This weekend’s schedule offers a rich mix of stand-alone events — some with multiple performances — and intriguingly programmed festival concerts.
JUNE 5 – FRIDAY
On Friday, Armin Kelly’s Cleveland International Classical Guitar Festival (download the program book here) hosts the Kaleido Guitar Duo (Hao Yang and Kevin Loh, 7:30 in CIM’s Mixon Hall), and ENCORE presents an al fresco celebration with a dancer and full string ensemble (7:30 at the Grove Amphitheater in Mayfield).
JUNE 6 – SATURDAY
This afternoon, the Guitar Festival presents Muxin Li (3 pm in Mixon Hall), and this evening welcomes the Davin-Levin Duo (Colin Davin, guitar, and Emily Levin, harp, 7:30 in Mixon Hall).
Also this afternoon, Renovare Music combines original songs written by refugee storytellers with Afghani and South African instrumentals (2 pm at Visible Voice Books in Cleveland,) while Studio Espressivo features pianists Allison Hillier and Chris Neiner performing tunes inspired by commedia dell’arte (3 pm at Studio Espressivo, repeated Saturday at 8 pm and on Sunday at 8.)
Tonight, ENCORE has given its artistic director Jinjoo Cho carte blanche, and she’s picked music by Aino Sibelius, Jörg Widmann, Jean Sibelius, and Arnold Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht for her 7:30 program at Federated Church in Chagrin Falls.
JUNE 7 – SUNDAY
We’ll highlight three concerts today at the Cleveland International Classical Guitar Festival. Guitarist Nicolò Spera joins flutist Christina Jennings, and violist Matthew Dane, viola, in music by Theofanidis (2 pm in Mixon Hall) and Petra Polácková plays works by J.S. Bach, Collins, Dowland, Narvaez, and Torroba (4 pm in Mixon). The day of Classical guitar music ends with the final round of the James Stroud Classical Guitar Competition in which young musicians ages thirteen to eighteen will perform before the public and a panel of internationally acclaimed judges. Prizes will be announced. (6:30 in Mixon Hall).
For details of these and other classical music events, please visit the ClevelandClassical.com concert listings.
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