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9 unusual facts about Cleveland Institute of Music


Beryl Rubinstein

In 1921 he joined the music faculty of the Cleveland Institute of Music, serving as the institution's director from 1932 until his death.

Encore School for Strings

Encore School for Strings, founded in 1985 by David and Linda Cerone, was the summer session of the Cleveland Institute of Music.

The music faculty was world-renowned, with teachers from top U.S. music schools including the Cleveland Institute of Music, Curtis Institute of Music, and the Colburn School.

Fats Heard

Born in Cleveland, Ohio, he graduated from the old Central High School and studied the piano at the Cleveland Institute of Music before taking up the drums as his primary instrument.

Gardner Read

After heading the composition departments of the St. Louis Institute of Music, the Kansas City Conservatory of Music and the Cleveland Institute of Music, Read became Composer-in-Residence and Professor of Composition at the School of Music at Boston University.

Jason Vieaux

He began his musical training in Buffalo, New York at the age of eight, after which he continued his studies in the Cleveland Institute of Music.

Robert Marcellus

During his tenure in Cleveland, he was clarinet department head at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

Thomas Nyfenger

He began his flute studies during his senior year of high school under the instruction of Maurice Sharp, and went on to earn his Bachelor’s degree, Master’s degree, and Artist Diploma from the Cleveland Institute of Music.

William Kroll

In the midst of his performance schedule, he taught at various facilities, first at the Institute of Musical Art (1922–1938), then at the Mannes College (1943), the Peabody Conservatory (1947–1965), Tanglewood (as of 1949), the Cleveland Institute of Music (1964–1967), and also at Queens College beginning in 1969.


Endre Granat

A former Fulbright scholar, he has taught at the Royal Academy of Music in Gothenburg, Seoul National University, the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Thornton School of Music.

Grace Fong

Fong is a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music where she studied with Sergei Babayan who describes Fong as "not only a true artist and an exciting virtuoso, but a sensitive poet who can speak about the most important of subjects through the craft of her hands."

Lucas Waldin

A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music, Waldin has performed with L'Orchestre du Festival Beaulieu-sur-Mer (Monaco), Staatstheater Cottbus (Brandenburg), and Bachakademie Stuttgart.

Ning An

Born in 1976, Ning An began his musical studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music with Olga Radosavljevich and Sergei Babayan.

WCLV

In addition to assuring the continuation of the classical music format, the transfer of commercial station WCLV-FM to the non-profit WCLV Foundation provided funding via the station's "excess profits" for local arts organizations: the Cleveland Orchestra, the Cleveland Institute of Music, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Cleveland Play House, and the Cleveland Foundation.


see also

Alice Chalifoux

Yolanda Kondonassis, Oberlin Conservatory, Cleveland Institute of Music, major recording artist for Telarc