Guest Artists

guest artists

Matt Albert

Michael Frazier

Hannah Hammel

Aldolphus Hailstork

Yvonne Lam

Musicians

Matt Albert, violin

Called “preposterously talented” by Time Out Chicago, violinist and violist Matt albert is the Chair of Chamber Music at the School of Music, Theatre & Dance at the University of Michigan. He previously served as the Director of Chamber Music and SYZYGY at the Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University, and he was a founding member of Eighth Blackbird, with whom he received numerous awards, including first prizes at the Naumburg, Concert Artists Guild, Coleman, and Fischoff Competitions, and three Grammy awards for their recordings on Cedille Records.

Hannah Hammel, flute

Hannah Hammel is the recently appointed Principal Flute of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Before joining the DSO, she held the position of Principal Flute of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra from 2017-2019. As an orchestral musician, Hannah has performed with the New York Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony, Houston Grand Opera, Richmond Symphony, and New World Symphony. Hannah has spent summers performing at festivals including Tanglewood Music Center, Music Academy of the West, Pacific Music Festival, Spoleto Festival USA, and Round Top Music Festival.

Scott Boerma, conductor

Scott Boerma is the Director of Bands and Professor of Music at Western Michigan University, where he conducts the University Wind Symphony and Western Winds. Prior to this appointment, he was the Associate Director of Bands, Director of the Michigan Marching Band, and the Donald R. Shepherd Associate Professor of Conducting at the University of Michigan. Before those positions, Boerma was the Director of Bands at Eastern Michigan University, and he began his career teaching music in the Michigan public schools at Novi and Lamphere High Schools.

Yvonne Lam, violin

Grammy-winning violinist yvonne lam enjoys challenging, delighting, and disarming audiences worldwide with her thoughtful musicianship, technical prowess, and fearless performance aesthetic. She served as a co-artistic director and violinist/violist of Eighth Blackbird for eight years, performing 50 concerts a year internationally with the groundbreaking chamber ensemble. She has also performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Melbourne Symphony, the Kansas City Symphony, the Cincinnati Symphony, the Lexington Philharmonic, the New World Symphony, and the Tasmanian Symphony.

Keun-a Lee, pianist

Korean Pianist, Keun-a lee, has been on the music staff of Lyric Opera of Chicago, Opera Colorado, Opera Memphis, North Carolina Opera, New York City Opera, Santa Fe Opera, the Spoleto Music Festival USA, The Gotham Chamber Opera, The Juilliard School of Music and Manhattan School of Music. As an orchestral keyboard player, she has worked at the Metropolitan Opera, New York Philharmonic Orchestra and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Recent engagements include Concert Tour with “Musicians” from New York Philharmonic in Korea, New York Philharmonic Chamber music series in Merkin Hall and the season-opening concert at Lyric Chamber Music Society of New York.

Composers

Kevin Day

An American composer whose music has been “characterized by propulsive, syncopated rhythms, colorful orchestration, and instrumental virtuosity,” (Robert Kirzinger, Boston Symphony Orchestra) Kevin day (b. 1996) has quickly emerged as one of the leading young voices in the world of music composition today. His father was a prominent hip-hop producer in the late-1980s in Southern California, and his mother was a sought-after gospel singer from West Virginia. Day is a composer, conductor, producer and multi-instrumentalist on tuba, euphonium, jazz piano and more, whose music often intersects between the worlds of jazz, minimalism, Latin music, fusion, and contemporary classical idioms.

Michael Frazier

Michael Frazier is a Black and Latino composer specializing in acoustic, electronic, and electroacoustic music. His compositional style features jazz-inspired harmonic languages juxtaposed with freer approaches to melody and structural organization, atonal techniques for melody and harmony, as well as various forms of musical improvisation. Beyond composition, Frazier’s interests in music include the unique and personal expression of one’s musical voice, engagement with topics and aesthetics outside one’s musical familiarity or awareness, and the capacity for a music that can be approached by listeners of all backgrounds.

Adolphus Hailstork

Adolphus Hailstork received his doctorate in composition from Michigan State University, where he was a student of H. Owen Reed. He had previously studied at the Manhattan School of Music, under Vittorio Giannini and David Diamond, at the American Institute at Fontainebleau with Nadia Boulanger, and at Howard University with Mark Fax. Hailstork has written numerous works for chorus, solo voice, piano, organ, various chamber ensembles, band, orchestra, and opera. Among his early compositions are: Celebration, recorded by the Detroit Symphony in 1976; Out of the Depths (1977), and American Guernica (1983), which are two band works that won national competitions.

Introducing Resonate

Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings and the Carr Center are pleased to announce Resonate, a multi-year collaboration that will explore the African Diaspora through the lens of contemporary American chamber music. The project has commissioned seven American composers to create new works to be performed by each of the collaborators during the 2021-22 and 2022-23 seasons. The Resonate collaboration brings together resources from seven prominent institutions in Michigan and Ohio:

Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings

The Carr Center

Oberlin Conservatory

MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music, Bowling Green State University

University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Michigan State University College of Music

Western Michigan University School of Music Read the press release on our website, detroitchamberwinds.org/programs, to learn more. -13-