FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 10, 2005

UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, OHIO - The Cleveland Chamber Symphony (CCS), the award-winning contemporary music ensemble and mainstay of the classical music scene in Cleveland for more than 25 years, announced its performing schedule for the 2005-06 season.

On Wednesday, October 26, 2005 at 12:10pm, CCS will perform at Trinity Cathedral in downtown Cleveland as part of the Brown Bag Concert Series. The program will include two jazz influenced works, Self-Portrait in 69 Shades of Gray by Michael Leese and Sushi at the Zoo by Thomas Stoneman; and the Berceuse for Harp, Clarinet and Strings by recently deceased Cleveland composer Dennis Eberhard. Trinity Cathedral is located at 2230 Euclid Avenue in Cleveland.

On Sunday, April 9, 2006 at 4:00pm, CCS will resume its professional residency at Baldwin- Wallace College with a performance at Gamble Auditorium that includes Venetian Games by Witold Lutoslawski, Bird of Four Hundred Voices by Dennis Eberhard, and Sinfonietta by Loris Chobanian with Reginal Mushabac as cello soloist. Gamble Auditorium at Baldwin-Wallace College is located in the Kulas Musical Arts Building, 96 Front Street in Berea, Ohio. Both concerts are free and open to the public.

The music director and conductor of the Cleveland Chamber Symphony is Steven Smith, the former assistant conductor of The Cleveland Orchestra and current music director of the Santa Fe Symphony.

Thanks to its unique mission and vision to commission, perform, record and promote the dissemination of musical works exclusively by composers of our time, no other institution has contributed so much to advancing the art of contemporary, primarily American, music. While the Cleveland Chamber Symphony's current number of over 170 World Premieres of new works primarily commissioned by the CCS ranks at the top of the list of all orchestras over a comparable period, the commitment goes further by giving repeat performances, often in multiple locations locally, regionally and nationally. The CCS's authoritative work in the recording studio leads to the production and distribution of a significant body of compact disc recordings, further insuring a permanent and widely available legacy of the Chamber Symphony's extensive contemporary repertoire.

The Cleveland Chamber Symphony’s excellence has been recognized repeatedly with numerous prestigious awards including ASCAP’s Edwards Award for the strongest commitment to American Music. It has consistently earned significant support from individuals, government, and distinguished private foundations including the National Endowment for the Arts, The Ohio Arts Council, The Ohio Board of Regents, The Cleveland Foundation, The George Gund Foundation, The Kulas Foundation, the John P. Murphy Foundation, The Bascom Little Foundation, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, The Cleveland Federation of Musicians, The Recording Industry Music Performance Fund and others.