West Coast Premiere - Jacob Adams, Viola; Angela Draghicescu, Piano; American Viola Society Festival and Primrose International Viola Competition at the Colburn School of Music in Los Angeles.

"Opening Night - 25 Years" - Celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival on Opening Night! Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings returns to the Festival alongside Festival Co-Founder and Artistic Director Emeritus, James Tocco. Includes a World Premiere by William Bolcom: Quartettsatz.

Another full evening of the songs of William Bolcom at the Foundation des Etats-Unis in Paris, France featuring soprano Rayanne Dupuis and pianist Guy Livingston - with William Bolcom and Joan Morris in the house!

Chamber music including the European premiere of Bolcom’s Piano Trio. Artists include the Fidelio Trio.

This concert will feature a collection of Bolcom’s vocal and choral works.

Traversing Broadway, vaudeville and music hall, performing music from the ragtime era to the end of the 20th century, Bolcom and Morris have been delighting audiences all over the United States and throughout the world for over 40 years. This evening offers a very rare opportunity to hear the duo in conversation in the first half and performing in the second.

William Bolcom is joined by mezzo soprano Joan Morris for a workshop of some of his Cabaret Songs with singers and pianists from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Join us for an open masterclass where William Bolcom works with organists from the Royal Academy of Music on his Gospel Preludes, considered to be amongst his most fascinating and compulsive works.

The opening recital of a summer residency at this exquisite venue in rural France includes works by Bolcom, Chopin, Gershwin and others.

Jacob Adams, Viola; Angela Draghicescu, Piano; American Viola Society Festival and Primrose International Viola Competition at the Colburn School of Music in Los Angeles.

The Fischer Duo [Norman Fischer, cello and Jeanne Kierman, piano]

Samuel Park, violin and Frances Lee, piano

Samuel Park, violin and Frances Lee, piano

As a fitting finale to end the Festival on a high note, the 2018 Gilmore Artist Igor Levit will perform Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto with the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra. Raymond Harvey, the orchestra’s Music Director Emeritus, returns to conduct this concert, which also includes William Bolcom’s First Symphony in honor of the composer’s 80th birthday.

Venerable pianist Lori Sims will present a performance in honor of distinguished composer William Bolcom’s 80th birthday. Works by Bolcom as well as his teachers Milhaud and Messiaen will be performed.

Samuel Park, violin and Frances Lee, piano

The Fischer Duo [Norman Fischer, cello and Jeanne Kierman, piano]

William Bolcom and Mark Campbell’s one-act farce about the complicated sexual plans of an “enamorato” named Lorenzo go askew at the hands of the titular object of his attempted seduction, Lucrezia, was commissioned in 2008 by the New York Festival of Song, and paired at the same time with the one-act Bastianello, commissioned from composer John Musto and Campbell. Both operas were scored for two pianos, but have been ripe for a light orchestral treatment. Bastianello was scored by its composer for a production at Eastman a few years ago, so when the San Francisco Conservatory sought to produce both works this May, in Bolcom’s 80th birthday month, they went the extra mile and commissioned an orchestration, by Bolcom, of Lucrezia. Their performances on May 4 & 6 are the World Premiere of this orchestration, and the first, glorious presentation of both operas together as accompanied by chamber orchestra. Curt Pajer conducts, Heather Mathews directs, and students in the opera program of SFCM perform these swift-paced, thoughtful, and entertaining operas.

Two artists, one soul, share the Salle Claude-Léveillée of Place des Arts for a tender and intimate musical dialogue. In a diverse and magical program, Primrose Competition Prize Winner Elias Goldstein and pianist Angela Draghicescu will perform works from their upcoming CD Melanconico. The program will feature works by Robert and Clara Schumann, Kreisler, Zosha di Castri and Pulitzer Prize winning composer William Bolcom, with special guest Canadian soprano Linda Tsatsanis.