Diametrically Composed is a collection of newly commissioned works featuring flute, voice and piano exploring the duality of being a mother and an artist. Performed by Allison Loggins-Hull, Alicia Hall Moran and Gabriela Martinez, it features compositions by Loggins-Hull, Moran, Jessica Meyer and Sarah Kirkland Snider.
Lauded as “technically fearless with...an enormous, rich sound” (La Scena Musicale), pianist Michelle Cann made her orchestral debut at age fourteen and has since performed as a soloist with numerous orchestras including The Philadelphia Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra.
Michael Votta, Jr., music director
Clarice Assad, vocalist and guest composer
James Stern, violin
Join us for a special UMD Wind Orchestra performance featuring the talented Clarice Assad. This program will highlight works written by Assad, including a piece arranged by UMWO’s very own Michael Votta, Jr.! Assad will also perform with UMWO as a vocalist in a work that highlights the current desperate plight of the Amazon region in her native Brazil.
Michael Votta, Jr., music director
Clarice Assad, vocalist and guest composer
James Stern, violin
Join us for a special UMD Wind Orchestra performance featuring the talented Clarice Assad. This program will highlight works written by Assad, including a piece arranged by UMWO’s very own Michael Votta, Jr.! Assad will also perform with UMWO as a vocalist in a work that highlights the current desperate plight of the Amazon region in her native Brazil.
Craig Kier, conductor
Guest conductor, Craig Kier leads the University of Maryland Symphony Orchestra and School of Music alumni, current students, and faculty in a performance of selections that celebrate the breadth of operatic composers and the stories they tell.
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier De Saint-Georges: Overture from Anonymous Lover
Vivaldi: "Gelido in ogni vena” from Farnace
John Holiday, countertenor
Craig Kier, conductor
Guest conductor, Craig Kier leads the University of Maryland Symphony Orchestra and School of Music alumni, current students, and faculty in a performance of selections that celebrate the breadth of operatic composers and the stories they tell.
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier De Saint-Georges: Overture from Anonymous Lover
Vivaldi: "Gelido in ogni vena” from Farnace
John Holiday, countertenor
By Jacklyn Backhaus
Co-Directed by KenYatta Rogers and Elena Velasco
Works by Brit Falcon, Mary Kate Ford and Rebecca Steinberg
The Spring M.F.A Dance Thesis Concert showcases stunning and provocative choreography by M.F.A candidates in the UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies.
A tap dance and live music company that blurs the line between concert dance and music performance, Music From The Sole celebrates tap's roots in the African diaspora, particularly its connections to Afro-Brazilian dance and music and its lineage to forms like house dance and passinho (Brazilian funk). The New Yorker notes that the group’s “dancers, whose bodies also provide percussion, are in a constant give-and-take with musicians on piano, sax and bass. The feeling is that of being at a family reunion, in which every family member has something to say.”
