Press Release

January 23, 2025

For Immediate Release

Cleveland Chamber Music Society presents Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center with world-renowned artists, including guitar virtuoso Jason Vieaux

February 11 program "Spanish Journey" includes music by de Falla, Rodrigo, and Albeniz

Coming up April 21-30: Jerusalem Quartet gives an unprecedented performance of all 15 string quartets by Shostakovich at Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland Chamber Music Society invites audiences to spend a musical evening in Spain. On February 11 at 7:30 pm, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center - pianist Soyeon Kate Lee, violinist Kristin Lee, soprano Vanessa Becerra, cellist Clive Greensmith and guitar virtuoso Jason Vieaux - perform their "Spanish Journey" program.

Several of the performers have Ohio connections: Kristin Lee and Soyeon Kate Lee are on faculty at Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and the Grammy Award-winner Jason Vieaux was born and raised in Cleveland.

The concert features the enchanting colors, rhythms and textures of Spain. Violinist Kristin Lee created this imaginative program with music spanning from the late 19th to mid-20th centuries. The distinctive Spanish style is beautifully expressed in piano trios of Falla and Turina, songs by Sarasate, Rodrigo, and Obradors, and the guitar, an instrument deeply associated with Spain.

Tickets for the February 11, 7:30 pm concert at The Cultural Arts Center at Disciples Church in Cleveland Heights (3663 Mayfield Rd) are available online at ClevelandChamberMusic.org or by phone at (216) 291-2777. Single tickets are $40 for adults ($35 seniors, $5 students/anyone under 19 years old). A pre-concert talk by Emily Laurance will take place at 6:30 p.m.

Not to be missed! CCMS's 75th anniversary season ends on a highlight: a rare performance of all 15 Shostakovich string quartets by the Jerusalem Quartet. This is the first time the complete cycle has ever been performed in Cleveland. Praised by BBC Magazine as "an absolute triumph," the world-renowned Jerusalem Quartet performs Shostakovich's string quartets at the Cleveland Museum of Art in five concerts April 21-30.

The Cleveland Chamber Music Society has been bringing the top performers from around the world to intimate venues in Cleveland since 1949. It all started when a professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and some of his colleagues persuaded the venerable Budapest Quartet to perform three concerts in Cleveland. The wildly enthusiastic audience response set the stage for the founding of the Cleveland Chamber Music Society the following year.

Beyond the concert stage, the CCMS’s guest artists give master classes at conservatories in Northeast Ohio that are open to the public.

Tuesday, February 11, 2025 at 7:30 pm

Cleveland Chamber Music Society in collaboration with the Cleveland Classical Guitar Society presents

"Spanish Journey"

with Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Jason Vieaux, guitar; Soyeon Kate Lee, piano; Kristin Lee, violin; Vanessa Becerra, soprano; Clive Greensmith, cello

The Cultural Arts Center at Disciples Church 

3663 Mayfield Rd

Cleveland Heights, OH 44121

Single tickets are $40 for adults ($35 seniors, $5 students/anyone under 19 years old, available now by phone (216) 291-2777 and online at ClevelandChamberMusic.org

PROGRAM

Fernando Obradors: Canciones Espanolas

Isaac Albéniz: Mallorca

Enrique Fernández Arbós: Three Original Pieces in Spanish Style

Manuel de Falla: Suite Populaire Espagnole

Pablo Sarasate: Romanza Andaluza

Joaquín Rodrigo: Tres Canciones

Joaquín Turina: Piano Trio No. 2 in b minor, op. 76

April 21, 22, 23, 29 & 30 – Jerusalem Quartet Complete Shostakovich String Quartets* over five concerts

Cleveland Museum of Art (11150 East Blvd, Cleveland)

April 21: String Quartets 1-3

April 22: String Quartets 4-6

April 23: String Quartets 7-9

April 29: String Quartets 10-12

April 30: String Quartets 13-15

*For the first time in Cleveland!