Mark Jordan in conversation with conductor Dalia Stasevska about her return to the Cleveland Orchestra

Questions on the road for conductor Dalia Stasevska

Dalia Stasevska © Veikko Kahkonen

Ukrainian-born Finnish conductor Dalia Stasevska (currently principal guest conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra) will be returning to conduct the Cleveland Orchestra 20-23 November in a program that features Dvořák’s ‘New World’ Symphony and La Noche de los Mayas by Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas. Busy schedules prohibited the conductor and Seen and Heard International critic Mark Sebastian Jordan from finding an ideal time to speak in person, so they devised a correspondence interview that would allow Stasevska to work on her answers whenever she found a stray moment between family, study, rehearsals, performances and travel.

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Mozart or ‘Woke-zart’ in Cleveland? Apollo’s Fire provokes discussion

United StatesUnited States Various, ‘Mozart’s Requiem: A Tapestry’: Sonya Headlam (soprano), Guadalupe Paz (mezzo-soprano), Jacob Perry (tenor), Kevin Deas (bass-baritone), Elora Kares (soprano), Charles Wesley Evans (baritone), Apollo’s Singers, Apollo’s Fire / Jeannette Sorrell (conductor). Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center, Cleveland, 8.11.2025. (MSJ)

Jeannette Sorrel conducts ‘A Mozart Tapestry’ with Apollo’s Fire and soloists © Malcolm Henoch

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Warmth, grace and a scientist’s orchestral lab: old and new works glow in Cleveland

United StatesUnited States ‘Ohlsson Plays Mozart’: Garrick Ohlsson (piano), Cleveland Orchestra / Franz Welser-Möst (conductor). Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center, Cleveland, 30.10.2025. (MSJ)

Tyler Taylor bows after the performance of Permissions © Yevhen Gulenko/Human Artist Photography

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Unlikely pairing of Honegger and Mahler illuminates Cleveland with help from Pulliam and Samoilov

United StatesUnited States Honegger, Mahler: Limmie Pulliam (tenor), Iurii Samoilov (baritone), Cleveland Orchestra / Franz Welser-Möst (conductor). Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center, Cleveland, 3.10.2025. (MSJ)

Limmie Pulliam sings Mahler © Human Artist Photography/TCO

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Welser-Möst leads a new Deutsch work to open the Cleveland Orchestra’s season auspiciously

United StatesUnited States Various: Cleveland Orchestra Chorus (chorus director: Lisa Wong), Cleveland Orchestra / Franz Welser-Möst (conductor). Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center, Cleveland, 26.9.2025. (MSJ)

Franz Welser-Möst conducted the Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus in the US premiere of Deutsch’s Urworte © Extraordinaire Photos/TCO

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Hisaishi leads the US premiere of an evocative The Boy and the Heron Suite in Cleveland

United StatesUnited States ‘Hisaishi Conducts Hisaishi’: Antoine Tamestit (viola), Cleveland Orchestra / Joe Hisaishi (conductor, piano). Mandel Concert Hall, Severance Music Center, Cleveland, 4.9.2025. (MSJ)

Joe Hisaishi directing The Cleveland Orchestra from the piano in the suite from The Boy and the Heron © Julian Dubé/TCO

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