DETROIT (Sep. 13, 2011) - In cooperation with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Wayne State University Department of Music is pleased to announce "Mondays at the Max with Wayne State," a new concert series featuring premier WSU student ensembles at the Max M. Fisher Music Center. This new collaboration gives music students the opportunity to perform in a world-class venue to larger audiences.
"I am delighted to work with Wayne State in bringing the best and brightest music students together to celebrate the city through an innovative musical partnership," said Charles Burke, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra's director of education and artistic director of civic ensembles.
The University Orchestra will kick off the series at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 10 in the Max M. Fisher Music Center's Music Box. Wayne State Professor of Music and Director of Orchestral Studies Kypros Markou will lead the orchestra in a performance of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto featuring soloist Hai-Xin Wu, DSO assistant concertmaster and WSU private violin instructor. The concert will also include Howard Hanson's Symphony No. 2 ("Romantic").
Tickets are available at the DSO box office: $15 for adults, $10 for students, and $5 for WSU students (with OneCard). Friends of Music and DSO Civic Youth Ensemble Families receive a 50 percent discount. Discounted tickets must be purchased at the DSO box office. Regularly priced tickets are available at dso.org or by calling 313-576-5111.
Fall Season 2011
- Oct. 10: University Orchestra, Kypros Markou, conductor
- Oct. 24: Wind Symphony and Chamber Winds, Douglas Bianchi, conductor - French chamber music featuring works by Gounod and Debussy
- Nov. 7: Concert Band and Wind Symphony, Douglas Bianchi, conductor - Featuring Don Platter performing a Philip Sparke clarinet concerto
- Nov. 14: Jazz Big Band, Christopher Collins, conductor - Featuring faculty and student guest soloists from the Detroit-Torino Urban Jazz Project
- Dec. 5: Choral Showcase, Norah Duncan, Ann Marie Koukios and Scott Hanoian, conductors - Seasonal music and Haydn's "Lord Nelson" Mass
- Dec. 12: Chamber Winds and Orchestra, Douglas Bianchi and Kypros Markou, conductors - Stravinsky's Concerto for Piano and Winds, featuring pianist Robert Conway; and Chadwick's Jubilee and Noël
All concerts begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Music Box.
Founded in 1918, the Wayne State University Department of Music cultivates music as a contemporary and global art, grounded in a long historical tradition, by combining higher education with professional training and experience for its undergraduate and graduate/professional students. Building on the strengths of its geographic and cultural setting, the department maintains public access to its performances and degree programs, high-level professional and academic standards, and unique creative and scholarly opportunities appropriate to a large research university, and cultivates a deep aesthetic understanding of music in students and the larger urban arts community.