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NEOSonic Fest: Clint Needham and Steven Smith

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The Grammy Award winning Cleveland Chamber Symphony (CCS) presents “NEOSonicFest”, a festival of new music focused on recent compositions from Northeast Ohio and beyond. CCS will act as the NEOSonicFest presenter and host ensemble.

"This is the first year for the festival and we are quite excited. Our goal is to produce a unique festival that will solidify and expand the role of Northeast Ohio in the new music and wider contemporary cultural world. We also want to focus the tremendous new music resources we are fortunate to have in Northeast Ohio into a prominent annual festival. By doing so, we can as a group promote new music and provide outlets for composers and musicians alike."

Sunday April 6th, 2014 7:30pm
Cleveland Chamber Symphony

Baldwin Wallace Gamble Auditorium
Kulas Musical Arts Building, 96 Front Street, Berea

Steven Smith, conductor

YOUNG AND EMERGING COMPOSERS Finalists Works
HOWIE SMITH – Epilogue (featuring Howie Smith – saxophone)
IVES – Tone Roads No. 1

About Cleveland Chamber Symphony
The Grammy Award Winning Cleveland Chamber Symphony (CCS) performs music of our time that dares to explore under the direction of Music Director Steven Smith. For more than 30 years CCS has nurtured composers, musicians and audiences through professional performances, recordings, commissions, and educational experiences. The Cleveland Chamber Symphony’s excellence has been recognized with prestigious awards including a Grammy and ASCAP John S. Edwards Awards. Throughout its existence CCS has contributed to the advancement of the art of contemporary American music and promoted the dissemination of musical works by composers of our time. CCS is a non-profit 501c organization.