The concert is held in the observance of Martin Luther King Jr. holiday and celebrates African American culture through music. The Dennis Tini and Don Mayberry Duo and the Wayne State Concert Chorale will be this year's featured artists. Professor Dennis J. Tini, jazz pianist and the Chair of the WSU Department of Music, and has performed with the Detroit Symphony, Buddy Rich, the Dennis Tini Quartet, Jon Faddis, the Brazeal Dennard Chorale, J.C. Heard, Don Ellis, Bunky Green and Marvin Stamm among others. The event will also include many student soloists and ensembles performing music containing a variety of styles written by African American composers.

The Delta Theta Chapter of Delta Omicron Professional Music Fraternity has organized the concert, with the sponsorship of the WSU Department of Music, for eleven years. Starting as a student recital, the concert has grown over the years to feature performers such as Marcus Belgrave, jazz trumpet master, and vocalist Celeste Headlee, granddaughter of renowned composer William Grant Still. In 2002, the Delta Theta Chapter received two awards from the Professional Fraternity Association: the Outstanding Community Service Award and the Outstanding Professional Program Award. The latter was awarded for the chapter's organization of the African American Composers Concert.

Located in the heart of the Detroit Cultural Center, the Wayne State University Department of Music is celebrating 86 years of artistic and academic excellence. The department's faculty includes renowned jazz artists, composers, and members of the internationally acclaimed Detroit Symphony Orchestra. WSU alumni have gone onto careers in distinguished orchestras, ensembles, and as soloists and music educators the world over.

For more information, please contact the Delta Theta Chapter at www.geocities.com/delta_theta_wsu.