Violinist Blaise Sytsma-Reed, the 2025 winner of the Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra's annual Young Artist Competition, will be performing with the orchestra this weekend.
She is a senior at Charlevoix High School and studies with David Reimer in the Dorothy Gerber Strings Program.
Blaise visited IPR's Studio A to play her winning piece, the first movement of Lalo’s Symphonie Espagnole, with collaborative pianist Ya-Ju Chuang.
She spoke about how she balances music, sports, academics and life. She also talked about her eclectic musical tastes.
Blaise Sytsma-Reed will be featured with the Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra on Saturday, Oct. 11 at 7 p.m. The concert takes place at Great Lakes Center for the Arts in Bay Harbor.
Jack Conners engineered this edition of Studio A.
Additional help came from Isabel Li and Scott Clemens.
