The Cleveland Chamber Choir is the region’s premier professional choir, providing audiences with exceptional performances of unique and diverse repertoire, blending music by living composers with six centuries of choral repertoire, and emphasizing the works of composers historically excluded from the concert hall. Since its founding in 2015, the Choir has won acclaim for inclusive programming, for partnering with community charities, and for free concerts that ensure everyone can afford to hear world-class professional choral singing. All of the ensemble’s members are professional singers who currently reside in Northeast Ohio. The mission of the Choir is to nurture and amplify the strength and resonance of Northeast Ohio’s choral artistry.
Throughout its nine seasons, the Choir has commissioned and/or given world or United States premieres of over 37 new works. Under the direction of Artistic Director Gregory Ristow, the Cleveland Chamber Choir brings together performing artists, administrators, audience members, and donors with the philosophy that choral music is a vehicle for good in the world that should be accessible and welcoming to all.
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Gregory Ristow leads the Cleveland Chamber Choir in the world premiere performance of “Gold on Every Cloud” by Corey K. Rubin (b. 1983). This work features a poem from Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali, translated into English by the author himself. It is a paean to light—in which light symbolizes a kind of pure, distilled joy. The music features diatonic tone clusters, mimicking the “saturating” nature of the visible light spectrum, as well as sonorities that strongly suggest the (supposedly “bright”-sounding) Lydian mode. Record Live on February 19, 2023 at the Maltz Performing Arts Center in Cleveland, OH.