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NEOSonicFest Turns 5

Steven Smith, NEOSonicFest's Artistic Director and Music Director of the Cleveland Chamber Symphony. Photo by Mark Satola.
Steven Smith, NEOSonicFest's Artistic Director and Music Director of the Cleveland Chamber Symphony. Photo by Mark Satola.

NEOSonicFest celebrates its fifth birthday this year, with more powerful performances of new music than ever, at venues all around Cleveland. Festival Artistic Director Steven Smith talks with WCLV's Mark Satola about the wide range of offerings, fom Cleveland-born, NYC-based pianist 88bit at the Happy Dog to the Cleveland Chamber Symphony's "Young and Emerging Composers Concert."