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
Matthew C. Saunders
Matthew C. Saunders
Matthew C. Saunders
Rodehorst Performing Arts Center
(Kirtland, OH)
November 9, 2025 @ 4 PM
Margaret Brouwer
Matthew C. Saunders
Matthew C. Saunders
Declaration
Trio Levain
Kent United Church of Christ (Kent, OH)
October 4, 2025
The Art of Sailing at Dawn
BlueWater Chamber Orchestra
Church of the Covenant (Cleveland, OH)
November 22, 2025
Jeffrey Mumford
Matthew C. Saunders
Jeffrey Mumford
to find in the glimmering air . . .
Bowling Green New Music
Bowling Green State University
(Bowling Green, OH)
October 17, 2025
resonant layers of floating light
String Orchestra of New York City
University of Mount St. Vincent
Riverdale, New York
November 16, 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
Mixed Doubles
Cleveland Chamber Collective
Christian Disciples Church
(Cleveland Heights, OH)
September 21, 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
Cara Haxo
Margi Griebling-Haigh
Margi Griebling-Haigh
Exercices
Splinter Reeds
University of South Carolina School of Music (Columbia, SC)
September 19, 2025
Ty Alan Emerson
Stephen Stanziano
Stephen Stanziano
Discoveries
Cleveland Chamber Collective
Christian Disciples Church
(Cleveland Heights, OH)
September 21, 2025
Stephen Stanziano
Stephen Stanziano
Stephen Stanziano
Distant Cries
The Wind and the Rain
Opus 216
Cleveland Museum of Art
(Cleveland, OH)
October 24, 2025
Chris Neiner
Stephen Stanziano
Chris Neiner
Tales of Euclid Beach Park
M.U.S.i.C. - Stars in the Classics
Praxis Fiber Workshop
(Cleveland, OH)
September 27, 2025
Kevin Wilson
Stephen Stanziano
Chris Neiner
Guest Presenter
"Confluence of Culture: an intercultural analysis of Budhi Ngurah's Borobudur"
Paradigmatic Revolutions University of Alberta
April 3, 2025.