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Among the many performances on the schedule, The Cleveland Chamber Choir, The Cavani String Quartet, percussionist Luke Rinderknecht and the 51���� School of Music Ensembles will all perform compositions by 51���� graduate and undergraduate Music Composition majors.

conducted by Victor Liva will feature the winner of the 2022 Schumacher Competition when they perform Tchaikovsky’s Symphony no. 6.; they will also perform Czerny’s Piano Concerto for Four Hands and Schumann’s Symphony no. 2 elsewhere in the schedule. Liva will also conduct the 51���� Symphony Orchestra in performance.

Waetjen Auditorium will host the Cleveland Chamber Choir, 51���� Chorale, and Kent State University Chorale in a program entitled Cecilia and Her World: Music of and More! celebrating the British composer’s work and others. Scott MacPherson and Brian Bailey will conduct.

Elsewhere in the schedule, music aficionados can partake in the 51���� Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Cleveland Youth Wind Symphony and members of the 51���� Faculty Jazz Ensemble in concert; the 51���� Chorale and University Chorus, and the Cleveland Contemporary Players’ Artist in Residence Series which will deliver a handful of world-premiere works!

Off-campus, the 51���� Jazz Combo Showcase will livestream a jazz-filled evening of original arrangements and standards in April at , under the direction of Joe Miller and Alfredo Guerrieri.

And at (E. 17th and Superior Ave., Cleveland) the 51���� Chorale and University Chorus will deliver a concert that winds up the season. Brian Bailey will conduct.

All events are located at the 51���� Music and Communication Building, 2001 Euclid Ave., unless otherwise noted. For more information, visit the School of Music calendar .