First-year Maryland Opera Studio (MOS) students demonstrate their talent in this showcase featuring duet scenes from a wide operatic repertory. To keep the focus on beautiful, pure sounds and vivid acting, the performance is accompanied only by piano and minimal props.

MOS is dedicated to the future of opera. Preparing the next generation of great singers and offering performances ranging from the classic repertoire to provocative new works, MOS is building audiences and advancing the art that sustains them.

UPDATE: Due to the potential for passing showers this evening, for the comfort of guests and performers, and the safety of instruments and equipment, tonight's Jazz Showcase will be played inside in the Dekelboum Concert Hall.

Unfortunately, this means we must ask you to leave the picnic baskets and blankets at home, as no food or drink is permitted in our indoor venues. The Encore bar in the Grand Pavilion will be open beginning at 4:30PM if you would like to join us for a drink before the concert.

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In this combined concert, the UMD School of Music choral ensembles share the stage, offering a program of eclectic repertoire ranging from Renaissance madrigals to barbershop arrangements.

This annual concert features music played on the koto, a traditional Japanese 13-string instrument. Known as sōkyoku, koto music highlights the quiet beauty, simplicity and harmonizing effect of Japanese nature.

DJ Kid Koala shares an innovative collection of dreamy, atmospheric tracks and invites every audience member to contribute to his fluid stream of sounds through mini turntable stations with color-coded custom vinyl and effects processors provided at each table. The Artist Partner Program brings you the new Speed of Sound Sessions (S.O.S.), a celebration of musicians who support and promote composers whose work was created in the 21st century and who respond to the contemporary world in which we live. The S.O.S.