Upcoming Events
BW Symphony Orchestra Concert
The Baldwin Wallace Symphony Orchestra will feature students Roy Marcos '27, winner of the Lauria Concerto Competition, performing Concerto for Viola and Orchestra by Miklós Rózsa, and a world premiere by composer Ilona Fiedorowicz '28. The concert will conclude with Rimsky-Korsakov's "Capriccio Espagnol."
Event is free and open to the public.
Bach Festival
Mass Appeal: Mass in G Minor and Magnificat—J. S. Bach.
In addition to the monumental Mass in B Minor—perhaps Bach’s most famous work—he also composed four shorter masses, often called the Kyrie–Gloria Masses. Though performed less frequently, these works are masterful in their own right. This year’s Festival features the Mass in G Minor, performed by the BW Motet Choir, Orchestra, and guest soloist—marking the work’s first appearance at the BW Bach Festival.
Closing the 2026 Festival is Bach’s brilliant Magnificat, often described as a “mini Mass in B Minor” for its epic design and expressive power, it remains one of Bach’s greatest and most beloved choral works.
Coventry Camerata
Coventry Camerata presents “The Renaissance Revival in 20th-century England” featuring two unaccompanied English choral masterpieces. The Mass in G Minor by Ralph Vaughan Williams is paired with the Requiem by Herbert Howells.
Birdsong and Fragrant Flowers
Discover the elegance and depth of East Asia’s choral soundscape. A vibrant program of charming folk songs and exciting choral compositions from China, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan.
Birdsong and Fragrant Flowers
Discover the elegance and depth of East Asia’s choral soundscape. A vibrant program of charming folk songs and exciting choral compositions from China, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan.
Dido and Aeneas
Spoleto Festival USA presents Opera Queensland’s production in association with Circa. Heart-stopping acrobatics and Henry Purcell’s haunting score propel Dido and Aeneas to new heights in a visionary collaboration with the internationally acclaimed physical theater ensemble Circa.
A passionate love story. Aeneas is a hero caught between his destiny and desire. Dido is the woman he must leave behind. For these star-crossed lovers, fate and romance are on a collision course.
Dido and Aeneas
Spoleto Festival USA presents Opera Queensland’s production in association with Circa. Heart-stopping acrobatics and Henry Purcell’s haunting score propel Dido and Aeneas to new heights in a visionary collaboration with the internationally acclaimed physical theater ensemble Circa.
A passionate love story. Aeneas is a hero caught between his destiny and desire. Dido is the woman he must leave behind. For these star-crossed lovers, fate and romance are on a collision course.
Mozart's Mass in C Minor
Mozart’s Mass in C Minor, premiered in 1783—the year Britain recognized American independence—comes to life with the Spoleto USA Festival Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Amanda Quist in her Festival Chorus debut, reflecting freedom and creative spirit.
Dido and Aeneas
Spoleto Festival USA presents Opera Queensland’s production in association with Circa. Heart-stopping acrobatics and Henry Purcell’s haunting score propel Dido and Aeneas to new heights in a visionary collaboration with the internationally acclaimed physical theater ensemble Circa.
A passionate love story. Aeneas is a hero caught between his destiny and desire. Dido is the woman he must leave behind. For these star-crossed lovers, fate and romance are on a collision course.
Spoleto Festival USA Chorus: The Chorus Concerts
In her inaugural season as Music Director of the Spoleto Festival USA Chorus, Dr. Amanda Quist leads Storytelling—a program that honors legacy while looking toward the future. Through works by American composers and others who explore identity, memory, and belonging, the concerts celebrate the power of the human voice to connect, reflect, and inspire. Set within the soaring Gothic interior of St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church, one of Charleston’s most acoustically and architecturally stunning spaces, the Festival Chorus invites audiences to experience music as a shared act of community and renewal.
Spoleto Festival USA Chorus: The Chorus Concerts
In her inaugural season as Music Director of the Spoleto Festival USA Chorus, Dr. Amanda Quist leads Storytelling—a program that honors legacy while looking toward the future. Through works by American composers and others who explore identity, memory, and belonging, the concerts celebrate the power of the human voice to connect, reflect, and inspire. Set within the soaring Gothic interior of St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church, one of Charleston’s most acoustically and architecturally stunning spaces, the Festival Chorus invites audiences to experience music as a shared act of community and renewal.
“If Music be the Food of Love”: Tuesday Noon Organ Plus Concert
This program explores representations of love throughout 17th-century vocal music from English and Italian Baroque composers. Soprano Virginia Grabovsky and harpsichordist Jonathan Bolena present two cantatas by Antonio Vivaldi, monody by Giulio Caccini, and a piece by Henry Purcell. These works trace the ways in which composers articulated love through themes of desire, grief, devotion, and lament. This repertoire illuminates how early poetry and music intertwined to give voice to the heart’s most vivid emotions.
“A. E. Reverie” and “Rise”
The award-winning Baldwin Wallace Conservatory Opera and the Cleveland Museum of Art present a double bill of chamber operas that highlight the pioneering American spirit of determination, independence, and freedom.
"A. E. Reverie," a 15-minute chamber opera (composed by Kamala Sankaram with the libretto by Jerre Dye), is paired with "Rise," a 30-minute chamber opera (composed by Sankaram with the libretto by A. M. Homes) commissioned by Washington National Opera as part of a collection of operas titled "Written in Stone" to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy Center in 2021. The Midwest premiere of these two operas also features the world premiere of a new chamber orchestration commissioned for this Baldwin Wallace Conservatory Opera production.
"A. E. Reverie" is set in 1929, a year after Amelia Earhart, also known as the "First Lady of Aviation," completed her trans-Atlantic flight. After Earhart's triumphant landing and empowering amphitheater lecture, her words attributing the gender disparity in aviation to gender-based education practices without regard to individual aptitudes inspires a young woman to realize the American dream of freedom and to reach new heights herself.
"Rise" pays tribute to the little-known Portrait Monument in Washington, D.C. Completed in 1921, the monument depicts three key players in the women's suffragist movement — Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony — together with a fourth, uncarved face, as a sign that the feminist struggle was far from over at the time. Indeed, it was only in 1997 that the statue itself was restored to its place in the U.S. Capitol's rotunda, after being consigned to the building's crypt for the preceding 75 years.
In this magical-realist take, Alicia Hernández (Virginia Grabovsky), a Girl Scout, becomes lost while on a Capitol tour and encounters a powerful female politician, a friendly Capitol Police officer and the ghost of American sculptor Adelaide Johnson. Through a witty conversation and revelatory interactions between the young Hernández and the opera's all-female, time-traveling cast of characters, "Rise" gives voice to some of the many women and girls who find their stories missing from history.
“A. E. Reverie” and “Rise”
The award-winning Baldwin Wallace Conservatory Opera and the Cleveland Museum of Art present a double bill of chamber operas that highlight the pioneering American spirit of determination, independence, and freedom.
"A. E. Reverie," a 15-minute chamber opera (composed by Kamala Sankaram with the libretto by Jerre Dye), is paired with "Rise," a 30-minute chamber opera (composed by Sankaram with the libretto by A. M. Homes) commissioned by Washington National Opera as part of a collection of operas titled "Written in Stone" to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy Center in 2021. The Midwest premiere of these two operas also features the world premiere of a new chamber orchestration commissioned for this Baldwin Wallace Conservatory Opera production.
"A. E. Reverie" is set in 1929, a year after Amelia Earhart, also known as the "First Lady of Aviation," completed her trans-Atlantic flight. After Earhart's triumphant landing and empowering amphitheater lecture, her words attributing the gender disparity in aviation to gender-based education practices without regard to individual aptitudes inspires a young woman to realize the American dream of freedom and to reach new heights herself.
"Rise" pays tribute to the little-known Portrait Monument in Washington, D.C. Completed in 1921, the monument depicts three key players in the women's suffragist movement — Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony — together with a fourth, uncarved face, as a sign that the feminist struggle was far from over at the time. Indeed, it was only in 1997 that the statue itself was restored to its place in the U.S. Capitol's rotunda, after being consigned to the building's crypt for the preceding 75 years.
In this magical-realist take, Alicia Hernández (Virginia Grabovsky), a Girl Scout, becomes lost while on a Capitol tour and encounters a powerful female politician, a friendly Capitol Police officer and the ghost of American sculptor Adelaide Johnson. Through a witty conversation and revelatory interactions between the young Hernández and the opera's all-female, time-traveling cast of characters, "Rise" gives voice to some of the many women and girls who find their stories missing from history.
BW Voice Performance Showcase
A showcase performance featuring the Voice Performance Workshop classes.
BW Symphony Orchestra Concert
Featuring Brahms and the world premiere of a new double concerto for violin and cello by BW faculty composer Clint Needham, featuring BW faculty Steve Koh and Khari Joyner.
Douglas Droste, director
Event is free and open to the public.
A Concert of Thankfulness and Joy
Renaissance and Contemporary Music by the Saecula Vocal Ensemble. Hosted by The First Ecclesiastical Society of New Preston.
BW Community Arts School Women's Choir
Holiday favorites, along with pieces by Rutter, Neverud, Pinkzebra and more.
Lisa Miragliotta, director
Event is free and open to the public.
Music at Covenant
Faure’s Requiem presented by the Covenant Choir and the R. Nathaniel Dett Concert Choir from the Cleveland School of the Arts, with chamber orchestra, organ, and soloists.
Free admission.
BW Symphony Orchestra Concert
"Bewitched by Mahler," featuring Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 1.
Douglas Droste, director
Event is free and open to the public.
Dido and Aeneas
Henry Purcell’s 17th-century English opera based on a fragment of the "Aeneid," a Latin epic written by the poet Virgil. BW Voice Performance majors present a contemporary interpretation for this all-new Baldwin Wallace Opera production.
This re-imagined telling is set within the dystopian framework of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. This contextual shift imbues the classical narrative with chilling contemporary relevance, exploring themes of power, oppression, and resistance through a familiar yet unsettling lens that remains true to the original story.
Dido and Aeneas
Henry Purcell’s 17th-century English opera based on a fragment of the "Aeneid," a Latin epic written by the poet Virgil. BW Voice Performance majors present a contemporary interpretation for this all-new Baldwin Wallace Opera production.
This re-imagined telling is set within the dystopian framework of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. This contextual shift imbues the classical narrative with chilling contemporary relevance, exploring themes of power, oppression, and resistance through a familiar yet unsettling lens that remains true to the original story.
Dido and Aeneas
Henry Purcell’s 17th-century English opera based on a fragment of the "Aeneid," a Latin epic written by the poet Virgil. BW Voice Performance majors present a contemporary interpretation for this all-new Baldwin Wallace Opera production.
This re-imagined telling is set within the dystopian framework of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. This contextual shift imbues the classical narrative with chilling contemporary relevance, exploring themes of power, oppression, and resistance through a familiar yet unsettling lens that remains true to the original story.
Dido and Aeneas
Henry Purcell’s 17th-century English opera based on a fragment of the "Aeneid," a Latin epic written by the poet Virgil. BW Voice Performance majors present a contemporary interpretation for this all-new Baldwin Wallace Opera production.
This re-imagined telling is set within the dystopian framework of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. This contextual shift imbues the classical narrative with chilling contemporary relevance, exploring themes of power, oppression, and resistance through a familiar yet unsettling lens that remains true to the original story.
Spirit - Virginia Taylor Grabovsky
Choral Gala
Baldwin Wallace's annual celebration of choirs.
Featuring Dr. Dirk Garner, Dr. Marc Weagraff, and Dr. Jami Lercher and over 200 singers.
Event is free and open to the public.
BW Symphony Orchestra Concert
Featuring Tchaikovsky's "Romeo and Juliet," works by Prokofiev and Bernstein as well as a world premiere by BW faculty composer Carolyn Borcherding.
Douglas Droste, director
Event is free and open to the public.