The student-run Gamer Symphony Orchestra is the first collegiate ensemble exclusively devoted to performing orchestral arrangements of video game music. It boasts a roster of 130 members and features the full instrumental and choral experience.
The Gamer Symphony Orchestra presents the Fall 2018 Small Ensemble Concert, a journey through the world of videogame music which showcases the talents of our musicians.
Join us for a UMD School of Music Wellness Seminar.
Join members of the Sphinx Virtuosi for an informal conversation with Richard Scerbo, director of the National Orchestra Institute + Festival at UMD.
Don't miss the performance: Sphinx Virtuosi (USA) at 3PM!
Join us before the concert to learn about the program in an interview with Richard Goode by Don Manildi, Curator of the International Piano Archives at Maryland.
Don't miss the performance: Richard Goode, piano at 8PM!
The Omer Quartet is a leader among today’s young string quartets. A top prize winner in the 2017 Paolo Borciani String Quartet Competition, finalist and prizewinner of the 2016 Bordeaux International Competition in France, and the 2013 Grand Prize and Gold Medal Winner of the 40th Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, the quartet has been praised for playing with a “sense of discovery and adventure, but also with considerable finesse.”
Haydn quartet Op. 50 No. 5
Written over several years starting in 1934, Kurt Weill’s immense oratorio, The Road of Promise, was born from the darkness of the world in the 1930’s. Set during the “timeless night of Israel’s persecution,” a congregation seeks shelter in the synagogue, turning to their Rabbi who recounts iconic stories from Jewish scripture. We see the effect these accounts have on two individuals at vastly different points in their life, the 13-year old boy and the Adversary. As we travel through these narratives, we witness and experience a transformation that points their way forward.
Join students from the UMD School of Music for an oboe masterclass with Nancy Ambrose King.
Neguinho da Beija-Flor is bringing the energy of Rio’s samba carnival festivities to the USA! Neguinho is perhaps the most iconic and charismatic samba parade singers from Rio de Janeiro.
Brazilian Violin Trio brings together three of the most innovative instrumentalists on the contemporary Brazilian musical scene. Andrew Finn Magill and Ted Falcon are both multi-genre American violinists who after years of living in Brazil have become ambassadors of the growing Brazilian violin movement. Rounding out the trio is Brazilian guitarist Nando Duarte, a giant of the contemporary Brazilian music scene and an award-winning composer and arranger.
