The Cleveland Composers Guild
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.
Upcoming & Recent Performances/News
Matthew C. Saunders
Matthew C. Saunders
Matthew C. Saunders
Seven Last Words
Jerry Marshall, organ
Painesville United Methodist Painesville, Ohio
April 18, 2025
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
Path at Sunrise, Masses of Flowers
Cleveland Women's Orchestra
Severance Hall
Cleveland, OH
March 30, 2025
Remembrances
Hendersonville Symphony
Blue Ridge Community College Flat Rock, NC
April 5, 2025
Sonata for Clarinet and Piano
George Stoffan, clarinet
Janáček Academy of Music
Czech Republic
April 10, 2025
Jeffrey Mumford
Matthew C. Saunders
Jeffrey Mumford
from within . . . unveiling brightness
Alisa Weilerstein, cello
Jacobs Music Center
San Diego, CA
April 8, 2025
revisiting variazioni elegiaci
Signature Series: Celia Hatton, viola
Lorain County Community College Elyria, OH
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
still
CIM New Music Ensemble
Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland, OH
April 6, 2025
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
Cleveland Chamber Collective
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
Sieben Zungenbrecher Lieder
Loren Reash-Henz, baritone
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
April 5, 2025
Quatuor Royal
Factory Seconds Brass Trio
San Diego State University
San Diego, CA
April 9, 2025
Nick Puin
Margi Griebling-Haigh
Margi Griebling-Haigh
Things Ain't The Way They Used To Be (Arr. Puin)
BHS Jazz Ensemble
Brunswick High School
April 11, 2025
Modal Upheaval
CWRU Jazz Ensemble
Case Western Reserve University
April 28, 2025
William F. Rayer
William F. Rayer
William F. Rayer
The Cave Dwellers
Lorain Civic Orchestra
Lorain County Community College Elyria, OH
April 26, 2025
Stephen Stanziano
William F. Rayer
William F. Rayer
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
Chris Neiner
William F. Rayer
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
Kevin Wilson
William F. Rayer
Chris Neiner
Guest Presenter
"Confluence of Culture: an intercultural analysis of Budhi Ngurah's Borobudur"
Paradigmatic Revolutions University of Alberta
April 3, 2025.