Music For Our Children

10/05/2023

Our Co-Founder and Artistic Director, Ralitsa Georgieva was just featured in a wonderful special on Channel 5 News in Cleveland. This is just a glimpse at what we've been busy with lately.

Big thanks to the amazing staff and leadership at Providence House, who without them none of this would be possible.

Music is a universal language that all understand. Ralista Georgieva uses her musical gift to bring joy to children in crisis.

06/10/2022

What the founders of Music for Our Children initiative are up to these days?
A lot!!!
Moving forward with helping children in need through music, locally!
Where-Providence House Crisis Nursery, helping babies and young children through family crisis times, in Cleveland.
How- bringing weekly project Songs of the Books to the babies and children at the Providence House!
The most beautiful piano songs, played by bulgarian pianist and teacher at Laurel school Ralitsa Georgieva, on a donated keyboard by Piano Cleveland, along with songs sung by Professor of Music at Kent University Trumbull campus Eve McPherson and story books read by writer Cori Lovinger.

28/08/2021

https://facebook.com/events/s/tango-and-jazz-swing-together/864784940830220/

31/07/2021

Fantastic line up of Tango and this great jazz,.... and art!
Save the date- August 29, 3 pm.
More details very soon!

01/11/2020

Last Sunday, at this time we were outside performing a concert, through which we use the voice of art, to support the most in need young ladies. When now, it is even more difficult then before for them to enter the new chapter in their life.
I would like to share with the incredible artists and our audience that with the funds that we've raised last week there are the following items that are crucial for the young ladies,
and will be provided with these funds. Food, hygiene supplies, bus passes, clothing to be able to go to job interviews, workshops to gain skills, cooking classes and way more. Thank you all for being these helpful hands!
Love,
Ralitsa

25/10/2020

Getting ready for the benefit to start. Live stream will begin soon!

24/10/2020

If you can not attend but would like to hear the benefit concert tomorrow, it will be livestreamed on page Music for Our Children.

23/10/2020

A great selection of jazz performed by absolutely amazing Cleveland Orchestra principal bassist Max Dimoff and his son Xavier Dimoff. Not to miss this Sunday!
Maximilian Dimoff is the Principal Bassist of The Cleveland Orchestra and Associate Professor of
Music at The University of Michigan School of Music, Theater & Dance. Before joining The
Cleveland Orchestra in 1997 Mr. Dimoff was previously a member of the orchestras of San
Antonio, Grant Park (Chicago) and Seattle. He joined the faculty at The University of Michigan in
the fall of 2017 after serving for seventeen years as Double Bass Department Head at The
Cleveland Institute of Music. Mr. Dimoff performs exclusively on Thomastik strings.

Xavier Dimoff is from Shaker Heights Ohio. Currently living in Kent Ohio, He began playing saxophone in the fourth grade. After graduating from Shaker Heights High School, he began attending Kent State University. Currently in his third year, he is studying for a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Saxophone with a slight emphasis on classical saxophone. Alongside playing Tenor Alto and Soprano Saxophones, he is also a proficient Flute and Clarinet player. Xavier Dimoff has studied under Richard Shanklin and Kenneth LeeGrand and Jackie Warren before attending University. At Kent State University he studies with Theron Brown and Robert Selvaggio for jazz and with Dr. Noa Even for classical saxophone, respectively. He was also a recipient of the Walter-Doc-Watson Endowed Award in Jazz from 2016 to 2018 at The Kent State University. In 2017 he was also a part of The Intercollegiate Jazz Education Connection of Ohio Jazz Orchestra, which is a program that connects students all around Ohio to play in a big band. Having played with Dominic Farinachi in his Stokes Legacy Jazz Orchestra in 2017 and 2018, he has been playing professionally in the north east Ohio jazz scene.

21/10/2020

Our next artist spotlight for this Sunday's Black Lives Matter concert features Carolyn Warner and Paul Maxwell.

Carolyn Gadiel Warner is a native of Winnipeg, Canada. She is a pianist and violinist and has Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in both instruments from the University of Toronto as well as earning a First Prize in violin and chamber music from the Paris Conservatory of Music under full scholarship. Ms. Warner has been a member of the violin and keyboard sections of The Cleveland Orchestra since 1979, where she now holds the Marc Swartzbaugh endowed Assistant Keyboard Chair. She is a founding member of The Cleveland Duo with her husband, violinist Stephen Warner, and of The Cleveland Duo and James Umble, both groups which have toured actively as concert performers and artists in education throughout the U.S. and abroad. She has taught and held master classes at major conservatories of music throughout North America (including throughout Ontario, Quebec, and Alberta, Canada, and Mexico City), in Beijing, China and in Sydney and Brisbane, Australia. She can be heard with both ensembles on the Cappella, Dana, Klavier and Centaur labels. Ms. Warner was appointed to the CIM faculty in 1987 and is now Co-Director of the Case Western University Chamber Music Program.

Paul Maxwell is a 21 year old cellist currently attending the Cleveland Institute of Music with a full scholarship studying cello performance under Sharon Robinson. He has participated in numerous concerts, festivals, and music competitions playing
solo, in chamber groups, and with symphony orchestras. Through the years Paul has won numerous awards , including first place in the 2016 Temecula Valley Symphony concerto
competition. In the summers of 2014, 2015, and 2016 he attended the California International Music Festival on an Artistic Merit Scholarship in Engers, Germany, and in May of 2016 Paul was selected to participate in the prestigious International Piatigorsky Festival. In the summer of 2019 he attended Le Domaine Forget international music festival, and in 2020 he attended the online Lunigiana Music Festival.