FILM SCREENING
SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 3:45PM
MOVIE NIGHT @ CINEMATHEQUE: IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD
11610 Euclid Ave, Cleveland OH 44106 [ VIEW MAP ]
Free parking is available behind the building in Lot 73 and the annex lot. Both lots can be accessed from E 117th Street, south of Euclid Avenue. Please use Entrance C or Entrance A to enter the building. Both lots are well lit and monitored by security guards.
Join CFC for a trip to the movies as Cinematheque celebrates “Lost and Found” with a screening of Stanley Kramer’s epic comedy IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD (1968). A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempt to claim the prize for himself. Kick off ChamberFest 2025 with the ultimate cinematic treasure hunt!
Shown in partnership with The Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque. ChamberFest 2025 ticket buyers receive a discounted admission of $11. Thank you to Bilgesu Sisman for arranging this special screening!
Tickets & Info
MOVIE NIGHT @ CINEMATHEQUE: IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD
11610 Euclid Ave, Cleveland OH 44106 [ VIEW MAP ]
Free parking is available behind the building in Lot 73 and the annex lot. Both lots can be accessed from E 117th Street, south of Euclid Avenue. Please use Entrance C or Entrance A to enter the building. Both lots are well lit and monitored by security guards.
Join CFC for a trip to the movies as Cinematheque celebrates “Lost and Found” with a screening of Stanley Kramer’s epic comedy IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD (1968). A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempt to claim the prize for himself. Kick off ChamberFest 2025 with the ultimate cinematic treasure hunt!
Shown in partnership with The Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque. ChamberFest 2025 ticket buyers receive a discounted admission of $11. Thank you to Bilgesu Sisman for arranging this special screening!
Tickets & Info
PRELUDE TALKS
FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 6:30PM (CHURCH OF THE SAVIOUR)
PRELUDE TALK WITH JAMES WILDING
Professor of Composition & Theory, University of Akron
PRELUDE TALK WITH JAMES WILDING
Professor of Composition & Theory, University of Akron
Praised by the Cape Times as ‘highly original,’ South African composer JAMES WILDING’s work has been enthusiastically championed in Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Senegal, Germany, Holland, France, Switzerland, Britain, Canada, South Africa, and the USA, by such groups as the Stow Symphony Orchestra, the New York Middletown Wind Ensemble, the Harburger Orchester Akademie, the TEMPO ensemble, and the Chamber Music Society of Ohio. He has received commissions from Bayerischer Rundfunk, the South African Music Rights Organization, the Tuesday Musical Association, and the Orange County School of the Arts. His music has been prescribed for the UNISA-Transnet International Piano Competition and the Hennie Joubert Piano Competition, and he has won the Oude Meester Prize and Potchefstroom University’s Chancellor’s Trust Prize. Wilding is Professor of Instruction and Co-Chair in Composition and Theory at the University of Akron, and studied at the University of Cape Town and Kent State University.
SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 6:30PM (HEIGHTS THEATER)
COMPOSER CONVERSATION WITH ERROLLYN WALLEN (CFC Composer-in-Residence) & MICHAEL FRAZIER (Assistant Professor of Composition, Oberlin Conservatory)
ERROLLYN WALLEN is an award-winning Belize-born British composer and one of the world’s top twenty most performed living classical composers. Her extensive output includes over twenty operas and numerous orchestral, chamber, and vocal works, performed globally. She has composed for major events such as the 2012 Paralympic Games, the Queen’s Golden and Diamond Jubilees, COP26, and the Last Night of the Proms 2020. Her opera Dido’s Ghost premiered at the Barbican in 2021 and had its US debut in 2023. Wallen also collaborated with artist Sonia Boyce on the Golden Lion-winning Feeling Her Way at the 2022 Venice Biennale. Recent highlights include premieres at Wigmore Hall, a violin concerto for Philippe Quint, and orchestral works for leading European ensembles. She is currently working on a new opera set to premiere at Aldeburgh in 2026. Wallen’s memoir, Becoming a Composer, was published in 2023. In August 2024, she was appointed Master of the King’s Music by King Charles III.
MICHAEL FRAZIER is a Black and Latino composer invested in exploring a kind of music that has a connection to a broader history of Black creative artistry. Heavily influenced and inspired by his love of jazz and hip-hop music, Frazier’s compositional style incorporates an expanded tonal language rooted in expansive harmony with a freer approach to structure and form. At the forefront, Frazier’s music relies on gesture, harmony, slowness, and patience. Beyond composition, Frazier’s interests in music and sound include the unique and personal expression of one’s musical voice, engagement with topics and aesthetics outside one’s musical familiarity or awareness, and the capacity for a music that can be approached by listeners of all backgrounds. Additionally, Frazier has a strong passion for forward-thinking music-making and creativity that acknowledges and embraces one’s cultural identity, especially those of historically underrepresented groups. He earned a PhD in music composition from the Eastman School of Music, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Composition at the Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio.
COMPOSER CONVERSATION WITH ERROLLYN WALLEN (CFC Composer-in-Residence) & MICHAEL FRAZIER (Assistant Professor of Composition, Oberlin Conservatory)
ERROLLYN WALLEN is an award-winning Belize-born British composer and one of the world’s top twenty most performed living classical composers. Her extensive output includes over twenty operas and numerous orchestral, chamber, and vocal works, performed globally. She has composed for major events such as the 2012 Paralympic Games, the Queen’s Golden and Diamond Jubilees, COP26, and the Last Night of the Proms 2020. Her opera Dido’s Ghost premiered at the Barbican in 2021 and had its US debut in 2023. Wallen also collaborated with artist Sonia Boyce on the Golden Lion-winning Feeling Her Way at the 2022 Venice Biennale. Recent highlights include premieres at Wigmore Hall, a violin concerto for Philippe Quint, and orchestral works for leading European ensembles. She is currently working on a new opera set to premiere at Aldeburgh in 2026. Wallen’s memoir, Becoming a Composer, was published in 2023. In August 2024, she was appointed Master of the King’s Music by King Charles III.
MICHAEL FRAZIER is a Black and Latino composer invested in exploring a kind of music that has a connection to a broader history of Black creative artistry. Heavily influenced and inspired by his love of jazz and hip-hop music, Frazier’s compositional style incorporates an expanded tonal language rooted in expansive harmony with a freer approach to structure and form. At the forefront, Frazier’s music relies on gesture, harmony, slowness, and patience. Beyond composition, Frazier’s interests in music and sound include the unique and personal expression of one’s musical voice, engagement with topics and aesthetics outside one’s musical familiarity or awareness, and the capacity for a music that can be approached by listeners of all backgrounds. Additionally, Frazier has a strong passion for forward-thinking music-making and creativity that acknowledges and embraces one’s cultural identity, especially those of historically underrepresented groups. He earned a PhD in music composition from the Eastman School of Music, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Composition at the Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio.
FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 6:30PM (MIXON HALL, CIM)
COMPOSER CONVERSATION WITH JUDITH MARKOVICH (CFC Guest Composer) & ERIC CHARNOFSKY (Pianist & Composer, Cleveland Chamber Collective)
JUDITH MARKOVICH earned a Master’s in Performance from The Juilliard School, performed at Carnegie Recital Hall, and was principal clarinetist in the Akron Symphony under Louis Lane. This award-winning clarinetist, however, took her first composition lesson at 65 and fell in love with it. A few years later, she witnessed the world premiere of her symphonic tone poem, Emergence. Within five years, Markovich’s theme-based works have been featured on radio WPRB Classical Discoveries, NPR, WKNO FM, KC91.9 FM, ASCAP’s New Music Friday, Komm Bach Festival in Paris, the Arkansas Symphony’s River Rhapsodies Series, and recent Nashville Opera recital. Her work King for a Day was selected for premiere at the 2022 International Composers Festival in Sussex, UK, and she has been recorded by the likes of guitarist Sergio Puccini, Paris Conservatory’s Pierre-Henri Xuereb, international harpist Rachel Talitman, violists Brett Deubner and Amaro Dubois, pianist Allison Brewster Franzetti, and cellist Diane Chaplin.
ERIC CHARNOFSKY enjoys a multi-faceted career as a pianist, composer, lecturer, conductor, and narrator. As a collaborative pianist, he has performed throughout North America with members of major American orchestras, and as an orchestral keyboardist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and The Cleveland Orchestra, among others. Charnofsky holds a Master’s degree in Collaborative Piano from The Juilliard School, and also holds degrees in Solo Piano Performance and Composition from California State University, Northridge. Originally from Los Angeles, he has taught music history, music theory, and collaborative piano at the collegiate level in Cleveland, Ohio. He is active in Musical Arts administration, serving on boards for the Cleveland Chamber Music Society and Chamber Music Society of Ohio, and is Assistant Director for the annual She Scores festival. Charnofsky’s compositions have been performed in several major US cities, and he has received composition commissions from Pacific Serenades, the Chamber Music Society of Ohio, the Cleveland Chamber Collective, and others.
COMPOSER CONVERSATION WITH JUDITH MARKOVICH (CFC Guest Composer) & ERIC CHARNOFSKY (Pianist & Composer, Cleveland Chamber Collective)
JUDITH MARKOVICH earned a Master’s in Performance from The Juilliard School, performed at Carnegie Recital Hall, and was principal clarinetist in the Akron Symphony under Louis Lane. This award-winning clarinetist, however, took her first composition lesson at 65 and fell in love with it. A few years later, she witnessed the world premiere of her symphonic tone poem, Emergence. Within five years, Markovich’s theme-based works have been featured on radio WPRB Classical Discoveries, NPR, WKNO FM, KC91.9 FM, ASCAP’s New Music Friday, Komm Bach Festival in Paris, the Arkansas Symphony’s River Rhapsodies Series, and recent Nashville Opera recital. Her work King for a Day was selected for premiere at the 2022 International Composers Festival in Sussex, UK, and she has been recorded by the likes of guitarist Sergio Puccini, Paris Conservatory’s Pierre-Henri Xuereb, international harpist Rachel Talitman, violists Brett Deubner and Amaro Dubois, pianist Allison Brewster Franzetti, and cellist Diane Chaplin.
ERIC CHARNOFSKY enjoys a multi-faceted career as a pianist, composer, lecturer, conductor, and narrator. As a collaborative pianist, he has performed throughout North America with members of major American orchestras, and as an orchestral keyboardist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and The Cleveland Orchestra, among others. Charnofsky holds a Master’s degree in Collaborative Piano from The Juilliard School, and also holds degrees in Solo Piano Performance and Composition from California State University, Northridge. Originally from Los Angeles, he has taught music history, music theory, and collaborative piano at the collegiate level in Cleveland, Ohio. He is active in Musical Arts administration, serving on boards for the Cleveland Chamber Music Society and Chamber Music Society of Ohio, and is Assistant Director for the annual She Scores festival. Charnofsky’s compositions have been performed in several major US cities, and he has received composition commissions from Pacific Serenades, the Chamber Music Society of Ohio, the Cleveland Chamber Collective, and others.
FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 6:30PM (HARKNESS CHAPEL)
PRELUDE TALK WITH CELINE GOSSELIN
Ph.D. Candidate in Historical Musicology, Case Western Reserve University
CELINE GOSSELIN is a Ph.D. Candidate in Historical Musicology at Case Western Reserve University. In 2023, she was a CWRU Fellow at the Library of Congress. She holds a Master of Music in Music Theory and Composition from NYU Steinhardt (2021) and completed her Bachelor of Music in Composition at Penn State University (2019) with a minor in viola performance. Gosselin’s dissertation examines the pervasiveness and versatility of Tchaikovsky’s ballets in the 21st century, tracing the music’s survival through modern reimaginings by choreographers like Matthew Bourne and Fredrik Rydman, film and television references, and viral media. Her research interests also include modern musical theater, music inspired by myths, fairy tales and fantasy, and the digital nineteenth century.
PRELUDE TALK WITH CELINE GOSSELIN
Ph.D. Candidate in Historical Musicology, Case Western Reserve University
CELINE GOSSELIN is a Ph.D. Candidate in Historical Musicology at Case Western Reserve University. In 2023, she was a CWRU Fellow at the Library of Congress. She holds a Master of Music in Music Theory and Composition from NYU Steinhardt (2021) and completed her Bachelor of Music in Composition at Penn State University (2019) with a minor in viola performance. Gosselin’s dissertation examines the pervasiveness and versatility of Tchaikovsky’s ballets in the 21st century, tracing the music’s survival through modern reimaginings by choreographers like Matthew Bourne and Fredrik Rydman, film and television references, and viral media. Her research interests also include modern musical theater, music inspired by myths, fairy tales and fantasy, and the digital nineteenth century.
PRELUDE PERFORMANCE
SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 6:30PM (REINBERGER HALL, SEVERANCE MUSIC CENTER)
SPOTLIGHT PERFORMANCE BY EMAD ZOLFAGHARI (VIOLA)
Rising Star musician, ChamberFest Cleveland 2024 & 2025
Canadian violist EMAD ZOLFAGHARI came to international attention after winning the first prize and audience prize at the 2024 Primrose International Viola Competition. Emad was accepted into the Curtis Institute of Music at age 16, where he currently studies with Hsin-Yun Huang. CFC is thrilled to present this extraordinary young artist in an eclectic program of works for solo viola.
SPOTLIGHT PERFORMANCE BY EMAD ZOLFAGHARI (VIOLA)
Rising Star musician, ChamberFest Cleveland 2024 & 2025
Canadian violist EMAD ZOLFAGHARI came to international attention after winning the first prize and audience prize at the 2024 Primrose International Viola Competition. Emad was accepted into the Curtis Institute of Music at age 16, where he currently studies with Hsin-Yun Huang. CFC is thrilled to present this extraordinary young artist in an eclectic program of works for solo viola.