Cellist Robert deMaine Opens CMSDetroit 2017-18 Season

Robert deMaine, the former DSO principal cellist who has gone on to distinguished himself as one of the finest and most versatile instrumentalists of his generation, makes his Chamber Music Society of Detroit series debut with a solo recital on Saturday, September 16 at 8:00 PM. The concert takes place at Seligman Performing Arts Center in Beverly Hills. Joined by pianist Adam Neiman, Robert deMaine will perform works by Saint-Saëns, Cassadó and Rachmaninoff. In addition, deMaine and Neiman - both composers - will each perform a solo work they have composed for their instrument.

Tickets for this concert, priced at $25 - $65 ($12.50 - $32.50 for students) are available by phone at 313-335-3300 or online at www.CMSDetroit.org.

From 5:30 - 7:30 PM on opening night, the Chamber Music Society will host a wine and hors d'oeuvres reception and silent auction to help support concert and education programming for the 74th season. The silent auction features an array of donated items including a cruise; hotel, theatre, restaurant and event packages; jewelry, art, spa gift certificates, golf and baseball items and more.

Concert Information at a Glance:

Chamber Music Society of Detroit 2017-18 Opening Night

Saturday, September 16, 2017, 8 PM

Robert deMaine, cello

Adam Neiman, piano

Seligman Performing Arts Center, 22305 West 13 Mile Road, Beverly Hills

Saint-Saëns: Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 1, Op. 32

deMaine: Three Études-Caprices for Solo Cello

Cassadó: Suite for Solo Cello (1926)

Neiman: Nocturne for Solo Piano

Rachmaninoff: Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 19

Opening night Reception, including wine & hors d'oeuvres and silent auction, begins at 5:30 PM Tickets: Reception tickets: $65; Reception plus concert package: $95; Concert only: $25 - $65; half price for students.

Hailed by The New York Times as "an artist who makes one hang on every note," Robert deMaine has been acclaimed worldwide as soloist, recitalist, orchestral principal, recording artist, and chamber musician. After serving for over a decade as the principal cellist of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, he was invited in 2012 by music director Gustavo Dudamel to join the Los Angeles Philharmonic as principal cellist.

Robert deMaine is a frequent guest artist at many of the world's premier chamber music festivals, including those of Marlboro, Seattle, Montréal, Seoul's Ditto Festival, and most recently the 2016 Piatigorsky Cello Festival. He has appeared on the stages of Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Teatro Colón, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, the Berlin Philharmonie, Vienna Konzerthaus, and Moscow's Tchaikovsky Hall, Auditorium du Louvre, Suntory Hall and the Seoul Arts Center, as well as the Shanghai Oriental Arts Center and Conservatory and London's Wigmore Hall, among others. He is the recipient of a career grant from the Helen M. Saunders Foundation, and was honored with the gift of a Vuillaume cello from the Detroit-based Cecilia Benner Foundation. DeMaine has recorded for Naxos, Chandos, Onyx, CBC, DSO, Elysium, and Capstone and has been featured on the BBC, PBS, NPR's Performance Today, the Canadian Broadcasting Company, France Musique, and RAI, among others.

Grammy Award nominee Adam Neiman is hailed as one of the premier pianists, composers, and entrepreneurs of his generation. In addition to performing with such major symphony orchestras as those of Chicago, Cincinnati, Detroit, Minnesota and San Francisco, Neiman serves as Artistic Director of the Manchester Music Festival in Vermont and is founder and CEO of the record label Aeolian Classics, LLC and the Aeolian Classics Emerging Artist Award Competition at Roosevelt University.

Adam Neiman was a member of Trio Solisti for three seasons and was also a founding member of the Corinthian Trio. In 1995, Neiman became the youngest-ever winner of the Kalamazoo-based Gilmore Young Artist Award. The following year, he won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions which earned him Washington D.C. and New York recital debuts at the Kennedy Center and the 92nd Street Y. Two-time winner of Juilliard's Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, Neiman received the Rubinstein Award upon his graduation in 1999, the same year he received an Avery Fisher Career Grant.