FREE! THE SOLDIER’S TALE Friday, January 27 at 7 PM | Detroit Film Theatre at Detroit Institute of Arts Eisenhower Dance Detroit joins DCWS for a fully staged production of...
FREE! "DETROIT RENAISSANCE" STRUCTURALLY SOUND AT THE DIA BEARDEN MURAL Sunday, February 26 at 2 PM | Detroit Institute of Arts at the Bearden Mural ***Please note the concert start...
SYMPHONY IN BRASS Sunday, March 5 at 3 PM | Royal Oak First United Methodist DCWS’ big brass choir presents a performance including Eric Ewazen’s popular Symphony in Brass. Thirty-one...
FRIDAY NIGHT FLUTES Friday, March 24 at 7:30 p.m. | Hagopian World of Rugs in Birmingham The DSO Flute Quartet curates an evening featuring music of one, two, three and...
STRAVINSKY’S MASS with UNIVERSITY CHORALE Sunday, April 2 at 3:30PM | Kirk in the Hills DCWS is joined by the Western Michigan University Chorale and conductor Kimberly Dunn Adams in...
This two day symposium will bring both high school and college composition students together with the community to discuss the career and craft of being a composer in today’s world....
STRUCTURALLY SOUND AT THE CARR CENTER'S NEW PERFORMANCE STUDIO Sunday, April 30 at 3PM | The Carr Center’s New Performance Studio Kris Johnson | Trumpet, Bandleader Marcus Elliot | Tenor...
CHILL VIBES with CHARLES OVERTON Friday, May 12 at 7:30 p.m. | Hagopian World of Rugs in Birmingham The artists’ appearance is sponsored by Martha Pleiss Equally at home in...
RECONNECT Friday, June 2 at 7:30 p.m. | Hagopian World of Rugs in Birmingham A DSO String Quartet presents chamber music classics. The artists’ appearance is sponsored by Andrea Wulf....
GREAT LAKES CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL Sunday, June 11 at 5 PM | Seligman Performing Arts Center DCWS once again performs at the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, sharing the stage...
Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings cordially invites you to our Impact Brunch: a Fundraising Celebration, a captivating event that promises an extraordinary celebration of music and community. As we gear...
Conrad Cornelison is the first new principal bassoonist in the DSO since the early 1970s. His Nightnotes debut will give clear testimony to his incredible musical talent and personal charm....
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...
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...
The Royal Oak Holiday Brass concert is now sold out; however, tickets to the Detroit Holiday Brass concert are still available! Holiday Brass - Detroit DCWS reprises its seasonal celebration...
DCWS reprises its seasonal celebration with a magnificent mélange of new and newly arranged holiday favorites, joined by the choir from Ann Arbor Pioneer High School. Sponsored by Pearl Planning...
The “Creativity in the Face of Oppression” concert includes performances of works by Gomidas and Black spirituals. The event, at Temple Emanu-El, culminates with Viktor Ullmann’s one-act opera, Der Kaiser von Atlantis...
Oboist Alex Kinmonth, saxophonist Timothy McAllister, and pianist Liz Ames perform works by Robert Schumann, Pierre Jalbert, Erwin Schuloff, Karalyn Schubring, and others.
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 1920s as St....
DCWS and the DIA celebrate April’s Solar Eclipse with repertoire exploring light, dark, and creativity. PROGRAM Bernard Rands - Canti Dell’Eclisse Claude Debussy - Clair de Lune Franz Joseph Haydn...
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...
DCWS goes romantic with a performance centered around Brahms’ Serenade No. 1 in D for winds and strings in its original nonet version, a great example of the ripening genius of...
Two of Detroit’s musical leaders, DCWS/DSO hornist Scott Strong and violinist Jiamin Wang, alongside pianist Liz Ames, put together a mixed program of horn, violin and piano, including Brahms' Trio...
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.
Balance, the collaborative duo between pianist Michael Malis and saxophonist Marcus Elliot, transforms space and time with a two-set performance of intuitive improvisational music at the cultural arts center The...
DCWS welcomes internationally recognized jazz pianist, Vijay Iyer, who will perform in a presentation of his work, Radhe Radhe: Rites of Holi, at the DIA. The work accompanies a film...
Structurally Sound travels to the Progressive Art Studio Collective (PASC), a studio and program dedicated to supporting artists with developmental disabilities and mental health differences. Calling on experiences from within...
We invite our DCWS friends and family to experience an intimate sneak peek into the upcoming concerts. This event will offer a unique opportunity to hear from our talented musicians...
Co-sponsored by Victoria King & the Family of Burton D. Jones DSO bassoonist Cornelia Sommer makes her first Nightnotes appearance with a performance previewing her new album, New Enchantments: Fairy...
Sponsored by Gail & James Straith The concert brings together Grammy award-winning guitarist Jason Vieaux, making his DCWS debut, with our multi-Grammy winner, saxophonist Timothy McAllister. They will be joined...
