Chagrin Falls – Seen and Heard International

Potent Brahms in Sayaka Shoji’s Cleveland Orchestra debut

01/10/202124/08/2021 by Mark S Jordan

United States Blossom Music Festival [4]: Sayaka Shoji (violin), Cleveland Orchestra / Jahja Ling (conductor). Blossom Music Center, Chagrin Falls, Ohio, 22.8.2021. (MSJ)

Violinist Sayaka Shoji and conductor Jahja Ling © Roger Mastroianni

Karina Canellakis debuts at Blossom with a stern Tchaikovsky

01/10/202118/08/2021 by Mark S Jordan

United States Blossom Music Festival [3]: Behzod Abduraimov (piano), Michael Sachs (trumpet), Cleveland Orchestra / Karina Canellakis (conductor). Blossom Music Center, Chagrin Falls, Ohio, 15.8.2021. (MSJ)

Karina Canellakis conducts the Cleveland Orchestra © Roger Mastroianni

Restraint over risk in Rafael Payare’s Cleveland debut

14/09/202128/07/2021 by Mark S Jordan

United States Blossom Music Festival [2] – From the New World: Stefan Jackiw (violin), Cleveland Orchestra / Rafael Payare (conductor). Blossom Music Center, Chagrin Falls, Ohio, 25.7.2021. (MSJ)