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Discover Conrad Tao - Junction Trio’s Metro Detroit Debut on April 20th!

Song of Thanksgiving - a message from Chamber Music Detroit's president.

5 Things To Know About Next Weekend's Concert with the Pacifica Quartet & Karen Slack, soprano: There are a lot of reasons to join us in the audience for the second concert weekend of Chamber Music Detroit’s 80th anniversary season.  Here are Steve’s top five, plus a bonus.

Menahem Pressler - A living legacy at Chamber Music Detroit: A couple of weeks ago, we launched our 80th Season with a concert devoted to one of today’s greatest musical visionaries, composer Caroline Shaw. Today, Steve devotes a blog post to a towering musical visionary not found on our 80th Signature Series, the pianist, teacher, and master chamber musician, Menahem Pressler.  Why?  Because his immense musical influence can be heard and felt throughout this season’s concerts, as it has in every season since the Beaux Arts Trio’s first performance for the Chamber Music Society of Detroit more than 50 years ago.

5 Reasons Why You Don't Want To Miss Opening Night: Last week, Steve shared with you some thoughts on five visionaries (plus a bonus) whose music is making this 80th season of Chamber Music Detroit so special.  On this blog, he focuses on this Saturday’s opening night concert, and five reasons – and a bonus – why you don’t want to miss it. 

5 Visionaries in CMD's 80th Season: Our 80th season, celebrates visionaries who are defining the future – artists whose work transcends the high level of technical mastery all great musicians strive for, into the more universal realm of deep artistic meaning. Here are Steve's 5 favorites!

Steve talks about Yefim Brownfman’s long-overdue return to CMDetroit, in a solo recital just 23 days before his 65th birthday. (Originally planned for April 2020, it was postponed due to the pandemic.) 

Steve's Season Preview #9: Reasons to Come to Opening Night! This Saturday, September 10, marks the start of the 79th Season of Chamber Music Detroit, in a concert by violinist Randall Goosby and pianist Zhu Wang playing music by Boulanger, Ravel, Price and Beethoven. There are so many reasons why this concert is special – too many to list – but here is my Top Ten List of reasons why you should experience this concert:

Steve’s Season Preview #8: Exciting News! The Summer 2022 issue of the national Chamber Music Magazine was just published last week, with an extensive article about one of our most important concerts last spring: the world premiere of Jeff Scott’s Fallen Petals of Nameless Flowers by Imani Winds, with cellist Seth Parker Woods, pianist Cory Smythe, and poet/narrator Robert Laidler.

Steve’s Season Preview #7: CameraMusic Digital Subscriptions! Arizona. Iowa. Maryland. Nevada. New Jersey. North Carolina. Ohio. Oklahoma. Virginia. Alberta. Ontario. And of course, Michigan.
These are the twelve states and Canadian provinces where chamber music lovers have signed up – so far – for digital subscriptions to all sixteen concerts offered during the 2022-23 season on Chamber Music Detroit’s CameraMusic online platform. We’re thrilled!

Steve’s Season Preview #6: The Sixth Weekly Closeup on the Coming 79th Season! Steve introduces Chamber Music Detroit’s four concerts in Grosse Pointe this season, including three concerts on a new Sanctuary Series (with choose-what- you-pay tickets), plus a special event with the Gryphon Trio in The War Memorial’s exquisitely redesigned Lakeside Ballroom.

Steve’s Season Preview #5: The Fifth Weekly Closeup on the Coming 79th Season! Steve introduces a couple more concerts on our Signature Series schedule for next April. Both of them feature artists who are old friends of Chamber Music Detroit: the Dover String Quartet on April 1 with bassist Joseph Conyers; and cellist Zuill Bailey on April 29 with pianist Victor Asuncion.

Steve's Season Preview #4: The Fourth Weekly Closeup on the 79th Season! Steve introduces the new Detroit Emerging Artists Series, four concerts by fabulous young artists and ensembles at Wayne State University’s lovely Schaver Recital Hall in Midtown Detroit.

Steve's Season Preview #3: The Third Weekly Closeup on the 79th Season! Steve offers details about two solo artists performing at CMDetroit this season: welcoming back the revered Israeli-American pianist Yefim Bronfman, and introducing the French pianist Lise de la Salle.

Steve's Season Preview #2: The Second Weekly Closeup on the 79th Season! Steve shares information about the Montrose Trio’s return concert in October, and introduces the Israeli Chamber Project, making their CMDetroit debut in November.

Steve's Season Preview #1: The First Weekly Closeup on the 79th Season! Steve talks about the concert featuring violinist Randall Goosby with his collaborator, pianist Zhu Wang, for the Opening Night of our Signature Series 79th Season.

There’s still more to come. Over the next two weekends, we are proud to present concerts by two of the most compelling artists in the world today. Also announcing a new partnership with the Kawai Piano Gallery of Michigan, respected as Southeast Michigan’s leading piano dealer for decades as Evola Music.

Caitlin Lynch and Caitlin Lynch, will perform together for the first time in public on our next Chamber Music Detroit Signature Series concert: Saturday evening, April 30 at the Seligman Performing Arts Center.

Read about our return to in-person events after a three-month absence and new COVID-19 protocols.

Announcing the 2022/23 Season and a name change!

Learn more about our rescheduled concerts, new digital concerts, and updated COVID-19 protocols.

Learn more about the exciting concerts over the next two weeks. Pianist Michelle Cann is performing this Fri. November 5 in Wayne State’s Schaver Music Recital Hall, and clarinetist Anthony McGill with pianist Gloria Chien on Sat. November 13 at the Seligman Performing Arts Center. Both concerts will be presented in a “hybrid” format, which means you can experience them live in person, or live online.

Read about our upcoming concert with the Escher String Quartet and Terrence Wilson, including a Pre-Concert Chat about the program. Plus a flashback to April 2020 when we presented Quarantrio, with half of the Escher Quartet members through our CameraMusic webcast concerts (one of our very first!).

Read about Opening Night, the artist, the program, and about attending in-person or digitally. Plus a Pre-Concert Chat with Emanuel Ax where he gives insight to the remarkable all-Chopin program he will be playing on September 11 .

Steve shares the harrowing experience of a CameraMusic live-streaming failure, and a concert saved only by some quick pivoting to an alternative streaming platform.

Steve takes you inside Chamber Music Detroit’s adaptation to the COVID-19 crisis, including the technology behind our first-ever self-produced webcast concert on April 4.

After a two-week pause, Steve introduces “CameraMusic” - CMDetroit’s response to the COVID-19 crisis - and provides some valuable technical support for accessing live webcasts.

Steve shares important information about two upcoming artist engagements at CMDetroit:a change for Curtis on Tour on March 13-15, 2020, and a new date for pianist Emanuel Ax next season.

Steve describes the renowned Curtis Institute of Music, and introduces the artists performing on the upcoming “Curtis on Tour” concerts on March 13, 14 and 15.

Steve bites the bullet and describes in detail a (self-inflicted) scheduling challenge that has come up with one of our concerts on the 2020-2021 season. Oops.

Steve introduces the incredible young violinist Randall Goosby, who comes to Metro Detroit for two concerts on February 28 and 29, in Midtown Detroit and Beverly Hills.

Steve introduces another CMDetroit staff member, our Director of Development and Marketing (and a mightly fine violist as well), Danny DeRose.

Steve introduces the three string quartets selected by the Danish String Quartet for their all-Beethoven concert at the Seligman Performing Arts Center on Saturday, February 1st.

Steve sends an update from the Chamber Music America national conference in New York, and introduces some of the managers behind the artists we hear at the CMSD.

Steve introduces the nine piano trios by Ludwig van Beethoven that the Gryphon Trio played in their wonderful complete cycle of these works on January 24, 25 and 26.

Steve shares some thoughts on the 2020 Beethoven Anniversary Year, and what makes Ludwig van Beethoven still so important and relavent 250 years after his birth.

Guest writer and CMSD Vice President Willa Walker introduces Steve on his 60th birthday.

Celebrate the holidays with eight of Steve’s favorite movements of chamber music, complete with links to recorded performances on Spotify.

Meet the CMSD’s Vice President Willa Walker and learn about the amazing career path that brought her to the Chamber Music Society of Detroit.

Read about what makes a cello “Baroque” as played in concerts by Jaap ter Linden on December 13 in Detroit and December 14 in Beverly Hills.

Read Steve’s special Thanksgiving message, and find out his thoughts on the musician in all of us.

Read Steve’s 2002 doctoral dissertation from Indiana University, an account of more than a decade of work in rural music and performing arts outreach across rural Kentucky.