The Cleveland Composers Guild is one of the nation’s oldest new music organizations, and has had over 200 composer members over its more than fifty year history. Over the past half-century, the CCG has built an enviable record of supporting new music, with recordings on the CRI, Crystal, Advent, and Capstone labels, and publication series from Ludwig and Galaxy. There are currently about 40 professional composers in the Guild and each concert features a wide range of musical styles. In recent years the Guild has collaborated with the Cleveland Opera Theater, The Syndicate For The New Arts, Cleveland Ballet, the Rocky River Chamber Music Society, the Cleveland Classical Guitar Society, and with various local artists to create multi-disciplinary concerts that engage with the arts in a new way. The CCG produces numerous live concerts every season featuring the finest performers available in Northeast Ohio, and all concerts are free-of-charge. In addition to regular series programs, the Guild produces an annual Junior Concert in tandem with the Music Settlement in University Circle. Pre-college age students perform music written for them by Guild members and compose original music as well; it's a great way to encourage the next generation of musicians to love new music.
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
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
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
Guest Composer/Faculty
Mostly Modern Festival
Saratoga Springs, NY
June 2-9, 2025
Resident Fellow
The MacDowell Colony Peterborough, NH
July-August 2025
Mosaic
Idle Twittering
Urban Troubadour
Akron, OH
April 27, 2025
Vignettes
Disciples Christian Church
Cleveland Heights, OH
May 25, 2025
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
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
The Percussionists' Grimoire'
Disciples Christian Church
(Cleveland Heights, OH)
May 25, 2025 @ 3 PM
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
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
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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