Resonate
SYMPOSIUM LOCATION: The Carr Center Performance Space
Address: 15 E. Kirby St., Midtown Detroit (inside Park Shelton building)
Resonate is a multi-year collaboration that explores the African Diaspora through the lens of contemporary American chamber music. The project, under the direction of Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings and the Carr Center, has commissioned seven American composers to create new works to be performed by each of the collaborators during the 2021-22 and 2022-23 seasons.
Ranging in age from their 20s to their 80s, the selected composers represent a wide range of musical styles and aesthetic sensibility. They are creating works for a variety of instrumentations, using woodwinds, brass, strings, percussion and piano. Each new work will utilize between three and eight performers, with instrumentation mutually agreed upon by each composer and the collaborators.
Resonate will conclude with a culminating symposium bringing together all of the composers with musicians from each of the collaborating institutions from April 14-15, 2023.
Featuring Keynote Speaker, Damien Sneed!
Damien Sneed is a pianist, organist, conductor, composer, producer, arranger, and arts educator whose work spans multiple genres. Sneed has worked with jazz, classical, pop, and R&B legends including the late Aretha Franklin, Wynton Marsalis, Jessye Norman, Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross, Ashford & Simpson, Lawrence Brownlee, and many others.
