Eliot
Heaton
Concertmaster
Michigan Opera Theatre
Des Moines Metro Opera
Saginaw Bay Symphony
N E W S
August 2020
The Bloomington Trio's recording of David Baker's Roots II has been released. Find it here or on your favorite streaming platform.
June 2020
Eliot is currently accepting new students for the '20-'21 year. Lessons are taught online or at his home in Ann Arbor MI.
August 2019
Eliot has earned tenure as Concertmaster of the Des Moines Metro Opera, a summer opera company "at the forefront of operatic excellence in America."(Opera Today)
F E A T U R E D R E V I E W S
"he not only possesses a lofty level of technique, he’s a musician of sensitivity and courage. "
Bloomington Herald Times
"a poignant performance..with moving innocence"
Terre Haute Tribune Star
EVENTS AND PERFORMANCES
Friday August 21 at 1pm. As we celebrate our 85th Anniversary, we continue its’ spirit of community as well as share the joy that music brings the Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra introduces Music Around the City- Orchestra Pop-Ups. The pop-ups are a series of outdoor mini 20-minute performances by the Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra musicians to honor our community’s front line and essential workers as well as give back a little joy during these stressful times.
Friday August 21 at 6pm. Michigan Opera Theatre in partnership with Detroit Parks & Recreation presents Opera In The Park. Enjoy a free one-hour performance from members of our MOT Studio and MOT Touring Ensemble, including an accessible mix of favorites from Opera, Broadway and the American Songbook!
Saturday October 24. Our virtual concert opens with the well-known Adagio for organ and strings by Italian Baroque composer Albinoni. Then follows a vigorous Concerto for String Orchestra by Polish composer Grazyna Bacewicz, which she wrote in 1948, and the concert ends with one of Mozart’s best loved pieces for orchestra, his Symphony no. 40 in G minor.
Khatchaturian Concerto
On February 13, 2021 join the SBSO on a memorable concert featuring Berlioz’s monumental programmatic work: Symphonie Fantastique! This symphony was described by Leonard Bernstein as “the first musical expedition into psychedelia because of its hallucinatory and dream-like nature”. The concert also includes Khachaturian’s exciting violin concerto featuring SBSO concertmaster, Eliot Heaton.
In lieu of an in-person festival, Des Moines Metro Opera is teaming up with our friends at Iowa PBS to share online and televised presentations of our recent productions of Billy Budd, Rusalka, Manon, Le Comte Ory and Bon Appétit! These broadcasts will serve as the centerpieces of our transformed 2020 Virtual Festival and will be supplemented by artist recitals, cast reunions, interviews, prelude talks, and digital versions of annual DMMO events. To share these fantastic productions with audiences around the world is the realization of a long-held dream.
Michigan Opera Theatre's online source for performances, discussions, and online musical activities.
Eliot and his wife Ran Cheng make premier recordings of violin duos for the American Composers Alliance. Recordings include Leon Stein's Sonatina and Edward Jacob's On Balance.
Stay tuned to this channel for recorded content. There are many new videos coming out during the Covid quarantine.