Inspired by the Spanish word "concertar," meaning "to come together in harmony," CLE Concierto is Northeast Ohio’s newest early music ensemble.  Our group is on a mission to identify composers whose stories are not often told by the mainstream, and to connect modern audiences to their lost worlds and perspectives through dynamic performances, dialogues, and visuals.

​CLE Concierto is the baroque ensemble-in-residence at The Resonance Project, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and have also performed at First Church Arts in Columbus Ohio, the Hudson Historical Library and Society, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and recently opened the inaugural Cultural Concert Series at the Metroparks Zoo.  Upcoming engagements this season include concerts and outreach events at The Resonance Project, concerts at Performing Arts Series at the Church of the Western Reserve and The Federated Church.

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If you are interested in supporting our initiatives, please email us at contact@cleconcierto.com.

More information can be found at CLEconcierto.com

Lauded by Cleveland Classical as "an excellent soloist, a compelling performer who is equally comfortable handling long strings of notes... and singing through emotive melodies with her instrument,” Dr. Qin Ying Tan currently serves as harpsichord faculty at Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory of Music. As co-artistic director of The Resonance Project Cleveland and CLE Concierto, Dr. Tan has helped lead a highly successful inaugural season, marked by sold-out premium seating and critical acclaim for its bold programming, intimate performances, and unwavering commitment to musical excellence. Together with pianist Irwin Shung, they have brought fresh energy to Cleveland’s classical music scene by fostering cross-cultural collaborations and reimagining the concert experience for 21st-century audiences.

Dr. Tan has appeared in concerts in Singapore, Shanghai, Germany, France, and has performed extensively across the United States of America.  This season sees engagements with Hudson Historical Society and Library, City Music, the Historically-Informed Performance Practice Department at Case Western Reserve University, and the Baldwin-Wallace Bach Festival.  In addition to her commitment to early repertoire, Tan regularly presents new music to her audiences and has premiered several pieces, most notably Cenk Ergun's sound installation piece, "Fomare" at the Cleveland Museum of Art and “Are You You” by Michi Wiancko with City Music.   As a pedagogue, Dr. Tan’s students have successfully gained admission into graduate programs in Michigan and Boston.  Dr. Tan continues to cultivate an interest in historically-informed performance at the pre-college and college level in her role as a board member of the Northeast Ohio MTNA and harpsichord faculty at Baldwin Wallace Conservatory.  Her passion for sharing historical music has also led her to lead dynamic workshops on baroque dance and historical keyboards in Southeast Asia where accessibility to period music is rare.  When not at work, Ying loves exploring and hiking around beautiful Cleveland with her family. She welcomes conversations about culture, history or how music can be a vehicle for social change and a tool to bring communities together.

Soprano Naomi Grace McMahon (they/them) finds their home in San Antonio, Texas. Most recently, Naomi served as the inaugural Artist Apprentice for Cleveland’s own Trobár Medieval Ensemble in their ‘24-’25 season. From 2019-2023, they regularly appeared with Opera San Antonio as a chorister (Romeo et Juliette, Pagliacci, Tosca) and with the company's educational outreach program. In the summer of 2017, Naomi sang the role of Sister Rose in the South Florida premiere of Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking at the Miami Music Festival. While pursuing their Master of Music degree, they performed with the Texas Christian University Opera Studio as Nella in Gianni Schicchi and Zina in the Texas premiere of Nico Muhly's Dark Sisters. McMahon is delighted to be joining CLE Concierto and The Resonance Project this season.

Ms. McMahon holds a Master of Music in Voice Performance from Texas Christian University and a Bachelor of Music from Abilene Christian University. They have long been passionate about making classical music exciting and accessible to their students and audiences. During the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, they began to foster a long-time love for early music from the medieval to baroque periods, and are currently working toward a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Historical Performance Practice at Case Western Reserve University.

Praised for her “full-bodied, rich, and warm tone” (Cleveland.com), violinist and educator Ann Yu draws endless inspiration from exploring multiple genres and musical styles in the historical and modern musical traditions, leading her to unique and groundbreaking projects with Apollo’s Fire, the Poiema Trio, the Caroga Arts Collective, Project: Music Heals Us, CLE Concierto, and the Resonance Master Series. Ann earned both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she studied with Jaime Laredo, Jan Sloman, and William Preucil, and was the 1st prize winner of the 26th Annual Darius Milhaud Competition and Concerto Competition and the recipient of the Fortnightly Musical Club Award. Her training also includes prestigious programs such as Thy Masterclass, Kneisel Hall, the Perlman Music Program, the New York String Orchestra Seminar, the National Youth Orchestra-USA, and the Credo Festival, where she later served on faculty for four summers. As a soloist, she has appeared with the Cleveland Orchestra, the CIM Orchestra, and the National Repertory Orchestra. In Cleveland, Ann performs regularly with Apollo’s Fire, Forest City Strings (Candlelight Concerts), and in local chamber music settings. She teaches privately and through the Cleveland Orchestra’s Crescendo Program at the Cleveland School of the Arts and Campus International School. She also enjoys jamming with local bluegrass, old-time, blues, tango, and swing jazz musicians. In her free time, Ann loves sight reading chamber music, hiking in the national park, and dancing lindy hop and blues.

Costa Rican Baroque violinist and scholar Guillermo Salas-Suárez performs with several period ensembles in North America, including the Lyra, Atlanta and North Carolina Baroque Orchestras, Apollo’s Fire, The Newberry Consort, Sound Salon, Lumedia Mu  sicWorks, Bach Collegium Fort Wayne, etc. He has also served as guest concertmaster with the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, Bourbon Baroque, and the American Baroque Opera Co. Guillermo holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Historical Performance from Case Western Reserve University, where he studied with Dr. Julie Andrijeski. Guillermo’s chamber music appetite spans from the Renaissance and Baroque periods, which he explores with The Early Interval, up to the Classical and early Romantic repertoire for string quartet and clarinet with Wit’s Folly, which he co-founded. He has collaborated and trained with Malcolm Bilson, Paolo Pandolfo, Jaap ten Linden, Barthold Kuijken, Bruce Dickey, and the late Jeanne Lamon at the early music festivals in Boston, Bloomington, Amherst, Bach Oregon, Urbino (Italy), Daroca (Spain), Saintes (France), and the Stuttgart Bachwoche (Germany).

As a scholar of Spanish and colonial music, he has presented his research in conferences at Boston, Indiana, Oregon Universities, and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. His upcoming book The Tender Echo, a commented English translation of the Spanish violin treatises from the 18th century, is currently under publishing contract with Indiana University Press. As an educator, Guillermo is committed to the advancement of historical performance practice in Latin America. He served on the faculty of the Festival de Musica de Santa Catarina (Brazil), and has conducted masterclasses and workshops at the Academia de Música Antigua de Medellín (Colombia), Escuela Nacional de Música (Honduras), Universidad Nacional, Instituto Nacional de Música (Costa Rica), etc. He also serves in Early Music America’s IDEA Task Force, dedicated to promoting diversity and inclusion in early music throughout the Americas.

Guillermo started music lessons at age nine in his native Costa Rica, where he studied with Lidia Blanco, Mercedes Moreno, and José Aurelio Castillo. He furthered his studies in the US and Bulgaria with Dr. Borislava Iltcheva, Aleksandr Iltchev, Espen Lilleslåtten, and Dr. Lin He. He shared the stage with conductors and soloists Manfred Honeck, Robert Spano, Yefim Bronfman, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Midori, Lang Lang, and Renée Fleming at the Aspen Music Festival, Severance Hall, Benaroya Hall, Sala São Paulo (Brazil), and the National Theatres of Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua, and Honduras. He performed with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, CityMusic Cleveland, Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional and Orquesta Sinfónica de Heredia (Costa Rica).

He plays on an instrument by Jason Viseltear and bows by Michelle Speller, H.F. Grabenstein, Pieter Affourtit, and James Dodd II. Outside of music, Guillermo is a voracious reader, a language learner, and a yogi. He lives with his husband in Columbus, Ohio.

Andrew Hatfield graduated from Case Western Reserve University with a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Historical Performance where he studied with Julie Andrijeski.  Andrew has presented on performers' agency in university ensemble auditions at the 2019 Oxford Conducting Institute Conducting Studies Conference, performed at the 2018 Musicking Conference at University of Oregon, and presented on historical tunings and temperaments at Marywood University in 2021. As a performer, Andrew earned his M.M.in violin performance from Michigan State University, where he served as concertmaster of the MSU Concert and Opera Orchestras, a member of the new music ensemble Musique21, and concertmaster for many theatre productions, including the premier of Dr. Fox and the Impossible Cure for Death in 2019. Andrew also performed regularly with the Midland, Traverse, and Southwest Michigan symphony orchestras and served as violinist and violist at the 2019 College Light Opera Company and Highfield Philharmonic in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

Driven by faith and wonder, cellist and teaching artist Sarah Tindall seeks to explore the world through music and communicate its intricacies in all settings. Praised for her rich sound and expressive voice on the instrument, featured on NPR’s From the Top, she began her formal studies at the Juilliard Pre-College Program under Amy Barton after moving from her hometown in Nebraska to New York.

Ms. Tindall is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Lluis Claret and earned her degree in Cello Performance and Teaching Artistry. While at NEC, she was a finalist in the concerto competition on multiple occasions and held a fellowship in teaching artistry, which provided extensive field experience in public schools, retirement communities, immigration centers, and other community settings.

An avid chamber musician, Ms. Tindall has participated in leading summer festivals including Yellow Barn, Bowdoin, Credo, and Orford, and has performed in masterclasses for Natasha Brofsky, Michel Strauss, Zlatomir Fung, Sir Simon Rattle, among others. In addition to her work on modern cello, she pursues studies in baroque cello with Rebecca Landell and Catharina Meints.

Brennen Taggart is a multi-instrumentalist, arranger, and composer hailing from Lexington, Kentucky. After spending the first two years of his undergraduate degree with Sidney King at the University of Louisville. He is transferring to the Cleveland Institute of Music to study double bass performance and composition. Taggart imbues every note with a fusion of passion, spirit, and divine inspiration.

Brennen Taggart has been making music since age 5 and started pursuing the double bass at age 10. Growing up in Kentucky, Brennen was exposed to many diverse musical influences like Bluegrass, Gospel Blues, Hindustani, Synthwave, and Folk music. He has recently premiered several original solo pieces for the double bass, including his piece for wind band; “Time” and his piece for full orchestra “Glass”.

Taggart has toured Europe with America’s National Youth Orchestra, playing Mahler's 5th Symphony, and is an award-winning soloist.