The Best Classical Music to Catch in Cleveland This Weekend

SEPTEMBER 18 – FRIDAY

7:30 pm – Cleveland Silent Film Festival. “The Johnstown Flood” (1926), in Gartner Auditorium, Cleveland Museum of Art. | 7:30 pm – Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble & Oberlin Percussion Group in Warner Concert Hall.

SEPTEMBER 19 – SATURDAY

2:30 pm – Cleveland Silent Film Festival. “A Page of Madness” (1926) featuring an original score by James Praznik performed by a quintet from the No Exit New Music Ensemble. Gartner Auditorium, Cleveland Museum of Art | 7:30 pm – Cleveland Classical Guitar Society, 2026 Showcase Concert. Sam Hooper, guitar, and Ed Ridley, keyboard. Maltz Performing Arts Center | 7:30 pm – Arts Renaissance Tremont. UnchARTed Territory. Five world-class jazz musicians come together for an experimental evening. Pilgrim Congregational UCC | 7:30 pm – Les Délices. The Poet & the Prodigy. Treelawn Music Hall, Cleveland | 7:30 pm – Oberlin Orchestra. Raphael Jiménez, conductor. Finney Chapel.

SEPTEMBER 20 – SUNDAY

2:30 pm – Cleveland Silent Film Festival. “Beau Geste” (1926). Rodney Sauer leads a quintet in a newly compiled score created for the film. Gartner Auditorium, Cleveland Museum of Art | 3:00 pm – The Cleveland Orchestra. Franz Welser-Möst, conductor, and Golda Schultz, soprano. Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center. | 4:00 pm – Arts @ Holy Trinity. Astralis Chamber Ensemble. Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Akron | 4:00 pm – Daniel Boyle, organ. Grace Episcopal Church, Sandusky | 4:00 pm – CWR Concert Series. Ruth Ann Scanzillo, cello, and Christopher Petit, piano & organ. Church of the Western Reserve, Cleveland | 4:00 pm – St. Noel Concert Series. Clay and Jay Piano Duo. St. Noel Church, Willoughby Hills.

For Details of these and other classical music events, please visit the ClevelandClassical.com concert listings.