Chagrin Valley Little Theatre

Valentine's Concert Chagrin Falls Studio Orchestra

Performance Dates & Tickets

About the Event

Fill your hearts with music this Valentine's Day!

Do not miss this event featuring concert pianists Dmitri Levkovich and Marina Radiushina.

This concert is the ultimate in musical sharing. Together with the orchestra, both Dmitri and Marina will reach right out into your heart with the most romantic music ever written. They both re-define the musical experience.

No matter what your musical background or taste, this concert will reach you. This will be Dmitri's 3rd performance on the CVLT stage. This master pianist has performed with the finest orchestras all over the world including our own Cleveland Orchestra…and yet, Dimitri describes performing on our own CVLT stage to the Chagrin audience as a "thrilling musical experience…one that he has looked forward to all year".

For this concert, Dmitri has chosen to bring the Rachmaninoff #4 piano concerto to life. This lesser known work features a gentle second movement that is perhaps the composer's best effort ever. In place of the 3rd Movement, Dmitri has asked to insert the single movement Prokofiev Piano Concerto #1. This exciting rhythmic piece will bring you right out of your chair.

Marina Radiushina will bring a commanding presence to the stage as she performs the intimate Grieg Piano Concerto in A Minor. Donald Rosenberg, music critic of The Plain Dealer, referred to her artistry as "the essence of expressive fervor and discipline." A Ukrainian-American, Radiushina has won the Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Poland, and the Cleveland Institute of Music concerto competition. She made her Carnegie Hall debut in 2008.

The Studio Orchestra will introduce the evening with music from Tchaikovsky's Ballet, Swan Lake.

The thunderous applause and cheers from the standing ovation crowd last year still echo in the halls of the Theater. Come share the excitement as Steve Eva and the Chagrin Falls Studio Orchestra present a new vision in musical entertainment.

BRING THE ORCHESTRA HOME WITH YOU: The 2010 Valentine's Concert, also featuring award-winning pianist Dmitri Levkovich performing Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2., was recorded by Five-Four Productions. This audio production team, including former members of the Grammy Award-winning Telarc Records, partnered with the Chagrin Falls Studio Orchestra and Chagrin Valley Little Theatre to create an archival recording of this spellbinding concert. Some CDs remain available for just $20! Order at the CVLT box office, or call the Box Office at (440) 247-8955 between 1 and 6, Monday through Saturday.

About the Studio Orchestra

The Chagrin Falls Studio Orchestra is volunteer-driven, nonprofit musical endeavor that brings studio arrangements, as well as the classics that inspired them, to stages in the Chagrin Valley community.

The Studio Orchestra is the only known orchestra in the region with a particular focus on studio arrangements. Written as film scores and rarely played live, studio arrangements represent some of the most dynamic, high-energy music of our time, by some of the most respected composers.

The Studio Orchestra affords its musicians the privilege and honor to play these original works—and its audience members the rare opportunity to hear them played live. With guest musicians and vocalists as well as multimedia presentation, the performance experience is more than just a concert—it represents a new vision in musical entertainment.

About the Conductor

Stephen A. Eva is a native Clevelander from a musical family and graduate of Shaker Heights High. Mr. Eva, an accomplished trumpet player in his youth, attended The National Music Camp at Interlochen where he sustained injury to his lip from overplaying. His attention quickly turned to his true love, conducting, and he became the first student conductor ever at Shaker High School. Mr. Eva graduated from Grove City College with degrees in Economics and Philosophy where he organized and directed the first Jazz Ensemble.

For the past 23 years, Mr. Eva has been the conductor and driving force of the Hermit Club Symphony Orchestra (Cleveland's premier performing arts club.) Through the Hermit Club Orchestra, he has conducted numerous large-scale symphonic works, concertos, chamber music, musical theater, choral and pops concerts.

Mr. Eva is well known in Chagrin as the Musical Director of the Chagrin Light Orchestra for the past two seasons where he introduced fun, innovative programming to the Community. PMr. Eva is self-employed as an industrial equipment systems integrator. He lives with his wife Marilyn in neighboring Auburn Township and is a dedicated father of 5 children.