Cleveland Classical Music Events for April Weekend

APRIL 10 – FRIDAY

7:00 pm – No Exit Presents. The Either/Orchestra at Trinity Cathedral. Known for their unconventional jazz stylings, the group is an important champion and purveyor of Ethiopian music and Ethio-jazz. Repeated on Saturday at the Bop Stop.

7:30 pm – The Cleveland Orchestra at Severance with Santtu-Matias Rouvali, conductor, and Sol Gabetta, cello. Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 2 and Schubert’s Symphony No. 9, “The Great.” Repeated on Saturday.

7:30 pm – Apollo’s Fire revives O Jerusalem! Crossroads of Three Faiths in Gartner Auditorium at the Cleveland Museum of Art with 26 artists from Jewish, Palestinian, Muslim, and Christian backgrounds on oud, theorbo, medieval harp, zither, strings, and exotic percussion. Repeated on Saturday at Congregation Mishkan Or in Beachwood.

7:30 pm – The Resonance Project presents pianist Irwin Shung, piano in J. S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations at Plymouth Church UCC, in Shaker Heights.

APRIL 11 – SATURDAY

7:00 pm – Cleveland Repertory Orchestra presents a concert of American music in tribute to Michael Tilson Thomas including Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring. Matthew Salvaggio conducts, with Kira McGirr, mezzo-soprano, at Disciples Church in Cleveland Heights.

7:30 pm – Cleveland Classical Guitar Society presents. David Russell in works by Mauro Giuliani, Isaac Albéniz, J.S. Bach, Stephen Goss, and Gabriel Estarellas at the Maltz Performing Arts Center.

APRIL 12 – SUNDAY

2:00 pm – Tri-C Classical Piano Series presents Stewart Goodyear in a program of Beethoven’s sonatas and his Andante Favoriti, plus two of Goodyear’s original compositions in Tri-C Metro Auditorium.

3:00 pm – Cleveland Chamber Collective presents Travelogue, featuring works by Daniel Kessner, David Lang, Margi Griebling-Haigh, Béla Bartók, Robert Manno, and Dylan Moffitt at Disciples Church in Cleveland Heights.

7:00 pm – CityMusic Cleveland’s April Chamber Concert presents hornist Margaret Tung, violinist Miho Hashizume, and pianist Donna Lee in works by Franz Schubert and Johannes Brahms at Praxis Fiber Workshop.

7:30 pm – Cleveland Chamber Symphony presents its annual Young and Emerging Composers Concert with world premieres by Joseph Ardo, Faith Rawlins, Lucas Sparrow, Owen Axelberd, and Jacob Sims in Gamble Auditorium at Baldwin Wallace.

For full details, please visit our Concert Listings.

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