UM Chamber Choir  Eugene Rogers, conductor with Imani Winds

SMTD@UMMA welcomes UM Chamber Choir’s new director Eugene Rogers for an evening of new and favorite works celebrating discovery and freedom, including the premiere of Jocelyn Hagen’s multi-movement The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci for chorus, chamber orchestra, and projected visuals. Grammy-nominated quintet Imani Winds joins the flagship SMTD choral ensemble on this and an arrangement of American Spirituals by Imani Winds member Jeff Scott. Also featured are Eric Whitacre’s Leonardo and his Flying Machine and Lee Hoiby’s Last Letter Home.

The SMTD@UMMA performance series is generously supported by the Katherine Tuck Enrichment Fund and the Greg Hodes and Heidi Hertel Hodes—Partners in the Arts Endowment Fund.