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Mozart Birthday Celebration with the Detroit Camerata
January 27 2012 at 11:45 AM
Old Main, Schaver Music Recital Hall, Old Main
Join us in a celebration of the 256th anniversary of Mozart's birth! Mozart: String Quartet in D minor, K. 421 and Piano Quartet in G minor, K.478      Kypros Markou and David Ormai violins; Constance Markowick, viola; Judith Vander Weg, cello; Kazimierz Brzozowski, piano
Guest Artist: James Fusik, saxophone
January 27 2012 at 7:30 PM
Old Main, Schaver Music Recital Hall
A dynamic and versatile soloist and chamber musician, saxophonist James Fusik has garnered numerous accomplishments worldwide. Fusik has commissioned and/or premiered many works by established and emerging composers, including Marilyn Shrude, Walter Mays, Shane Hoose, Octavio Mas-Arocas, Adam Hawes, and Jamie Sampson. In November of 2010 Fusik was semi-finalist at the  5th International Adolphe Sax Competition in Dinant, Belgium, one of only 6 Americans in the entire history of the competition to advance to that round. In addition he has won 1st prize in the 2010 Richardson Woodwind Competition, 1st prize in the 2007 Arizona University Recordings’ Competition, and been named a winner of the Concerto Competitions of Central Michigan University, Bowling Green State University, and the staff Competition of Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp. Notable past performances include presentations at the 2008 and 2010 biennial conferences of the North American Saxophone alliance, the 2006 World Saxophone Congress in Ljubliana, Slovenia, and a tour of Ontario, Canada in February 2009. Currently pursuing his DMA in Contemporary Music from Bowling Green State University, Fusik holds a Master’s Degree in Saxophone Performance from BGSU, where he served as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the studio of John Sampen. Jim received a B.M. in Theory/Composition and a B.M.E. in Music Education from Central Michigan University.  His teachers include John Sampen, John Nichol, Marilyn Shrude, David Gillingham, and José-Luis Maurtua.
Student Jazz Recital
January 30 2012 at 7:30 PM
Old Main, Schaver Music Recital Hall
Monday, Jan. 30 Graduate: Kris Kurzawa, Jazz Guitar  7:30 pm
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Check out our winter concert calendar!  

January 27 at 11:45 am: Mozart Birthday Concert featuring Detroit Camerata.

The second season of Mondays at the Max with Wayne State kicks off February 13 with a jazz Big Band tribute to Stan Kenton with guest drummer Jerry McKenzie!

 

The Department of Music

The Department of Music cultivates music as a contemporary and global art, grounded in a long historical tradition, by combining higher education with professional training and experience for its undergraduate and graduate/professional students.

The Department offers serious students of music opportunities to learn, grow, and develop their skills and disciplines in an urban cultural setting. With close proximity to Detroit's cultural center, students have access to the resources of such premiere institutions as the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Detroit Public Library, the Detroit Opera House, and Orchestra Hall. The long historical relationship between the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the Department allows students to study and coach with exceptional guest artists and resident artist-faculty who are specialists in all musical styles and media.

Building on the strengths of its geographic and cultural setting, the Department maintains public access to its performances and degree programs, offers high-level professional and academic standards and unique creative and scholarly opportunities appropriate to a large research university, and cultivates a deep aesthetic understanding of music in our students and the larger urban arts community.

Department of Music
Wayne State University
1321 Old Main
Detroit, Michigan 48202
Phone: (313) 577-1795
Fax: (313) 577-5420
music@wayne.edu