Barefield Super String Quartet:
Creative Transformation in Detroit's
Corktown Neighborhood
Sunday, August 28, 3–5 pm
A celebration of Detroit and its expanding creativity, Imagination Station takes pride in including a spread of Detroit’s finest organic and locally-prepared food, wine, and beverages. Summer Soiree was the final opportunity to view and bid farewell to Catie Newell’s acclaimed “Salvaged Landscape” sculpture—assembled on the balcony of Imagination Station—before its journey to the Grand Rapids Museum of Art (Grand) for the international ArtPrize competition. Since its inception, Imagination Station has collaborated with artists, providing a site for innovative installations.
The concert raised funds to support the Imagination Station’s transformation of its houses and vacant lots into a creative campus built on community, technology, sustainability and the arts. The vision includes establishing a media center, open air public art gallery and living quarters. It will be a model green rehab— a demonstration center for the incorporation of innovative renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies such as geothermal heating, Energy Star Appliances, electric car charging systems and residential solar systems. The Imagination Station is a new nonprofit organization that is partnering with Barefield’s 33-year-old nonprofit arts organization, the Creative Arts Collective.
More information at Imagination Station at www.facethestation.com
The Barefield Super String Quartet exhibits great diversity and talent in all forms of music from traditional to avant-garde jazz, classical, indie rock, hip-hop, and more.
Described by JazzTimes as “an extraordinary guitarist/composer … He melds the techniques of Segovia and Jimi Hendrix into a startling jazz lexicon,” A. Spencer Barefield has received numerous awards for composition and performance from National Endowment for the Arts, Meet the Composer and others. He has toured and recorded in the US, Canada, and Europe, extensively as a leader, soloist, and with Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Oliver Lake, Andrew Cyrille, Richard Davis and many more. Barefield’s Creative Arts Collective earned Michigan's Governor's Arts Award for excellence and has received international recognition for its innovative presentations, including its 13-year Creative Music at the Detroit Institute of Arts series and current Palmer Woods Music in Homes series. Read more at spencerbarefield.com.
Violinist Jannina Barefield Norpoth made her solo debut at age 13 at Orchestra Hall with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and returned a few years later to perform the Sibelius Violin Concerto. She has performed internationally, including solo appearances with the Birmingham Bloomfield Symphony, Ensemble 212, and at the Montreux Detroit Jazz Festival, Mostly Mozart Festival, VH1’s Save the Music, FOX’s Fearless Music Television, Art X Detroit, and a concert tour of Tuscany in Italy. Jannina is a member of the Sphinx Chamber Orchestra.
She was first violinist in the Osso String Quartet — a music ensemble on the Asthmatic Kitty Record Label started by songwriter sensation Sufjan Stevens. Osso’s debut US tour included sold-out shows at the 92nd Street Y Tribeca, Southern Theatre in Minneapolis, Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and many others.
Jannina has been a featured performer alongside Itzhak Perlman, Emmanuelle Boisvert, jazz violinist Regina Carter, Marcus Belgrave, My Brightest Diamond, Beyonce, and Jay-Z. Her recording credits include work with her own band Hollands, Jay-Z, Akron Family, Keri Hilson, and producers Jerry “Wonda” Duplessis, and Bryce Goggin. Jannina and her husband John-Paul are working closely with Duplessis (Wyclef Jean's cousin and collaborator) writing and recording their string arrangements for John Legend and other musicians.
Bassist John-Paul Norpoth has achieved recognition as an orchestral musician, collaborative artist and recording artist, performing in concert venues ranging from Carnegie Hall to the Knitting Factory, in genres from classical to jazz to rock and roll. He currently serves as the principal bassist and featured soloist for the Bachanalia Chamber Orchestra. John-Paul has performed under the batons of Itzhak Perlman, Kurt Mazur, Bright Sheng, Jamie Laredo, Otto Werner Mueller and others in numerous orchestras in the New York area.
John-Paul has been a guest artist at the Amagansett Chamber Music Festival and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Lecture Series at Baruch College. Mr. Norpoth performs, produces, and records a multitude of instruments including, electric guitar, piano, synthesizer, electric and upright bass, and vocals. He arranges, performs and records strings for independent and major label pop/rock acts, including metal band Black Dahlia Murder, teen pop sensation Never Shout Never, super producer Jerry "Wonda" Duplessis, and folk rock band Akron Family, as well as his own band, Hollands. He can also be heard on the motion picture soundtrack for the movie "Married Life" starring Pierce Brosnan and Rachel McAdams.
Read more about Jannina and John-Paul: http://palmerwoods.org/music-in-homes/musicians-2010-2011/139-violin-a-bass-jannina-a-john-paul-norpoth
John Madison is the principal violist of the Michigan Opera Orchestra and Sphinx Symphony, and plays with the award-winning Cassini Ensemble, Detroit Symphony, Toledo Symphony, Toledo Opera Orchestra and New York City Opera Company. John has appeared as soloist with the Southfield Philharmonic, Toledo Symphony, Jackson Symphony, and the Adrian Symphony. A sought-after educator, he is Dean of the Sphinx Preparatory Music Institute. He is cofounder and coordinator of the Cassini Ensemble, recently toured with the Chamber Orchestra of France and performed with the New York City Opera Company.
The Imagination Station Summer Soirée is presented by Creative Arts Collective and Imagination Station with support from Michigan Council for Arts & Cultural Affairs, Midtown Detroit, Corktown Housing, EnergyFinanceAnalytics, NationBuilder, Printwell, StreetDemocracy, 3rdWard, The Pink FlaminGO!, Brother Nature Farms, McClure’s Pickles, and Valentine Vodka.
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