The Cleveland Women's Orchestra is an American

orchestra An orchestra (; ) is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families. There are typically four main sections of instruments: * bowed string instruments, such as the violin, viola, c ...

made up entirely of female musicians, based in

Cleveland Cleveland ( ), officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located in the northeastern part of the state, it is situated along the southern shore of Lake Erie, across the U.S. ...

Ohio Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of nearly 11.8 million, is the seventh-most populous and tenth-most densely populated. The sta ...

. It was founded in 1935 and performed its first concert in 1936. It is one of the oldest women's orchestra in the world after the Orchestre féminin de Paris (founded in 1930). The orchestra's music director from its founding was Hyman Schandler. Schandler, also a violinist in the

Cleveland Orchestra The Cleveland Orchestra, based in Cleveland, is one of the five American orchestras informally referred to as the " Big Five". Founded in 1918 by the pianist and impresario Adella Prentiss Hughes, the orchestra plays most of its concerts at Sev ...

, continued as conductor into the 1980s. The current music director is Robert L. Cronquist.

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Cleveland Women's Orchestra official site
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