Cleveland Composers Guild
The Cleveland Composers Guild is one of the oldest new music organizations in the US. Regular concerts; irregular music
Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 3:00 pm
Creativity: Learning through Experience XXXIII
The Music Settlement, 11125 Magnolia Drive Cleveland, OH
"Kyrie by Lorenzo Salvagni
"Queen of the Wolves" by Cara Haxo
"Ukrainian Folk-Song Mash-up" by Robert Rollin
"End Title" by Matthew C. Saunders
"Prayer" by James Wilding
"Are You Real or Make-Believe?" by Stephen Stanziano
"Piece for Sam" by Ryan Charles Ramer
"Metaphormania" by Sebastian Birch
"Be Yourself" by Inna Onofrei
"Around the World In 80 or so Measures" by Jenny Conner
Sunday, June 1, 2025 at 3:00 pm
An Afternoon of Chamber Music
West Shore Unitarian Universalist, 20401 Hilliard Blvd, Rocky River, OH
Ryan Charles Ramer's Le Coeur VGM
Nicholas Puin's A Different Perspective
Inna Onofrei's Lullabies
Chris Neiner's Hills, Thrills and Flying Turns
Cara Haxo's Verbs of Perception
Margi Griebling-Haigh's Sieben Zungenbrecher Lieder
Matthew Saunders' Piano Trio
Stephen Stanziano's Among the Living
Sunday, April 13, 2025 at 3:00 pm
Sestina Choir + Chamber Music
Holy Rosary Church, 12021 Mayfield Rd, Cleveland, OH
This program is a collaborative concert with the Sestina Choir of Cleveland. It includes choir and chamber music compositions by Cleveland Composers Guild members.
Choir Music
"Arise, My Beloved" by Lorenzo Salvagni
"Hymn" by Ryan Charles Ramer
"Fog" by Inna Onofrei
"The Peace Within" by Nicholas Puin
"Shout to the Lord" by Eric Charnofsky
"Lamentationes Jeremiae Prophetae" by Jeffrey Quick
"Three Carols" by Anna O’Connell
"O Magnum Mysterium" by Geoffrey Peterson
Chamber Music
"Aura" for piano by Inna Onofrei
"Another Chance" for piano by Nicholas Puin
Sestina Cleveland is a vocal ensemble specializing in early seventeenth-century madrigals and sacred music. Recent projects have included performances with Choral Arts Cleveland and recording sessions focusing on women composers. A flexible ensemble, Sestina Cleveland adapts to meet the needs of the repertoire. Artistic director Anna O’Connell, DMA often leads from the harp.
Sunday, March 16, 2025 at 3:00 pm
Poiesis Quartet Collaboration
Cleveland State University, Drinko Hall, 2001 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH
This program is a collaborative concert with the innovative Poiesis Quartet and will include premieres by Cleveland Composers Guild members.
Margi Griebling-Haigh's Vistas Desde el Balcón
Geoffrey Peterson's Seasons Journey
Ryan Charles Ramer's Animal Dreams
Sebastian Birch's Ephemeral Timelines
Jeremy Piper's Majestic Foothills of Mt. Yasparia
Lorenzo Salvagni's Scherzo
Cara Hao's Says the Almanac
Sunday, OCTOBER 20, 2024 at 3:00 pm
American Guild of Organists Collaboration
Helen Rockwell Morley Memorial Hall, 391 W Washington St, Painesville, OH
We are excited to collaborate with the outstanding American Guild of Organists Cleveland Chapter who will perform music by members of the Cleveland Composers Guild at the Helen Rockwell Morley Memorial Hall of Lake Erie College. The hall houses a grand 64-rank E.M. Skinner organ built in 1927.
PROGRAM TO INCLUDE
Meditation by James Wilding
Seven Last Words Suite by Matt Saunders
Collect by Larry Baker
Prelude and Fugue by Lorenzo Salvagni
Grant Them Rest by Stephen Stanziano
Upcoming & Recent Performances/News
Matthew C. Saunders
Matthew C. Saunders
Matthew C. Saunders
Duo Capriccio
Greater Cleveland Flute Society
Cleveland Unitarian Universalist
April 27, 2025
Voyage Dans La Lune
SMART Orchestra of San Marcos
Wimberley Valley Winery Driftwood, TX
May 17 and 18, 2025
Margaret Brouwer
Matthew C. Saunders
Matthew C. Saunders
Sonata for Clarinet and Piano
George Stoffan, clarinet
Janáček Academy of Music
Czech Republic
April 10, 2025
Sonata for Bassoon and Piano
International Double Reed Society
Butler University (Indianapolis, IN)
June 14, 2025
Jeffrey Mumford
Matthew C. Saunders
Jeffrey Mumford
revisiting variazioni elegiaci
Signature Series:
Celia Hatton, viola
Lorain County Community College
April 14, 2025
from within . . . unveiling brightness
Alisa Weilerstein, cello
Carnegie Hall
New York, NY
May 20, 2025
Keith Fitch
Matthew C. Saunders
Jeffrey Mumford
Guest Composer/Faculty
Mostly Modern Festival
Saratoga Springs, NY
June 2-9, 2025
Resident Fellow
The MacDowell Colony Peterborough, NH
July-August 2025
Eric Charnofsky
Margi Griebling-Haigh
Eric Charnofsky
Mosaic
Idle Twittering
Urban Troubadour
Akron, OH
April 27, 2025
Vignettes
Disciples Christian Church
Cleveland Heights, OH
May 25, 2025
Sebastian Birch
Margi Griebling-Haigh
Eric Charnofsky
empus fugit, memento vivere
Kent State Wind Ensemble
Kent State University
Kent, OH
April 27, 2025
Fugue
Greater Cleveland Flute Society
Unitarian Universalist Church
Shaker Heights, OH
April 27, 2025
Margi Griebling-Haigh
Margi Griebling-Haigh
Margi Griebling-Haigh
The Higgler
Disciples Christian Church
(Cleveland Heights, Ohio)
June 7 at 7:30 PM
The Higgler
Disciples Christian Church
(Cleveland Heights, Ohio)
June 8 at 3:30 PM
Ryan Charles Ramer
Margi Griebling-Haigh
Margi Griebling-Haigh
Ty Alan Emerson
Stephen Stanziano
Stephen Stanziano
The Percussionists' Grimoire'
Disciples Christian Church
(Cleveland Heights, OH)
May 25, 2025 @ 3 PM
Stephen Stanziano
Stephen Stanziano
Stephen Stanziano
Are You Real, or Make Believe?
The Music Settlement
Cleveland, OH
May 18, 2025
Among The Living
Cleveland Composers Guild
West Shore Universalist
Rocky River, OH
June 1, 2025
Inna Onofrei
Stephen Stanziano
Inna Onofrei
Aura for solo piano
A Room Full of Voices
St. Elizabeth Church (Berlin, Germany)
May 17, 2025
Be Yourself
Creativity XXXIII
The Music Settlement (Cleveland, OH)
May 18, 2025
Kevin Wilson
Stephen Stanziano
Inna Onofrei
Guest Presenter
"Confluence of Culture: an intercultural analysis of Budhi Ngurah's Borobudur"
Paradigmatic Revolutions University of Alberta
April 3, 2025.
Chris Neiner
Afterlove
Studio Espressivo
Murray Hill Galleries
Cleveland, OH
April 26, 2025
Hills, Thrills, and Flying Turns
Studio Espressivo
Murray Hill Galleries
Cleveland, OH
April 26, 2025
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