DSO's 'EXOTIC ADVENTURES' Concert Streams Live

Join Detroit Public Television (DPTV) this morning starting at 10:45 a.m. for The Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO)'s most exciting concert of the year, Exotic Adventures, featuring mezzo soprano Isabelle Druet for her American orchestral debut performing Ravel's Shéhérazade.

Rumor has it that the DSO's incredible Music Director Leonard Slatkin said, "This is, perhaps, my personal favorite of the season" of this concert.

DSO Associate Concertmaster Kimberly Kaloyanides Kennedy will perform Ginastera's First Pampeana for Violin and String Orchestra and pianist Simon Mulligan will join the DSO for Ginastera's First Piano Concerto. Audiences can follow composers Ravel and Ginastera from their homes in France and Argentina respectively, through worldly travels of song and dance during Exotic Adventures at Orchestra Hall today at 10:45 a.m. and tomorrow, April 18 at 8 p.m.

This morning's performance will be webcast to a live worldwide audience via a Live from Orchestra Hall free HD webcast on www.dptv.org. You can also log in to www dso.org/live to view the concerts from your desktop or download the free DSO to Go mobile app for a portable concert experience.

Isabelle Druet is a young and seasoned performer within the opera world who received a "Victoire" in the French Classical Music Awards 2010 as the year's most promising young opera singer. Kimberly Kaloyanides Kennedy began her study of the violin at the age of five in Dayton, Ohio and is the DSO's distinguished Associated Concertmaster.

British pianist Simon Mulligan began playing at the age of three and quickly established himself in the music world as a multi-faceted virtuoso. His worldwide participation on recital tours with Joshua Bell held performances at every major international venue as well as the Grammy Awards, for Her Majesty The Queen and the Royal Family, and President Barack Obama.

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