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. 

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!

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.

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.

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 Story, Candide, On the Town and more!