2025-2026 Season Events
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The Scholarship Winners' Recital
Some of the finest local young cellists!
Free and open to the public, donations welcome.
Cello Explorations Lecture-Recital: Rebecca Landell and the Bach D Major Suite
This is a rare chance to hear the sixth cello suite played on the 5-string piccolo cello, for which it was originally written! In addition to her performance, she will deliver a talk on interpreting Bach suites through an 18th-century performance practice lens. This event may be especially interesting to cellists whose experience is mostly with newer repertoire, providing them with Baroque-era performance concepts to consider.
Rebecca is the Assistant Professor of Viola da Gamba and Baroque Cello at Oberlin, and a cellist with both Apollo's Fire and Les Délices.
The Cleveland Cello Society & Cleveland Composers Guild
CCG opens the 2026–27 season with a collaborative concert celebrating the Cleveland Cello Society's 30th anniversary. Dedicated to cello performance, education, and outreach, the Cleveland Cello Society has supported and inspired generations of cellists. This program features new works by Guild composers written exclusively for cello duets, trios, and quartets. Hear how today's composers continue to expand the expressive possibilities of the cello.
Screening of documentary film: Strangers on the Earth
Did you know a classical music film star lives amongst us here in northern Ohio? Dane Johansen is his name, and he’s a cellist of The Cleveland Orchestra. In 2014, Dane made a pilgrimage along Spain’s ancient Camino de Santiago - with his cello!
The documentary film, Strangers on the Earth, presents Dane’s adventures playing J. S. Bach’s six Unaccompanied Suites for Cello numerous times during this 36-day, 600- mile hike.
Dane will be present to talk about his experience, and perform select movements of Bach before the film is shown. This screening takes place in the contemporary LatinUS “blackbox” Theater, located in the Pivot Center for Art, Dance and Expression. Free parking.
What a fantastic way to kick off our 2026-2027 season!
Cello Explorations with Mark Kosower
The story of a great cellist of today, and his great cellist mentor of the past.
i Cellisti! 2025
The CCS’s long-running annual cello extravaganza and scholarship fundraiser!
Lecture/Recital by Dr. Nora Willauer
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson and Lamentations: Black/Folk Song Suite
A Son’s Recollections of Antonio Janigro
Dr. Damir Janigro, son of virtuoso, 20th-century cellist, Antonio Janigro will share historic recordings, film clips, and his own personal anecdotes in this one-of-a-kind program.
Rolland Pedagogy Presentation
Ida Mercer on Paul Rolland's seminal work, "The Teaching of Action in String Playing" - from a Cellist's Perspective
Annual CCS Scholarship Competition
Click on View Event to see the list of winners for 2024!
The Scholarship Winners’ Recital
Always an inspiring afternoon, come hear some of Ohio’s best young cellists! This program features the winners of the Cleveland Cello Society Scholarship Competition, held in April 2023.
Baroque Dance demonstration with Julie Andrijeski
The Cleveland Cello Society proudly presents
Baroque Dance demonstration with Julie Andrijeski
Free and open to the public
Masterclass by Paul Katz
The Cleveland Cello Society proudly presents
Cello Masterclass by Paul Katz, distinguished cellist and pedagogue
Free and open to the public