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Royal Oak, MI Permit No. 110
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Robyn Bollinger
Welcome to our
Amanda Blaikie
42nd Season!
DONATE TO DCWS For 42 seasons, your generosity has allowed us to create innovative musical experiences that are unsurpassed anywhere in our region. Thanks to your dedication and enthusiasm, we continue to push ourselves and our beloved art form to new heights. The success of DCWS is a result of our devoted donors.
This season, we are celebrating collaborators who have contributed to our success and are embracing new partnerships for the future. Advancing the art form through new works and emerging artists, our 42nd season will round out the first iteration of Resonate, a collaborative commissioning project between major institutions across the Midwest. Additionally, we’re renewing our partnership with UofM and Oberlin College and Conservatory for their young composer and young ensemble-in-residence program.
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2023-2024
2023-24 Ensemble Members JOHANNA YARBROUGH, horn DAVID JACKSON, trombone GARTH SIMMONS, trombone KENNETH THOMPKINS, trombone KIMBERLY KALOYANIDES KENNEDY, violin JAMES VANVALKENBURG, viola VICTORIA KING, Musician Laureate MAURY OKUN, Musician Laureate H. ROBERT REYNOLDS, Artistic Advisor Laureate & Conductor TIMOTHY WEISS, Guest Conductor & Artistic Advisor
THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS
Collaborate 24901 Northwestern Highway, Suite 312 Southfield, MI 48075
Amanda Blaikie, flute ALEX KINMONTH, oboe MONICA FOSNAUGH, oboe and English horn LAURENCE LIBERSON, clarinet JACK WALTERS, clarinet MARCUS SCHOON, bassoon TIMOTHY MCALLISTER, saxophone & Artistic Advisor DAVID AMMER, trumpet KEVIN GOOD, trumpet ROBERT WHITE, trumpet SCOTT STRONG, horn
Celebrate
We welcome new partners for our Creativity in the Face of Oppression performance, which is the highlight of a broader project that celebrates how the resilience of the human spirit spawns great art in response to unspeakable indignity. The concert will range from spirituals presented by the Jubilee Chorus of Hartford Memorial Baptist Church to Viktor Ullmann’s opera, The Emperor of the Atlantis, written in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. DCWS musicians will perform the work with the Detroit Opera Resident Artists. A series of activities will precede the concert, with collaborators including Temple Emanu-El, St. John’s Armenian Church, the Zekelman Holocaust Memorial Center, and others. Stay tuned by visiting our website and Facebook and Instagram accounts! DCWS is beginning a new collaboration with the Progressive Art Studio Collective, a local studio that supports artists with developmental disabilities and mental health differences. The Holiday Brass concert in Royal Oak will feature a display of their artwork. And, of course, we wouldn’t be where we are today without our long-time collaborators, like Hagopian World of Rugs, who will embark on 29 years of Nightnotes with us. The Ann Arbor Pioneer High School and Stoney Creek High School Choirs will also return for our annual Holiday Brass concerts. Ultimately, this season is also a celebration of you. Whether you have been with DCWS since the beginning or just discovered us, your role in the DCWS family has given us the bearings to not only sustain ourselves but excel with exciting concerts and new programming. We hope to see you at concerts in this season of collaboration and celebration.
Maury Okun, President