MONTHLY MUSIC HIGHLIGHTS

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LAFAYETTE STRING QUARTET - Nov 21

In July 1986, four young musicians, based in Detroit and just beginning their professional careers, performed together for the first time as the Lafayette String Quartet. Today the LSQ continues to flourish with its original personnel: violinists Ann ElliottGoldschmid and Sharon Stanis, violist Joanna Hood, and cellist Pamela Highbaugh Aloni. The LSQ has performed across Canada, the United States, Mexico and Europe, with concerts often allied with masterclasses and workshops. They have performed the complete Beethoven Cycle, during the 2000-2001 season, the quartets of the Second Viennese school with the Molinari Quartet in 2013, and in celebration of their thirty years together, the quartet performed the complete cycle of string quartets by Dmitri Shostakovich in the 2016-17 season. The LSQ is the subject of David Rounds’ book The Four and the One: In Praise of String Quartets, and a documentary film to be released in the new year entitled Creating Harmony.

Denise Davis And The Motor City Sensations

February

This band has been rocking around town since 2010, performing at festivals, opening for national acts and headlining Detroit clubs. Denise has also performed with the Original Motown Funk

Brothers and has received nominations for her singing by The Detroit Music Awards Foundation and The Detroit Black Music Awards. She is known for her powerful vocals and dynamic stage presence. Members of the Detroit Blues Society, the group has won a Detroit Black Music Award for Best Live Performance and R&B Artist of the Year.

FLAVIO VARANI - March 20

The Brazilian pianist, Flavio Varani began his distinguished piano performance career at the age of 7 as a featured soloist on Brazilian Radio and TV. Two years later he toured with the Brazilian National Symphony Orchestra. At 13, he received a scholarship from the French Government to study with the legendary Magda Tagliaferro in France. Varani, based in Paris for seven years, was heard in concerts in the USSR, and Europe. Flavio Varani has performed in major music centers and festivals throughout the world including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Moscow Conservatory and Munich Gasteig. In 2000, Flavio Varani joined the principal cellist and principal violinist of the Orchestre National de France to form the Galla Trio. Their successful inaugural concerts in Tokyo resulted in return engagements for 2001 in Japan, followed by a concert tour in Brazil. Presently Flavio Varani is Artist in Residence at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan and Director of the International Chamber Music Academy in Germany.