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It was an absolute pleasure getting to join @limasymphonyorchestra once again for this weekend’s concerts!

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Yesterday was my first concert at CIM! 🎻✨

It was such a pleasure making music with all of you, especially my fellow viola studio mates. Grateful to be part of this musical community and excited for everything that’s ahead! ❤️🎶

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This year’s State of the Circle was quite the success! 🙌

On October 14th, community leaders, institutional partners, and neighbors came together for State of the Circle 2026, an evening celebrating the people, places, and ideas shaping the future of University Circle.

From unveiling the next chapter of the neighborhood’s Master Plan to introducing University Circle Alliance, formerly University Circle Inc., this year’s event marked an exciting milestone for our community.

As University Circle continues to grow and evolve, one thing remains at the heart of it all: the people who make this place extraordinary.

Excellence is in our DNA.

Special thanks to Cleveland Institute of Music for hosting this years event, Spice Catering for providing the exceptional food and beverages that elevated the evening, and to Rick Smith Jr. and Yves Santana for sharing their enthusiasm, talent, and energy with our community. Their contributions were the perfect finishing touch to a memorable celebration.

Thank you to everyone who joined us in celebrating what’s next for the Circle.

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It has been wonderful working with the brilliant musicians at the Cleveland Institute of Music this week. On October 16, we will be performing works by Louise Farrenc, an Overture & a US premiere of an orchestral work by Elfrda Andrée, and Mendelssohn’s beloved “Reformation” Symphony.

We’ll give an outing to the wonderful Louise Farrenc’s “Overture No.2 in E flat. This piece is an energetic Romantic orchestral work that showcases her mastery of orchestral form, dramatic tension, and rich orchestration.

The two Elfrda Andrée works on the program are rarely heard! Overture in G minor, an early mature orchestral work that foreshadows many characteristics of her later works. Followed by the US Premiere of Andrée’s Varför och Därför, which somewhat translates as Why and Because. The title gives listeners a glimpse into an emotional narrative arc without relying on a rigid text and instead uses the full timbre of the orchestra.

This performance will be livestreamed: https://www.cim.edu/concerts-events/cim-orchestra-11
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#cleveland #clevelandinstituteofmusic #classicalmusic #womencomposer #womenconductor

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It has been wonderful working with the brilliant musicians at the Cleveland Institute of Music this week. I am extremely honored to join the group as the Kulas Foundation Visiting Artist and very much looking forward to our concert on October 16th! We will be performing works by Louise Farrenc, an Overture & a US premiere of an orchestral work by Elfrda Andrée, and Mendelssohn’s beloved “Reformation” Symphony.

I guess it’s still rare to find a program that features more than one piece by a woman, if any at all - now we have three incredible compositions by women composers - from the 19th Century and about 40% of the minutes. Thanks to Cleveland Institute of Music for helping open new doors for equality. Right when we are seeing diversity decreasing in professional orchestras.

This performance will be livestreamed: https://www.cim.edu/concerts-events/cim-orchestra-11
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#cleveland #clevelandinstituteofmusic #classicalmusic #womencomposer #womenconductor

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From: Rachmaninoff Etude Op. 39 No. 3
Btw can someone please help me with these score videos I’m not too good at them ⛄️

#classicalmusic #piano #classicalpiano #rachmaninoff

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My work Lowak Shoppala' (Fire and Light) is featured on the American Composers Orchestra’s album America in Weimar: On the Margins, released digitally on Platoon. Clans focuses on seven of these family lines—Minko Hall’s Fall of the Weimar Republic: Dancing on the Precipice, a citywide festival in 2024 exploring the thriving creative period in Germany between World War I and World War II. Led by conductor and pianist Rei Hotoda, the program features my piece alongside music by iconic American composers George Antheil, Duke Ellington, and Kurt Weill, and new works by John Glover & Kelley Rourke and Tonia Ko that reflect on parallels and redirections of the past, with performances by mezzo-soprano Chrystal E. Williams and accordionist Felipe Hostins.

Lowak Shoppala' (Fire and Light) is a work that expresses Chickasaw identity through modern classical music and theater. The entire work is in eight scenes and features an orchestra, narration, children’s chorus, traditional Chickasaw and modern dancers, traditional Chickasaw and classical vocalists, and Chickasaw storytellers. Each scene depicts a part of Chickasaw culture and history; Clans is the fourth of eight scenes. In traditional Chickasaw culture, a family clan system was maintained through matrilineal descent. Each clan has an animal name. Clans focuses on seven of these family lines—Minko, Bird, Alligator, Squirrel, Skunk, Panther, and Raccoon—and incorporates numerous traditional Chickasaw melodies and rhythms.

LISTEN HERE:
https://platoon.lnk.to/americainweimar

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Need plans for tonight? Don't miss 2025 Cleveland Arts Prize winner @jasonvieauxguitar as he takes the stage tonight with CIM Virtuosi at Cleveland Institute of Music’s Mixon Hall!

The free concert begins at 7:30 p.m. and features works by Vivaldi, Arnold, Mendelssohn and Britten, with Jason performing as the featured guitarist.

📍 Mixon Hall at Cleveland Institute of Music @cimedu
🗓️ October 7
⏰ 7:30 p.m.
🎟️ Free admission

Don’t miss the chance to hear one of Cleveland’s 2025 Cleveland Arts Prize winners live!

#ClevelandArtsPrize #ClevelandArts #ExploreCLE

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How many of these works have you heard and how many times? I am genuinely interested to hear your answers.
Ethel Smyth: On the Cliffs of Cornwall (Conducted by DMA student @gordon_swcheung), Mabel Daniels: Deep Forest (latest edition in the making by DMA 3 conductor @davidscott_conductor), Louise Farrenc: Overture No. 2, and Andrée’s Overture in G minor & Varför och därför (US premiere)

I program women composers because their music deserves to be heard. Not simply because the statistics tell us there is a gap, but because the music is good. It is compelling, inventive, powerful, beautiful, surprising, and it belongs in the repertoire. And there’s more exploration & uncovering to do!

Next November, the Boston University Symphony Orchestra will record several works by Elfrida Andrée, including music that has never before been commercially recorded and, in several cases, rarely performed. For me, this is about more than correcting the historical record. It is about discovering great music and giving students the opportunity to help bring it into the world.

The numbers remain striking. The Donne Foundation’s 2025/26 report found that of more than 20,000 works performed by 110 orchestras in 30 countries, only 8.5% were by women composers. And in terms of performance time, women’s music accounted for less than 5% of the total minutes on stage.

There is still much to uncover. And I intend to keep looking, not because women composers need a special category, but because there is so much great music out there waiting to be heard.
I continue to press on this issue as I assess every program I conduct to ensure women composers are being listened to, programmed and uncovered.

I hope you’ll join me at an upcoming concert, and please come say hello!

Check out the link in bio for more information on these upcoming concerts.

PS: Men’s composers are also on the programs!
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@ekkehardjung.artists @bu_music @buarts @cimedu
#2026 #fallevents #classicalmusicconcert #womenconductor #womeninmusic

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October is BUSY in Greater Cleveland!! 🎃👻

Save this for fall festivals, free family fun, Halloween events, arts + culture, and sensory-friendly picks all month long. And this is only the short list... 👀

Full calendar is updated all month as new events are announced at clefamilycollective.com/events

What other events we should add?

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Our orchestra season premier concert was a success! 🎶✨ #cim #cimflutestudio

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Tonight at 7:30pm Eastern time the CIM Orchestra (@cimedu) opens its season with a wonderful program of music by @valerie_coleman_music, Eduard Tubin, and Tchaikovsky. Please join us in person or online at cim.edu.

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