Michelle Cann, piano
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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.
Clarice Assad: UMD Wind Orchestra • LIVESTREAM
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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.
Clarice Assad: UMD Wind Orchestra • IN-PERSON
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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.
Beginnings—Overtures to the New Year: UMD Symphony Orchestra • LIVESTREAM
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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.
PROGRAM
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier De Saint-Georges: Overture from Anonymous Lover
Vivaldi: "Gelido in ogni vena” from Farnace
John Holiday, countertenor
Beginnings—Overtures to the New Year: UMD Symphony Orchestra • IN-PERSON
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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.
PROGRAM
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier De Saint-Georges: Overture from Anonymous Lover
Vivaldi: "Gelido in ogni vena” from Farnace
John Holiday, countertenor
Men on Boats
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By Jacklyn Backhaus
Co-Directed by KenYatta Rogers and Elena Velasco
Spring M.F.A Dance Thesis Concert
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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.
Music From The Sole: I Didn't Come to Stay
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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.”
Fables and Fantasies: UMD Symphony Orchestra • IN-PERSON
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David Neely, music director
Teri Bickham, soprano
Witness spellbinding stories about bustling marketplaces, majestic palaces, ancient mythological creatures and a soul's journey through darkness into divine light in this enchanting performance by the UMD Symphony Orchestra. Each of the pieces presented tells its own story, exploring mythos and legends from across the world.