Principal Trumpet Hunter Eberly is featured soloist in Jolivet’s Concertino for Trumpet
Saturday, May 3 performance webcast for free on YouTube and via Facebook Live as a part of DSO’s Live from Orchestra Hall series
Tickets on sale now at dso.org
Detroit, (April 9, 2025) – The Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO) continues its PVS Classical series with French Showpieces led by guest conductor Marie Jacquot on May 2–3 in Orchestra Hall.
Jacquot will lead a program of works by France’s finest, including Maurice Ravel, Francis Poulenc, and André Jolivet. DSO Principal Trumpet Hunter Eberly will be a featured soloist in Jolivet’s Concertino for Trumpet. The exhilarating virtuosity exhibited in this piece balances the dancelike, fable-inspired themes in Ravel’s Valses nobles et sentimentales and Ma Mère l’Oye (Mother Goose), and Poulenc’s Les animaux modèles (Model Animals) Suite.
French Showpieces will take place on Friday, May 2 at 10:45 a.m. and Saturday, May 3 at 8 p.m. in Orchestra Hall. The Saturday, May 3 performance will be webcast for free on YouTube and via Facebook Live as a part of DSO’s Live from Orchestra Hall series.
Tickets for these performances start at $20 and can be purchased at dso.org or by calling the Box Office at 313.576.5111, open Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The title sponsor of the DSO’s Classical Series is PVS Chemicals, Inc. DSO Live is presented by Ford Philanthropy. Technology support comes from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Digital programming is produced from the Al Glancy Control Room.
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PVS Classical
Friday, May 2 at 10:45 a.m.
Saturday, May 3 at 8 p.m.
Orchestra Hall
Marie Jacquot, conductor
Hunter Eberly, trumpet
Having “played her way into the forefront of exciting young conductors,” (Dallas Morning News), Marie Jacquot leads imaginative works by French composers. Ravel interprets dances and fairy tales. Poulenc does the same with fables, adding “the characteristic mélange… that makes [his] voice so unmistakable.” (Gramophone). DSO Principal Trumpet Hunter Eberly adds his effortless sound to a high-wire showpiece by André Jolivet.
MAURICE RAVEL: Valses nobles et sentimentales
ANDRÉ JOLIVET: Concertino For Trumpet
FRANCIS POULENC: Les animaux modèles, Op.111
MAURICE RAVEL: Ma Mère l'Oye (Mother Goose) [complete ballet]
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About Marie Jacquot
Marie Jacquot has played her way to the forefront of exciting young conductors through numerous outstanding debuts with top-class orchestras, her consistent musical work, and her interest in exploring a wide-ranging repertoire.
Since the 2023–24 season, Jacquot has been Principal Guest Conductor of The Wiener Symphoniker, with whom she is also touring in addition to concerts at the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Vienna Musikverein, and the Bregenz Festival. Beginning with the 2024–25 season, she will also serve as Chief Conductor of the Royal Danish Theatre Copenhagen. From 2026–27 on, she will be Chief Conductor of the WDR Symphony Orchestra.
In autumn 2023, Jacquot conducted a new production of Eugene Onegin as guest conductor at the Copenhagen Opera and concerts with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and Dallas Symphony Orchestra, among others. Her debuts this season include a world premiere by Marc-André Dalbavie at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, as well as concerts with the Munich Philharmonic, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo.
Successful debuts and re-invitations of the past seasons include a.o. Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, the Symphony Orchestras of Bavarian Radio Munich, WDR Cologne, HR Frankfurt, and mdr Leipzig, as well as DSO Berlin, the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic, Malmö Symphony Orchestra, and Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne.
She has also conducted premieres and performances in a wide repertoire at prominent opera houses, including Semperoper Dresden (Eötvös's The Golden Dragon and Carmen), Staatsoper Stuttgart (Medée and Don Giovanni), Deutsche Oper Berlin (La traviata), Komische Oper Berlin (Thomas's Hamlet), Opéra National du Rhin Strasbourg (world premiere by Thierry Pécou), Flemish Opera Antwerp/Gent (Le nozze di Figaro) and Opéra National de Lorraine in Nancy (L'amour des trois oranges).
Between 2016 and 2019, Jacquot was First Kapellmeister and Deputy General Music Director in Würzburg. From 2019, she was First Kapellmeister at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf / Duisburg for three years, where she conducted the new productions of La Clemenza di Tito, Roméo et Juliette, and The Nutcracker, as well as concerts of Düsseldorfer Symphoniker and Duisburger Philharmoniker.
After studying trombone in Paris, Jacquot studied conducting in Vienna and Weimar, attended various master classes, and held a scholarship of the Conductors's Forum of the German Music Council. In 2016, she was assistant to Kirill Petrenko at the Bavarian State Opera for the world premiere of Miroslav Srnka's South Pole and subsequently conducted two productions of her own at the Munich Opera Festival.
Her awards include the "Ernst Schuch Prize" in 2019, as well as a nomination for "Newcomer of the year" at the International Opera Awards. In February 2024 she won the palm “Révélation / Chef d’orchestre” at the 31st “Victoires de la Musique Classique”.
About Hunter Eberly
The Principal Trumpet of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Hunter Eberly is a native of Muskegon, Michigan. Eberly started playing the trumpet at the age of eight under the tutelage of his mother, and he continued his studies in high school with Charley Lea of the Grand Rapids Symphony. He attended Grand Valley State University where he studied with Richard Stoelzel and earned a Bachelor of Music. Eberly continued his musical studies at The Colburn School in Los Angeles, California, studying with James Wilt of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and earning a Professional Studies Certificate.
Eberly has performed as guest Principal Trumpet with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec, the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Grand Rapids Symphony, and the Grand Teton Festival Orchestra. He has also served as principal trumpet of the Jacksonville Symphony and has performed and toured with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. In addition to classical music, Eberly enjoys playing many other genres. Most notably, he has performed with some of Motown’s greatest performers including Aretha Franklin, The Temptations, The 4 Tops, and Mary Wilson of The Supremes.
As a soloist, Eberly has performed numerous times with the DSO including concertos by Tomasi, Haydn, Arutunian, and Telemann. His 2016 performances of the John Williams Trumpet Concerto was recorded and released on the Naxos label.
Eberly has won several awards including first prize in the National Trumpet Competition Undergraduate Solo Competition, first prize in the National Trumpet Competition Trumpet Ensemble division, and second prize in the International Trumpet Guild Mock Orchestra Competition.
Eberly has a passion for education and has taught the trumpet studios at Michigan State University, Grand Valley State University, and the University of Michigan as a lecturer and guest professor. He has also given masterclasses and recitals at conservatories and universities throughout North America. Eberly and his wife Kim own Island Music LLC, a music studio located in Grosse Ile, MI. Island Music provides music lessons and classes to over 100 downriver Detroit students on a weekly basis. Eberly also maintains a small private teaching studio and regularly coaches college students and young professionals in preparation for auditions.
Eberly lives in Grosse Ile with his wife Kim, their two children, and two dogs. When he is not playing the trumpet, he enjoys archery, hunting, fishing, and being outdoors.
Eberly is a Yamaha Performing Artist.
About the DSO
The acclaimed Detroit Symphony Orchestra is known for trailblazing performances, collaborations with the world’s foremost musical artists, and a deep connection to its city. Led by Music Director Jader Bignamini since 2020, the DSO makes its home at historic Orchestra Hall within the Max M. and Marjorie S. Fisher Music Center, offering a robust performance schedule that features classical, pops, jazz, and family concerts, plus community performances. Enrico Lopez-Yañez was named Principal Pops Conductor in 2023, trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard serves as the orchestra’s Fred A. Erb Jazz Creative Director Chair, and Tabita Berglund began her tenure as Principal Guest Conductor in the 2024–25 season. A dedication to broadcast innovation and technology began in 1922, when the DSO became the first orchestra in the world to present a live radio broadcast of a concert and continues today with the groundbreaking Live from Orchestra Hall series of free webcasts.
The DSO’s distinguished history of recordings—many led by its renowned music directors—spans nearly a century, beginning with the orchestra’s first 78 rpm singles with Ossip Gabrilowitsch released on the Victrola label in 1928. A steady recording output has continued since then, with highlights including more than 20 releases with Paul Paray for Mercury’s Living Presence series, and 27 under the baton of Neeme Järvi, mostly on the Chandos label. In the 1970s, the DSO took part in the historic Black Composers Series for Columbia Records led by its then-Associate Conductor Paul Freeman and later made several acclaimed recordings with Antal Doráti for the Decca label. More recently, under the direction of Leonard Slatkin, the DSO recorded music by Rachmaninoff, Copland, and John Williams for the Naxos label, earning its first GRAMMY® nomination in 2017 for Copland’s Third Symphony / Three Latin American Sketches. The first recording with Jader Bignamini, of Wynton Marsalis’s Blues Symphony, will be released in 2025 on the Pentatone label.
Since its first school concerts a century ago, and particularly since the founding of the Civic Youth Ensembles in 1970, the DSO has been a national leader in bringing the benefits of music education to students, teachers, and families in Detroit and surrounding communities. The DSO remains committed to expanding its participation in the growth and well-being of Detroit through programs like its Detroit Neighborhood Initiative—cultural events co-created with community partners and residents—and Detroit Harmony, a promise to provide an instrument and instruction to any student in the city who wants to learn. With unwavering support from the people of Detroit, the DSO actively pursues a mission to impact lives through the power of unforgettable musical experiences.