Cleveland Composers Guild
The Cleveland Composers Guild is one of the oldest new music organizations in the US. Regular concerts; irregular music
Friday, October 24, 2025, @ 6:00 PM
OPUS 216 Collaboration
Cleveland Museum of Art (Ames Atrium), 11150 East Blvd, Cleveland, OH
Known for weaving together classical, folk, jazz, and world music traditions, Opus 216 brings an eclectic and genre-blending approach to chamber music in Northeast Ohio.
PROGRAM TO INCLUDE
The Cleveland Carousel Waltz by Chris Neiner
Tango del Alma by Inna Onofrei
Summer Night, Windows Open by Matthew C. Saunders
A Nuptial Promenade by Lorenzo Salvagni
Distant Cries by Stephen Stanziano
Variations on Happy Birthday by Ryan Charles Ramer
Play This At Your Wedding by Jeffrey Quick
The Joining Rite by Jeremy Piper
The Wind and the Rain by Stephen Stanziano
El Gitano by William F. Rayer
Wednesday, February 4, 2026 @ 12:00 PM
Brown Bag Series Collaboration
Trinity Cathedral, 2230 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH
The Brownbag Concert Series began in 1978 in the centuries-old Anglican tradition of providing quality music and arts free-of-charge for residents, students, and workers in the acoustical and architectural splendor of a cathedral. It is now the longest-running free concert series in the Greater Cleveland area.
Wednesday, March 18, 2026 @ 3:30 PM
1776-2026: An American Mosaic
John Carroll University, 1 John Carroll Blvd, University Heights, OH
Music faculty at John Carroll University present a program of CCG music that celebrates the United States 250th birthday. Listen for songs of home, journeys, and encounters with the unknown.
Thursday, March 19, 2026 @ 7:00 PM
1776-2026: An American Mosaic
John Carroll University, 1 John Carroll Blvd, University Heights, OH
Music faculty at John Carroll University present a program of CCG music that celebrates the United States 250th birthday. Listen for songs of home, journeys, and encounters with the unknown.
Sunday, April 26, 2026 @ 3:00 PM
Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM) Collaboration
Cleveland Institute of Music, 11021 East Blvd, Cleveland, OH
Students and alumni of the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM) perform original works by CCG members. unknown.
Sunday, May 17, 2026 @ 3:00 PM
Creativity: Learning through Experience XXXV
The Music Settlement, 11125 Magnolia Dr, Cleveland, OH
Now in it’s thirty fifth year, Creativity is a festive performance collaboration between gifted student musicians and professional, local Cleveland composers. The composers create new works for the young performers, who are coached by their teachers and the composers to premiere the music. Student composers also collaborate with professional performers who perform their pieces.
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
She ROARS!
Local 4 Music Fund
BOP STOP (Cleveland, OH)
September 14, 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.
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