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DIA presents a weekend of performances by violinist Eric Grossman, including
music by his friend and neighbor, Lowell Liebermann.

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he Detroit Institute of Arts has
pulled off a programming
coup with a series of concerts
scheduled for this weekend, April 8-10.
DIA audiences will have the oppor-
tunity to hear violinist Eric Grossman,
who has been praised in the New York
Times as a "fiercely brilliant soloist," in
recitals Friday evening, Saturday after-
noon and Sunday morning.
On Friday, April 8, Grossman's
accompanist will be acclaimed com-
poser Lowell Liebermann.
It will be the first visit to Detroit for
Liebermann, a prolific, frequently per-
formed neo-Romantic whose work
ranges from a piccolo concerto to a
grand opera. At the Friday night
recitals, scheduled for 6:30 p.m.
and 8:30 p.m., Grossman will
perform Liebermarm's Violin
Sonata and selections from
his Album for the Young,
along with sonatas by
Schubert and Saint-
Saens.
Grossman and
Eric
Liebermann — both
Grossman
have Jewish fathers
— first met as stu-
dents at New York's
Juilliard School.
"From the first
time I heard his First
Symphony at Juilliard,
Lowell
I've been a fan," the
Liebermann
violinist said. "It's a real
honor to walk on stage
and play his music."
In the Saturday and
Sunday performances —
each with a different program
— Grossman will perform with
his wife, Cuban-born pianist Lida
Lopez.
At 2 p.m., Saturday, April 9, the
pair will play works of Mozart, Bach
and Brahms. The Sunday, April 10,
Brunch with Bach features music of
Christian Sinding, Bach, Schumann
and Sarasate, along with Music for
Viola and Piano by Lopez's father,
Cuban composer Jorge Lopez Marin

(Lopez's mother immigrated to Cuba
from Kiev.)

Nebraska To New York

Grossman grew up in Nebraska, where
his father, a cellist, taught public-
school music. His earliest memories
are of the sand hills outside his home,
with roads running straight through at
geometric angles. However, he also
remembers his father taking him to

the -Marlboro Music Festival in
Vermont, where he got to sit on the
lap of cellist Pablo Casals.
"It was my first brush with great-
ness," he says.
His studies at the University of
Cincinnati School of Music with
Dorothy DeLay led to a scholarship to
Juilliard, where he studied with Masao
Kawasaki and DeLay.
"It was such an intensive school for
performance," Grossman says. "I
played with Zubin Mehta, Stanislaw
Skrowaczewski, so many great musi-
cians."
Today, the 42-year-old violinist leads
a life devoted to performing, with fre-

quent tours
throughout
Europe and the
United States. As
an artistic director of
the Cosmopolitan
Chamber Players, Grossman
also oversees an annual concert
series at Merkin Concert Hall in New
York.
His own chamber music work has
included collaborations with cellist
David Soyer, pianist Seymour Lipkin
and others, including his sister, pianist

Lida Lopez