Starting Thursday Oct. 18 at 8 p.m. the Cleveland Orchestra and Cleveland Orchestra Chorus led by conductor Pinchas Steinberg will combine to perform along side Sasha Cooke at Severance Hall for three days ending on Oct. 20.
The nights will be an all-Russian affair with the performers carrying the works like Rimsky-Korsakov's Suite from "Le Coq d'or," Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "Francesca da Rimini" and Sergei Prokofiev's "Alexander Nevsky," a composition about the exploits of a Russian soldier.
One of the "Big Five," orchestras along with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
The Cleveland Orchestra was formed in 1918 making it the youngest of the quintet. The musical group was assembled by Adella Prentiss Hughes and first ever principal conductor was Russian-American Nikolai Sokoloff.
Leading this ensemble on the night will be Pinchas Steinberg an American conductor of Israeli origin. Pinchas was a violin student and studied both the United States and Germany.
He learned the art of conducting in Milan, Italy under Antonio Votto making his debut in 1974 with the RIAS Symphony Orchestra in Berlin.
His repertoire includes being a guest conductor at the Vienna State Opera from 1986 to 1993. He also took on the role as the principal conductor for both the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1989 to 1996 and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande from 2002 to 2005.
Steinberg will also perform alongside mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke who has worked with the likes of the Monmouth Civic Chorus and is a winner of the Young Concert Artist title in 2007.
