School of Music student artists perform a moving collection of chamber music repertoire for strings, woodwinds, brass and piano. The culmination of rehearsal and coaching during the spring semester, this concert is an integral part of coursework for UMD School of Music students and provides a glimpse into the training they receive for performing in major ensembles.
The UMD jazz ensembles give a lively concert that features jazz standards and premieres of pieces by UMD alumni and current jazz students.
As part of her residency at the School of Music, leading American soprano Tamara Wilson joins UMSO and guest conductor Matthew Halls for Strauss's Four Last Songs. Halls also leads UMSO in the Overture to Don Giovanni and Brahms's Symphony No. 2.
Poulenc’s Aubade, originally composed as a ballet about women’s solitary experiences, features faculty piano soloist Rita Sloan. Zhou Long’s Concerto for Wind Symphony evokes ancient Chinese rituals and sounds in a tour-de-force for the ensemble, contrasted by Stravinsky's Octet for Winds, a neoclassical masterpiece.
Premiered in 1957, Poulenc's opera explores religious devotion and self-sacrifice through the story of Blanche de la Force, a young aristocratic woman who joins the Carmelite Order to escape the violence of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror.
The opera will be performed in French with English surtitles.
Experience the sights, sounds, and rhythms of Korean percussion — Samulnori!
Samulnori is an ensemble of four percussion instruments: an hourglass drum, a barrel drum, a small gong and a large gong. This exhilarating contemporary form of Korean music will be performed by the UMD Korean Percussion Ensemble. In addition, director Sebastian Wang will be accompanied by trained professionals who will perform some of the great repertoire of Samulnori.
Simon James is joined by faculty pianist Rita Sloan for a program of works by Schnittke, Schumann and Mozart.
In 2017, the world celebrates the 500th anniversary of the symbolic start of the Reformation, when Luther nailed his famous 95 theses to the door of All Saints Church in Wittenburg. Cappella 500th anniversary of the symbolic start of the Reformation, when Luther nailed his famous 95 theses to the door of All Saints Church in Wittenburg. Cappella Pratensis marks this year with a program devoted to the very first music of the Protestant movement. The program will show that Luther retained much more of the liturgical and musical tradition than is normally assumed.
One of the most compelling and exciting young jazz artists ushering the genre into groundbreaking new territory is trumpeter and band leader Etienne Charles. In this performance, he buoyantly taps into a myriad of styles rooted in his Afro-Caribbean background and explores the musical depths of the islands, from calypso to Haitian voodoo music. Also in the jazz amalgam mix are rock steady, reggae, belair, kongo, rock, Motown and R&B.
