Cincinnati’s Vocal Arts Ensemble, the region’s longest-standing professional chorus, released its 2026-27 concert season, the second under the direction of conductor Joe Miller. Following on the heels of a successful return to perform as part of the 2026 May Festival, VAE has planned three distinct concert experiences beginning in Ocrober.
Cincinnati’s contemporary chamber music collective, concertnova, announces its 20th concert season: five new mainstage programs and three additional events, ranging from a sculpture-filled forest to a Krampus-led holiday cabaret to a minimalism festival curated by composer/pianist Timo Andres.
The Cincinnati Contemporary Jazz Orchestra has announced a new season of concerts for both its Big Band Series and the more intimate Jazz@First concerts.
Founded in 2013, the CCJO focuses on the works of contemporary composers and expands the jazz canon by producing and performing its own original material, both new arrangements and compositions.
A relative newcomer to the local classical music scene, profesional chorus Ensemble Con Fuoco has announced its five-concert 2026-27 season, including a bluegrass mass, a pairing of Renaissance and contemporary requiem mass settings, music by soundscape composer R. Murray Schafer, plus major works by Arvo Pärt and Carl Orff.
“ARCO Sessions” will feature intimate concerts curated and performed by members of the CCO. The inaugural series will include two programs this fall.
Voces y Movimiento: Latine Performing Arts Festival will debut in neighborhoods around Cincinnati this fall.
There are whole worlds of new sensory-based experiences available to anyone – beauty or meaning that is there, but unheard or unseen. All anyone has to do is use their senses with attention and concentration and the wonderful variations within the ways humans create art and beauty and find ways to create delight will show themselves.
The Greater Cincinnati musical organization, which is based at Christ Church Cathedral, will present four programs during the season.
Named for longtime CSO bassoonist Bill Winstead, the series is curated by musicians and features chamber performances in the Music Hall Ballroom.
All year long, Greater Cincinnati is blissfully awash in fine music. Recitals, chamber music, opera, symphonies. These are blessings that are so abundant that it can sometimes feel a bit overwhelming. But there is nothing quite like the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra’s Summermusik Festival.
