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Banjo player Tray Wellington’s approach to the quintessential American instrument is all about looking forward. An International Bluegrass Music Association Award winner, Wellington is critically acclaimed not only for his technical prowess, but also for leveraging his unique point of view to craft a one-of-a-kind voice on the instrument. It’s a feat that’s all too rare in these roots genres that seem to value emulation and regurgitation over all else. Instead, Wellington has time and time again reasserted that his playing style, and all of the many varied and disparate parts that combine within it, is wholly his own – and it’s unconcerned with tradition.

Featuring Lux Aeterna, and Bach’s Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (BWV 140), this opening program reflects on themes of eternal light, awakening, and hope through luminous choral repertoire.

Featuring Lux Aeterna, and Bach’s Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (BWV 140), this opening program reflects on themes of eternal light, awakening, and hope through luminous choral repertoire.

Rehearsals for the Ypsilanti Community Choir’s 2026 Holiday Concert will begin on Thursday, September 17 at 7:30pm, and will be held in the basement of Emmanuel Lutheran Church. Please plan to arrive a few minutes early to register for $40 and collect your music- doors will open at 7pm. See you there!
Our planned program will include:
Fum, Fum, Fum, In December, Selections from Christmas from the Heart, Christmas Canon, Snow, among others. There will also be our new “tradition” of a Christmas carol singalong and our traditional closing song “Hallelujah Chorus.”

Berlin Philharmonic Brass, founded in the 1950s, is one of the longest-standing ensembles to have emerged from arguably the greatest orchestra in the world, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Its twelve virtuoso brass players bring this ensemble’s distinctive sound and tradition to dynamic chamber music performances in Germany and throughout the world.

The Berlin Philharmonic Brass Ensemble’s concerts are a celebration of the diversity of brass music, ranging from Baroque and Classical repertoire to newly commissioned works by leading contemporary composers and entertaining arrangements of jazz and popular pieces.

The rapport between the twelve musicians, undoubtedly enhanced by their experience in playing together as Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra members, is communicated to their audiences in performances of spontaneity and passion.