Wit's Folly

Join us for Citizens, Subjects, and Survivors: Music of the French Revolution TODAY (Sunday, September 7) at at 2pm! See you there!

We regret to cancel our performance at Our Lady of Angels on Sunday, May 11, but we hope to come back to this beautiful space next season. Our Saturday, May 10 performance at Praxis is still on, though! So if you were planning to come on Sunday, we hope you can join us on Saturday instead.

Thank you for having us back, ! The “Wondrous World of Weber” continues tonight at (15301 Waterloo Rd, Cleveland, OH 44110) at 7pm 🎻

Learn more about our upcoming concerts at https://www.witsfolly.com/events or at the link in our bio📱

🗓️ Saturday, March 29 at 7pm
Praxis Fiber Arts Workshop | 15301 Waterloo Road, Cleveland

🗓️ Sunday, March 30 at 4pm
St John’s Episcopal | 700 High Street, Worthington

🚨 Cleveland, Akron, and Columbus 🎶
The full complement of Wit’s Folly is back in just under two weeks with “The Wondrous World of Weber,” curated by WF violinist Guillermo Salas Suárez ✨ Immerse yourself into the sound world of early Romantic Germany through Mendelssohn’s String Quartet #2 in a minor, op. 13, Weber’s Clarinet Quintet in Bb Major, op. 34, and a new arrangement of Weber’s beloved “Invitation to the Dance.” 💃

For more details, please visit https://www.witsfolly.com

🗓️ Friday, March 28 at 7pm
The Bath Church, UCC | 3980 West Bath Road, Akron

🗓️ Saturday, March 29 at 7pm
Praxis Fiber Arts Workshop | 15301 Waterloo Road, Cleveland

🗓️ Sunday, March 30 at 4pm
St John’s Episcopal | 700 High Street, Worthington

We are excited to welcome Stephen Lochbaum for our Spanish program this week! Come on out this weekend to hear him perform Ximénez and Boccherini with us.

Stephen has performed in such venues as Carnegie Hall, The Paris Conservatory, The Ateneo(Madrid), The Neuhause am Inn (Germany), and all across the US and Canada. He is frequently sought as a chamber musician and plays an incredibly varied set of repertoires. He plays theorbo in early music settings, jazz, tango, flamenco, video game music from the Final Fantasy series, up to commissioned new music.
As a competitor, Stephen racked up an impressive array of competition wins at Indiana University, University of Louisville, The Florida Guitar Foundation, Texas A&M, The National Music Festival of Canada, and has been a finalist in nearly every competition in North America.
He has led several university programs in the last 20 years, including Oklahoma City University where he ran the Celedonio Romero Guitar Institute and took students on concert tours in Madrid during the summer. He has co-authored a guitar textbook with Bryan Burns and is continually dedicated to his study of pedagogy.
Currently he teaches privately in the DFW area where he enjoys the thriving chamber music scene. Recently he has partnered with Joseph Kuipers of the non-profit Texas Cellos where he has significantly expended the guitar and cello repertoire with many original transcriptions.

We kick off our second season next week with a delicious program of Spanish music for strings and guitar featuring Stephen Lochbaum! Come join us for any of the following events:
- Saturday, October 19th, 7:30 pm at St. Noel Church
- Sunday, October 20th, 4 pm at Music at Bath Concert Series (Music at Bath Concert Series - Wit's Folly)
- Monday, October 21st, 10:30 am at CWRU's Denison Hall (Spartan Rehearsal Hall) as part of Early Music America's 2024 Summit.

We're excited to present a lecture recital for EMA's Summit in Cleveland this coming Fall! Our violinist Guillermo Salas Suárez will lecture on how chamber music was consumed in the Spain from the Enlightenment, with Wit's Folly illustrating with music examples from our October program "Salón Español."

2024 EMA Summit Presentations » Early Music America Check back throughout the summer as we add more presentations, workshops, and events. A detailed daily schedule of EMA Summit presentations and events will be available mid-Summer 2024.

Thanks to everyone who joined us last week for our season finale. We feel grateful for the support, the new friendships we made and cannot wait for next year. Which, we're excited to announce! More details on our website www.witsfolly.com.

Catch us tonight (8 pm EST) at the opening of the Bloomington Early Music Festival. Link below.

Bloomington Early Music - YouTube Bloomington Early Music is a not-for-profit early music presenting organization, a fiscal sponsor to local emerging ensembles, and host of the annual Bloomin...