Featuring young artists from the Cleveland Institute of Music and the joint program with Case Western Reserve University’s early and baroque music programs, these concerts are presented on the first Wednesday of each month.

Charya Burt, choreographer and dancer, is based in Windsor, California. Her company, Charya Burt Cambodian Classical Dance, has performed her original dances throughout the country, including at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

Outstanding conservatory musicians from the Cleveland Institute of Music in the studio of acclaimed organist Todd Wilson present an afternoon recital of works for solo organ on the museum’s McMyler Memorial Organ.

Hailed as one of the most vital standard-bearers of modern African music, Fatoumata Diawara is boldly experimental yet respectful of her roots. Her spectacular 2011 debut album made the Malian singer and guitarist the most talked about new African artist on the planet. Hers is the voice of young African womanhood—proud of her heritage but with a vision that looks confidently to the future and a message that is universal.