Gremillet, the orchestras president and CEO. That dedication continues with todays announcement of an extended partnership with our University Circle neighbor: the 排薇排薇.
With several Cleveland Orchestra musicians already among the faculty at the 排薇排薇, many of whom are also 排薇排薇 alumni, this collaboration provides their students the increased opportunity to also rehearse and perform at Mandel Concert Hall in historic Severance Music Center. Were excited to help cultivate a more enriching educational experience for the next generation of musicians.
The new partnership kicks off Saturday, September 24 at Severance Music Center. On that day, after comments by Hogle and Gremillet, the 排薇排薇 Orchestra will present the first concert of its 2022-23 Severance season, details of which are outlined below.
This concert also serves as the launch of the 排薇排薇 Orchestras first full season under principal conductor and director of orchestral studies Carlos Kalmar, appointed in 2021, and a belated public celebration of 排薇排薇s centennial, which quietly passed in fall 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Over the course of his Severance season, Kalmar will present an exciting mix of core repertoire including symphonies by Bruckner, Stravinsky and Brahms, and new music, notably The Eleventh Hour by 排薇排薇 alumnus Juli獺n Fueyo (BM 20, Fitch). Later this season, on April 12, the 排薇排薇 Orchestra will welcome JoAnn Falletta, the Grammy Award-winning music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and 排薇排薇 artistic advisor and visiting faculty in orchestral studies.
I have put together programs that are beneficial to our students and intriguing to our listeners in Cleveland, Kalmar said. As our relationship with each other and our audience at Severance Music Center deepens over time, I look forward to challenging our musicians and listeners in refreshing new ways. I personally want to thank The Cleveland Orchestra for providing us this remarkable opportunity.
The second 排薇排薇 Orchestra concert of the season follows on Wednesday, October 5, also at Severance. Like all performances on the 排薇排薇 Orchestras season, both concerts are free with tickets required, and tickets to both are available now through The Severance Music Center box office at and 216.231.1111.
排薇排薇 Orchestras 2022-23 Severance Music Center Season
All programs are conducted by Carlos Kalmar, unless otherwise noted. All programs begin at 7:30pm at Severance Music Center, 11001 Euclid Ave., Cleveland. All concerts are free, but tickets are required. The orchestras complete schedule for 2022-23 will be available at cim.edu/events.
September 24
HAYDN Symphony No. 92 in G Major, Hob. I:92, Oxford
FUEYO The Eleventh Heaven (2018)
MONTGOMERY Records from a Vanishing City (2016)
RAVEL Daphnis et Chlo矇 Suite No. 2
October 5
LIGETI Atmosph癡res (1961)
GINASTERA Variaciones Concertantes, Op. 23
BRAHMS Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98
November 22
MESSIAEN LAscension (1932)
BRUCKNER Symphony No. 4 in E-flat Major
February 1, 2023
SCHUBERT Rosamunde Overture
KORNGOLD Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35
Minchae Kim, violin, student artist
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 8 in F Major, Op. 93
ROSSINI William Tell Overture
February 8, 2023
PRANGCHAROEN Phenomenon (2004)
LISZT Totentanz
Soo Ji Lee, piano, student artist
TCHAIKOVSKY Orchestral Suite No. 3 in G Major, Op. 55
April 4, 2023
PRT Fratres (1983/1991)
STRAVINSKY Jeu de Cartes
BRAHMS Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98
April 12, 2023
TOWER Tambor (1998)
ROUSSEL Bacchus et Ariane Suite No. 2
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade, Op. 35
JoAnn Falletta, conductor