DSO Offers 3 Neighborhood Performances In Late March

METRO DETROIT, MI — The Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO) continues performing throughout Metro Detroit as part of the William Davidson Neighborhood Concert Series. Three concerts remain for the month of March.

David Danzmayr will conduct the DSO and violinist Blake Pouliot on a program including Webern’s Langsamer Satz, Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto (with Pouliot as featured soloist), Schubert’s “Unfinished” Symphony No. 8, and Johann Strauss II’s “On the Beautiful Blue Danube.”

The concerts will take place:

- Thursday, March 28 at 7:30 p.m. at Congregation Shaarey Zedek inSouthfield
- Friday, March 29 at 8 p.m. at Macomb Center for the Performing Arts inClinton Township
- Sunday, March 31 at 3 p.m. at Seligman Performing Arts Center (on the campus of Detroit Country Day School) in Beverly Hills

The William Davidson Neighborhood Concert Series is made possible by a generous grant from the William Davidson Foundation. Renamed in 2014 in honor of philanthropist William Davidson, the Series brings even more opportunities for Metro Detroiters to experience the DSO close to home. In October 2017 the William Davidson Foundation made a $15 million gift of support to the DSO—one of the orchestra’s largest ever—including continued sponsorship of the Series. WRCJ 90.9 FM also supports the Series.

Discounts available

As a special offer to Patch readers, the DSO would like to offer $15 tickets to the Southfield and Clinton Township performances. To redeem your tickets, visit www.dso.org/neighborhood and use the promo code SOUTHFIELD10 or MACOMB10 at checkout. For more information about this discount, call the Box Office at 313-576-5111 or email [email protected].

Thanks to a generous grant from the FCA Foundation, the charitable arm of North American automaker FCA US, the DSO now welcomes military veterans, active military, and their families to access discounted tickets for the March 28 performance in Southfield and the March 29 performance in Clinton Township.

Discounts are also available for concerts throughout the 2018-2019 Season in Orchestra Hall, including several Friday evening PNC Pops Series concerts and every Friday morning Classical Series Coffee Concert. The FCA Foundation and the DSO thank our veterans and active military members for their service.

Veterans, active military, and their families may use the code HEROES1819 to unlock $10 tickets for the March 28 concert in Southfield and the March 29 concert in Clinton Township. The code can be used at dso.org or by calling the Box Office at (313) 576-5111.

About David Danzmayr
David Danzmayr currently serves as chief conductor of the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra and music director of the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra in Columbus. He previously served as music director of the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra for four seasons, earning acclaim for both his programming and conducting prowess.

Danzmayr has had the privilege of conducting top ensembles all over the world, including the Bamberg Symphony, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, Salzberg Chamber Philharmonic, San Diego Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, and many others. He enjoys a special relationship with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, with whom he previously served as assistant conductor.

Danzmayr studied at the University Mozarteum in Salzberg, where he switched from piano to conducting and studied with Dennis Russell Davies. He continued his studies at the Sibelius Academy. Danzmayr’s other teachers and mentors include Stephane Deneve, Carlos Kalmar, Sir Andrew Davies, Pierre Boulez, and Detroit Symphony Orchestra Music Director Emeritus Neeme Järvi.

About Blake Pouliot
Canadian violinist Blake Pouliot is Grand Prize winner of the 2016 Orchestra Symphonique de Montréal Manulife Competition and a quickly rising star in North America. He made his Montreal Symphony debut in February 2017, earning glowing reviews, and released his debut recording later that year on the Analekta label.

Pouliot has appeared as a soloist with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Ottawa’s National Arts Center Orchestra, Aspen Philharmonic Orchestra, Pacific Symphony, Bulgaria’s Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, and others. He made his solo orchestral debut with the Toronto Trinity Chamber Orchestra at age 11, and in summer 2017 he traveled across South America as a soloist with the YOA Orchestra of the Americas and conductors Carlos Miguel Prieto and Paolo Bortolameolli.

A featured performer on CBC Radio Canada on numerous occasions, Mr. Pouliot has received several honors in Canada, including the Canada Council for the Arts’s Michael Measure Prize. In 2012 he performed a private recital for Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Pouliot performs on the 1729 Guarneri del Gesù, on generous loan from the Canada Council for the Arts Musical Instrument Bank as First Laureate of their 2015 Competition.