ALBAN BERG (1885-1935) Adagio for Violin, Clarinet and Piano from Chamber Concerto Diana Cohen, violin Franklin Cohen, clarinet Roman Rabinovich, piano Performed on June 21, 2018 – ChamberFest Season 7 Mixon Hall, Cleveland Institute of Music Cleveland, Ohio Video Production: Erica Brenner Productions, LLC Cameras: Mathias Reed, Erica Brenner Editing: Ken Wendt, Erica Brenner Audio … Read more
Rick Maron and Judy Eigenfeld’s Glass Box was filled with people celebrating a special Father’s Day brunch complete with chamber music on
Sunday, June 17. The title of the third ChamberFest Cleveland concert, Let Them Loose, felt applicable as the musicians performed in front of windows looking out across the city towards the lake.
JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833-1897) Trio No. 1 for Piano, Violin and Cello in B major, Op. 8 I. Allegro con brio II. Scherzo: Allegro molto III. Adagio IV. Allegro Alexi Kenney, violin Oliver Herbert, cello Roman Rabinovich, piano Live performance from ChamberFest Cleveland Season 7 June 16, 2018 Mixon Hall at the Cleveland Institute of Music … Read more
ARTIE SHAW (1910-2004) Concerto for Clarinet Franklin Cohen, clarinet Cleveland Jazz Orchestra Paul Ferguson, director Performed June 15, 2018 Season 7 of ChamberFest Cleveland Calfee Building Cleveland, Ohio Video Production: Erica Brenner Productions, LLC Cameras: Ken Wendt, Erica Brenner Audio Recording Engineer: Bruce Egre, Azica Records
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756-1791) Quintet for Clarinet, Two Violins, Viola and Cello in A major, K. 581 Allegro Larghetto Menuetto Allegretto con Variation Josef Špaček, violin 1 Diana Cohen, violin 2 Yura Lee, viola Oliver Herbert, cello Franklin Cohen, clarinet Performed July 1, 2017 Maltz Performing Arts Center Cleveland, Ohio
ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD (1897-1957) Suite for Two Violins, Cello and Piano Left Hand, Op. 23 Präludium: Kräftig und bestimmt – Fuge: Ruhig – Im Zeitmass des Präludiums Walzer: Nicht schnell, anmutig Groteske: Möglichst rasch – Trio: Sehr mässig – Groteske [20:40] Lied: Schlicht und innig. Nicht zu langsam Rondo-Finale (Variationen): Schnell, heftig Alexi Kenney, violin … Read more
ChamberFest Cleveland, the celebrated summer music festival, will embark upon its first Winter Mini Festival this December showcasing world-renowned pianist and ChamberFest fan favorite, Roman Rabinovich. Rabinovich will perform a series of three piano recitals, each dedicated to the solo sonatas of Franz Josef Haydn. The concerts will take place Sunday, December 11th at the Music Settlement at 3:30pm, the Tuesday the 13th at the home of Franklin Cohen at 7:30pm, and Friday the 16th at The Dunham Tavern Museum at 7:30pm. Light refreshments will be available at each concert.
Roman Rabinovich’s musical affinity for Haydn is the centerpiece of his 16-17 season “Haydn Project.” Rabinovich is dedicated to fulfilling his dream of playing all of Haydn’s 45 piano sonatas and is halfway through them. He will perform 15 of the Haydn piano sonatas at the ChamberFest Cleveland Winter Concert Series. He has performed this year at the Lammermuir Festival in Scotland and at the Tel Aviv Conservatory in Israel, along with upcoming debut appearances with the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse (November 2017), and the Calgary Philharmonic (May 2017). In 2018 he will play all of the sonatas in fifteen days at the Bath Festival in the UK.
Praised by the New York Times for his “uncommon sensitivity and feeling,” the eloquent young Rabinovich is the winner of the 2008 Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition. Of Haydn, Rabinovich has said, “He is like a magician who sets up expectations, and when you start following him he completely defies them.”
ChamberFest Cleveland, founded by Franklin Cohen, principal clarinetist emeritus of The Cleveland Orchestra, and his daughter, Diana Cohen, concertmaster of The Calgary Philharmonic, has been gaining high praise as part of the Cleveland arts scene since it began in 2012.
Tickets for the Winter Mini Festival are $35 general admission, $25 for young professionals ages 25 to 35, $12 for students, and $5 for children 12 and under. A subscription to all three concerts is $90. To order in advance call (216) 471-8887. Online tickets sales will begin on October 14th at chamberfestcleveland.com. To learn more about featured soloist Roman Rabinovich and the “Haydn Project,” visit http://www.romanrabinovich.net/.
RICHARD STRAUSS (1864-1949) Metamorphosen for Strings Noah Bendix-Balgley, violin 1 Itamar Zorman, violin 2 Yura Lee, viola 1 Teng Li, viola 2 Julie Albers, cello 1 Timotheos Petrin, cello 2 Nathan Farrington, bass Performed June 27, 2016 United Methodist Church Chagrin Falls, Ohio Video Production: Erica Brenner Productions, LLC Cameras: Mathias Reed and Erica Brenner … Read more
YURA Telling Fiddle Tales Yura Lee explores solo violin repertoire from the 17th century through the 20th century with a little “fiddling” sprinkled in. Her solo performance at the Transformer Station in Cleveland Ohio brought down the house. You can hear the entire program here. On the program: 1. HEINRICH BIBER (1644-1704) Passacaglia in G … Read more
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Wine. Visual art. Human beings. These things can take decades to develop and be appreciated.
ChamberFest Cleveland, on the other hand? It’s only five summers old but already has emerged as one of the region’s richest cultural assets.
Case in point: the festival’s 2016 season. Titled “Tales and Legends,” the just-announced lineup for this summer reflects the depth, creativity, and ambition of a mature institution.
“It’s amazing how much material there really is,” said ChamberFest co-founder Diana Cohen of the 2016 theme. Cohen founded the festival along with her father, clarinetist Franklin Cohen. “That idea of stories? There’s a lot there.”