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Anthony de Mare: Masterclass

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.

Big Band Pre-Halloween Scream

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!

Alma Adentro: The Puerto Rican Songbook

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

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.

UMSO Concerto Competition Finals

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. 

New Music at Maryland

New works, as well as breathing new life into music, give young instrumentalists and singers the opportunity to learn from living composers, collaborate with them and gain insight into the compositional process.

This concert features original works by UMD student composers, including solo, chamber and electroacoustic performances. 

Meanings of Shakespeare and Asia Today

In this illustrated presentation, Professor Huang explores the unique challenges and rewards of touring Shakespeare productions, drawing on several cases of Asian adaptations at the World Shakespeare Festival at the London Globe during the London Olympics in summer 2012.

Hasan Elahi, Storyteller

Hasan Elahi

HASAN ELAHI, Media Artist, UMD Professor of Digital Media

I work in a field where I don’t really know what field I work in. And I’m okay with that. I’m fascinated by work that challenges my ideas and my preconceived notions, things that really take me out of a comfort zone. I’m okay with just being an artist. It allows me to jump from place to place to place to place to place, or from content to content, without having to categorize what kind of response people should have to what it is that I do.

Hearing Kronos Quartet really made me rethink what music is.

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David C. Driskell, Storyteller

David C. Driskell

DAVID C. DRISKELL, Artist and Art Historian

It was 1964 and, as a young professor at Howard University in the Department of Art, I had a grant to travel to Europe. It was my first visit to Europe; I started out in Greece. And I wanted to recount some of my classical education, specifically Greek theater, so I went to the amphitheater at the base of the Acropolis to see a performance of The Birds by Aristophanes.

…the arts are universal. 
They move beyond barriers…

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