Cleveland Institute of Music tuning up for more diverse, competitive future | Arts - cleveland.com

As a new academic year gets underway, the Cleveland Institute of Music is already hard at work on multiple fronts, striving to refine its admissions standards, deepen its local impact, and promote diversity in a field that sorely needs it, summarizes Zachary Lewis, Classical Music Critic.

The new residential complex under construction at the Cleveland Institute of Music will boast all the amenities of modern apartment living and cater to the specific needs of music students

If the history of the Cleveland Institute of Music were a sonata, the phase the school is in today could be thought of as the development.

At the start of a new academic year, CIM is already hard at work on multiple fronts, striving to refine its admissions standards, deepen its local impact, and promote diversity in a field that sorely needs it.

“This is not something we’ve just woken up to,” said Paul Hogle, president and chief executive of CIM, during an interview in August. “We’ve concentrated on this…When the kids return, they’re going to be shocked to see the progress.”...

The NewBrook complex also comes as welcome news to Chris Ronayne, president of University Circle, Inc. By offering students desirable street-front housing in a building right on campus, CIM, he said, is putting more “music in the air” and making a “real contribution to Cleveland” in the form of students living, playing, working, and sharing their talents in University Circle.

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Source: cleveland.com