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Witness Music, Experience Greatness at Three Exceptional Concerts
DETROIT (December 10, 2025) – Pro Musica of Detroit is thrilled to announce the line-up for its 2026 concert season, three performances which mark Pro Musica’s 99th year of presenting virtuosic musical artistry to audiences in Southeast Michigan. The 2026 concert season will include performances by Maki Namekawa, pianist, on February 6; Caitlin Lynch, soprano, and Jonathan Lasch, baritone, accompanied by Sonia Lee, violin, on March 10; and Amit Peled, cellist, and conductor, on April 21.
Pianist Maki Namekawa will perform at the Gretchen C. Valade Jazz Center on the campus of Wayne State University in a concert program on Friday, February 6 that begins at 7 p.m. Caitlin Lynch, soprano and Jonathan Lasch, baritone, will perform at Kirk in the Hills Church, Bloomfield Township, accompanied by Sonia Lee, violinist, on Tuesday, March 10, starting at 7 p.m. Cellist, composer and educator Amit Peled, considered among the world’s leading lights in classical music, performs Tuesday, April 21, at Seligman Auditorium on the campus of Detroit Country Day School in Beverly Hills, beginning at 7 p.m. Details on the concerts are detailed below.
Subscriptions and Tickets
Season subscriptions include three performances and are available for $100 each, which includes reserved seating nearest the artists during the three concert performances. Individual concert tickets are $40 per concert and include every ticket includes afterglow with the artists. Student tickets also are available at $5 each per concert. Season subscriptions and single concert tickets can be purchased online at promusicadetroit.com.
Maki Namekawa, piano
One of the leading pianists of her generation, Japanese-Austrian pianist Maki Namekawa will perform at the Gretchen C. Valade Jazz Center on the campus of Wayne State University in Detroit, on Friday, February 6, beginning at 7 p.m. Ms. Namekawa has earned a unique reputation for her commitment to four centuries of great piano music with a concert repertory that is broad, colorful, and ambitious, ranging from neglected masterpieces by J.S. Bach, Felix Mendelssohn, and Alban Berg to new works by many of today’s leading composers. The impressive list of music especially written for Ms. Namekawa includes “Piano Sonata No. 1” by Philip Glass and a work for four-hands by Joe Hisaishi. Her work includes first performances of works by Elliot Goldenthal, Keith Jarrett, Arvo Pärt, and Hania Rani. For her February 6 Pro Musica concert, Ms. Namekawa will perform works for piano by Philip Glass, Keith Jarrett, and Chick Corea.
Caitlin Lynch, soprano, and Jonathan Lasch, baritone – with Sonia Lee, violin
Two leading stars of the opera world, soprano Caitlin Lynch and baritone Jonathan Lasch, will perform at Kirk in the Hills Church, accompanied by violinist Sonia Lee, on Tuesday, March 10, beginning at 7 p.m. The program includes works by J.S. Bach, Pietro Mascagni, Richard Strauss, and Leonard Bernstein.
Caitlin Lynch, a soprano whose “rich, shimmering soprano shines with a resplendent inner light” (Opera News), has performed leading roles on premier national and international stages including the Metropolitan Opera, Houston Grand Opera, English National Opera as well as roles with San Diego Opera, Austin Opera, Seattle Opera. She received international acclaim for creating the role of Eliza in Nico Muhly’s chamber opera, Dark Sisters, at the Gotham Chamber Opera in New York. She also created the role of Yadwiga in the world premiere of Ben Moore’s Enemies, a Love Story at Palm Beach Opera.
Jonathan Lasch has been described in Opera News as possessing a “sumptuous bass-baritone” that is “sturdy and nuanced” with “breathtaking vocal prowess” that “captivates” and “dominates with commanding intensity.” He has performed on stages both locally at Detroit Opera House, Detroit’s Orchestra Hall and with Michigan Philharmonic, Macomb Symphony, Adrian Symphony as well as Princeton Festival, and the Athens Academy in Greece. Dr. Lasch currently serves as Associate Professor and Coordinator of Voice at Wayne State University.
Sonia Lee, after completing her studies at Julliard, was Principal Second Violinist with the Toronto Symphony. She has also appeared as concerto soloist with the New York Chamber Orchestra at the 92nd Street Y, the Toronto Symphony, the Saginaw Bay Symphony, the Grosse Pointe Symphony, and the Michigan Sinfonietta. She has concertized across the U.S., Canada and in Europe and is a dedicated violin pedagogue, teaching privately and coaching members of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s Civic Youth Ensembles Honors Program.
Amit Peled, cello
Internationally acclaimed cellist, conductor, and educator Amit Peled is recognized as one of the most exciting performers in the world of music today. He is a Distinguished Professor of Music at the Peabody Conservatory of Music at Johns Hopkins University. His renown as a musician, educator and advocate for music and the power of art for building a world based on peace, has only grown since.
As an active chamber musician, Peled is a founding member of the Tempest Trio with pianist Alon Goldstein and violinist Ilya Kaler and the Goldstein-Peled-Fiterstein Trio with Alon Goldstein and clarinetist Alexander Fiterstein. Amit Peled has performed in many of the world’s most prestigious stages, including Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., Salle Gaveau in Paris, Wigmore Hall in London, Seoul Arts Center in Korea, and the Konzerthaus in Berlin. Peled is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Mount Vernon Virtuosi, an orchestra of promising young musicians on the threshold of their professional careers. As a centerpiece of his community engagement, Peled established the Music House in East Baltimore, where young musicians live free of charge and actively connect with the community through outreach and performance. For Pro Musica, the maestro will perform works by Ludwig van Beethoven (inspired by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart), Frédéric Chopin, Max Bruch, and Mieczysław Weinberg.
About Pro Musica of Detroit
Now entering our 99th concert season, Pro Musica of Detroit is among the city’s oldest presenters of fine music, and the only Pro Musica Society in the United States in continuous operation since its founding. Past artists have included some of the most well-known names in classical music, including composers Béla Bartók, Maurice Ravel, Aaron Copland, Sergei Prokofiev, Francis Poulenc, William Bolcom, and Michael Daugherty; and a world class roster of musicians that includes Joshua Bell, Jessye Norman, Akropolis Reed Quintet, Poulenc Trio, and Benjamin Grosvenor.
The Pro Musica experience represents a unique part of Detroit’s cultural heritage that connects audiences directly to the musicians presenting each concert since Béla Bartók discussed his work and led a performance of his works at Pro Musica’s first concert in 1927. During the program, artists are encouraged to speak directly to the audience about the works and composers they are performing. Afterwards, audience members enjoy the opportunity to mingle with the artists and other audience members at an afterglow reception.
The mission of Pro Musica of Detroit is to present to its members and audiences virtuosic and emerging artists performing exquisite works of music, to highlight local, living composers and musicians, and to provide meaningful educational experiences to our local community.
The upcoming From Detroit to the World: Our 100-year anniversary Witness of Music project celebrates the past 100 years, while setting the stage for the next 100 years.
More at promusicadetroit.com.