Renegade Series: William Brittelle "Exploring the Infinite Palette: The Philosophical, Sociological, and Practical Implications of the Post-Genre Musical Landscape"

Renegade is a school-wide series of recitals, masterclasses, and talks that seek to empower us in forging unique and innovative career paths by bringing to campus the most creative minds in our field. Whether seasoned professionals or young entrepreneurs, Renegade speakers are influential thinkers who have ploughed musical paths beyond the concert hall and touched lives in powerful and expressive ways. 

U.S. Marine Band: A Symphonic Epic

This program features two very different but equally epic symphonies, including Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 3. The 35-minute first movement is a miniature symphony in and of itself and will be performed in transcription on this concert along with the transformative Finale of the entire work. The first half of the program features composer Johan de Meij's dramatic and colorful Symphony No. 1 inspired by The Lord of the Rings books by J.R.R. Tolkien.

Creative Spirits Series: Libation Liberation

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 Performance

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 Concert

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.

Benefit for Music for Food: Omer Quartet

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.

Petrushka Returns

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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Pops Extravaganza: Bernstein at 100

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 StoryCandideOn the Town and more!

Orchestra Unbound

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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