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HSMA: Horn Seminar

Join UMD Horn Professor Greg Miller for an exciting look at every aspect of horn playing: the instrument's history, keys to successful practice and work/life balance, solo playing and ensemble. Horn players of all ages and abilities are welcome. 

Powerful: Be The Best YOU Possible!

Adagio Dance presents Powerful, a dramatic dance presentation. Using contemporary, ballet, hip hop and modern styles of dance, Powerful's inspirational message of hope spurs self and spiritual motivation, leaving you encouraged to transcend to the best version of yourself!

HSMA: Double Reed Seminar

Professors Mark Hill (oboe), Fei Xie (bassoon) and Erich Heckscher (bassoon) welcome you to the UMD School of Music for an afternoon of all things double reed! This event is free and open to musicians and music enthusiasts of all ages. 

  • 1–1:55PM: Recital featuring UMD double reed faculty and students in Gildenhorn Recital Hall. 
  • 2–2:25PM: Q & A discussion
  • 2:30–4:25PM: Bassoon and Oboe Masterclasses 
  • 4:30–5PM: Group play-in (in Gildenhorn Recital Hall)

Second Season: Flint by LaTefia Bradley, Another Side of You by Allen Chunhui Xing, and Akwantuo: The Journey by Mustapha Braimah

Flint

By LaTefia Bradley

Flint is a dance work that addresses the Flint Water Crises. This liberating and thought-provoking choreography combines visual art and dance, and shows images of the people of Flint, Michigan in order to draw attention to a problem that is not only happening in Flint, but all around the United States. 

Another Side of You

by Allen Chunhui Xing

Another Side of You explores the inner struggles that many face conforming to society expectations.

Second Season: Shared Graduate Dance Concert

Featuring provocative choreography by Master of Fine Arts students in dance, serving as an unguarded exploration of these young artists' talents and interests.

This concert focuses on new works in development. As the first opportunity for them to put material onstage and see what develops, it often contains the seeds of movement ideas that will be featured in their MFA Thesis programs.

Second Season: The Weeping Philosophers: An evening of new work by Mark Costello and Kelly Colburn

My Life Has Been Like Water By Mark Costello

This multimedia project uses a live video loop that explores time as an architectural object; something to be controlled, built, expanded and repeated. Time as if it is poured like water: endless, flowing, emotional, momentous, pure.

untitled homage to my twenties in new york city  By Kelly Colburn

Second Season: Goldfish by Shuping Yang and B.W.A. Black Women Anonymous by Whitney Geohagan and April Monu

The Goldfish

By Shuping Yang, Directed by Olivia Brann

Enter the mind of a Chinese son, "the golden child," as he struggles between traditional Confucian values and Western notions of individuality. When his cousin Li Yi visits him the night before his wedding, Xiao Zhong is faced with a series of life changing decisions that will affect his family, his relationships, and his future. Is he really free? Or is he just a goldfish stuck in a bowl?

 

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