Saturdays with Classics
"Mist & Mirrors"
with Jeremy Crosmer, cellist & Kazimierz Brzozowski, pianist
Saturday,
March 19, 2022
2:00 PM
General Admission - $20
Steinway Society Members - $15
No Reservations Necessary.
Cash or check, payable at the door
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Jeremy Crosmer, cello
Jeremy Crosmer is a remarkable young artist, both as a cellist and a composer. Crosmer completed multiple graduate degrees from the University of Michigan in cello, composition, and theory pedagogy, and received his D.M.A. in 2012 at age 24. From 2012 to 2017 he served as the Assistant Principal Cellist in the Grand Rapids Symphony and joined the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in May of 2017. He is the composer and arranger for the GRS Music for Health Initiative and also a key member of the DSO’s partnership with Kadima Mental Health Services. Crosmer also is a recipient of the 2021 Ford Musician Award for Excellence in Community Service. Crosmer is a founding member of the modern music ensemble Latitude 49 and a current member of the band ESME, a pop-classical mash-up duo that released its first CD in December of 2016. Crosmer was awarded the prestigious Theodore Presser Graduate Music Award to publish, record and perform his Crosmer-Popper duets. In 2021, Crosmer created a database of free, digital editions of music by Classical Black Composers, arranged or transcribed for string quartet, with over 33 pieces available on his website. Crosmer has taught music theory, pre-calculus, and cello at universities across Michigan.
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Kazimierz Brzozowski, piano
Kazimierz Brzozowski has garnered international acclaim for his captivating performances at the piano, in particular the music of Chopin. He frequently appears in concerts in the United States, Japan and Poland and has performed as a soloist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Polish Radio Orchestra, Lublin Philharmonic and other orchestras in the U.S.A. and Poland. Kazimierz Brzozowski has won the top prize at the Polish Piano Festival and received awards from the Chopin Society in Warsaw, Ann Arbor Musical Society in Michigan, University of Michigan, Kosciuszko Foundation in New York and others. Critics praise him for “truly exceptional interpretation of Chopin’s Mazurkas and Ballades” (Czas Polski) and “crystal clarity…and bravura” of his performances. (Ruch Muzyczny)