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33292 West 12 Mile
Farmington Hills
(248) 489-9777
Serving whitefish, Iamb shank,
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The
Absolute Ensemble,
under conductor
Kristjan Jarvi, plays
everything from
Renaissance to
rock.

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ianist Matt Herskowitz understands the
styles of two conductors important to
Michigan — Detroit Symphony
Orchestra conductor Neeme Jarvi and
Absolute Ensemble conductor Kristjan Jarvi.
Herskowitz has played Gershwin's Rhapsody in
Blue with the father at Meadow Brook, and he is
about to perform his own composition Serial Blues
with the son in the auditorium at the Detroit
Institute of Arts.
The upcoming concert, "Absolute Mix," named
for an Absolute Ensemble recording, is scheduled
for 8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 28, under sponsorship
of the nonprofit presenter Pro Musica.
"Both conductors share a similar enthusiasm for
music, but what they do is so different," says
Herskowitz, 32, who enjoys the traditional world of
the DSO, the contemporary outlook of Absolute
Ensemble, the jazz improvisation of his Matt
Herskowitz Trio and the klezmer sounds he some-

times plays around
family, with whom he
spends the High
Holidays.
"My experience
with Neeme Jarvi was
as a soloist with the
orchestra, and he
involved the sympho-
ny with me so there
was great communica-
tion. Absolute
Ensemble does cham-
ber music with basi-
cally 16 soloists, and
it takes a conductor
with incredible ears to
pull a group like that
together."
Absolute Ensemble,
which has made a number of record-
ings since it formed in 1993, tours
with a crossover program, blending

Conductor Kristjan.
Jarvi: "We really had
to go for expanding
what people viewed
as classical music."