A world premiere event is coming to Metro Detroit.

The Chamber Music Society of Detroit (ComeHearCMSD.org) on Feb. 11, 2012 presents the Shanghai Quartet in collaboration with the distinguished pianist Peter Serkin, who makes a rare Detroit-area appearance for the world premiere of Bright Sheng’s Dance Capriccio for Piano, String Quartet (2011). The concert takes place at the Seligman Performing Arts Center in Beverly Hills. The program follows:

Mozart: String Quartet in B-flat major, K. 458 “Hunt”

Bright Sheng: Dance Capriccio for Piano and String Quartet (world premiere)

Brahms: Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34

Composer Bright Sheng is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes, including the prestigious MacArthur Foundation’s Genius Award.  From 1998 to 2003 he served as Artistic Director of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Project. In 1995, he joined the composition faculty of the University of Michigan, where has served as Leonard Bernstein Distinguished University Professor of Music since 2003.

“Dance Capriccio was inspired by the dance folk music of the Sherpa, a small ethnic group …mostly living in western Nepal, in the high mountains of the Himalayas,” Sheng says of his new work. “Sherpa people love to dance and, along with love songs and drinking songs, dance music is an important genre among Sherpa folk music. In Dance Capriccio, I tried to capture the various characters of Sherpa dance, from slow to fast, tender to raucous, even wild.”

 For tickets and information, call 248-855-6070 or visit www.ComeHearCMSD.org.