Clarinetist

The program of Negative Space highlights music that explores space, absence, and the power of what’s left unsaid. Hannah Kendall’s Vera builds and unbuilds a musical structure using a twelve-tone row, creating a sense of shifting texture and hidden emotion. Ravel’s Piano Trio showcases his signature clarity and color, carefully balancing sound and silence to shape each moment. Michi Wiancko’s Fantasia for Tomorrow offers a heartfelt tribute to connection and hope, imagining a future that is just out of reach but deeply felt in the present.

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Negative Space

Detroit Institute of Arts

Clarinetist Jack Walters is joined by DSO African-American Fellow Triniti Rives and Cellist Jeremy Crosmer for a compelling program featuring works by Mendelssohn, Poulenc, Khachaturian, and Nino Rota.

Woven Air

Hagopian World of Rugs

Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time is “one of the most thrilling and influential compositions in chamber music,” describes DSO Assistant Concertmaster Hai-Xin Wu. Written and premiered in a prison-of-war camp during the early days of the Second World War, the French composer, inspired by his belief, found resources in such a dark place to create a brilliant and enduring masterpiece.

Quartet for the End of Time

Genesis Ann Arbor

Faculty-led student ensembles present work ranging from early jazz, to bebop classics, to exciting student originals.

Jazz at NEC: Nieske and Early Jazz Ensembles

Conrad Cornelison is the first new principal bassoonist in the DSO since the early 1970s. His Nightnotes debut will give clear testimony to his incredible musical talent and personal charm.

Introducing Conrad Cornelison

Join members of the DSO for a special evening of music by Latin American composers, set in beautiful Beacon Park.

Latin Winds at Beacon Park

Beacon Park

DSO clarinetist Jack Walters, cellist David LeDoux and pianist Jee-won Oh perform in a concert featuring the Brahms Clarinet Trio.

Clarinetist

Jack Walters

Events

Past events

Jun 15, 2025

Negative Space · Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival

Mar 6, 2025

Woven Air · Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings

Future and recently performed repertoire

Clarinet in Vera by Kendall

Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival

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