The ENCORE Festival of Music and Ideas and the Rest of the Classical Music to Catch This Week | Cleveland

By Pune Media On Jun 5, 2025

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Jeannette Sorrell leads Apollo’s Fire

Two festivals get underway this week among several interesting individual events on Northeast Ohio’s classical music calendar.

– On Thursday at 7:30, the Cleveland International Classical Guitar Festival opens with a concert by Hao Yang and soprano Helen Zhibing Huang. Click here to visit the Festival website for details about the numerous events scheduled for this weekend, culminating in the Final Round of the James Stroud Youth Competition on Sunday evening at 6:30.

– Jinjoo Cho’s ENCORE festival of music and ideas has scheduled three events this week: Drum Beats and Bugles Blow, an outdoor concert of Baroque music on Friday at 7:30 at the Cuyahoga Valley Environmental Education Center in Peninsula, By Leaps and Bounds featuring saxophonist Nick Zoulek and dancer Eunson Song in a world premiere on Saturday at 7:30 at Gilmour Academy’s Dodero Center in Gates Mills, and Ghosts, Spirits, and Dance, a program that explores the intersection of music, memory, and the supernatural on Sunday at 3 in Federated Church in Chagrin Falls. Tickets available online.

– Margi Griebling Haigh’s opera The Higgler, based on a short story by A. E. Coppard, receives its world premieres on Saturday at 7:30 and Sunday at 3:30 in a production directed by Marla Berg and conducted by Steven Smith, that features tenor Brian Skoog in the title role at Disciples Church in Cleveland Heights. Tickets available online.

– With the weather gods appearing unpredictable, Apollo’s Fire has relocated its 7:30 Thursday performance of ¡HISPANIA! indoors to St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Cleveland Heights. The show will be repeated on June 6 at 7:30 pm, June 7 at 3:30 and 7:30 pm, and June 8 at 3:00 pm, but better check venue updates here. It’s safe to assume that the indoor performance on June 9 at 7:30 pm at Avon Lake UCC, will proceed as planned. Tickets available online.

Finally, here are three interesting stand-alone concerts we can recommend:

– On Saturday, June 7 at 3 pm, Studio Espressivo Sunday Studio Series presents Sounds of the Cinema with music by Nino Rota, Ennio Morricone, and Giuseppe Becce at Murray Hill Galleries, repeated on June 7 at 8 pm and June 8 at 3 pm. Pay-what-you-wish, suggested donation $15.

– On Saturday at 7 pm, Matthew Salvaggio will conduct the Cleveland Repertory Orchestra in “Rising from Ashes: A Celebration of Artistic and Cultural Journeys, featuring Van Parker, horn, in a program including Malek Jandali’s Phoenix in Exile, Carlos Simon’s This Land, Ruth Gipps’ Horn Concerto, and Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9, “From the New World” in Federated Church, in Chagrin Falls. Freewill offering.

– The weekend closes on Sunday at 3:30 with Western Reserve Chorale’s performance of Dan Forrest’s Jubilate Deo, with chamber orchestra and soloists conducted by David Gilson, at First Baptist Church of Greater Cleveland in Shaker Heights. (Freewill offering, concert to be live streamed here.)

For details of these and other classical events, visit the ClevelandClassical.com Concert Listings.

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