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Crescendo 2025

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ARTWORK & FLORAL
Neil Bidwell Paintings
Boyer Glass Bird
Nancy Drew Painting
Lisa Lloyd – Framed, custom 3-D image of your home or cottage
Heidi Marshall Painting
A. R. Pontius Flower Shop

GOLF, SPORT, FITNESS & OUTDOOR TOURS
Charlevoix Community Pool 20-punch card for Aqua Fitness
Charlevoix Mushroom House Tour
Little Traverse Bay Ferry – Sunset Cruise for 4 ppl
Petoskey-Bay View Country Club Golf for 4
Walloon Lake Country Club golf for 4

RESTAURANTS & YUMMIES
Armenian Dinner 7-courses with wine for 6 ppl by Lois Aroian
Bill’s Farm Market
Linda Burnham FAMILY FUN Goodie Basket
Chandlers-Symons Gift Certificate
Colin’s Confections & Catering
The Depot Dining Club Membership for Sep-May
Grey Gables
Kilwin’s Chocolates
The New York
Nomad
Petoskey Cheese
Turtle Moon Farm-to-Table Dinner for 6 ppl

SPIRITS
Bucket of Bubbles ~ Sparkling Wines
Classic Gin & Tonic Cocktail Kit
Meyer Ace Harware ~ Wheelbarrow full of Wine

EVENTS
Bay View-2 tickets to 3 Concerts
Dart for Art Preview-4 tickets
Great Lakes Center for the Arts-2 tickets of your choice with drinks and SWAG Bag
Harbor Springs Festival of the Book – 4 tickets
Howl at the Moon – 2 tickets
NCMC Friday Fall Lifetime Learning Luncheon – 1 person for 6 seminars with lunch

WOMEN’s ITEMS
B. May Bags
Elizabeth Blair Fine Pearls

MEN’s ITEMS
Ace Meyer Hardware – Wheelbarrow full of Wine
Craig Ryan – custom shirts

SUBSCRIPTIONS
Harbor Light Newspaper Subscription – 1 year

Thank you for your support!

 All of the proceeds from the event will go towards supporting our mission of providing exceptional live music

performances and top-notch music education. By attending our concerts, contributing regularly, and attending

Crescendo, you are not only helping to sustain the Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra, but you are also investing

in the future of music education and performance in our community. Your commitment to our artists and your

enthusiasm for our concerts make it possible for us to continue to grow and bring more amazing music to the area.

See you there!

Tickets are available via the link above.

 

 For more information, please contact Deedee Pichard, Events & Communications, at (231) 487-0010 or deedee@glcorchestra.org

 

Eric Lawson

Assistant Concertmaster

Violinist, violist, conductor and professor Dr. Eric Lawson has had a varied career in performance and education. Past performances as a conductor, soloist and lecturer have taken him to Austria, Brazil, China, Germany, Romania and Scandinavia. Before returning to his home state of Michigan, he was based in North Dakota where, in addition to serving as a violin instructor at Bismarck State College, Jamestown College, and the University of Mary, he was also concertmaster of the Bismarck-Mandan Symphony Orchestra and established the Bismarck-Mandan Youth Symphony. Other former academic appointments have included Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Central College in Pella, Iowa and the University of North Dakota where he founded the string program and the UND Chamber Orchestra.

Here in Michigan, Dr. Lawson as been very active with the Alpena Symphony Orchestra as its concertmaster, conductor and president of the board. He also performs with many other orchestras in Northern Michigan and participates in the Traverse Symphony as a first violinist, in the Gaylord Symphony as concertmaster and as assistant concertmaster in the Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra.

And finally, in what has been one of the most important experiences of his life outside of music, he also served almost four years as an Alpena County Commissioner, representing Ossineke and Sanborn Townships. In addition to serving as chair of the Salary and Personnel Committee, he also served on the Airport, Ambulance, District Court, Circuit Court Management and Jail Committees. He also represented Alpena County in Gaylord with the Northern Michigan Regional Entity Substance Use Disorder Board and continues to serve on the Northeast Michigan Community Mental Health Board. Dr. Lawson resides in Ossineke with his wife and two children.