Congratulations to the winner Fiona Couglin! Fiona is a senior from Firestone CLC High School and the winner of the $10,000 college scholarship!

The Cleveland Orchestra and Cleveland Institute of Music are joining forces in a new partnership that will allow the two Cleveland musical entities to broaden their collaborations and share resources.

Firelands Symphony Orchestra's conductor and music director, Carl Topilow, has signed a new three-year contract, keeping him at the conductor’s podium through the 2024-25 season.

Paul Robinson’s review of Carl’s book “The Orchestral Conductor’s Career Handbook.”

Free outdoor concerts featuring patriotic music will take place in early July in Sandusky, Marblehead and Fremont.

The Firelands Symphony Orchestra will be presenting two patriotic pops concerts. The first will be at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 2 at Marblehead Lighthouse within Marblehead Lighthouse State Park.

Due to a personal injury, the Firelands Symphony Orchestra concert originally featuring guest artist Martín García García will now be headlined by Byeol Kim on piano. Ms. Kim competed at the 2021 Cleveland International Piano Competition, where she was awarded Third Prize, Female Composer Prize, and Armchair Jury Prize. She has also appeared with orchestras around the world, including Cleveland Orchestra, Paderewski Pomeranian Philharmonic in Poland, Pohang Philharmonic Orchestra in Korea, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and others.

Conductor Carl Topilow will lead the Suburban Symphony Orchestra in a concert, “Topilow Conducts Dvorak,” at 3:30 p.m. April 10 at Beachwood High School.

Domenico Boyagian, Music Director of Suburban Symphony Orchestra and Cleveland Opera Theater, and Suburban Symphony Orchestra welcomes founding conductor and Music Director of the Cleveland Pops Orchestra, Carl Topilow, in a free performance at Beachwood High School. “Topilow Conducts Dvorak” will feature Midsummer Vigil by Hugo Alfven, the Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 featuring James Thompson on the violin, and Dvorak’s Symphony No. 8. The concert will take place on Sunday, April 10 at 3:30pm at Beachwood High School.

Firelands Symphony Orchestra performed Saturday evening with a guest appearances by a gifted, young cellist.

The Hope for a New World concert took place at Sandusky High School's auditorium. It featured works by composers Camille Saint-Saëns, David Popper and Antonín Dvoák.

There are plenty of ways to celebrate Black History Month here in Greater Cleveland.

This February, check out arts performances, support local Black businesses, attend an educational event or find a moment of reflection at a historical site. Concerts, plays, movie viewings and more all take place this month at various Cleveland institutions.

“I listen to Broadway a lot,” says the music director and founding conductor of The Cleveland Pops Orchestra. “To me, it’s like the continuation of Italian opera. ‘Turandot’ was the last great Italian opera, in 1924. After that, everything went to Broadway.”

Topilow will bring some of his favorite tunes from The Great White Way to Powers Auditorium on Friday when he takes the baton as guest conductor of the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra.

The concert, which starts at 7:30 p.m., will also feature guest vocalist Connor Bogart, who has teamed up with Topilow several times.

“And now for the two notes that changed the course of music history.” Conductor Carl Topilow was half-joking in his introduction to the “Shark Theme” from Jaws, just one of many recognizable movie moments from the Cleveland Pops Orchestra’s “Salute to John Williams” on November 12.

But he was also hinting at the composer’s influential, all-too-easy-to-imitate style, and piece after piece proved this true, immersing the audience at Severance Music Center in Williams’ sometimes repetitive but always satisfying musical world.

Firelands Symphony Orchestra is back.

Back to doing indoor concerts. Back to performing an annual holiday show in December. Back to playing classical music concerts, along with its pops shows.

A note from Kathryn Perry, violin.

Acclaimed Americana band Hey Mavis is happy to be out performing for the people after weathering the pandemic lockdown on concerts.

The band will perform a free concert with the Firelands Symphony Orchestra at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 18, at Paper Moon Vineyards at Vermilion.

Conductor, clarinetist and arranger Carl Topilow was director of the orchestral program at the Cleveland Institute of Music for 37 years. He is the founder and conductor of the Cleveland Pops Orchestra – often performing as soloist on his red clarinet – and has conducted more than 120 orchestras around the world including many years as director with the National Repertory Orchestra.

The Cleveland Pops Orchestra concert to be held Sunday (Aug. 15) at the Mandel Jewish Community Center, 26001 S. Woodland Road in Beachwood, had originally been scheduled as an event only for Beachwood residents and Mandel JCC members.

It has been announced that the concert has been opened to residents of all communities.

The city of Beachwood and the Mandel Jewish Community Center are partnering to present “Sounds of Magic: Disney and Beyond,” a family-friendly outdoor concert at the Mandel JCC’s Safran Park at 2 p.m. Aug. 15.