In this concert, the musicians lead each other, performing challenging chamber orchestra repertoire without a conductor.
The National Orchestral Institute and Festival (NOI) brings together talented young musicians at the beginning of their careers for a month of professional development and music-making.
Chosen by a rigorous, cross-country audition process, NOI participants quickly coalesce into dynamic ensembles that perform adventuresome programming.
The county’s best middle school spellers vie for top honors and the opportunity to advance to the national bee.
Presented in collaboration with The Gazette & The Star.
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 and will be perform some of the great repertoire of Samulnori. All are invited to come and enjoy this great event.
Dubbed in one review as “a social crusader for the new millennium,” award-winning journalist and author Eric Schlosser discusses the controversial and alarming state of public health, agriculture and the food industry in America.
Schlosser is producer of the critically acclaimed documentary FOOD, Inc. and author of Fast Food Nation, selected by TIME magazine as one of the top 100 non-fiction books of all time.
The University Band and Community Band share an evening of traditional and contemporary wind band music.
Conducted by Director of Bands Emeritus, Professor John Wakefield, and UMD Assistant Director of Bands, Eli R. Osterloh, this concert will be an exciting evening for the whole family!
Children and adults who are thinking of starting to play an instrument are sure to be inspired.
Pianist Anthony de Mare will conduct a piano masterclass with select students from the UMD School of Music in advance of his Friday, September 21 performance of Liaisons: Re-imagining Sondheim from the Piano.
In this informal noontime event, open to the public, he will share his experience in working with composers for his Liaisons project and will answer questions from the audience before hearing the students play contemporary music including The Devil’s Staircase by György Ligeti.
A “spirited” evening of spine-tingling performances by the UMD Jazz Ensemble, UMD Jazz Lab Band and University Jazz Band is the hallmark of this annual favorite.
Things will go bump in the night!
Fusing music from various genres can be a tricky feat that can result in guff.
Join us in a lively conversation with Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellow Miguel Zenón of SFJAZZ Collective on his recently released jazz album, Alma Adentro: The Puerto Rican Songbook.
In the Red and Brown Water, the first work in Tarell Alvin McCraney’s The Brother/Sister Plays trilogy, draws on folk tales, Yoruba mythology and contemporary poets and playwrights to tell a coming-of-age story set in a Louisiana bayou housing project.
The main character, Oya, is a teenage sprinter looking for a way out of her limited circumstances. McCraney’s spare, muscular language and inventive approach elevates Oya’s ordinary life — and the lives of those around her — into a semi-mythic story of universally shared human experience.
In the final round of the annual competition, students compete for the opportunity to perform as soloists with the UMD Symphony Orchestra.
Finalists perform 15- to 20-minute excerpts of a concerto or concert piece for an independent jury panel.
the jury’s deliberation, a winner, runner-up and second runner-up will be announced.
