Kronos Quartet’s ongoing residency at the Center includes working closely with composition students in the UMD School of Music.
Each season Kronos works with selected young student composers in creating new works, refining the pieces for maximum musical impact and presenting initial readings of the works in a public event.
Varied repertoire and high-quality performances have earned this annual event a loyal following.
Spirit and spectacle combine in a two-hour extravaganza of the finest wind repertoire plus the ever-popular Mighty Sound of Maryland Marching Band.
A recital in two parts featuring the music of traditional composers influenced by the jazz idiom, including works by David Heinick, Larry Bell and Aaron Copland.
The second half features the UMD School of Music’s jazz faculty performing music by Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, Dave Brubeck and Thelonius Monk.
Proceeds from Music in Mind concerts benefit the School of Music’s undergraduate scholarship fund.
In Time of Roses is a sexy, fast-paced, political thriller, based on the true story of Margaret of Anjou, a woman forced to lead an army to save her family.
Most of the play’s text was taken directly from William Shakespeare’s Henry VI trilogy and from his sonnets.
This concert showcases exceptional ensembles of the UMD School of Music’s chamber music program, as selected by faculty.
Join us for a class with Kenny Clay, Executive Chef of Clyde’s of Gallery Place, focusing on holiday culinary traditions in communities of the African Diaspora.
You’ll have a chance to ask questions, taste samples and share recipes in this fun, family-friendly event that will be presented in two branches of the Prince George’s County Memorial Library System, just in time for December holidays!
The UMD School of Music’s premier chamber ensembles, Aeolus String Quartet and SIREN Woodwind Quintet, have swiftly gained renown for their artistry.
They share the stage for an afternoon of shimmering French repertoire, including Ravel’s String Quartet and Poulenc's Sextuor featuring faculty artist Bradford Gowen at the piano.
Proceeds from Music in Mind concerts benefit the School of Music’s undergraduate scholarship fund.
The quiet beauty, simplicity and harmonizing effect of Japanese nature are revealed in the music of the UMD Koto Ensemble.
Then the complex interlocking rhythms of Balinese music on percussive instruments, the myriad expressions and the delicate motions of Balinese dance unite in the UMD Gamelan Saraswati.
Todd Rundgren was at the top of the pop charts in the early 1970s with his inventive work as a solo rock artist and later branched out to become a sought-after producer for major rock groups. He continues to expand his artistic scope with new ideas and new projects. In 2005 the contemporary string quartet ETHEL, an ensemble acclaimed by Andante.com as “…a mighty amplified force, with style, breadth, power, chops, and rock ’n roll spirit,” teamed up with Rundgren for a tour of the United States and Europe.
Sarah Ruhl’s 2008 play finds comedy in the most unlikely of circumstances: a romance between a young woman and a dead man carried out via his still-active cell phone.
Mousy Jean becomes irate when her solitary lunch is interrupted by the insistent ringing of a nearby diner’s cell phone and in an uncharacteristic fit of boldness, she approaches him only to find that his ringing phone is the only spark of life he has left.
