Chamberfest Cleveland: Timeless Explorations

For our 10th season we celebrate the X factor, the unnameable, that certain je ne sais quoi that touches our souls and connects us as human beings.

In celebration of our 10th season, a new work from the “startlingly compelling” (San Diego Union Tribune) composer Yevgeniy Sharlat conveys CFC’s family feel using whimsical effects and creative staging, followed by the warm homecoming of an eloquently expressive Beethoven Piano Trio. In 1891, 19-year-old Samuel Coleridge-Taylor heard Brahms’s landmark Clarinet Quintet and immediately set to work on his own, yielding this ebullient work filled with lush, youthful extravagance.

6:30pm PRELUDE TALK by composer Yevgeniy Sharlat

YEVGENIY SHARLAT Dumka-22 (Premiere of CFC Commission)
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Piano Trio, Op. 70 No. 2
SAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Clarinet Quintet, Op. 10

Featuring: Franklin Cohen clarinet, Diana Cohen violin, Alexi Kenney violin, Geneva Lewis violin, Dimitri Murrath viola, Jonathan Swensen cello, Roman Rabinovich piano, Andrius Žlabys piano, Alexander Cohen percussion