The days are growing shorter, and the hummingbirds are heading south, so fall is on the way despite the persistent 90s. Our cultural organizations have already got their seasons in full gear. Up this week: a festival of films, new ballet works, a Tuesday chamber music showdown … and the chicken dance. Prost!
Despite their reputations, these programs have led distinctly separate existences. Now after two years of planning, designing, casting, rehearsing and building, Sweeney Todd will soon swing his bloody razors at UC’s Corbett Auditorium. The production features a newly constructed trick barber chair for the “demon barber” to dispose of his unfortunate victims.
The schedule features dozens of performances by CCM’s orchestras, wind ensembles, choirs, theatre programs, dancers and emerging performing arts stars across the college.
A longtime member of Cincinnati’s artistic community, Verbeck is an active performer and educator who has played flute with several of the region’s leading ensembles and teaches undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.
The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music had at least 40 alumni on Broadway stages between April 2024 and April 2025.
Poiesis – the Graduate Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music – topped a field of 10 quartets invited from around the world to compete in the triennial event.
The easiest way to convince a skeptic that Cincinnati punches well above its cultural weight is to pull out the Queen City’s music calendar. From stage to salon, medieval to cutting edge, and up-and-comers to longtime favorites, we’ve got it covered, thanks to an array of performance organizations that makes larger cities bristle with envy.
Audiences can experience the talent of CCM’s student and faculty performers across theater, opera, dance, jazz, orchestra and choral music.
Max Trombley is a Doctor of Musical Arts candidate in choral conducting at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.
For more than a half-century, Kronos has been relentless in pursuit of its mission, commissioning more than 1,000 new works, and recording so many that the group has become a staple of classical music radio. Kronos has collaborated with hundreds of performers, including David Bowie and Nine Inch Nails.
