Cleveland Heights Intimate Music Events
a series of casual Chamber Music presentations, performed in unique Cleveland Heights settings by professional musicians who have settled in the Heights.
Heights Arts is so pleased to present this series with Cleveland Orchestra violinist Isabel Trautwein as Artistic Director. Together, we hope to further Heights Arts mission to enrich the quality of life in the Heights by cultivating a strong, diverse, and collaborative arts community.
Tickets for the first three concerts are $35 per concert per person. All concerts are followed by a dessert reception. Reserve your tickets here.
All concerts are sponsored by David H. Lavelle, CFP.
SOLD OUT! Sunday, November 18, 2007, 7 pm
at a private home in Cleveland Heights
Trombone in a Home
This Chestnut Hills home features a built-in organ.
Schnittke, Work for Trombone and Organ; Mozart, Violin
Sonata; Bach, Busoni Ciaconni; Wagenseil, Concerto for Alto
Trombone; Gubaidulina, Ciaconna
The Cleveland Orchestra’s virtuoso trombonist Rick Stout
offers a program of works that compares 18th-century with
20th-century classical music. He performs a Baroque concerto
with Anne Wilson on the home’s own organ, as
well as a piece by 20th century Russian composer Alfred
Schnittke. Pianist Christina Dahl, who is professor at Stony
Brook college, will play two Ciaconnes, the famous Bach
Ciaconne and a contemporary take by French composer Sofia
Gubaidulina. Cleveland Orchestra violinist Isabel Trautwein
and Christina Dahl also perform Mozarts dark e-minor sonata,
composed shortly after his mother’s death.
Reserve tickets for this concert.
SOLD OUT Monday, January 21, 2008, 7 pm
at a private home in Cleveland Heights
Claude Aloft
Performed in a loft that was used for hay, but not recently.
Debussy Trio for flute, harp, and viola; Debussy string quartet
in g-minor
Stunning harpist Yolanda Kondonassis will be joined in this
loft home by members of the Cleveland Orchestra, Marisela
Sager and Joanna Patterson, playing Debussy’s rhapsodic trio
for flute harp and viola. This will be contrasted with Debussy’s
string quartet in g-minor, a stormy and passionate work,
performed by Daniel Pereira and Jiah Chung from CityMusic
Cleveland and Cleveland Orchestra members Sonja Braaten
and Joanna Patterson.
Reserve tickets for this concert.
SOLD OUT Monday, March 10, 2008, 7pm
at a private home in Cleveland Heights
Blown Away with Franklin Cohen
This Herrick Mews home is an 1880s-era coach house.
Kodaly, Duo for violin and cello; Golijov, Dreams and
Prayers of Isaac the Blind, a fantastic piece by a contemporary
composer combining Klezmer with Piazzolla and bursting with
energy.
The Hopes and Prayers of Isaac the Blind by Osvaldo Golijov,
Grammy Award winner and one of the most famous composers
of our time, is a piece you will never forget. Written in a
Klezmer style with hints of Tango, this work for clarinet
and strings will be performed by Frank Cohen on 3 different
clarinets, including the ominous bass-clarinet, with string
players Diana Cohen, Isabel Trautwein, and Kirsten Docter
from the Cavani Quartet and Tanya Ell, the newest cellist in
The Cleveland Orchestra. Also on this program is the
Duo for violin and cello by Erwin Schulhoff, a wonderful composer
who was murdered very young in Nazi Germany.
Reserve tickets for this concert.
All concerts are followed by a dessert reception
SOLD OUT!Sunday, July 6, 2008
at TWO private homes in Cleveland Heights
Back to the Future
If you have enjoyed a Heights Arts House Concert, imagine having twice as much pleasure. On Sunday, July 6, we will present two concerts to two audiences in two very special Cedar Fairmount homes simultaneously. Then each audience will cross the street to the other concert, and we’ll all join together afterwards for a light supper with the musicians.
A Baroque concert on original instruments will be performed at a unique Tudor home built around 1910. A more modern concert, leaping into lush 19th century romantic music, will be performed at a 2008’s new straw-bale home using the latest green technology.
Tudor House
A Concert of Baroque Music for violin and cello
Miho Hashizume, baroque violin
Rene Schiffer, baroque cello
Straw Bale House
Schubert Cello Quintet in C Major
Isabel Trautwein, violin
Mari Sato, violin
Nathan Olson, viola
Tanya Ell, cello
Danile Pereira, cello
Call 216-371-3457 or e-mail register@heightarts.org for more information.
Reserve tickets for Back to the Future concert here.
To join in the planning and implementation of these house concerts please call 216-371-3457 or e-mail heightsarts@heightsarts.org We can use your ideas, your sponsorship, and/or your donations of refreshments.
Music on Saturday nights at Heights Arts Studio
2340 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights, Ohio 44118
(west side of library bridge)
Sponsored in part by Target
Reservations suggested: 216.371.3457 or register@heightsarts.org
Saturday, December 1, 2007 at 7 p.m.
Holiday Hootenanny
featuring David Budin and Noah Budin & friends.
David Budin, whose concert of late-'60s folk music sold out Cain Park's Alma Theater this past August, and his brother Noah Budin, one of the region's best-known and best-loved singer-songwriters, perform songs of the season along with other musicians. Sing along on the finest Christmas, Hanukkah and other holiday songs.
$5 adults/$2 children 12 & under
Reservations suggested. Call 216-371-3457 or e-mail register@heightsarts.org
Saturday, March 15, 2008 at 7 p.m.
Kassaba
Kassaba introduces a dynamic approach to their performances with piano, saxophones, bass and 25 unusual percussion instruments. As part of the distinct choreography, each member of this group frequently changes positions to play different instruments. Improvisation and well-planned precision are hallmarks of both their music and movement on stage. They perform original compositions and arrangements which remind listeners of jazz, classical and world music. Experience the colorful sights and sounds of this exciting quartet! With Cleveland Heights’ own Greg Slawson and Candice Lee, plus Chris Vance and Mark Boich
$12 adults/$10 children 18 & under at the door
Reservations suggested. Call 216-371-3457 or e-mail register@heightsarts.org
$5 adults/$2 children 12 & under
Reservations suggested. Call 216-371-3457 or e-mail register@heightsarts.org
Friday May 2, at 7pm
Down Yonder Quartet
Sing along with The Down Yonder Quartet from Roots of American Music!
Folk, bluegrass and old-timey music by Doc Watson, Big Bill Broonzy, Robert Johnson, Jimmy Rodgers and the Carter Family will be visited, as well as by more contemporary folk artists such as Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and Johnny Cash. Be prepared to join in the hootenanny with call and response and some of the other communal aspects of traditional music-making!
Kevin Richards on vocals, guitar and mandolin; Bill Lestock on fiddle and mandolin; Raymond DeForest on acoustic bass; and Jen Maurer on vocals and accordion.
$5 adults/$2 children 12 & under
Reservations suggested. Call 216-371-3457 or e-mail register@heightsarts.org
In previous years HeightsArts presented a free weekly summer series featuring local performers sponsored by local businesses and organizations
