Welcome to Grammy Award-winning Cleveland Chamber Symphony
Now in our 46th year!
The Cleveland Chamber Symphony (CCS) performs music of our time that dares to explore. We nurture composers, musicians and audiences through professional performances, recordings, commissions, and educational experiences.
NEOSonicFest and our Young and Emerging Composers Concert
Sunday April 12th, 7:30pm, 2026
Baldwin Wallace Gamble Auditorium
Steven Smith Music Director
Joseph Ardo — University of Akron School of Music
Faith Rawlins — Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music
Lucas Sparrow — Bowling Green College of Musical Arts
Owen Axelberd — Cleveland Institute of Music
Jacob Sims — Kent State School of Music
Calvin Shawler — Oberlin Conservatory of Music
Concert will be live streamed
– Recent Past Performances –
NEOSonicFall: Going Solo
Cleveland Chamber Symphony Special Works
Concert will be live streamed HERE
Sunday September 21th, 2:30pm, 2025
Baldwin Wallace Gamble Auditorium
Steven Smith Music Director
Richard Stout
Songs of Correspondence for mezzo-soprano and string quartet from letters of Willa Cather
Daniel Doriff
Dance Etude #3 for two marimbas
Lou Harriso
First Concerto for Flute and Percussion
Dan Levitan
Invention #1 and #2
Donald Miller
Three Short Songs of Love
Program Download
NEOSonicFall – Celerating NEOhio Composers
Sunday, September 15th, 2024, 7pm
Baldwin Wallace University – Gamble Auditorium
Steven Smith, Music Director
Spatial Fanfare for Brass Ensemble and Percussion – Donald Erb
Legends for String Orchestra – Loris Chobania
Cityscape Lights – H. Leslie Adams
I. Allegro ritmico
II. Largo
III.Allgro
Mark George, piano
**World premiere performance
Concert Program: HERE
September Concert 15th, 2024 PRESS RELEASE
NEOSonicFest – A Northeast Ohio New Music Festival linking top level new music performance groups into a common festival format.
Our performance of Donald Erb’s Reconnaissance:
A 1989 conversation with CCS Founder Ed London with Bruce Duffie.
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