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Festival in Residence: Ann Arbor

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For ticket information, contact Kerrytown Concert House at 734-769-2999 or visit kerrytownconcerthouse.com.

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Our Festival-in-Residence series brings the spirit of the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival beyond metro Detroit, offering performances in Ann Arbor and Windsor. These concerts embody our commitment to accessibility, collaboration, and artistic excellence—bringing world-class chamber music to new communities.

Kerrytown Concert House – Ann Arbor
In a quiet corner of Ann Arbor, an old house hums with new life. Kerrytown Concert House—a 19th-century residence transformed into an intimate recital space—embodies the architectural charm and acoustic brilliance that make chamber music feel personal, immediate, and deeply moving. Its L-shaped hall draws listeners into the heart of every performance, where the boundaries between audience and artist dissolve. In this beautifully preserved space, Blueprints in Sound finds resonance in the historic bones of the house and the living artistry of its concerts.

Artists:

Stephanie Tang, piano
Philip Setzer, violin
Dillon Scott, viola
Edward Arron, cello
The Paddington Trio, Shouse ensemble
Trio Dolce, Shouse ensemble

Program

Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonata for Viola da Gamba in G major, BWV 1027
(1685-1750)
Adagio
Allegro ma non troppo
Andante
Allegro Moderato

Arron, Tang

Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57
(1906-1975)
Prelude: Lent – Poco più mosso – Lento
Fugue: Adagio
Scherzo: Allegretto
Intermezzo: Lento – Appassionato

Setzer, Scott, Paddington Trio

Program Notes

Tomorrow’s is the program titled Cornerstone, but tonight is the closest to a linchpin. The three composers on offer tonight are ferociously canon-bound, all, by different means but with no less sincerity, foundational to what came in their wake. Bach and Haydn are intuitive choices for the edifice of this thing we call classical music, although it is Shostakovich that tonight appears in his most canonized robes. And it is on such sedimented historical assurances we purchase a mode of listening tonight. This program, which shares no real thematic except good classical music, becomes an exercise in a brief material history. Tonight we use the assumption of good to ask more probing questions about how economic conditions encode themselves in scores, how creativity adapts to market forces, and how the establishment of canons themselves in turn become new conditions for creativity. Read more…

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Featured Artists

Dillon Scott

Dillon Scott

Viola, Sphinx Apprentice

Edward Arron

Edward Arron

Cello

Paddington Trio

Shouse Ensemble

Philip Setzer

Violin

Trio Dolce

Shouse Ensemble