Right now, your gift is doubled!

We are excited to announce that we have received a generous challenge grant from an anonymous foundation to support our ongoing CameraMusic work.  Every dollar you give to the CameraMusic Fund now through October 31 will be matched, up to a total of $25,000.  The resulting $50,000 will support our CameraMusic concerts through December!The CMSD is proud to have been the first and only Metro Detroit performing arts organization to actually increase our concert operations during this pandemic, presenting more concerts since mid-March than we did before the worldwide pandemic was declared.  Our live CameraMusic concerts have reached more than 180,000 people on six continents, the impressive outcome of a project that didn’t even exist – not even as an idea – in early March.As many organizations now try to charge for their webcast programming, these CameraMusic concerts remain free and accessible to anyone. How can we afford to do that?  The answer is simple: with your support.

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Haydn: String Quartet in G minor, Op. 74, No. 3, "Rider" 
Grieg:  String Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 27

This webcast is the Rolston String Quartet’s Cleveland Quartet Award concert. 

Given biennially since 1996, the Cleveland Quartet Award honors and promotes a rising young string quartet whose artistry demonstrates that it is in the process of establishing a major career.  Providing the quartet with concert appearances on chamber music series around the country, the award enriches the presenters’ offerings, while helping outstanding young artists gain wide recognition.  The Rolston String is the eleventh ensemble to receive this prestigious award.

The award is the legacy of the acclaimed Cleveland Quartet, whose members, upon the quartet’s retirement in 1995, joined forces with Chamber Music America and eight prominent chamber music presenters, including the Chamber Music Society of Detroit,  to create the Cleveland Quartet Award.

Supported in part by the Consulate General of Canada in Detroit.

Co-Presented with Chamber Music Society of Detroit and Chamber Music Houston.

Rolston String Quartet

Luri Lee, Violin
Jason Issokson, Violin
Hezekiah Leung, Viola
Yoshika Masuda, Cello

With its debut recording “Souvenirs” recently named BBC Music Magazine’s recording of the month, Canada’s Rolston String Quartet continues to receive acclaim for its musical excellence. In 2016, a monumental year, the Rolston won First Prize at the 12th Banff International String Quartet Competition, Grand Prize at the 31st Chamber Music Yellow Springs Competition, and Astral’s National Auditions.  More recently, the quartet was chosen for the prestigious Cleveland Quartet Award from Chamber Music America.

Recent highlights include debut performances at Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, The Freer Gallery, and Chamber Music Houston, two major Canadian tours and three European tours with dates in Leipzig, Berlin, Lucerne, Heidelberg, Barcelona, and Graz among others. Their 2019-20 season included concerts at UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music, Texas Performing Arts, Chamber Music Northwest, and Calgary Pro Musica as well as with the chamber music societies of Fort Worth, Kansas City, Philadelphia, and Vancouve, and at Paris’s Louvre Museum.

ABOUT CameraMusic:

"Musica da camera" (the Italian term for "chamber music") takes on a whole new meaning during the COVID-19 crisis, as musicians everywhere find themselves isolated and unable to perform for live audiences. CameraMusic is the Chamber Music Society of Detroit's answer to this, inviting artists to perform live on camera over the Internet from wherever they are. All artists performing on CameraMusic are being compensated for their work.

The Chamber Music Society of Detroit is able to offer these free livestreams only with the generous support of our listeners. Every dollar contributed to the CMSD’s CameraMusic Fund helps to pay musicians for their live CameraMusic performances. Thank you!