Musical Arts Series/Port Clinton

04/07/2025

The Musical Arts Series/Port Clinton invites you to our final offering of the 2024-25 season. The Verona String Quartet will perform a diverse program of works by Duke Ellington, Shostakovich, Geshwin, and Ravel. The Quartet serves on the faculty of the Oberlin College and Conservatory as the Quartet-in-Residence.
Join us as we welcome Jonathan Ong, violin; Dorothy Ro, violin; Abigail Rojansky, viola; and Jonathan Dormand, cello. The Verona Quartet appears by arrangement with Dinin Arts Management & Consulting.

This concert will take place on Sunday, April 27, 2025, at 3:30 p.m. at Firelands Presbyterian Church, 2626 East Harbor Road in Port Clinton. Graciously sponsored by Miller Ferry and the Frederick Insurance Agency. Students at any level of study are admitted free of charge. Tickets at the door are only $20.

03/17/2025

On Sunday April 6th, 2025 at 3:30 pm, nine piano and string young artists from the Cleveland Institute of Music, comprising three separate trios, will perform. It will be a varied and powerful program!

This performance will take place at Firelands Presbyterian Church, 2626 E Harbor Road in Port Clinton. Tickets will be available at the door for only $20.00, and students at any level of study will be admitted free of charge.

Sponsored by: Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP and Jack Hilbert

The Cleveland Institute of Music empowers the world’s most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential. Its graduates command the most celebrated and revered stages in the world as soloists, leading roles, chamber musicians and ensemble members; compose meaningful, award-winning new repertoire; produce Grammy Award-winning recordings; and are highly sought-after teaching artists, administrators and thought leaders.

A testament to the excellence of a CIM education, more than half of the members of The Cleveland Orchestra are connected to CIM as members of the faculty, alumni or both, and CIM alumni occupy hundreds of chairs in major orchestras worldwide. The school’s increasingly diverse collegiate and pre-college student bodies benefit from access to world-renowned visiting artists, intensive study with CIM’s stellar faculty and the rich curriculum offered by CIM’s partner, Case Western Reserve University. A leader among its peers, CIM is the largest presenter of free performances, master classes and community concerts in the Midwest, hosting hundreds of events each year on campus and at locations regionwide, including Severance Music Center.

03/10/2025

Opera on Wheels visited Immaculate Conception School, sponsored by the Musical Arts Series/Port Clinton!

02/24/2025

Presenting Carson Weingart, pianist. Sunday, March 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM. This performance will be given at Firelands Presbyterian Church, 2626 East Harbor Road, Port Clinton OH 43452. Tickets at the door are only $20.00. Students at any level of study are always admitted free of charge.

01/26/2025

In only one month, on Sunday February 23rd at 3:30 PM, the Musical Arts Series/Port Clinton welcomes back a perennial favorite performer, Mark Kosower, principal 'cello of the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra. Firelands Presbyterian Church will be the intimate location for this concert, located at 2626 E Harbor Road in Port Clinton. Tatiana Lokhina, Assistant Professor at Oberlin Conservatory, will accompany Mark Kosower on the piano.

A modern player with a “signature sound” and distinctive style of playing, cellist Mark Kosower embodies the concept of the complete musician performing as concerto soloist with
symphony orchestras, in solo recitals, and as a much admired and sought-after chamber musician. He is Principal Cello of The Cleveland Orchestra and a scholar and teacher of cello. Mark’s performance repertoire and discography are testaments to a deep devotion, not only to frequently heard repertoire such as Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations and concertos of Haydn, Walton, Elgar and Dvořák but, significantly, to less well-known concertos of Alberto Ginastera, Miklos Rozsa, Frederich Gulda and Victor Herbert. Mr. Kosower has recorded for the Ambitus, Delos, Naxos International and VAI labels, including as the first cellist to record the complete music for solo cello of Alberto Ginastera (Naxos). He was described as a “powerful advocate of Ginastera’s art” by MusicWeb International, and Strings Magazine noted of his Hungarian music album (also with Naxos) that “the music allows Kosower to showcase his stunning virtuosity, passionate intensity, and elegant phrasing.”

During the 2024-25 season Mr. Kosower will perform the Dvorak Concerto with the Pasadena Symphony and Costa Rica Philharmonic; the Ginastera Concerto No. 2 with the Puerto Rico
Symphony, and Dutilleux’s “Tout un monde lointain” with The Cleveland Orchestra among other concerto appearances. He also premiere’s Samuel Adler’s 2 Toccatas with pianist Min Kwon at Rutgers University and, together with violinist Alexander Kerr, performs the Beethoven Triple Concerto with the Washington Chamber Orchestra. Mr. Kosower also performs chamber
music in New York City with violinist Vadim Gluzman and pianist William Wolfram.

01/10/2025

With great sadness, we announce the death of Dr. Jay M. Mann,
one of the founding members of the Musical Arts Series. Jay was one of our original board members and served as president of the board for ten years before moving to Colorado Springs. Even while living in Colorado, Jay supported the series, frequently sponsoring a
performance of classical music.

After he retired as choral director of Heidelberg College,
Jay and his wife Margaret lived in Lakeside, where they were both
active in the Musical Arts Series and where she preceded him in
death.. He earned a Doctor of Music degree from Indiana University.

He was a great choral conductor and fine pianist.

We will miss his "guiding light" to our series.

12/18/2024

The Ohio Holiday Events Guide highlights The Burning River Brass Christmas Spectacular in Port Clinton this Sunday December 22. 3:30 at the Port Clinton High School Performing Arts Center, 811 S Jefferson Street. A free concert, sponsored by Hal and Diane Warnke Hawk and Crown Battery and the Harry Stensen Memorial Fund.

Unwrap the magic of upcoming festivals and events this holiday season in Ohio, The Heart of it All!