This evocative program opens with a contemporary multimedia meditation, fusing stunning visual projections from Native artists with music by a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation dedicated to the development of American Indian classical composition. A century earlier, Ernest Bloch, the founding Director of the Cleveland Institute of Music, wrote his boldly original piano quintet, which melds a gritty urban tone with moments of lyrical reflection. A witty and lighthearted piano trio by Mozart opens the evening.
6:30PM PRELUDE TALK
with Nadiah Rivera Fellah (Curator of Contemporary Art, Cleveland Museum of Art)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Trio in C major, K. 548
Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate
Pisachi (Reveal) for String Quartet
Ernest Bloch
Piano Quintet No. 1
Join us for a POSTLUDE ICE CREAM SOCIAL from Mitchell’s Homemade Ice Cream.
GABRIELLE DESPRÉS
violin
KERSON LEONG
violin
BLAKE POULIOT
violin
PEARL DE LA MOTTE
viola
NJORD KÅRASON FOSSNES
viola
BRYAN CHENG
cello
RAMAN RAMAKRISHNAN
cello
JUHO POHJONEN
piano