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.
Recent & Upcoming Performances/News
Jeffrey Mumford
Gerald Wilhelm Braden
Margaret Brouwer
for Clare
eight aspects of appreciation II
of ringing and layered space:
to find in the glimmering air . . .
a buoyant continuity of layering blue
undiluted days
fleeting cycles of layered air
Bargemusic
Brooklyn Bridge Park
(New York, New York)
May 24, 2026
expanding echoes of layered resonances
Chiraina Chamber Players
St. Mark’s Church
(Washington, D.C.)
March 15, 2026
Margaret Brouwer
Gerald Wilhelm Braden
Margaret Brouwer
Path at Sunrise, Masses of Flowers
Pittsburgh Youth Philharmonic Orchestra
Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall
(Pittsburgh, PA)
April 19, 2026
Rhapsody, Concerto for Orchestra
Akron Symphony
E.J. Thomas Hall
(Akron, OH)
May 9, 2026
Timespan
CityMusic Cleveland
St. Stanislaus Church
(Cleveland, OH)
May 31, 2026
Gerald Wilhelm Braden
Gerald Wilhelm Braden
Gerald Wilhelm Braden
Consolation
Xavier Suarez, piano
Chamber Concert
(East Lansing, MI)
April 11, 2026
Spring Prelude
The Budapest Symphony Orchestra
Vigado Concert Hall
(Budapest, Hungary)
April 26, 2026
Symphonic Dances
Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra
Hahn Hall
(Santa Barbara, CA)
May 30, 2026
Margi Griebling-Haigh
Margi Griebling-Haigh
Gerald Wilhelm Braden
From a Train Window
Cleveland Chamber Collective
Disciples Christian Church
(Cleveland Heights, OH)
April 12, 2026 at 3:00 pm
Sinfonia for Choirs of Oboes
John Mack Oboe Camp
(Little Switzerland, NC)
June 12, 2026 at 3:00 pm
Sebastian Birch
Margi Griebling-Haigh
Sebastian Birch
Dance
Greater Cleveland Flute Association
Judson Manor
(Cleveland, OH)
April 26, 2026
Migrations
Greater Cleveland Flute Association
Judson Manor
(Cleveland, OH)
April 26, 2026
Nicholas Puin
Margi Griebling-Haigh
Sebastian Birch
The Great American Songbook
Jazz Impact Spring Concert
Lakeland Community College
(Kirtland, OH)
May 3, 2026
The Great American Songbook
The Nick Puin Band
Van Aken District
(Shaker Heights, OH)
July 9, 2026
Chris Neiner
Pablo D. Gómez-Sandro
Pablo D. Gómez-Sandro
Tales of Euclid Beach Park
Stars in the Classics
Cleveland History Center
(Cleveland, OH)
June 25, 2026
Pablo D. Gómez-Sandro
Pablo D. Gómez-Sandro
Pablo D. Gómez-Sandro
Ritha’ – For that Walk Back Home
Greater Cleveland Flute Society
Judson Manor
(Cleveland, OH)
April 26, 2026
Cara Haxo
Pablo D. Gómez-Sandro
Eric Charnofsky
I Shall Be Taller
Whistling Hens
Central Connecticut State University
(New Britain, CT)
March 28, 2026
Eric Charnofsky
Ryan Charles Ramer
Eric Charnofsky
Everyone Sang
Master Singers Chorale of Northeast Ohio
First United Methodist Church
(Cuyahoga Falls, OH)
May 17, 2026
Fantasy for Saxophones and Piano
Church of the Western Reserve
(Pepper Pike)
May 10, 2026
Everyone Sang
Master Singers Chorale of Northeast Ohio
St. Sebastian Catholic Church
(Akron, OH)
April 18, 2026
Ryan Charles Ramer
Ryan Charles Ramer
Ryan Charles Ramer
Homage to Haydn
Greater Cleveland Flute Society
Judson Manor
(Cleveland, OH)
April 26, 2026
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