DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
JADER BIGNAMINI , Music Director Music Directorship endowed by the Kresge Foundation
ENRICO LOPEZ-YAÑEZ
Principal Pops Conductor
Devereaux Family Chair
FIRST VIOLIN
Robyn Bollinger
CONCERTMASTER
Katherine Tuck Chair
Kimberly Kaloyanides Kennedy
ASSOCIATE CONCERTMASTER
Schwartz and Shapero Family Chair
Hai-Xin Wu
ASSISTANT CONCERTMASTER
Walker L. Cisler/Detroit Edison Foundation Chair
OPEN ASSISTANT CONCERTMASTER
Marguerite Deslippe*
Laurie Goldman*
Rachel Harding Klaus*
Eun Park Lee*
Nancy Schlichting and Pam Theisen Chair
Adrienne Rönmark*
William and Story John Chair
OPEN
Drs. Doris Tong and Teck Soo Chair
Laura Soto*
Greg Staples*
Mingzhao Zhou*
SECOND VIOLIN
Jiamin Wang PRINCIPAL
The Devereaux Family Chair
Adam Stepniewski
ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL
Connor Chaikowsky*
Will Haapaniemi*
David and Valerie McCammon Chairs
Hae Jeong Heidi Han*
David and Valerie McCammon Chairs
Sheryl Hwangbo Yu*
Sujin Lim*
Tianyu Liu*
Yu-Ming Ma*
Hong-Yi Mo *
Marian Tănău*
Alexander Volkov*
Jing Zhang*
VIOLA
Eric Nowlin
PRINCIPAL
Julie and Ed Levy, Jr. Chair
James VanValkenburg
ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL
Janet and Norm Ankers Chair
Caroline Coade
Henry and Patricia Nickol Chair
Mike Chen*
Hart Hollman*
Glenn Mellow*
Hang Su*
Han Zheng*
TERENCE BLANCHARD
Fred A. Erb Jazz Creative Director Chair
CELLO
Wei Yu PRINCIPAL
OPEN ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL
Dorothy and Herbert Graebner Chair
Robert Bergman*
Jeremy Crosmer*
Victor and Gale Girolami Chair
David LeDoux*
Peter McCaffrey*
Joanne Danto and Arnold Weingarden
Chair
Úna O’Riordan*
Mary Ann and Robert Gorlin Chair
Cole Randolph*
Mary Lee Gwizdala Chair
BASS
Kevin Brown
PRINCIPAL
Van Dusen Family Chair
Stephen Molina
ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL
Renato and Elizabeth Jamett Chair
Christopher Hamlen*
Peter Hatch*
Vincent Luciano*
Brandon Mason^
HARP
Alyssa Katahara PRINCIPAL
Winifred E. Polk Chair
FLUTE
Hannah Hammel Maser
PRINCIPAL
Alan J. and Sue Kaufman and Family Chair
Emily Bieker
ACTING SECOND FLUTE
Morton and Brigitte Harris Chair
Amanda Blaikie
ACTING ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL
Bernard and Eleanor Robertson Chair
PICCOLO OPEN
OBOE
Alexander Kinmonth
PRINCIPAL
Jack A. and Aviva Robinson Chair
Erik Andrusyak
Sarah Lewis
ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL
Monica Fosnaugh
Donovan Bown§
ENGLISH HORN
Monica Fosnaugh
TABITA BERGLUND
Principal Guest Conductor
CLARINET
Ralph Skiano
PRINCIPAL
Robert B. Semple Chair
Kamalia Freyling
ACTING SECOND CLARINET
Jack Walters
ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL
PVS Chemicals Inc./
Jim and Ann Nicholson Chair
Shannon Orme
Triniti Rives§
E-FLAT CLARINET
Jack Walters
BASS CLARINET
Shannon Orme
Barbara Frankel and Ronald Michalak Chair
BASSOON
Conrad Cornelison
PRINCIPAL
Byron and Dorothy Gerson Chair
Cornelia Sommer
Ryan Turano
CONTRABASSOON
Ryan Turano
HORN
Edmund Rollett
PRINCIPAL HORN
David and Christine Provost Chair
Helen Wargelin
Scott Strong
Ric and Carola Huttenlocher Chair
Lorenzo Robb
Patrick Walle
Cara Kizer
ACTING ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL
Kristi Crago
ACTING HORN
TRUMPET
Hunter Eberly
PRINCIPAL
Austin Williams
Justin Emerich
ACTING ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL
William Lucas
TROMBONE
Gracie Potter
PRINCIPAL
David Binder
Adam Rainey
Richard Sonenklar and Gregory Haynes Chair
BASS TROMBONE
Adam Rainey
TUBA
Dennis Nulty
PRINCIPAL
INGRID MARTIN
Assistant Conductor, Phillip & Lauren Fisher Community Ambassador
TIMPANI
Jeremy Epp
PRINCIPAL
Richard and Mona Alonzo Chair
Jay Ritchie
ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL
PERCUSSION
Joseph Becker
PRINCIPAL
Ruth Roby and Alfred R. Glancy III Chair
Andrés Pichardo-Rosenthal
ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL
William Cody Knicely Chair
Jay Ritchie
LIBRARIANS
Robert Stiles
PRINCIPAL
Ethan Allen
LEGACY CHAIRS
Principal Flute
Women’s Association for the DSO
Principal Cello
James C. Gordon
PERSONNEL MANAGERS
Andrew Williams
DIRECTOR OF ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL
Benjamin Tisherman
MANAGER OF ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL
STAGE PERSONNEL
Dennis Rottell
STAGE MANAGER
Joe Corless
DEPARTMENT HEAD
William Dailing
DEPARTMENT HEAD
Zach Deater
DEPARTMENT HEAD
Isaac Eide
DEPARTMENT HEAD
Kurt Henry
DEPARTMENT HEAD
Matthew Pons
SENIOR AUDIO DEPARTMENT HEAD
Jason Tschantre
DEPARTMENT HEAD
PAST MUSIC DIRECTORS
Leonard Slatkin
MUSIC DIRECTOR LAUREATE
Neeme Järvi
MUSIC DIRECTOR EMERITUS
LEGEND
* These members may voluntarily revolve seating within the section on a regular basis
^ Leave of Absence
§ African American Orchestra Fellow
YOUNG PEOPLE’S FAMILY CONCERT SERIES
FEBRUARY 28, 2026 AT 11 AM ORCHESTRA HALL
TINY TOTS
JOE REILLY MUSIC
FEBRUARY 28, 2026 10 AM IN THE CUBE
Selections to be announced from the stage
FREDERICK’S FABLES
February 28, 2026 at 11 AM Orchestra Hall
INGRID MARTIN, conductor
MICHAEL ABELS, narrator
Maurice Ravel Suite of Five Pieces from Ma mère l’Oye (1875-1937) (Mother Goose )
III. Laideronette, Empress of the Pagodas
IV. Conversations of Beauty and the Beast
Michael Abels Frederick’s Fables (b. 1962)
1. Frederick
2. The Greentail Mouse
3. Theodore and the Talking Mushroom
4. Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse
Michael Abels, narrator
Young People’s Family Concert Series performances are presented with support from the Stone Foundation.
JOIN US THIS MORNING IN THE WILLIAM DAVIDSON ATRIUM FOR FAMILY-FRIENDLY ACTIVITIES!
First Floor: Concessions
Second Floor: Civic Youth Ensembles Booth; East Zodiac Booth; Dominant Hand Sonic Explorations; MSU Community Music School Detroit Booth; Detroit Public Library Booth; and Write a Fable
Third Floor: Coloring Banners; Detroit Harmony Instrument Try-Outs; Fun with Frederick; Music Box Station; Face Painting; and Floor Keyboards
PROFILES
INGRID MARTIN
Ingrid Martin puts people at the heart of every musical experience. Her work as a conductor and teacher is shaped by a career spanning music, medicine, and education. In 2025, Martin joined the Detroit Symphony Orchestra as Assistant Conductor and Phillip and Lauren Fisher Community Ambassador. This season, she also debuts with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and Orchestra Victoria, and leads the Louise Crossley Conductor Training Program for the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. She returns to conduct the Auckland Philharmonia, Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, following her 2024 tenure as New Zealand Assistant Conductor in Residence.
Martin loves championing new repertoire, and bringing audiences closer to music through thoughtfully curated experiences. She has commissioned 15 works for youth orchestras, conducted 20 world premieres, and recorded over 50 student compositions. Through her original orchestral shows, Martin invites audiences of all ages to explore unexpected connections between music and other disciplines, from physics to painting.
Martin was the first Australian admitted to the Taki Alsop Conducting Fellowship Mentoring Program (2024–2025). She was also a fellow of the Australian Conducting Academy (2023–2024) and the Carlos Miguel Prieto Conducting Fellowship with the Orchestra of the Americas (2022).
Before pursuing conducting professionally, Martin worked for a decade in emergency medicine then retrained as a teacher. Her approach to music and leadership is deeply informed by the skills she developed in these careers: listening closely, thinking clearly under pressure, and communicating complex ideas.
Martin has built a global following for Conducting Artistry, her platform for practical resources, podcasts, books, and online tools that empower teachers and students to deepen their artistry. She is a sought-after speaker and clinician at international music education conferences including the Midwest Clinic and Texas Music Educators’ Association and her book Planning Effective Rehearsals is required reading for university music
education programs worldwide. At home, she’s rarely far from a craft project and a strong black coffee.
MICHAEL ABELS
Composer Michael Abels is best-known for his Pulitzer-Prize winning opera Omar (co-composed with Rhiannon Giddens) based on the life of Omar Ibn Said, and for his scores for the Oscar-winning film Get Out, and for Jordan Peele’s Us and Nope, for which Abels received critical acclaim. As a concert composer, Abels has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Meet The Composer, and the Sphinx Organization, among others. His orchestral works have been performed by the Chicago Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Atlanta Symphony, The Philadelphia Orchestra, and many more. Several of his orchestral works have been recorded by the Chicago Sinfonietta on the Cedille label, including Delights & Dances and Global Warming. Abels is co-founder of the Composers Diversity Collective, an advocacy group to increase visibility of composers of color in film, game and streaming media. Primarily a composer of large forms, Abels has applied his skillful compositional approach to over 20 orchestral works. His much-admired piece Global Warming —written around the time of the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War—was commissioned for and premiered by the Phoenix Youth Symphony in 1991 and has since been performed more than 200 times by prominent orchestras.
Born in Phoenix, Arizona, Abels grew up in rural South Dakota, where he began piano lessons at a young age. He attended the University of Southern California, studying with James Hopkins and Robert Linn. In 198586, he studied West African music with Alfred Ladzekpo at the California Institute for the Arts. He currently serves as Director of Music for New Roads School in Santa Monica, overseeing a program that provides hands-on instruction in the latest technologies integrally important to contemporary popular music. Aside from his activities as a composer, arranger, and educator, Abels is also an amateur triathlete.
