Jacob Collier & Chris Thile—live with the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra
Experience an evening of magic as two GRAMMY® Award-winning maestros – singer-songwriter, musician, composer, and producer Jacob Collier and virtuosic mandolinist, singer, and songwriter Chris Thile – come together to perform with the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Suzie Collier, for a one-night-only Ann Arbor exclusive!
Expect an evening of sumptuous orchestral arrangements from the depths of Collier and Thile’s extensive discographies, enrapturing musical duels, classical ‘classics’ with a twist, and a splash of audience and orchestral improvisation for good measure.
Tuesday, October 21, 2025 | 7:30 PM | Hill Auditorium (825 N University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109)
Jacob Collier
Chris Thile
Suzie Collier, guest conductor
Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra
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Presented with support from the U-M Arts Initiative and Center for World Performance Studies within the School of Music, Theatre & Dance.
Jacob Collier
Beloved by audiences, musicians and critics the world over, and heralded as one of the most groundbreaking artists of the 21st century, singer-songwriter, producer, arranger & multi-instrumentalist and world-builder Jacob Collier hastaken the music industry by storm. With a depth and imaginatory infinity that is beyond question, Jacob plays, writes and communicates with a human warmth, openness and drastic inclusivity that melts hearts, explodes minds, and inspires millions.
Described as “the colourful Mozart of Gen Z” by the New York Times, his radically joyous and genre-bridging
discography has led to seven GRAMMY wins and 15 GRAMMY nominations, making him the first British artist in
history to win at least one Grammy for each of his first 5 studio albums. His fearless approach to music has attracted a plethora of 100+ collaborators, including Coldplay, SZA, Shawn Mendes, John Mayer, Stormzy, Kirk Franklin, Tori Kelly, Anoushka Shankar, Quincy Jones, Oumou Sangaré, Hans Zimmer and Joni Mitchell.
Whether it’s writing songs in keys that don’t exist, breaking track-count limits in DAWs, or bringing 100,000 people together in improvised song – Jacob continues to push the boundaries of what’s creatively possible, with the mission of uniting and inspiring human beings across every continent of the world in a language beyond words. All the while, he is brewing up his next adventure. Whatever next? Only time will tell…
Chris Thile
Acclaimed Grammy Award-winning mandolinist, singer, songwriter, composer, and MacArthur Fellow recipient of the prestigious “Genius Grant”, Chris Thile is a multifaceted musical talent, described by The Guardian as “that rare being: an all-round musician,” and hailed by NPR as a “genre-defying musical genius.” Thile is a founding member of the highly influential string bands Punch Brothers and Nickel Creek, and has collaborated with countless luminaries from Yo-Yo Ma to Fiona Apple to Brad Mehldau. For four years, Thile hosted public radio favorite Live from Here with Chris Thile (formerly known as A Prairie Home Companion). With his broad outlook, Thile creates a distinctly American canon and a new musical aesthetic for performers and audiences alike, giving the listener “one joyous arc, with the linear melody and vertical harmony blurring into a single web of gossamer beauty” (New York Times).
Over the last year, Thile has been touring with Nickel Creek in support of the critically acclaimed 2023 release Celebrants, and captivating audiences with a playfully ambitious biographical composition entitled ATTENTION! (a narrative song cycle for extroverted mandolinist and orchestra). Additionally, he has been focused on the production of a new musical variety show, “The Energy Curfew Music Hour.” Created with Claire Coffee and featuring Punch Brothers, season one is available on Audible and all podcasting platforms. Most recently, Chris debuted a new one-man show “The Manhattan Variations” in NYC’s Little Island about finding oneself in a little cocktail bar on the Lower East Side.