Schoolcraft College’s Music Department will present a free concert on Wednesday, February 24. Members of the Plymouth Symphony will perform under the direction of nationally acclaimed Music Director and Conductor, Nan Washburn. The concert will be held in the Presentation Room of the VisTaTech Center located on the college’s main campus in Livonia, Haggerty Road between Six and Seven Mile Roads.

Members of the Plymouth Symphony will perform under the direction of nationally acclaimed Music Director and Conductor, Nan Washburn. She is recognized as one of the most innovative and dynamic conductors working in the United States today. For her engaging performances and fresh approach to concert programming, critics have hailed her work as having “perspicacity, nerve, imagination and all-round savvy.”

The Plymouth Canton Symphony Society has been the recipient of numerous awards including four ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) awards for Adventurous Programming. Most recently, they received grants from the Kresge Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts to support the annual Fusion Festival, a weekend-long program celebrating musical diversity.

The selections for the concert on February 24 include Chinese folk songs, traditional Venezuelan Joropo music, and works by Maria Margherita Grimani, Claude Debussy, George Gershwin, Gustav Mahler and Antonin Dvorak.

The concert by the Plymouth Symphony is part of the college’s Free Noon Concert Music Series. The remaining concerts in the 2009-10 series include the Schoolcraft Faculty Recital on March 24; and tenor Christopher Scholl with pianist Kevin Bylsma on April 21.

Schoolcraft College is a public two-year college, offering classes at the Livonia campus, at the Radcliff Center in Garden City and online at schoolcraft.edu.