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Classical Revolution Cincinnati normally holds events every second Sunday.

NEXT EVENT: WARM LODGINGS

Sunday 9/15 @ 7:00 p.m.--The Lodge (Dayton, KY) ($5 Donation Suggested)

For the first time, Classical Revolution Cincinnati hops across the Ohio River and into Northern Kentucky!

ABOUT SOME OF THE PERFORMERS

Missing Piece is a south side Chicago-based musical duo, violinist Dan Galat and cellist

Kelly Quesada, who endeavor to commission new musical works and works from other

artistic disciplines on themes that inspire others to connect with their community, care for

our environment, listen deeply to ourselves and others, and speak out against injustice.

Missing Piece has commissioned twenty one new works, including standard notation, text

and graphic scores, poetry, movement, and improvisation. Missing Piece has presented

their work in Chicago, New Orleans, Anchorage, Ohio, and Florida.

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Donald Broerman is an active composer, whose compositions are primarily solo guitar works. His music has been heard in Concert at The Cincinnati Guitar Society, Dayton Guitar Fest, CCM’s Something Different, Classical Revolution and House Concerts all over the midwest and as far as North Carolina.

Broerman earned his BM in Classical Guitar Performance at the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) under the direction of Clare Callahan and graduated Magna cum laude. He has also taken masterclasses with internationally acclaimed artists Oscar Ghiglia, David Russell, Zoran Dukic, Marcin Dylla, Carlos Perez and Johannes Möller. He also studied composition with Terry McQuilken at the University of Oregon, Orchestration at CCM and took private lessons with Jennifer Jolley (then-Professor of Music Theory and Composition at CUNY Lehman College, President and Co-founder of N.A.N.O. Works Opera Company).

Broerman humbly gives back to the community through the Greater Cincinnati Guitar Society, for which he served as President from 2013 to 2022. He is a member and guitar adjudicator for the Ohio Music Educators Association. Broerman also served as co-director and guitar faculty for the Summer Youth Guitar Workshop at CCM.

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Michael G. Ronstadt has traversed a wide range of musical styles from singer-

songwriter, folk, jazz, classical, Americana to new age. Ronstadt displays genre-blending

explorations on cello and guitar in complement to thought-provoking lyrics, as well as

instrumental work. In addition to his solo and group recordings with Ronstadt Brothers,

Trotta & Ronstadt, Serenity Fisher & The Cardboard Hearts, Aaron Nathans & Michael

G. Ronstadt, he is a much sought-after studio musician, who has appeared on more

than 200 albums in the last 20 years. Michael has recorded in studios across the United

States in Philadelphia, Tucson, Phoenix, Nashville, New York City, New Jersey, Cincinnati,

Los Angeles, Germany & North Wales (UK).

His versatile work has been tapped for studio and concert work by such artists as David

Bromberg, Linda Ronstadt, Murial Anderson and Craig Bickhardt (SKB). He has opened

for artists like Ruthie Foster, Jorma Kaukonen (Hot Tuna, Jefferson Airplane), Steve Katz

(Blood, Sweat & Tears), Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Neil Young, Death Cab For Cutie, Smashing

Pumpkins and Josh Groban. He has toured and performed with the late, great Rick

Rosas (Crazy Horse) and Dave Krusen (Pearl Jam). His performances have been heard at

the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering (Elko, NV), Philadelphia Folk Festival, San Diego

Sail Festival, Musical Instrument Museum (MIM), Common Ground On The Hill Music

Festival, and Tucson Folk Festival to name a few.

Michael holds a Master of Music in Cello Performance from the University of Cincinnati

College-Conservatory of Music, under the tutelage of Yehuda Hanani. He also holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Cello Performance from the University of Arizona under Nancy Green and Nelzimar Neves. Michael regularly premiers new works by modern composers such as Bjørn Bolstad Skjelbred, Kenneth Stewart, Michael Ippolito, and his own compositions. He is co-founder of Shaken Earth Media, which sells instrumental sheet music and original instrumental recordings.

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Sarah Gorak combines her youthful vocals, guitar-ukulele, and violin with live looping to create a unique sound palette of songwriting. Cincy Local Music claims, "Sarah's music is so heart warming and happy, even if it's a sad song...From the first time I ever heard her music, I immediately felt a Mr. Rogers vibe and the world needs more of that."

She prides herself on being a multi-genre multi-instrumentalist from studying jazz and fiddle music to playing cello for church or weddings to working with local songwriters and rap artists and being a founding member of Cincinnati's First Hip Hop Orchestra.

Sarah's biggest passion is helping inspire new generations of music with her Bachelor's in Music Education through teaching private lessons at Reading Community Arts Center as well as supplemental programming through Band in a Bus and Skool Aid.