CCM Next: World Premieres

CCM presents all-new works created, produced and performed by our students, faculty, staff and alumni, along with world premieres by CCM competition winners and commissioned premieres.

Chants of the Persistent Memory

The CCM Concert Orchestra is joined by faculty artist and acclaimed clarinetist Pavel Vinnitsky for the world premiere of renowned pianist and composer Anna Vinnitsky's "Chants of the Persistent Memory" concerto for clarinet and orchestra. CCM faculty member Aik Khai Pung conducts. The concert was originally presented in CCM's Corbett Auditorium on March 5, 2024. The performance was presented as part of the 2024 Cincinnati Jewish Music and Culture Festival


Still Waters/Drown

CCM Dance performs the world premiere of "Still Waters," a new work choreographed by CCM Dance Chair Shauna Steele and set to music titled "Drown" by Grace Choi (MM Composition, ‘20; DMA Composition, ‘22). CCM faculty member Aik Khai Pung conducts the CCM Concert Orchestra in this performance, which was originally presented on April 13-16, 2023, in Corbett Auditorium.


To Those Who Protect ...

The CCM Concert Orchestra is joined by faculty artist and acclaimed saxophonist Rick VanMatre for the world premiere of To Those Who Protect..., a new concerto for saxophone composed by CCM alumnus Piotr Szewczyk (BM Violin Performance, ‘00; MM Violin Performance and Composition, ‘03). The piece was inspired by the spectacular artwork of  Anna VanMatre. CCM faculty member Aik Khai Pung conducts. The concert was originally presented in CCM's Corbett Auditorium on Oct. 21, 2022.


Falling Upwards

CCM Dance performs Falling Upwards choreographed by Dance Department Chair Shauna Steele and set to the world premiere of Let Me Take You There by Aya Yoshida, Alexander Zemlinsky Prize for Composition winner.


The Good Trouble Project (Excerpts)


Hope After Hate

Louise Dieterle Nippert Trust
Scholarship and Resident Artist Supporter
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
CSO/CCM Diversity Fellowship Sponsor
The Corbett Endowment at CCM
Dance Department Supporter
All-Steinway School Supporter
The Joseph and Frances Jones Poetker Fund of the Cambridge Charitable Foundation, Ritter & Randolph, LLC, Corporate Counsel
Visiting Artists & Thinking About Music Supporter
William L. Gasch Endowment Fund for Dance Excellence
CCM Dance Department Supporter
J. Brett Offenberger, MD and Mr. Douglas E. Duckett;
Dr. & Mrs. Carl G. Fischer 
Greg Mathein 
Jim & Linda Miller 
George & Caroll Roden
Musical Theatre Department Supporters
The Estate of Genevieve Smith
Opera Production Supporter
Rafael and Kimberly de Acha
Opera D’Arte Supporter
Estate of Mrs. William A. Friedlander
Dr. Randolph L. Wadsworth
Judith Schonbach Landgren and Peter Landgren
Mr. & Mrs. Harry H. Santen
Elizabeth C.B. Sittenfeld
Elizabeth Stone
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Stegman
Mrs. Theodore W. Striker
Mrs. Harry M. Hoffheimer
Ariel Quartet Supporters
Friedlander Family Fund Karl Zipser
Chamber Music at CCM
Jan Rogers
Willard and Jean Mulford Charitable Fund of the Cambridge Charitable Foundation
Choral Studies Supporters
Anonymous
Classical Guitar Supporter
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph W. Hirschhorn
Philharmonia Supporters
Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation
Starling Pre-Collegiate Supporter
Starling Strings Supporter
Dr. Timothy E. and Janet L. Johnson
Thom Miles and Roberta Gary
Organ Department Supporters
Keyboard Club of Cincinnati
L. Ried Schott
Piano Department Supporters
Kevin and Nancy Rhein
Wind Studies Supporters
Willis Music/ Buddy Rogers Music
LINKS Instrument Donation Supporter
Strader Fund of the Greter Cincinnati Foundation
CCM Innovation Supporter


Sponsors listed as of July 1, 2024

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