STORYTELLERS: 2022 Music & Ideas Festival

Artistic Director Jinjoo Cho has her mind set on giving her hometown Cleveland audience one of the most robust, creative, and innovative cultural events in the country. Thanks to the growing Board of Directors, advisors and supports, prestigious grants from the Ohio Arts Council and Cuyahoga Arts & Culture, and sponsorship from internationally celebrated cultural institutions such as the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis and Concours Musical International de Montréal (International Musical Competition of Montreal), ENCORE Chamber Music Institute is quickly growing to be a destination for world-class musicians and artists of diverse backgrounds.

ENCORE Chamber Music Institute is an organization founded in 2015 by Cleveland-grown, globe-trotting violin soloist Jinjoo Cho who regularly performs in the world’s most distinguished concert halls and festivals such as Carnegie Hall, Teatro Colon of Buenos Aires, and Herkulessaal of Munich. Bringing some of the biggest artists of the world back home with her, ENCORE’s Music & Ideas Festival is a gathering place for inspired Northeast Ohioans to participate in diverse cultural conversations through the lens of music that form shared bonds of lifelong learning.

The organization’s 7th season, themed ’STORYTELLERS’, is the most emotionally provoking season yet. Each titled ‘Tales of…’, the ‘STORYTELLERS’ presents conversations on storytelling through food, cinema, and travel, in addition to various events of performing arts such as a world premiere of a string octet ‘Phantasmagoria’ by 2022 Highlighted Living Composer Dr. Andrew Rindfleisch, jazz-inspired chamber music, and an interdisciplinary production of contemporary dance, electronic music, interactive visual artists in Mixed Reality (MR) environment.