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.

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 faculty at Cleveland Institute of Music and 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.  The Resonance Project has been featured on Ideastream Public Media, as well as opened the Cultural Concert Series at the Cleveland Metropark Zoo.

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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, Music from theWestern Reserve , ​the Historically-Informed Performance Practice Department at Case Western Reserve University, the Resonance Project, Rush Hour Concert Series at Fairmount Presbyterian.  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 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 as the 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.

Mexican-American soprano Andréa Walker is a passionate interpreter of Baroque music and vocal chamber music. She can be heard performing across the country with groups like GRAMMY® Award-winning orchestra Apollo’s Fire, Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, Seraphic Fire, and Les Délices. Other recent solo performance highlights include her Lincoln Center debut in Telemann's Der Tag des Gerichts with Masaaki Suzuki and Juilliard415, Haydn's Schöpfungsmesse with Yale Schola Cantorum (German tour), the role of Venus in Daniel Purcell's The Judgment of Paris at Amherst Early Music Festival, and being a guest artist at the Norfolk Chamber Choir Festival under the direction of Simon Carrington. Ms. Walker is pursuing a Doctorate in historical performance practice at Case Western Reserve University. Prior to her time in Cleveland, she graduated with a Master’s in vocal performance from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music where she specialized in early music, oratorio, and art song. She is thrilled to be making her debut with Pegasus Early Music and NYS Baroque in the 2024-2025 season.

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.

Brian Kay is a modern-day troubadour. He is the first Artistic Leadership Fellow of Apollo's Fire and in 2019, he won a Grammy Award for his work on their Songs of Orpheus recording. He has performed throughout the world at venues such as the National Concert Hall of Dublin, Belfast Castle (Ireland), Carnegie Hall, and the Kennedy Center. His live radio appearances include NPR, Baltimore's WYPR, Baltimore's 98ROCK, Boston's WGBH, and Cleveland's WCLV. He has recorded with record labels Avie and Sono Luminus and has appeared on more than 10 album releases at the age of 33. He is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, arranger, traditional and historical music specialist, poet, painter, and avid proponent of meditation.

His recent projects include “Meditations”, an album of original songs in a modern style with a nostalgic flare, "Play, Music!" a one-man Shakespeare show which combines traditional music and theater (performed live at the Folger Theater in DC), and he was one of three Apollo's Fire musicians chosen to collaborate with the UKs Early Folk Band.

Brian was the first featured artist in EMAg’s column Early To Rise and was the first of three soloists to be featured in the Lute Society of America’s Emerging Artist Series. He is a core member of Twa Corbies and Apollo's Fire, and regularly performs with Hesperus, The Folger Consort, Early Music Access Project, Trio Sefardi and is a founding member of the early music improvisation group Divisio.

As a professor, Brian teaches at Cleveland Institute of Music and Case Western Reserve University. He has lectured on music and history at Yale University, The Peabody Conservatory, Johns Hopkins University, The Maltz Center, the Folger Theater, the Kennedy Center, and Baldwin-Wallace College. He was Artist in Residence at the Cushman School in Miami and has done outreach for elementary schools, middle schools, high schools, and prisons across the country.

Cellist and viola da gambist Jane Leggiero is an active performer in the Cleveland area and beyond.  Jane holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Case Western Reserve University and has performed with ensembles across the country including Apollo’s Fire, Austin Baroque Orchestra, the Texas Early Music Project (Austin), the Early Music Access Project (Charlottesville), Three Notch’d Road (Charlottesville), and the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra. She has taught at workshops including the Texas Toot, the Viola da Gamba Society of America Conclave, and the Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute, and has been a member of the Governor's Musick, ensemble-in-residence at Colonial Williamsburg.  She is a founding member of Wit's Folly, a period instrument ensemble dedicated to bringing to life music for string quartet and other instruments from the late 18th and early 19th centuries.