Gallery Concerts 2025
Gallery Concert Series – Season 9
Heights Arts’ Gallery Concerts provide paid opportunities for local musicians of diverse backgrounds and musical genres to perform in a unique gallery setting. These concerts are open to the public with a pay-what-you-can model to ensure that any who would like to attend can enjoy these performances.
This year’s Gallery Concert Series features everything from strings to vocals – an eclectic blend of tunes from talented local musicians. Featuring the Ralitsa Georgieva and Caroline Oltmanns: Piano Duo, Cornelius + Karre – violin and percussion duo, and the Baker’s Basement; this season is a sample of Northeast Ohio’s best.
Gallery Concert Schedule
Thursday, September 12, 2024 Gallery Concert – Piano Duo, Ralitsa Georgieva and Caroline Oltmanns
- Performers: Ralitsa Georgieva, piano, Caroline Oltmanns, piano
Ralitsa Georgieva, a pianist with degrees from the State Conservatory of Music in Bulgaria and the Cleveland Institute of Music, has been a faculty member there since 2007. She has won the Steinway Top Teacher Award three times and the Laura Putnam Award for supporting foster care youth. Ralitsa founded Music for Our Children, a concert series that donates proceeds to charities like UNICEF and Ronald McDonald House, and co-founded Songs of the Books to aid crisis nurseries. She has performed at major festivals and collaborated with prominent musicians and orchestras.
Caroline Oltmanns is a pianist, presenter and pedagogue. A Professor of Piano at Youngstown State University, she regularly presents master classes and workshops in the United States and abroad. Her newest solo concept album WIND was released in 2022 on the Filia Mundi Label.
Caroline Oltmanns is a Fulbright Scholar, and an International Steinway Artist. She earned her Diploma at the Staatliche Musikhochschule Freiburg and her Master’s and Doctoral degrees at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
Thursday, March 6, 2025 Gallery Concert – Cornelius + Karre – violin and percussion duo
- Performers: Emily Cornelius, violin, Ross Karre, percussion
Cornelius and Karre focus their programming on concert music that shares many of the same characteristics as classical music and contemporary chamber music. Every piece on a Cornelius and Karre program is adventurous, inventive, and engaging. Toe-tapping rhythms, soaring melodies, virtuosity, and yet unheard wonders of sound are featured in every Cornelius Karre event. Every piece is also introduced by the performers to provide a window into the composers, the pieces, and ways to deepen the listening experience.
Thursday, April 10, 2025 Gallery Concert – the Baker’s Basement
- Performers: Kate Dedinsky, vocals and drums, Adam Grindler, vocals and guitar
Cleveland indie folk duo the Baker’s Basement (tBB) features the eclectic musical stylings of vocalist/drummer Kate Dedinsky and vocalist/guitarist Adam Grindler. At their rhythmic core pulses an orange striped, homemade, bucket-drum concoction, the funky back beat on which Dedinsky performs standing up with both swagger and sway. The duo’s intimate sound, rooted in a whimsical flavor of indie folk music and topped with playful vocal layers often volleyed to-and-fro across the stage, offers a humorous yet heart-wrenching sonic signature that’s altogether their own.