ESSENTIALLY ELLINGTON FESTIVAL: GALA CONCERT

Event Name: ESSENTIALLY ELLINGTON FESTIVAL: GALA CON
Organizer: CCMSched@ucmail.uc.edu
Event Locator: 2025-ADJCLC

2 p.m. Saturday, March 7
• Jazz Series •
ESSENTIALLY ELLINGTON FESTIVAL: GALA CONCERT
CCM Jazz Orchestra
Featuring TBA guest artist
Scott Belck, music director
CCM’s Essentially Ellington festival, sponsored by Wynton Marsalis’ Jazz at Lincoln Center, returns in full swing! The daylong event features the region’s top high school jazz ensembles and the gala concert features the CCM Jazz Orchestra with a TBA guest artist from Jazz at Lincoln Center.
Estimated run time: 90 minutes
Location: Corbett Auditorium
Tickets: $19.50 adult, $15 student, $15 UC faculty/staff, $10 UC student, $5 CCM student; group discounts available. Buy tickets online.

CONDUCTING MASTER CLASS

Event Name: CONDUCTING MASTER CLASS
Organizer: CCMSched@ucmail.uc.edu
Event Locator: 2025-ADJCLG

5 p.m. Sunday, March 8
• Orchestra Series •
CONDUCTING MASTER CLASS
CCM Philharmonia
Mark Gibson, music director and conductor
The CCM Philharmonia welcomes eight gifted conductors from around the world to participate in a four-day conducting master class. Witness their performance of two legendary masterworks, the culmination of a weekend of artistic growth working with CCM Director of Orchestral Studies Mark Gibson.
BRAHMS: Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98 (1884)           
DVORÁK: Symphony No. 6 in D major, Op. 60, B. 112 (1880)
Estimated run time:
Location: Corbett Auditorium
Admission: FREE

LONDON IN LIGHT AND LAUGHTER

Event Name: LONDON IN LIGHT AND LAUGHTER
Organizer: CCMSched@ucmail.uc.edu
Event Locator: 2025-ADJCMN

7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 11
• Orchestra Series •
LONDON IN LIGHT AND LAUGHTER
CCM Concert Orchestra
Aik Khai Pung, music director and conductor
Step into the charm, wit and warmth of old London! This vibrant program sparkles with humor, nostalgia and symphonic grandeur — celebrating the brilliance of London that is full of light, laughter and unmistakable British flair!
ELGAR: Cockaigne “In London Town” Op. 40
DOHNÁNYI: Variations on a Nursery Tune, Op. 25
VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS: Symphony No. 2 “A London Symphony”
Estimated run time: 120 minutes
Location: Corbett Auditorium
Admission: FREE

Starling Chamber Orchestra

Event Name: Starling Chamber Orchestra
Organizer: CCMSched@ucmail.uc.edu
Event Locator: 2025-ADJCTA

5 p.m. Saturday, April 11
• Starling Series •
Starling Chamber Orchestra
Kurt Sassmannshaus, music director 
Estimated run time: 90 minutes 
Location: Robert J. Werner Recital Hall 
Admission: FREE

SWEENEY TODD

Event Name: SWEENEY TODD
Organizer: CCMSched@ucmail.uc.edu
Event Locator: 2025-ADJCWB

8 p.m. Wednesday, April 15
8 p.m. Thursday, April 16
8 p.m. Friday, April 17^
2 p.m. Saturday, April 18
8 p.m. Saturday, April 18
2 p.m. Sunday, April 19
• CCM Musical Theatre and Opera Series•
SWEENEY TODD
The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
A Musical Thriller
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by Hugh Wheeler
From an Adaptation by Christopher Bond
Originally Directed On Broadway by Harold Prince
Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick
Originally Produced on Broadway by Richard Barr, Charles Woodward, Robert Fryer, Mary Lea Johnson, Martin Richards in Association with Dean and Judy Manos
Vincent DeGeorge, director
Ian Axness, music director and conductor
Lisa Hasson, chorus master
Brandon Kelly, choreographer
An infamously bloody tale of obsession and revenge, featuring a collaboration between CCM’s nationally recognized Musical Theatre and Opera programs with the CCM Philharmonia. Sweeney Todd, an unjustly exiled barber, returns to 19^th century London, seeking vengeance against the lecherous judge who framed him and ravaged his young wife. The road to revenge leads Todd to Mrs. Lovett, a resourceful proprietress of a failing pie shop, above which, he opens a new barber practice. Mrs. Lovett's luck sharply shifts when Todd's thirst for blood inspires the integration of a new ingredient into her meat pies that has the people of London lining up... and the carnage has only just begun!
Content warning: This production contains adult language, violence, and elements of gore.
Estimated run time: 2 hours and 45 minutes, including a 15-minute intermission
Location: Corbett Auditorium
Tickets: $36 adult, $20 student, $15 UC faculty/staff, $10 UC student, $5 CCM student; group discounts available. Buy tickets online.

^ASL interpreting available during Friday, April 17 performance. ASL viewing seating is available upon request by calling the Box Office at 513-556-4183 or emailing Box Office Manager Matthew Wilson. 

SWEENEY TODD is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com

SWEENEY TODD

Event Name: SWEENEY TODD
Organizer: CCMSched@ucmail.uc.edu
Event Locator: 2025-ADJCWD

8 p.m. Wednesday, April 15
8 p.m. Thursday, April 16
8 p.m. Friday, April 17^
2 p.m. Saturday, April 18
8 p.m. Saturday, April 18
2 p.m. Sunday, April 19
• CCM Musical Theatre and Opera Series•
SWEENEY TODD
The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
A Musical Thriller
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by Hugh Wheeler
From an Adaptation by Christopher Bond
Originally Directed On Broadway by Harold Prince
Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick
Originally Produced on Broadway by Richard Barr, Charles Woodward, Robert Fryer, Mary Lea Johnson, Martin Richards in Association with Dean and Judy Manos
Vincent DeGeorge, director
Ian Axness, music director and conductor
Lisa Hasson, chorus master
Brandon Kelly, choreographer
An infamously bloody tale of obsession and revenge, featuring a collaboration between CCM’s nationally recognized Musical Theatre and Opera programs with the CCM Philharmonia. Sweeney Todd, an unjustly exiled barber, returns to 19^th century London, seeking vengeance against the lecherous judge who framed him and ravaged his young wife. The road to revenge leads Todd to Mrs. Lovett, a resourceful proprietress of a failing pie shop, above which, he opens a new barber practice. Mrs. Lovett's luck sharply shifts when Todd's thirst for blood inspires the integration of a new ingredient into her meat pies that has the people of London lining up... and the carnage has only just begun!
Content warning: This production contains adult language, violence, and elements of gore.
Estimated run time: 2 hours and 45 minutes, including a 15-minute intermission
Location: Corbett Auditorium
Tickets: $36 adult, $20 student, $15 UC faculty/staff, $10 UC student, $5 CCM student; group discounts available. Buy tickets online.

^ASL interpreting available during Friday, April 17 performance. ASL viewing seating is available upon request by calling the Box Office at 513-556-4183 or emailing Box Office Manager Matthew Wilson. 

SWEENEY TODD is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com