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...
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Artistic Encounter: Gilles Vonsattel
Free! Artistic Encounters are public coachings for Shouse Institute fellows in a setting similar to a masterclass.
Artistic Encounter: Jennifer Frautschi with Third Coast Percussion
Free! Artistic Encounters are public coachings for Shouse Institute fellows in a setting similar to a masterclass.
Artistic Encounter: Philip Setzer
Free! Get a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to be a professional musician.
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...
Closing Night: Wireworks
FAURÉ | BRAHMS | BERNSTEIN
Tasting Notes at 333 Midland: Up South: Reflections of the Great Migration
Relaxed concert format includes a companion tasting of wine and cheese and access to venue art gallery.
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
Includes works by:
KENDALL | BRIDGE | DVOŘÁK
Audio/Visual with Robyn Bollinger
CIACCONA: The Bass of Time
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.
Tasting Notes at Wasserman Projects
Relaxed concert format includes a companion tasting of wine and cheese and access to venue art gallery.
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
Includes works by:
SOLEDAD | BRAHMS | MOZART
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
Includes works by:
HAYDN | BACH | SHOSTAKOVICH
Sound Beams
Includes works by:
Debussy | Reich | Bach/Sitkovetsky
Opening Night: Latticework
Includes works by:
Shepherd | Britten | Haydn | Beethoven
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 2: Matthew Duvall, percussion and Jocelyn Conselva, soprano
Hosted by Melodie & Alan Solway, Bloomfield Hills Matthew Duvall, founder, artistic director and percussionist of Eighth Blackbird, and Jocelyn Conselva, vocalist and co-director of New Music Detroit, bring an exciting program that merges rhythmic nuance with...
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....