Performance of music by Brahms, Finzi, Donizetti, Landini, and Tagliaferri-Berzola

1pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall
Admission is free

4-5pm in Fine Arts Building room 011.

The Department of Music presents the Opera Workshop under the direction of Cantor Thom King. The program will feature scenes and arias by Mozart ("Le Nozze di Figaro" and "Don Giovanni"), Rossini ("Cinderella"), Offenbach ("The Tales of Hoffman"), Gilbert and Sullivan ("The Mikado") and more!

7:30 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free.

Have you ever looked at a work of art and wondered “What would that sound like?” Or, while listening to music, think “What would that look like?”

UMBC’s student composers and members of the New Music Ensemble are debuting a new concert series that explores the visual and aural results of creative inspiration. Join us for a concert of new compositions inspired by works in the current exhibit Image Transfer: Pictures in a Remix Culture at the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture. Each 1-2 minute piece, performed by faculty and members of the New Music Ensemble, will take place in front of the photo that inspired it. Interspersed will be electro-acoustic works by students and faculty from the project 60 in 60. Please come and experience this exciting and unique performance but be prepared – each piece will be over in a blink of the eye.

The Department of Music presents the UMBC Symphony Orchestra under the direction of E. Michael Richards.

The program will feature:

• Sibelius's Symphony No. 5
• Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 4 in D Major, K. 218
• a concerto for double bass by Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf

7:30 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free.

The Department of Music presents the UMBC Camerata under the direction of Stephen Caracciolo.

8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free.

The program will feature the following works:

In the Italian Language
Amor Vittorioso - Giovanni Gastoldi
Lasciatemi morire - Claudio Monteverdi
Vita de la mia vita - William Hawley
Va Pensiero - Giuseppe Verdi

Carols of the Season
Wassail Song - Ralph Vaughn Williams
Some Children See Him - Alfred Burt
Carol of the Bells - Mykola Leontovich
Sans Day Carol - Stephen Caracciolo
People Look East - Stephen Caracciolo

Carmina Burana - Carl Orff
Camerata performs a lengthy suite of movements from Carl Orff's youthful and exuberant cantata, Carmina Burana. The performance will feature the two-piano/percussion version of the work with the UMBC Percussion Ensemble, Tom Goldstein conductor, supplying the heart pounding, thrilling power to this audience favorite.

The Department of Music presents the Duende Quartet. Bassist Josh Schwartzman, percussionists Mark Merella and Sam "Seguito" Turner and Harry Appelman on piano/keyboards, has been chosen twice by Jazz at Lincoln Center to tour internationally under the auspices of the U.S. Department of State's American Music Abroad program. The Duende Quartet plays Latin Jazz with a nod to the Blue Note sound of the '60s. In a unique small group setting (with piano, bass and two hand percussionists) the group captures the vibe of the jazz combo while using the rhythms of a Cuban conjunto. Duende's music strikes an inviting balance between the spontaneity of jazz improvisation and the infectious rhythms of the Caribbean.

8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. Tickets will be available in early fall 2011.

The Department of Music presents a program entitled The Expressive Jewish Tradition Through Music and Words, including:

* Osvaldo Golijov Doina (2001)
* Felix Mendelssohn - Sonata for Cello and Piano in D major, op. 58 (1843)
* Michael Alec Rose - Burlesques for Piano Quartet (2010, world premiere)
* Gerald Cohen - Yedid Nefesh (Beloved of my Soul) (2007)
* Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein III - selections from South Pacific (1949)
with poetry readings by special guests actors Ava Lenet and Stan Weiman

8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. To order tickets in advance using a credit card, order online through MissionTix or call 410-752-8950. Tickets will also be available at the door, cash or check only.

The Department of Music presents the UMBC Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of Matthew Belzer.

3pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free.

The Department of Music presents the Faculty Chamber Ensemble, featuring new faculty member Kristin Jurkscheit on French horn, with clarinetist E. Michael Richards, violinist Airi Yoshioka, violist Maria Lambros and cellist Gita Ladd. Their program will feature Dohnanyi's Sextet and Mozart's Horn Quartet.

8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. Tickets will be available in early fall 2011.

The Department of Music presents flutist Lisa Cella in concert with pianist Deborah Allen.

8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall.
$7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. Tickets will be available in early fall 2011.

The Department of Music presents the UMBC Symphony Orchestra under the direction of E. Michael Richards. The program will feature:

• Carl Nielsen's Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra, Op. 57 [D.F.129], featuring soloist Emily Beisel, class of '11 and winner of the UMBC Symphony Concerto Competition
• Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46
• The world premiere of Eclipse by Linda Dusman (professor of music at UMBC)
• Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67

7:30 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free.

The Department of Music presents the UMBC Camerata under the direction of Stephen Caracciolo.

The repertoire for this performance will be selected from the following:
Opera Choruses
“Va, pensiero” from Nabucco – Giuseppe Verdi
solo “Se vuol ballare” - from The Marriage of Figaro – W. A. Mozart
solo “O Image Angel-like and Fair” - from The Magic Flute – W. A. Mozart
“Finales to Acts I & II” from The Magic Flute – W. A. Mozart

Americana
Shenandoah – arr. James Erb
solo Zion’s Walls – arr. Aaron Copland
Bound for the Promised Land – arr. Mack Wilberg
Black is the Color of My True Love’s Hair – arr. Stuart Churchill
Polly Wolly Doodle – arr. Gail Kubik

Songs of the Irish
Danny Boy – arr. Joseph Flummerfelt
The Wild Song (as sung by Anúna) – Michael McGlynn
The Rakes of Mallow – arr. T.C. Kelly

Contemporary Composers
First Kyrie (from Mass in Five Parts) – Francis Pott
The Wild Song (as sung by Anúna) – Michael McGlynn
The Lamb – Stephen Caracciolo
Salmo 150 – Ernani Aguiar

8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free.

Join us for a free concert of Gertrude Stein and Friends, featuring Wendy Salkind, voice; Tom Goldstein, percussion; and Linda Dusman, composition.

Wendy Salkind performs readings of three short prose pieces by the American Modernist writer Gertrude Stein. Exploring Stein's writings as musical compositions, Salkind reads Matisse and Picasso unaccompanied, while the rhythmic and witty story, Miss Furr and Miss Skeene is read in dialogue with eleven percussion instruments played by Tom Goldstein, in a score composed by Linda Dusman. Also on the program is Still to JSB by Anneliese Weibel and Dusman's magnificat 4: Ida, Ida.

7:30 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free.

The program will be repeated on Wednesday, April 27 at 7:30 at Loyola University's Fine Arts Recital Room.

The faculty and students of the Music Department join forces to present a much beloved Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi. The concert features the string faculty, Christian Tremblay, Airi Yoshioka and Maria Lambros, along with harpsichordist Joseph Morin and the UMBC Collegium.

The other works on the program are Zoltan Kodaly's Serenade for Two Violins and Viola, op. 12, and Sergei prokofiev's Duo for Two Violins.

8pm. Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free.

Since their founding in 1970, the Da Capo Chamber Players have established themselves as one of the foremost new music groups in the United States. The group's mission is to give new works the dedicated attention and exciting performances consistent with the highest musical standards in traditional repertoire. Winners of the Walter W. Naumburg Chamber Music Award in 1973, for 18 years they were one of the highest funded chamber groups by the National Endowment for the Arts. Da Capo is a leader in building a strong heritage of present-day American chamber music: the group is known not only for exceptional artistry but also for the wealth of new compositions written for them.

7:30 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall.
$7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID.

The Department of Music presents the Contemporary Chamber Players of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, featuring Sarah A. Baugher, viola; Jonathan Stuart-Moore, cello; Dr. Mark Engebretson, baritone saxophone; and Dr. Alejandro Rutty, piano. The ensemble's program will feature:

• Alejandro Rutty: City of Webs
• Mark Engebretson: Four Short Songs: a certain sadness
• Sarah A. Braugher: Waking Up the Machine
• Jonathan Stuart-Moore: Curbstridin'

8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free.

UMBC Jazz Festival
Friday, March 11th and Saturday, March 12th
All events in Fine Arts, Recital Hall

Schedule:
UMBC Jazz Ensemble & United States Navy Commodores Concert:
Friday, March 11th @ 7:30 PM

Tenor saxophone great Walt Weiskopf clinic:
Saturday, March 12th 3-4PM (Free)

Maryland All-State Jazz Band & The Tom Lagana Group Featuring Walt Weiskopf Concert: Saturday, March 12th 7:30PM

Admission is free. Suggested donation for the evening concerts is $15.
Funds raised through ticket sales for this event will be administered by the UMBC Foundation for the benefit of UMBC.

The InterArts Program presents New York-based Continuum, the winner of the prestigious Siemens international prize for distinguished service to music and four ASCAP/Chamber Music America Awards for Adventuresome Programming, directed by Cheryl Seltzer and Joel Sachs.

8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID.

To order tickets in advance using a credit card, order online through MissionTix or call 410-752-8950. Patrons who would prefer to pay by cash or check at will call may make a reservation by calling 410-455-6240.

The Jolles Duo, featuring violinist Renee Jolles and harpist Susan Jolles, presents concerts of uncommon beauty. This mother-daughter ensemble was formed in 1987 to perform a program honoring Women in Music. Both Renee Jolles and Susan Jolles have been hailed as solo virtuosi. Individually, they have garnered many awards, including the Naumburg Chamber Music Award, Grammy Awards, and the William Schuman Prize. Together, this exciting collaboration brings passion and skill to a repertoire that embraces music from the Baroque to the modern era. The Duo has been featured on numerous chamber and contemporary music concert series such as North/South Consonance, Cutting Edge, Musica Viva (New York), at Symphony Space by New Voices Concerts, and can be heard on the recently released album , Peculiar Plants (Albany Records), playing Victoria Bond's Sacred Sisters.

"What was remarkable was the outstanding musicianship and professional artistic polish of The Jolles Duo."
--Times Union, Albany, New York

Sponsored by the Department of Music and the InterArts Series.

8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID.

To order tickets in advance using a credit card, order online through MissionTix or call 410-752-8950. Patrons who would prefer to pay by cash or check may purchase tickets at the door.

The Department of Music presents Airi Yoshioka, violin and Rachel Franklin, piano, in a recital featuring:

Sonata in C minor, op. 45 by Edvard Grieg
Sonata No. 1 in G Major, op. 78 by Johannes Brahms
Sonata No. 2 by Paul Desenne and
selected movements Five Little Milonguitas by Pablo Ortiz

8pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID.

The duo Six Impossible Things was formed in 2010 and features Jeremy Koch, saxophone, and Molly Orlando, piano. Performing together since 2004, Six Impossible Things specializes in new music for saxophone and piano and, in particular, champions the works of emerging young composers.

The duo's program is a musical rabbit-hole, with a cast of characters including hairless cats, 'the lady in the red dress' and musical inspirations ranging from Renaissance chansons to the tuning of a pit orchestra to Italian slasher films. The program includes three pieces commissioned by the duo; two are by Washington, D.C.-area composers Nathan Lincoln-DeCusatis and Tim Dusenbury and the other by Chicago-based John Elmquist. Joined for part of the program by clarinetist John Romano, the concert features the following works:
• Pit Band, William Albright
• Flea Circus, Andrew Bishop
• Giallo, Nathan Lincoln-DeCusatis (world premiere)
• Three Quiet Dances, Tim Dusenbury
• Hairless Cat Sonata, John Elmquist

8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. For more information call 410-455-2942.

The Department of Music presents the UMBC Camerata under the direction of Stephen Caracciolo.

VIVA VIVALDI
A Renaissance Motet
O magnum mysterium – Tomas Luis de Victoria

Three Settings of Old English Carols
Noel, Sing We Both All and Some – anon. 15th Century
Make We Joy Now In This Fest – Stephen Caracciolo
A Savior From On High – Stephen Paulus

Four Choral Favorites
Danny Boy – arr. Joseph Flummerfelt
Daniel, Servant of the Lord – Undine Moore
Wassail Song – Ralph Vaughan Williams
Noel – (African carol) arr. by Brad Holmes

Love Songs
Liebeslieder Waltzes – Johannes Brahms
a short set of selected songs from the collection

Featured Work
Magnificat in G Minor, RV 610 – Antonio Vivaldi
performed with chamber orchestra and soloists

8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free.

The UMBC Department of Music presents Collegium under the direction of Joseph Morin.

The program will feture vocal and instrumental works by Walter, Arcadelt, Dowland, Scarlatti, Telemann, Bon and (the most prolific of composers) Anonymous.

8pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free.

The Department of Music presents the UMBC Percussion Ensemble under the direction of Tom Goldstein. The UMBC Percussion Ensemble is a dedicated performing group of advanced percussion students. The ensemble is adventurous in its programming, with a repertoire that includes graphic-notation pieces, improvisational works, and theatre, as well as works by important early percussion composers, such as Alan Hovhaness, John Cage, and Carlos Chavez. The Ensemble has established a tradition of performing works by UMBC's faculty and student composers, who sometimes include members of the ensemble.

8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free.

The Department of Music presents the UMBC New Music Ensemble under the direction of Stuart Saunders Smith.

8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free.

The Department of Music presents an Open Recital, featuring UMBC Music students.

12noon. Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is Free

The Department of Music presents the UMBC Wind Ensemble under the direction of Richard Spece.

American Overture for Band, Op. 13 (1953) - Joseph Wilcox Jenkins
Finish Line (2006) - Cindy McTee
English Folk Song Suite (1924) - Ralph Vaughn Williams
From A Dark Millennium (1981) - Joseph Schwanter
Armenian Dances, Part 1 (1972) - Alfred Reed

8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free.

The Department of Music presents an Open Recital, featuring UMBC Music students.

12noon. Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is Free

The Department of Music presents the UMBC Chamber Players, under the direction of Dr. Airi Yoshioka, with faculty coaches, Prof. Maria Lambros, Prof. Gita Ladd and Dr. Christian Tremblay.

The program will include works by Mozart, Beethoven, Prokofiev, Copland and others.

8pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free.

The Department of Music presents the UMBC Opera Workshop (formerly Vocal Arts Ensemble) under the direction of Cantor Thom King.

The ensemble will present a program of scenes from opera and musical theater, including Hansel and Gretel, Gilbert & Sullivan, Mozart and Sondheim.

3 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free.

The Department of Music presents the Jubilee Singers (followed immediately by the UMBC Gospel Choir) under the direction of Janice Jackson.

7 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free.

The Department of Music presents an Open Recital, featuring UMBC Music students.

12noon. Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is Free

The UMBC Department of Music presents the The Untold Range - Maryland, by Stuart Saunders Smith.

8pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free.

The Department of Music presents an Open Recital, featuring UMBC Music students.

12noon. Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is Free

Music for viola by Telemann, Bach, Bartok, Nardini and a world premiere by Megan De Giorgio featuring UMBC violists peter Cioloca, Erica George, Christine Kang, Maria Lambros, Talya Schenk, Erin Terwilliger and special guest, Airi Yoshioka.

3pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free.

The Department of Music presents the UMBC Symphony Orchestra under the direction of E. Michael Richards.

7:30 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free.

Robert Boguslaw is an active performer in the Washington and Baltimore regions. He is a founding member of the Rock Creek Piano Trio and has performed as a soloist with the National Gallery Orchestra and the Mclean Symphony. Other engagements have included the Baltimore Symphony, the Royal Philharmonic, and the Kennedy Center Opera Orchestra. He is currently a member of the "President's Own" US Marine Band and as such frequently performs at the White House.

This piano recital will include Mozart's Rondo in a-minor, 3 Chopin Etudes, Robert Schumann's Fantasy, and the world premier of Fred Coulter's "Hotel Music".

8pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is Free.

The Department of Music presents the UMBC Jazz Ensemble and small jazz groups under the direction of Matthew Belzer and Tom Lagana

3 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free.

The Department of Music presents Lisa Cella, flute and Shannon Wettstein, piano in a recital featuring Mark Osborn's Virtue for flute, piano and tape, Brian Ferneyhough's Four Miniatures and Kazuo Fukushima's Pieces (3) from "Chu-u".

3pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is $7 for general admission, $3 for senior citizens, and free to the UMBC community (with UMBC ID) and any student with a student ID card.

The Department of Music presents a Second Wednesday Recital featuring UMBC Music students.

1pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free.

The Department of Music presents a Second Wednesday Recital featuring UMBC Music students.

1pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free.

A surprising concert of duos, performed by Rachel Beetz, Danielle Spaeth and Lisa Cella

Friday, May 14, 2010 at 7pm in the Fine Arts Studio 508. Admission is free.

Thursday, May 13, 2010 at 8pm in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free.

UMBC Violists play music of Telemann, Bartok, Persichetti and Biggs.

Featuring Erica George; Christine Kang, Maria Lambros, Matthew Polonchak, Talya Schenk, Erin Terwilligar, and special guest, Airi Yoshioka on Viola!

Please join us for cake after the recital!

Thursday, May 13, 2010, 4:30pm in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free.

The Department of Music presents the West Point Jazz Knights in concert.

8pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free.

Mosaic is an ensemble/collective dedicated to forging an original voice in jazz, directed by Matt Belzer of UMBC's Department of Music. Together they perform an eclectic range of styles to create a music that's unique and experimental yet remains accessible. Expanding on the traditions of post Bop, Afro-Cuba, electric Jazz and the avant-garde, their rhythmic and harmonic approach is deep and diverse. Whether playing their own works, or those of the great composers of Jazz, they aim to provide a music for the body and the mind. With an instrumentation of keyboards, bass, drum set, and a wide array of woodwind instruments and percussion, Mosaic hopes to put their own stamp on the American legacy known as Jazz.

Anna Rubin, composer and associate professor of music at UMBC, presents a concert of her works. The human voice in its singing and speaking inspires Anna Rubin's work. Whether her works are composed for ancient instruments or developed with sophisticated digital software, she tells stories, she protests injustice, and she celebrates the human spirit in dynamic works for solo virtuosi, choral and chamber ensembles, orchestra and fixed media.

8pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID.

The Department of Music presents the Duo Alterno, featuring the artisty of soprano Tiziana Scandaletti and pianist-composer Riccardo Piacentini. The Duo made its debut in 1997 at the Vancouver Festival of Italian Contemporary Music, and have since then toured throughout the United States, Canada, Argentina, Australia, Japan, China, India, throughout Europe and other sites in Asia. The Duo Alterno has made recordings for Curci, Nuova Era, Stradivarius and other labels.

"Folks who checked out Duo Alterno's concert ... at the University of Maryland Baltimore County ... were rewarded with dynamic performances of fascinating music." -Tim Smith, The Baltimore Sun (2000)

Presented by the UMBC Department of Music’s TNT series.

8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID.

An evening of new music for electric guitar, featuring several premieres played by UMBC Music students and presented by the UMBC New Music Ensemble, under the direction of Stuart Saunders Smith.

8pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free.

The Department of Music presents a Second Wednesday Recital featuring UMBC Music students.

1pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free.

Presented by the InterArts Series, the Honors College and the Department of Music.

8pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. $10 general admission; $5 students and seniors. To order tickets in advance using a credit card, order online through MissionTix or call 410-752-8950. Tickets will also be available at the door, cash only.

Composer/performer/vocalist/sound artist Joan La Barbara and violinist/composer Tom Chiu will present a program of contemporary music, including a new work by Linda Dusman, professor of music at UMBC. Their program will feature:

For solo violin:
Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988): L'ame ailee
Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001): Mikka
Ezequiel Viñao (b. 1960): The Seven Valleys

For solo voice:
Charles Dodge (b. 1942): The Waves (for amplified voice and computer-enhanced sounds and vocal processing)
Joan La Barbara (b. 1947): Circular Song
John Cage (1912-1992): Music for Three (by One) (for amplified voice and two voices on CD)

For voice and violin:
Joan La Barbara (b. 1947): Die Wassergeister (Water Ghosts) (for voice, violin and sonic atmosphere)
Tom Chiu (b. 1971): hello aloha
Linda Dusman (b. 1956): Triptych of Gossips (world premiere)

The Department of Music present the UMBC Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Matthew Belzer.

Winds, Brass, Rhythm and Strings come together to perform the music of Mingus, Ellington, Pastorius, Shorter and Abou-Khalil.

3pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free, but donations to benefit the UMBC Jazz Studies Program will be accepted.

Featuring UMBC music students chosen from those who performed on the Open Recitals.

8pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free

The Department of Music presents the UMBC Chamber Players, under the direction of Airi Yoshioka, Gita Ladd, Maria Lambros and Christian Tremblay. The ensemble investigates the instrumental chamber works of the Western Art Music, ranging from the Baroque, Classical, Romantic to contemporary repertoire.

This concert will feature works by Rossini, Turina, Prokofiev, Moszkowski, Erb and Schumann.

8pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free.

The Department of Music presents the UMBC Jazz in Concert .

Featuring two small groups under the direction of Tom Lagana and Matt Belzer along with The UMBC Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Matt Belzer, playing the music of Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, Horace Silver, Andrew Hill, and Carla Bley.

3pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free.

the Department of Music presents the Vocal Arts Ensemble, under the direction of Cantor Thom King featuring a cornucopia of arias, songs and ensembles (and even a Barbershop Quartet!) from Mozart to Gilbert & Sullivan to Bernstein.

8pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free.

The Department of Music presents the UMBC Percussion Ensemble under the direction of Tom Goldstein. The UMBC Percussion Ensemble is a dedicated performing group of advanced percussion students. The ensemble is adventurous in its programming, with a repertoire that includes graphic-notation pieces, improvisational works, and theatre, as well as works by important early percussion composers, such as Alan Hovhaness, John Cage, and Carlos Chavez. The Ensemble has established a tradition of performing works by UMBC's faculty and student composers, who sometimes include members of the ensemble.

8pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free.

Featuring UMBC music students.

12noon, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free.

The Department of Music presents the UMBC New Music Ensemble under the direction of Stuart Saunders Smith.

8pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free.

Featuring UMBC music students.

12noon, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free

The Department of Music presents the UMBC Gospel Choir under the direction of Janice Jackson.

8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Donations accepted.

The Department of Music presents the UMBC Camerata under the direction of Stephen Caracciolo, featuring the Missa Brevis in C, KV220 ("Sparrow Mass") by W.A. Mozart. The work will be performed with a chamber instrumental ensemble. The remainder of the program will feature concert carols for the holiday.

8pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free.

Featuring UMBC Music students.

12noon, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free.

The Department of Music presents the UMBC Wind Ensemble under the direction of Richard Spece. The Ensemble is comprised of exceptional woodwind, brass and percussion performers who enjoy the challenge of performing excellent concert literature. The program will feature:

• Incantation and Dance by John Barnes Chance
• Symphony for Band by Vincent Persichetti
• Vesuvius by Frank Tichelli
• October by Eric Whitacre
• Awayday by Adam Gorb

8pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Donations Accepted.

The Department of Music presents the UMBC Collegium under the direction of Joseph Morin. The Collegium Musicum is a performance ensemble dedicated to exploring and performing vocal and instrumental music from European Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods, sampling musical repertoires created between 800 and 1750. Performers are given the opportunity to sing in a variety of conventional and extended vocal styles, and to play recorder, krummhorn, racket, cornetto, shawm, sackbut, viol da gamba, vielle, harp, organetto, lute, and other historical instruments from the UMBC Department of Music's collection of instruments.

8pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free.

The Department of Music presents the UMBC Symphony Orchestra under the direction of E. Michael Richards, featuring:

Copland - Dance Episodes from "Rodeo"

Barber - Adagio for Strings , with Elizabeth Shin, conductor

Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64

8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free.

Robert Dick's contributions to the development of the flute and its music are profound. He is known worldwide as the flute's visionary, the leading voice in the instrument's new music. Soloist, composer, teacher, author and inventor, Dick has performed his music worldwide.

As a composer, he has received prestigious awards and fellowships, including the Guggenheim Fellowship and a Koussevitsky Foundation of the Library of Congress commission. He writes chamber music as well as his renowned solo works, his newest pieces being Startling Stories for woodwind quintet and Gravity's Ghost for piccolo solo.

His program at UMBC will feature several of his own compositions, including Flames Must Not Encircle Sides (1980), Afterlight (1973), Piece in Gamelan Style (1978), Lookout (1989), Fish Are Jumping (1999), Air is the Heaviest Metal (2008), Eye in the Sky, for open hole alto flute (1992) and Sliding Life Blues, for flute with Glissando Headjoint®, (2001).

Presented by the UMBC Department of Music’s TNT series.

8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID.

The Department of Music presents the Circa 1800 Chamber Winds, featuring:

Giuseppe Maria Cambini, Concertante Quintet No. 3 in F Major

Joseph Fiala, Duo Concertante for Oboe and Bassoon

Andre Eller, Quartet in F Major, Op. 6, No. 1 for Flute, Clarinet, Horn, and Bassoon

Francois Devienne, Trio No. III Op. 61 for Flute, Clarinet, and Bassoon

Anton Reicha, Quintet, Op. 88 No. 2 in Eb Major

8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. Tickets will be available online in fall 2009. Tickets will also be available at the door (cash or check only).

Featuring UMBC Music students.

1pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free.

Bad Boy of American Music: George Antheil (1900-1959), the 50th Anniversary Concert
Mark Fewer, violin, and John Novacek, piano

Join us for "Bad Boy" of American Music: George Antheil (1900-1959), the 50th Anniversary Concert, featuring Antheil's Sonatas Nos. 1, 2 & 4 for violin and piano. Canadian violinist Mark Fewer (former concertmaster, Vancouver Symphony; string chair, McGill University), and American pianist John Novacek (2004 Grammy Award nominee) join forces in this tribute.

Presented by the UMBC Department of Music’s TNT series.

8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. Tickets will be available online in fall 2009. Tickets will also be available at the door (cash or check only).

Presented by the UMBC Department of Music’s TNT series.

8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. Ticket will be available online in fall 2009. Tickets will also be available at the door (cash or check only).

The Department of Music presents 3 x 3, New Music from the United States and Greece, featuring Ruckus, the new music ensemble in residence at UMBC, premiering works composed by members of Spiza, a contemporary music collective from Athens, Greece.

Presented by the Department of Music's TNT Series.

8pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free.

Featuring UMBC Music students. 1pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission if free.

The Department of Music presents the UMBC Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Matthew Belzer.

3pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free.

Join us for an afternoon of chamber music, as UMBC Department of Music faculty clarinetist Richard Spece and pianist Nancy Beith are joined by cellist Gita Ladd and clarinetist E. Michael Richards. The program will feature:

Darius Milhaud's Sonatine for clarinet and piano
Robert Muczynski's Time Pieces for clarinet and piano
Scott McAllister's BlingBling, for clarinet and piano
Ludwig van Beethoven's ---Trio for Piano, clarinet, and cello, Op. 11
Amilcare Ponchielli's ---Il Convegno for two clarinets and piano

Presented by the UMBC Department of Music’s Prime series.

3 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. Tickets will be available online in fall 2009. Tickets will also be available at the door (cash or check only).

The Department of Music presents the UMBC Jazz Ensemble (Big Band) under the direction of Matthew Belzer.

8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free.

The Department of Music presents the UMBC Camerata under the direction of guest conductor Leo Wanenchak.

8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free.

The Department of Music presents the UMBC Percussion Ensemble under the direction of Tom Goldstein.

8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free.

The Department of Music presents the UMBC New Music Ensemble under the direction of Stuart Saunders Smith.

8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free.

The Department of Music presents the Vocal Arts Ensemble under the direction of Thom King.

3pm in the Fine Arts Recital Hall

Admission is free. For more information call 410-455-MUSC.

The Department of Music presents the Jubilee Singers (followed immediately by the UMBC Gospel Choir) under the direction of Janice Jackson.

7pm in the Fine Arts Recital Hall.

Donations accepted. For more information call 410-455-MUSC.

The Department of Music presents the UMBC Wind Ensemble under the direction of Jari Villanueva.

8pm in the Fine Arts Recital Hall

Admission is free. For more information call 410-455-MUSC.

The UMBC Symphony will present a concert of works by Dvorak, Ives, and Verdi on April 26 at 8 PM in the Fine Arts Recital Hall.

Elizabeth Shin, a winner of the 2009 UMBC Concerto Competition,will be the featured soloist.
Elizabeth began her cello studies at the age of 10. She worked with Bai-Chi Chen at the Peabody Preparatory where she was principal cellist of the Sinfonietta Orchestra. Elizabeth attended All State Orchestra for 6 years and was selected to participate in the prestigious All Eastern Orchestra in 2003. She has participated in numerous summer festivals including Aria International Music Institute in Canada and the Indiana University String Academy, where she was the winner of the concerto competition. Currently, Elizabeth is principal cellist of the UMBC Symphony Orchestra and is a recipient of the 2009 Achievement Award in Music. She is currently studying cello with Professor Gita Ladd at UMBC. Elizabeth is in her last semester at UMBC as a Music Education major and is currently student teaching in Howard County.