2024-2025 Season

We are excited to collaborate with the outstanding American Guild of Organists Cleveland Chapter who will play pieces 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

This program is a collaborative concert with the innovative Poiesis Quartet and will include pieces 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

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. 

"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 

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