SIGNATURE SERIES
December 2 – Holiday Brass
Royal Oak First United Methodist Church
December 10 – Holiday Brass
St. Matthew and St. Joseph Church, Detroit
DCWS reprises its seasonal celebration with a magnificent mélange of new and newly arranged holiday favorites, joined by the choirs from Stoney Creek and Ann Arbor Pioneer High Schools.
February 10 – Creativity in the Face of Oppression
Temple Emanu-El, Oak Park
With guests from the Detroit Opera, DCWS mounts a concert performance of Viktor Ullmann’s one act work, Der Kaiser von Atlantis, the only opera to have been birthed in and survived the concentration camps. Part of DCWS’ “Creativity in the Face of Oppression” project, the performance will include spirituals by the choir from Hartford Memorial Baptist Church.
May 5 – Brahms’ Serenade
Birmingham Unitarian Church
DCWS goes romantic with a performance centered around Brahms’ Serenade #1 in D for winds and strings in its original nonet version, a great example of the ripening genius of the young composer.
June 9 – Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival
Seligman Performing Arts Center
DCWS returns to the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, sharing the stage at the Seligman Performing Arts Center with great musicians from around the globe.
NIGHTNOTES SERIES
All concerts at Hagopian World of Rugs, 7:30 p.m.
October 13 – Introducing Conrad Cornelison
Conrad Cornelison is the first new principal bassoonist in the DSO since the early 1970’s. His Nightnotes debut will give clear testimony to his incredible musical talent and personal charm. Sometimes nice guys don’t finish last after all.
October 27 – Jazz with Marcus Schoon & Al Ayoub
The multi-talented Marcus Schoon is best known at DCWS for his work on bassoon and contrabassoon. But he’s also a terrific jazz saxophonist, who has put together a quartet of colleagues for a lovely evening at Hagopian.
March 1 – Friday Night with Monica Fosnaugh
DCWS/DSO virtuoso Monica Fosnaugh takes center stage for a program of great music for English horn and piano.
April 12 – Western Michigan University Brass Quintet
DCWS trumpeter Robert White is joined by four of his faculty colleagues from Western Michigan University for a performance including the premiere of a new quintet by George Lewis as part of our Resonate project.
May 17 – Robyn Bollinger & Scott Strong
Two of Detroit’s young musical leaders, DSO hornist Scott Strong and Concertmaster Robyn Bollinger, put together a mixed program of horn and violin, including Gyorgy Ligeti’s Trio for Horn, Violin, and Piano.
STRUCTURALLY SOUND
November 12 – @ Downtown Synagogue
Downtown Synagogue
The newly remodeled Downtown Synagogue, Detroit’s only free-standing synagogue, will host a performance led by DSO Principal Bass, Kevin Brown, focusing on influences of Jewish musicians on the double bass at the time of the Synagogue’s 1920’s birth.
March 24 – @ The Congregation
The Congregation
DCWS flutist Amanda Blaikie takes center stage at a concert in The Congregation, a popular Detroit Coffee Shop and event space that started its life in the 1920’s as St. Luke’s Evangelical Church. Blaikie’s vivid imagination will take us on a musical journey through the transition from church to coffee shop.
July 20 – @ The Shepherd
The Shepherd
Balance, the collaborative duo between pianist Michael Malis and saxophonist Marcus Elliot, transforms space and time with a durational performance of intuitive improvisational music at The Shepherd. The day-long continuous performance invites audience members to come and go at their leisure and to explore the Shepherd while experiencing new sonic worlds. Rotating special guests will be featured throughout the performance, creating a rich sonic tapestry for the length of this marathon set.