High School Choir Invitational

At this annual concert, now in its 16th year, talented local high school choirs take the stage alongside UMD choral students. Join in for a sneak peek at the future of choral music.

UMD Chamber Jazz

Experience the soulful, syncopated sounds of jazz in this lively concert. Featuring classic tunes, plus original works by UMD alumni and current students. Attend both nights—each performance features a different program.

UMWO featuring Sarah Frisof, flute

Featuring UMD School of Music flute faculty member Sarah Frisof in two solo works, one of which was written for her. The program also includes a world premiere by prominent composer Stephen Jaffe, commissioned as part of the UMD Wind Orchestra's 10th anniversary celebration.

Program:

George Walker: Lyric

Joel Puckett: Shadow of Sirius with Sarah Frisof, flute

Strauss and Frank: UMD Symphony Orchestra

Under the baton of interim music director José-Luis Novo, the UMD Symphony Orchestra presents Mozart's Overture to The Abduction from the Seraglio, Gabriela Lena Frank's Three Latin American Dances and Strauss' Death and Transfiguration.

UMoves: Undergraduate Dance Concert

Encouraged to nurture their authentic artistic voices, undergraduate dance students from the UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies set new works of art into motion in this concert of original choreography. Paired with faculty and graduate student mentors and in collaboration with student designers, these short works span multiple dance styles and are as diverse as the students themselves.

Chamber Singers Spring Choral Showcase

The internationally acclaimed University of Maryland Chamber Singers will offer a program of choral masterworks highlighting a cappella music from the late 19th, and early 20th centuries. The concert will include the virtuosic and rarely performed Friede auf Erden by Arnold Schönberg, Five Choral Songs, op. 104 by Johannes Brahms (his final choral compositions), and the set of Three Motets, op.

Dancenorth/Lucy Guerin Inc./Senwaya

Two of the world's leading dance companies, Dancenorth and Lucy Guerin Inc. collaborate with tour-de-force Indonesian music duo Senyawa in this cross-cultural event. Drawing influences from both Indonesian folk ritual idioms and western metal bands, Senyawa's unusual sound reinvents the Javanese spiritual tradition of entering trance through dance and music by fusing hand-made electric string instruments with operatic melodies, metal vocals and contemporary choreography.

Annual Pops Concert

Enjoy a mix of standards, contemporary hits arranged for band, Broadway tunes, American songbook classics and more at this annual celebration of pops music. Showcasing the lighter side of classical music, it’s been an audience favorite for more than four decades.

Program:

University Band

Alfred Reed's The Hounds of Spring

Aaron Copland's Variations on a Shaker Melody

Percy Grainger's The “Gum-suckers" March

John Philip Sousa's Manhattan Beach

The Heidi Chronicles

In this witty, amusing and heartfelt coming-of-age story, Heidi Holland grows up before our eyes. Starting out as a bright, idealistic college student of the 1960s, the world around her rapidly changes. With feminist guiding principles, she strives to build a fulfilling life and is forced to confront, through her work, friendship and relationships, the true cost of “having it all.”

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