Joining Hands at Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music

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I am delighted to announce that the next installment in CCM’s new series of digital performances will premiere at 7:30 p.m. eastern on Friday, Feb. 12, 2021.

Titled Joining Hands, this 30-minute-long virtual concert features CCM string quartet-in-residence the Ariel Quartet performing with Cristian Diaz and Denielle Wilson, both second-year participants in CCM’s Diversity Fellowship initiative with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.

The program includes the first movement of Johannes Brahms’ String Sextet in B-flat Major, the third movement of Felix Mendelssohn’s String Quartet in D Major and the fourth movement of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s String Quintet in G Minor.

All episodes of CCMONSTAGE Online are digitally streamed for free. After the premiere broadcast, each installment in this ongoing series will remain available for on-demand viewing on https://ccm.uc.edu , on CCM’s YouTube channel and on CCM’s Facebook page.

Rafael de Acha ALL ABOUT THE ARTS

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Rafael de Acha has enjoyed a distinguished career in the arts as a performer, stage director, producer, and educator. He was born and grew up in Cuba. At the age of 17 he moved to the United States to study Drama at the University of Minnesota, and later Languages at L.A. City College, Music at the Juilliard School of Music, at the University of Cincinnati’s College Conservatory of Music, and at the New England Conservatory of Music, from which he received the Master's degree. He has taught courses on the History of Music at the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music and at Florida International University, and contributed writings and reviews to Seen and Heard International (www.seenandheard-international.com ) and to this blog. He co-founded the award-winning New Theatre in Coral Gables, Florida, where he produced and staged twenty seasons of classical and contemporary theater, including fifty world premieres of plays that went on to have international and national productions on and off Broadway, including Ana in the Tropics by Nilo Cruz (Pulitzer Prize for Drama 2002 and Tony Nomination 2003.) In 2006 he was presented with a citation from The Dade County Cultural Affairs Council for “trailblazing contributions to the arts in South Florida.”