Michigan’s Spectrum Orchestra.
In Saturday’s (4/19) Royal Oak Tribune (Michigan), Joanna Bermann writes, “Spectrum Orchestra welcomes the public to the final concert of its 2024-2025 season at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 2, at Bloomfield Hills High School … The concert will feature Jeremy Crosmer of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra performing Antonín Dvořák’s famous Cello Concerto in B minor. ‘We’re absolutely thrilled to be welcoming Jeremy back as a soloist for the fourth time—that’s how popular he’s been,’ said Eszter Horváth, Spectrum Orchestra’s music director…. He was assistant principal cellist of the Grand Rapids Symphony from 2012 through 2017 and joined the Detroit Symphony in May 2017…. As composer and arranger for the Grand Rapids Symphony’s Music for Health initiative, Crosmer has long recognized the healing power of music and, in 2021, received the Ford Musician Award for Excellence in Community Service [from the League of American Orchestras] … Also on the May 2 program are” works by Ralph Vaughn Williams and Agathe Backer-Grøndahl. “Spectrum Orchestra is a community orchestra comprised of accomplished amateurs and has been bringing symphonic music to the Birmingham-Bloomfield area since 2012. Under the direction of Horváth, the group has been championing the works of lesser-known composers, especially women.”
