Skip your standard happy hour! Presented in partnership with Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, this series offers a unique opportunity to try your hand at various art forms in a low-pressure, relaxed environment. Bring a friend, grab a drink and get creative!
OperaTerps is the University of Maryland's first student run opera company, providing undergraduate musicians the opportunity to take part in a major musical undertaking while enriching cultural life on campus and in the College Park community.
This season, we are producing Gilbert and Sullivan's one-act gem, "Trial by Jury”, and Georg Philipp Telemann’s rarely performed comic story in the Italian and French baroque styles, “Don Quichotte”, as a historically informed performance with strings and harpsichord!
Wavelength Winds brings to the stage some of the most beautiful repertoire written for wind ensembles with August Klughardt's Quintett, op. 79, Fazil Say's Woodwind Quintet, op.35, Alevi Dedeler Rakı Masasında and Theodor Blumer's Schweizer Quintett.
Renowned pianist and pedagogue, Yale University professor Boris Berman presents a masterclass for UMD students as part of the Piano Division Master Classes & Lecture Series.
Omer Quartet, the School of Music's Fellowship Quartet is pleased to host its second Music for Food Concert to benefit the UMD Campus Pantry. The concert will explore the intimate chamber music of the early works of Shostakovich and Mendelssohn. Professor Kenneth Slowik will open the evening with a harpsichord performance of a chromatic fantasy and fugue by Bach.
The National Orchestral Institute + Festival revives Doug Fitch's groundbreaking production of Stravinsky's Petrushka first created in 2008 at the University of Maryland and later seen in performances by the New York Philharmonic. The ballet score is infused with orchestra participation, puppeteers, live video, and much more.
Program:
Paul Dukas: The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances
Igor Stravinsky: Petrushka (1911)
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John Morris Russell returns to lead the National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic in the opening concert of the 2018 festival. This spectacular evening pays homage to the great American composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein as part of Leonard Bernstein at 100, a two-year global celebration of the life and career of the 20th century cultural giant with more than 2,000 events on six continents. Hear selections from West Side Story, Candide, On the Town and more!
Strings, woodwinds, brass and percussion - all the sections of the orchestra unbound and heard in vibrant works that showcase their color and virtuosity.
Program includes:
Antonín Dvořák: Serenade for Strings
Henri Tomasi: Fanfares Liturgiques for Brass Ensemble
Emile Bernard: Divertissement for Wind Instruments
with James Stern and Nicholas Platoff, conductors
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Combining the demands of chamber music with orchestral performance, the musicians of NOI lead each other, performing chamber orchestra repertoire without a conductor.
Program:
Benjamin Britten: Suite on English Folk Songs
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 9
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 2
with Sara Daneshpour, piano
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In our continuing celebration of Leonard Bernstein at 100, James Judd conducts Bernstein's Songfest which was written as a tribute to the 1976 American Bicentennial and premiered in Washington, DC. Combining poetry from the likes of Frank O'Hara, Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, and Gertrude Stein, the work draws a picture of America's past as seen through the eyes of an artist.
