Welcome to Grammy Award-winning Cleveland Chamber Symphony

Cleveland Chamber Symphony performing in black-light to a Donald Erb piece

The Cleveland Chamber Symphony (CCS) performs music of our time that dares to explore. We nurture composers, musicians and audiences through professional performances, recordings, commissions, and educational experiences. .

Opera Scenes

May 19, 2023 at Gamble Auditorium
In collaboration with the Cleveland Composers Guild
Featuring short, Northeast Ohio composed Opera scenes

Y&E Concert

Early Fall 2023
Young & Emerging Composers Concert

— Past Performances —

PAST 2022 performances:
NEOSonicFall

Cleveland Chamber Symphony – Gamble Auditorium
September 18, 2022, 7pm
Steven Smith Music Director

Chant – Marilyn Shrude
Pulp Schumann – Nicholas Underhill
Chromo-Synchrony – Steven Smith
Pastoral – Julia Perry
Introduction, Cadenazas, and Interludes – Hale Smith

This performance was live-streamed
Concert Program Link

Composer interviews with Bruce Duffie:
Marilyn Shrude
Hale Smith

Young & Emerging Composers Concert
Cleveland Chamber Symphony – Gamble Auditorium
September 25, 2022, 7pm
Steven Smith Music Director

Genevieve Kramer – Baldwin Wallace University
Aaron Chung – Bowling Green University
Kristian Schembri – Cleveland Institute of Music
Jimmie Parker – Cleveland State University
Tylor Davis – Kent State University
Curtis Lacey – University of Akron

This performance was live-streamed

Concert Program Link

NEOSonicFest – A Northeast Ohio New Music Festival linking top level performance groups into a common festival format.

PAST performance:
CCS Concert April 22, 2022, 7pm
Baldwin Wallace University
Gamble Auditorium
Steven Smith Music Director

Silvestre Revueltas Ocho por radio
Howard Swanson          Night Music
Junlong Kwan Turmoil
            with Cleveland School of the Arts dancers
Matthew Saunders        Martian Dances
            with Verb Ballets
James Mobberly            Capricious Paradise

This performance was live-streamed

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Our latest performance of Donald Erb’s Reconnaissance:

Click HERE for Steven Smith’s WCLV radio NEOSonicFest interview

Check out our past Young & Emerging Composer list here

A 1989 conversation with CCS Founder Ed London with Bruce Duffie.

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