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Festival in Residence: Windsor

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Festival in Residence: Windsor
Sponsored by The Morris & Beverly Baker Foundation

Gilles Vonsattel, piano
Philip Setzer, violin
Dillon Scott, viola

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.

The Capitol Theatre – Windsor, ON
At Windsor’s Capitol Theatre, the stage becomes your seat—and the music surrounds you. In this rare, immersive experience, audiences are invited to sit on stage with the musicians, blurring the line between performer and listener. The grandeur of the historic venue meets the intimacy of chamber music, amplifying every stroke of the bow. Within this striking architectural setting, Blueprints in Sound comes alive as an exploration of space, sound, and human connection.

Program

SCHUBERT/SETZER Du Bist die Ruh
MARTINU THREE MADRIGALS
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 28, Op. 101

Program Notes

I want to return to Vitruvius, whose treatise De architectura began this journey nearly two weeks ago. In the opening week we looked at two of the three arenas of design identified by the Roman architect; tonight we tarry with the third.

Reading scenography as Vitruvius understood it is, like orthography before it, clouded by the word’s contemporary understanding. In conventional parlance, we take “scenography” to mean the decorative backdrops and set pieces in a theater. For Vitruvius, it meant something more elemental and abstract: scenography in architectural design, he says, “exhibits the front and a receding side properly shadowed, the lines being drawn to their proper vanishing points.” Scenography is perspective (which gives its modern theatrical understanding a bit more sense; the details of perspective and space that make a setting feel real). Read more…

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Featured Artists

Dillon Scott

Dillon Scott

Viola, Sphinx Apprentice

GILLES VONSATTEL

Gilles Vonsattel

Piano

Philip Setzer

Violin