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Closing Night: Reception

Join us for a festive conclusion to the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival at the Closing Night: Reception. The reception will take place at Park West Gallery following the final performance of Closing Night: Wireworks. Mingle with the extraordinary musicians who...

Opening Night: Dinner

Kick off the 2025 Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival in style at our Opening Night Dinner—an evening of delicious cuisine, flavorful wine, and engaging conversation with Festival artists and fellow chamber music supporters. Enjoy a buffet catered by Plum Market and...

Musical Chairs Plus: Performance & Pop-up

A favorite of the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, Musical Chairs comes from the imagination of Shouse Institute Director Philip Setzer. Shouse groups, made up of emerging professional ensembles, are deconstructed and reassembled as fellows are challenged to...

Strata Echo

KENDALL | BRIDGE | DVOŘÁK

Audio/Visual with Robyn Bollinger

CIACCONA: The Bass of Time offers works spanning three centuries by four composers: Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber's Passacaglia; Johann Sebastian Bach's Ciaccona from Partita No. 2 in d minor; Béla Bartók's Tempo di Ciaccona from Sonata for Solo Violin; and Luciano...

Cornerstone

Includes works by:
Handel | Poulenc | Saint-Saëns | Kendall | H. Watkins
Pre-concert talk at 6:40 with organist James O’Donnell, former Master of Music at Westminster Abbey.

Textures

Includes works by:
Schubert | Tower | Shostakovich
Pre-concert talk at 6:40 with composer Joan Tower interviewed by Third Coast Percussion members.

Shouse Soundscapes

Includes works by:
Mozart | Scott | The Dolphins | Brahms

Summer Solstice Celebration

Join us for the second annual Summer Solstice Celebration, a day of music and making at Cranbrook Art Museum (CAM) and Cranbrook Institute of Science (CIS)! Inspired by traditional Scandinavian solstice festivities, this modern celebration embraces art, science, and...

Festival in Residence: Ann Arbor

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...

Festival in Residence: Windsor

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...

Negative Space

The program of Negative Space highlights music that explores space, absence, and the power of what’s left unsaid. Hannah Kendall’s Vera builds and unbuilds a musical structure using a twelve-tone row, creating a sense of shifting texture and hidden emotion. Ravel’s...

Festival in Residence: Ann Arbor

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...

Sound Beams

Includes works by:
Debussy | Reich | Bach/Sitkovetsky

Vignette, Opus 3: Gilles Vonsattel

Hosted by Gwen & S. Evan Weiner, Franklin Swiss-born American pianist Gilles Vonsattel will deliver a stunning performance of two Beethoven piano sonatas, showcasing his technical brilliance and interpretative depth. A recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant...

Vignette, Opus 1: Njioma Grevious, violin and Zhihua Tang, Piano

Hosted by Franziska Schoenfeld, Birmingham Violinist Njioma Grevious and pianist Zhihua Tang bring a captivating program featuring Messiaen’s ethereal Theme and Variations alongside Prokofiev’s Sonata No. 2, a work brimming with lyricism and fiery virtuosity....