Medina Performing Arts Center — Jan 11, 12
Quire Cleveland is the headliner of the upcoming Choir Festival presented by Medina High School, under the direction of MHS Music Teacher, Tyler Skidmore.
Artistic Director Ross W. Duffin has chosen favorites from the ensemble’s repertoire for their part of the program. Included are pieces by William Byrd, Henry Purcell, Johann Pachelbel, and Gustav Holst.
Wednesday, January 11, 2012, at 7:00 pm
Medina Performing Arts Center
851 Weymouth Road
Medina, OH
TICKETS are $5, and can be purchased at the door or via the Medina High School Box Office, 330-636-3400 (open from 10am-2pm, weekdays).
Come one, come all!
Dec. 22 — Dec 23, 11
It’s a Cleveland holiday tradition — Carols for Quire from the Old and New Worlds (now in its third year) celebrates the season with beautiful and inspiring music from yesterday and today. Under the direction of Ross W. Duffin, Quire Cleveland makes the inspiring architecture of Trinity Cathedral resonate from the rafters with glorious choral song, entertaining and accessible to all.
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— Dec 3, 11
Quire Cleveland joins the Cleveland Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra and soloists, conducted by Maestro Michael Gelfand, in a performance of George Friedrich Handel’s magnificent oratorio Messiah, presented by the Chagrin Valley Chamber Music Concert Series.
Saturday, December 3, 2011, at 7:30 pm
Chagrin Valley Chamber Music
Valley Lutheran Church
87 East Orange Street
Chagrin Falls, OH
440.539.6376
info@chagrinmusic.org
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Timothy Brown, guest conductor — Oct 29, 11
Quire Cleveland celebrates the glorious tradition of English choral music with guest conductor Tim Brown of Clare College, Cambridge. From Renaissance masters like William Byrd to the romantic Ralph Vaughan Williams to contemporary composer Giles Swayne, the sonorities are exquisite and inspiring.
Renowned as a choral conductor, Timothy Brown served 30 years as director of the Clare College Choir of Cambridge University. He earned international acclaim through concert tours around the world and a discography of more than 50 recordings. Come hear his Cleveland début as guest director of Quire Cleveland, when Maestro Brown shares his expertise and artistry in a program that celebrates the great English choral tradition, from Renaissance masters to those still thriving today.
The program features works by the early Renaissance composers John Taverner and Thomas Tallis, their successors William Byrd and Henry Purcell, Romantic favorites like Charles Villiers Stanford, and more recent masters like Ralph Vaughan Williams, Lennox Berkeley, and Giles Swayne (b.1946). The range of harmonies is sure to provide drama and interest, with appeal to one and all!
Saturday, October 29, 2011, at 7:30 pm
Trinity Cathedral
2230 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH
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Scott Metcalfe, Conductor — Apr 13, 11
Under the direction of guest conductor Scott Metcalfe, Quire Cleveland returns to the Cathedral of St. John, site of our celebrated début concert. In this program, Quire explores the rich heritage of German choral music, from sacred songs and polyphony by Renaissance masters, to thrilling baroque works by Schütz, Pachelbel, and Bach.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011, at 7:30 pm
Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist
East Ninth Street & Superior Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio
This concert is free and open to the public. No tickets are required. Free parking is available in the Cathedral Garage on the SE corner of Rockwell Avenue and East Ninth Street. For more information, call 216-771-6666, ext. 5510, or email gheislman@dioceseofcleveland.org.
Scott Metcalfe is a conductor and violinist whose career has taken him all over North America and Europe. He is the music director of
Blue Heron, a vocal ensemble based in Boston which specializes in music between 1400 and 1600 and has been acclaimed by the Boston Globe as “one of the Boston music community’s indispensables.” He has recently been appointed Music Director of Early Music America’s first Young Performers Festival, to be held in conjunction with the Boston Early Music Festival in June 2011. Metcalfe is also a member of Cleveland’s Les Délices (directed by Quire Cleveland’s own
Debra Nagy) and a participant in Montreal’s early music scene, working with Arion, Montreal Baroque, Les Voix Baroques, and other groups.
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