CYO's Chamber Revolution

C Y We Write is CYO’s student composition initiative. C Y We Write pairs students with working composers under whose mentorship, our students compose or arrange existing pieces for performance. Through this program, CYO ensemble members apply to the program and those selected receive composition lessons with a professional composer mentor throughout the season.

Students either arrange an existing work or compose an original work for a chamber ensemble with the guidance of their composer mentor. Completed works are performed within the same season by ensemble members of CYO.

CYO students Evan DelaVega, Alisdair Welty, Anna Maurer and Cameron Sheldon will debut their original works as part of the Classical Revolution Cleveland series at Happy Dog.  DelaVega’s piece, Dementia, captures his experience as a caregiver for his Grandmother who had dementia.  Through his piece Reverie, Welty hopes that listeners of his piece find beauty in the harmonic chaos, the order of form and melody, counterpoint, and musical exploration.  Maurer explores endings in her piece entitled Denouement, and Sheldon’s new work Allegro for Pierrot Ensemble and Percussion brings together a classic quintet in a new way.