Cleveland Chamber Symphony

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Cleveland Chamber Symphony performing in black-light to a Donald Erb piece
Cleveland Chamber Symphony with Ohio Contemporary Ballet
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Cleveland Chamber Symphony with the Cleveland School of the Arts Dancers
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Leslie H. Adams “Cityscape Lights”
** 2024 World Premiere **

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Young & Emerging Composers Concerts

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In collaborations with the
Ohio Contemporary Ballet

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In collaborations with the
Cleveland Composers Guild

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In collaborations with the
Cleveland School of the Arts

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Welcome to Grammy Award-winning Cleveland Chamber Symphony
Now in our 45th year!

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.

NEOSonicFest and our Young and Emerging Composers Concert
Saturday March 8th, 4pm, 2025
Baldwin Wallace Gamble Auditorium
Steven Smith Music Director

Jose Howard-Guerra – University of Akron School of Music
Anthony Malinowski – Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music
Yeonsuk Jung – Bowling Green College of Musical Arts
Josh Beacom – Cleveland State School of Music
Theodore Lovinski – Kent State School of Music
Graham Lazorchak – Oberlin Conservatory of Music
Colin Schrein – Wooster College

Concert will be live streamed HERE

 Program Download

View article at clevelandclassical.com

Stay tuned for more 2025 dates!

– Recent Past Performances –

NEOSonicFall – Celebrating NEOhio Composers

Sunday, September 15th, 2024, 7pm
Baldwin Wallace University – Gamble Auditorium
Steven Smith, Music Director

Spatial Fanfare for Brass Ensemble and Percussion – Donald Erb
Legends for String Orchestra – Loris Chobania
Cityscape Lights – H. Leslie Adams
I. Allegro ritmico   
II. Largo
III.Allgro
Mark George, piano
**World premiere performance

Concert Program: HERE
September Concert 15th, 2024 PRESS RELEASE

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

Our performance of Donald Erb’s Reconnaissance:

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

We are gracious for our major supporters including: