Voice faculty Delores Ziegler and Kevin Short, joined by the Capital City Symphony, present an all-Bernstein program in honor of the Leonard Bernstein Centennial. This special vocal program includes the charming Arias and Barcarolles song cycle, and a semi-staged presentation of the one-act opera Trouble in Tahiti – the only work for which Bernstein wrote the words as well as the music.
Experience a program featuring the complete works for violin and piano and violin solo by Carl Nielsen. Part of a project to record the works for Naxos the program features violinist Hasse Borup and Andrew Staupe on piano.
IVÁN FISCHER is the founder and Music Director of the Budapest Festival Orchestra. He is also the Music Director of Berlin's Konzerthaus and Konzerthausorchester. From 2018 he will be the Artistic Director of the Vicenza Opera Festival. In recent years he has also gained reputation as a composer, with his works being performed in the United States, the Netherlands, Belgium, Hungary, Germany and Austria. Iván Fischer has directed a number of successful opera productions.
The student-run Gamer Symphony Orchestra is the first collegiate ensemble exclusively devoted to performing orchestral arrangements of video game music. It boasts a roster of 130 members and features the full instrumental and choral experience.
The Gamer Symphony Orchestra presents the Fall 2018 Small Ensemble Concert, a journey through the world of videogame music which showcases the talents of our musicians.
Join us for a UMD School of Music Wellness Seminar.
Join members of the Sphinx Virtuosi for an informal conversation with Richard Scerbo, director of the National Orchestra Institute + Festival at UMD.
Don't miss the performance: Sphinx Virtuosi (USA) at 3PM!
Join us before the concert to learn about the program in an interview with Richard Goode by Don Manildi, Curator of the International Piano Archives at Maryland.
Don't miss the performance: Richard Goode, piano at 8PM!
The Omer Quartet is a leader among today’s young string quartets. A top prize winner in the 2017 Paolo Borciani String Quartet Competition, finalist and prizewinner of the 2016 Bordeaux International Competition in France, and the 2013 Grand Prize and Gold Medal Winner of the 40th Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, the quartet has been praised for playing with a “sense of discovery and adventure, but also with considerable finesse.”
Haydn quartet Op. 50 No. 5
Written over several years starting in 1934, Kurt Weill’s immense oratorio, The Road of Promise, was born from the darkness of the world in the 1930’s. Set during the “timeless night of Israel’s persecution,” a congregation seeks shelter in the synagogue, turning to their Rabbi who recounts iconic stories from Jewish scripture. We see the effect these accounts have on two individuals at vastly different points in their life, the 13-year old boy and the Adversary. As we travel through these narratives, we witness and experience a transformation that points their way forward.
