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Three remarkable musical women join forces for an Opening Night with music for cello, voice, and piano by __________; culminating in a full performance of Richard Danielpour’s extraordinary chamber song cycle, the Canti Della Natura – Songs of Nature.

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Caitlin Lynch, soprano
Declared “luminous” by the New York Times and “eloquent” by the Wall Street Journal, soprano Caitlin Lynch has captivated audiences worldwide with her portrayals of iconic leading ladies. With a repertoire that encompasses Mozart to Verdi and Handel to Heggie, Ms. Lynch brings her dynamic portrayals of both classic and contemporary operas to stages around the world, including the Metropolitan Opera, Detroit Opera, Houston Grand Opera and English National Opera. Caitlin and her husband, baritone Jonathan Lasch, cofounded Detroit Song Collective, which is dedicated to celebrating the living power of song to move hearts, change lives, and transform the world. They live in Ferndale, MI with their three children.

Astrid Schween, cello
Cellist Astrid Schween has gained a rich following and enjoys a multifaceted career as a soloist, chamber artist and teacher. Since joining the Juilliard String Quartet and Juilliard Cello Faculty in 2016, she has appeared at many of the world’s great concert halls, recorded for SONY Records, and collaborated with performers Itzhak Perlman, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Emmanuel Ax, and composers Mario Davidovsky and Jörg Widmann, among many others.

Anna Polonsky, piano
Anna Polonsky is widely in demand as a soloist and chamber musician. She has collaborated with the Guarneri, Orion, Juilliard, and Shanghai Quartets, and with such renowned artists as Mitsuko Uchida, Yo-Yo Ma, Richard Goode, and Emanuel Ax. She has toured extensively throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia, appearing at major venues such as the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Vienna Konzerthaus, Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall. A frequent guest at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, she also is a member of the Espressivo! Piano Quartet with Jaime Laredo, Sharon Robinson and Milena Pájaro-van de Stadt, as well as the Polonsky Shifrin Wiley Trio.

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The Pacifica Quartet celebrates America 250 with a program featuring Samuel Barber’s Quartet Op. 11 with its moving Adagio movement, two new works by Jennifer Higdon and Gabriela Lena Frank, and Antonin Dvorak’s evocative American string quartet.

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The Pacifica Quartet
With a career spanning three decades, the multiple GRAMMY® Award-winning Pacifica Quartet is known for delivering performances that are “engrossing, characterful...with a luminescent tranquility [and] spine-tingling intensity” (The New York Times). The Quartet appears during the 2025-26 season across North America and abroad, including a world premiere tour of their newest program, American Portraits, featuring new works by Jennifer Higdon and Gabriela Lena Frank with Oscar-nominated film icon Sigourney Weaver, in New York, Washington, D.C., and London.

An ardent advocate for living composers, the Pacifica Quartet has commissioned and premiered works by Julia Wolfe, Shulamit Ran and James Lee III, among others. The Quartet has also proven itself to be the preeminent interpreter of string quartet cycles, harnessing the group’s incredible stamina to portray each composer’s evolution.

The ensemble’s acclaimed recordings include Elliott Carter’s Quartets Nos. 1-5, the complete Shostakovich cycle, Leo Ornstein’s Piano Quintet with Marc-André Hamelin, the Brahms Piano Quintet with Menahem Pressler, and the Brahms and Mozart Clarinet Quintets with Anthony McGill. Their most recent GRAMMY®-winning album, Contemporary Voices, showcases works by Shulamit Ran, Jennifer Higdon, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich. A second recording with McGill, American Stories – featuring works by Richard Danielpour, James Lee III, Ben Shirley, and Valerie Coleman – was nominated for a 2024 GRAMMY® Award.

Formed in 1994, the Pacifica Quartet quickly rose to prominence, winning the 1998 Naumburg Chamber Music Award, 2022 Chamber Music America Cleveland Quartet Award, and 2016 Avery Fisher Career Grant. Based in Bloomington, Indiana, the Pacifica Quartet has served as full-time faculty and Quartet-in-Residence at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music since 2012.

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Did you know the author of the Declaration of Independence was a passionate music lover? The Four Nations Ensemble’s program explores the musical world of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, culminating in a performance of Pergolesi’s masterful Stabat Mater, a revered Jefferson favorite.

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The Four Nations Ensemble
Founded in 1986, The Four Nations Ensemble brings together soloists, frontrunners from several generations, who are leading exponents of period instrument and vocal performance. With a core ensemble of soprano, harpsichord or fortepiano, violin, flute, and cello, Four Nations’ repertory runs from the Renaissance through Viennese Classical masterpieces of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. Through their innovative programming over four decades, they have developed a diverse audience and are a leading presence on the early music scene, performing at major houses and festivals including The Boston Early Music Festival, New York's Mostly Mozart, The Kennedy Center, Amherst Festival, New Haven's International Festival of Arts & Ideas, Maverick Concerts in New York, Chautauqua, The Indiana Early Music Festival, and Brasilseguridade in Rio de Janeiro.

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America’s leading two-piano team brings their dazzling musical energy to the Seligman stage, with a singularly creative take on the music of Leonard Bernstein, John Williams, Philip Glass, John Adams, Leonard Cohen, and more.

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Anderson & Roe Piano Duo
The Anderson & Roe Piano Duo has been called “the most dynamic duo of this generation” (San Francisco Classical Voice), “rock stars of the classical music world” (Miami Herald), and “the very model of complete 21st-century musicians” (The Washington Post). These superlatives are grounded in what can only be described as ineffable connectivity: the technically masterful Greg Anderson and Elizabeth Joy Roe exude an organic and seamless completeness when they perform together. Their two-decade-long partnership can be described as nothing short of pioneering. They completely redefined the model of the piano duo and have toured the world extensively. Their original compositions—from re-imaginings of the classical canon to arrangements of pop music through a classical lens—reflect their belief that all music has something to say to all people. Their five critically acclaimed albums have spent dozens of weeks atop the Billboard classical charts. And their music videos are the stuff of legends, racking up millions of views and securing them an Emmy® nomination.

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After an absence of more than two decades, the renowned Orpheus Chamber Orchestra returns to Seligman – a stage they inaugurated in 1999 – with a program featuring pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason and works by ___________.

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ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra is a radical experiment in musical democracy, proving for fifty years what happens when exceptional artists gather with total trust in each other and faith in the creative process. In that age of co-ops and communes, the idealistic Orpheans snubbed the “corporate” path of symphony orchestras and learned how to play, plan and promote concerts as a true collective, with leadership roles rotating from the very first performance.

The sound of Orpheus is defined by its relationships, and guest artists have always been crucial partners in the process. Orpheus brings the best out of its collaborators, and those bonds deepen over time, as heard in the long arc of music-making with soloists such as Richard Goode and Branford Marsalis, and in the commitment to welcoming next-generation artists including Nobuyuki Tsujii and Tine Thing Helseth. Breaking down the barriers of classical repertoire, partnerships with Brad Mehldau, Wayne Shorter, Ravi Shankar, and many others from the sphere of jazz and beyond have redefined what a chamber orchestra can do.

At home in New York and in the many concert halls it visits in the U.S. and beyond, Orpheus begins its next fifty years with a renewed commitment to enriching and reflecting the surrounding community. It will continue its groundbreaking work with those living with Alzheimer’s Disease through Orpheus Reflections, and the Orpheus Academy as well as the Orpheus Leadership Institute spread the positive lessons of trust and democracy to young musicians and those in positions of power.

ISATA KANNEH-MASON, PIANO
Pianist Isata Kanneh–Mason, still in her twenties, is the eldest of the seven renowned Kanneh-Mason siblings, and is a celebrated recitalist, chamber musician and concerto artist in demand at concert halls and with orchestras worldwide.

In July 2024, she received stellar reviews for her opening night performance of the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall with the BBC Symphony. Isata went on to appear as concerto soloist with the European Union Youth Orchestra and Iván Fischer at New York’s Carnegie Hall. Highlights of her 2025/26 season include Rachmaninoff’s third piano concerto with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the City of Birmingham Symphony, the BBC Scottish Symphony, Detroit Symphony, and National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa. She also continues her collaboration with her brother, Sheku, across Europe as well as across the Americas, including Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Montevideo, Boston, Washington D.C., Cleveland, and New York’s Lincoln Center.

Isata is a Decca Classics artist and has recorded four solo albums for the label. Among her awards are the coveted Leonard Bernstein Award from the Schleswig–Holstein Festival and an Opus Klassik award for best young artist.

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The Pacifica Quartet’s second 2026-27 program commemorates the 200th anniversary of the death of Ludwig van Beethoven with two of his late quartets: the F major Opus 135, and the B-flat major Opus 130 with its original finale, the Grosse Fuga.

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Pacifica Quartet
With a career spanning three decades, the multiple GRAMMY® Award-winning Pacifica Quartet is known for delivering performances that are “engrossing, characterful...with a luminescent tranquility [and] spine-tingling intensity” (The New York Times). The Quartet appears during the 2025-26 season across North America and abroad, including a world premiere tour of their newest program, American Portraits, featuring new works by Jennifer Higdon and Gabriela Lena Frank with Oscar-nominated film icon Sigourney Weaver, in New York, Washington, D.C., and London.

An ardent advocate for living composers, the Pacifica Quartet has commissioned and premiered works by Julia Wolfe, Shulamit Ran and James Lee III, among others. The Quartet has also proven itself to be the preeminent interpreter of string quartet cycles, harnessing the group’s incredible stamina to portray each composer’s evolution.

The ensemble’s acclaimed recordings include Elliott Carter’s Quartets Nos. 1-5, the complete Shostakovich cycle, Leo Ornstein’s Piano Quintet with Marc-André Hamelin, the Brahms Piano Quintet with Menahem Pressler, and the Brahms and Mozart Clarinet Quintets with Anthony McGill. Their most recent GRAMMY®-winning album, Contemporary Voices, showcases works by Shulamit Ran, Jennifer Higdon, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich. A second recording with McGill, American Stories – featuring works by Richard Danielpour, James Lee III, Ben Shirley, and Valerie Coleman – was nominated for a 2024 GRAMMY® Award.

Formed in 1994, the Pacifica Quartet quickly rose to prominence, winning the 1998 Naumburg Chamber Music Award, 2022 Chamber Music America Cleveland Quartet Award, and 2016 Avery Fisher Career Grant. Based in Bloomington, Indiana, the Pacifica Quartet has served as full-time faculty and Quartet-in-Residence at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music since 2012.

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Revered by listeners worldwide as a “musician’s musician,” this incomparable CMDetroit favorite offers a varied program with shorter works by _, ____, and_____, culminating in Franz Schubert’s masterful final Piano Sonata in B-flat, D. 960.

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RICHARD GOODE, PIANO
Richard Goode has been hailed for music-making of tremendous emotional power, depth and expressiveness, and has been acknowledged worldwide as one of today’s leading interpreters of Classical and Romantic music. In regular performances with the major orchestras, recitals in the world’s music capitals, masterclasses in person or online, and through his extensive and acclaimed Nonesuch recordings, he has won a large and devoted following. 

An exclusive Nonesuch recording artist, Goode has made more than two dozen recordings over the years, ranging from solo and chamber works to lieder and concertos. His 10-CD set of the complete Beethoven sonatas cycle, the first-ever by an American-born pianist, was nominated for a Grammy and has been ranked among the most distinguished recordings of this repertoire. Other recording highlights include Mozart piano concerti with Orpheus, with whom he launched the 2021 season at New York's 92nd St Y, and a Grammy award for the Brahms Sonatas he recorded with clarinetist Richard Stoltzman.

For the 2025-26 season, Mr. Goode joins The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra as its newest Artistic Partner. 

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The 2026-27 Season Finale marks the return of violinist Randall Goosby for his third recital appearance with pianist Zhu Wang at Chamber Music Detroit. The program includes….

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RANDALL GOOSBY, VIOLIN
“For me, personally, music has been a way to inspire others” – Randall Goosby’s own words sum up perfectly his commitment to being an artist who makes a difference. Signed exclusively to Decca Classics in 2020 at the age of 24, American violinist Randall Goosby is acclaimed for the sensitivity and intensity of his musicianship alongside his determination to make music more inclusive and accessible, as well as bringing the music of under-represented composers to light. Goosby was recently appointed to Juilliard School’s Preparatory Division and joins the Pre-College violin faculty beginning in Fall 2025.

Highlights of Randall Goosby’s 2025/26 season include debut performances with the Atlanta Symphony, the Orchestre National de France and the San Diego Symphony, as well as return engagements with the San Francisco, Pittsburgh New Jersey Symphony Orchestras.  He appears in recital across North America and Europe with pianist Zhu Wang, and joins clarinetist Anthony McGill and pianist Joshua Mhoon in a program presented by the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society.

Goosby’s debut album for Decca, entitled ‘Roots’, is a celebration of African-American music which explores its evolution from the spiritual through to present-day compositions. In spring 2023, Goosby’s debut concerto album was released for Decca Classics together with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra performing violin concertos by Max Bruch and Florence Price. Gramophone Magazine observed: “There’s an honesty and modesty…This playing isn’t dressed to impress but to express.”

Randall Goosby began studying violin at the age of seven. At age 9, he made his solo debut with the Jacksonville Symphony, and four  years later, he became the youngest First Prize winner of the Sphinx Competition, leading to debut performances with the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, and New World Symphony.

ZHU WANG, PIANO
Praised by The New York Times as “especially impressive” and “a thoughtful, sensitive performer,” pianist Zhu Wang won First Prize at the 2020 Young Concert Artists Susan Wadsworth International Auditions. He has earned top honors at the Zhuhai International Mozart Competition, Manhattan International Music Competition, Hilton Head Young Artist Piano Competition, and Juilliard's Gina Bachauer and Mieczyslaw Munz Competitions.

Celebrated for his “technical mastery and deep sense of lyricism” (The Durango Herald), Zhu has appeared at major venues, including Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall — named one of The New York Times’ “Best of Classical Music 2021”— The Kennedy Center, Caramoor, and The Morgan Library. As a chamber musician, he has performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, La Jolla Music Society, and with musicians from the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Carnegie Hall.

Internationally, he has appeared at the Berliner Philharmonie, Warsaw Philharmonic, and Shanghai Concert Hall, and at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall with Randall Goosby.