Butler, Bernstein & The Hot 9 (Season Opening Event)
UMS brings the Big Easy to Downtown Home & Garden with a season-opening event featuring Butler, Bernstein & The Hot 9....
Every Brilliant Thing
You’re six years old. Mum’s in hospital. Dad says she’s ‘done something stupid.’ She finds it hard to be happy. So you start to...
Every Brilliant Thing
You’re six years old. Mum’s in hospital. Dad says she’s ‘done something stupid.’ She finds it hard to be happy. So you start to...
Every Brilliant Thing
You’re six years old. Mum’s in hospital. Dad says she’s ‘done something stupid.’ She finds it hard to be happy. So you start to...
Every Brilliant Thing
You’re six years old. Mum’s in hospital. Dad says she’s ‘done something stupid.’ She finds it hard to be happy. So you start to...
Every Brilliant Thing
You’re six years old. Mum’s in hospital. Dad says she’s ‘done something stupid.’ She finds it hard to be happy. So you start to...
Every Brilliant Thing
You’re six years old. Mum’s in hospital. Dad says she’s ‘done something stupid.’ She finds it hard to be happy. So you start to...
Every Brilliant Thing
You’re six years old. Mum’s in hospital. Dad says she’s ‘done something stupid.’ She finds it hard to be happy. So you start to...
Emerson String Quartet & Calidore String Quartet
Members of the Calidore String Quartet, the inaugural M-Prize winner who made their UMS debut in February, join their mentors, the Emerson...
L’État de siege (State of Siege) - Théâtre de la Ville
After exciting stage productions of Ionesco’s Rhinocéros in 2012 and Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author in 2014,...
L’État de siege (State of Siege) - Théâtre de la Ville
After exciting stage productions of Ionesco’s Rhinocéros in 2012 and Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author in 2014,...
Amir ElSaffar’s - Rivers of Sound
The highest ideal in maqam music is to reach a state of tarab, or musical ecstasy, which results from the melting away of borders as...
Ragamala Dance Company - Written in Water
Ragamala Dance Company is “providing some of the most transcendent experiences that dance has to offer.” (New York Times)...
Daniil Trifonov, piano
“He is, no other word, a phenomenon. Like Rachmaninoff, he is both a dazzling pianist and composer.” (The Guardian)...
Sphinx Virtuosi
In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Sphinx Organization, this program offers a collection of concerti through the ages, including...
Zakir Hussain & Dave Holland
This special collaboration between Zakir Hussain, a living master of the 3,000-year-old tabla percussion tradition, and distinguished...
DISC/WCED Panel. Unraveling the Arab Spring: Egypt Since 2011
Moderator: Pauline Jones, DISC director. Panelists: Samer Ali, CMENAS director, U-M; Juan Cole, Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of...
China NCPA Orchestra
Lü Jia, conductor ; Wu Man, pipa
One of China’s great orchestras, from the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing, makes its UMS debut with a new work...
Chanticleer
Called “the world’s reigning male chorus” by the New Yorker, the Grammy Award-winning ensemble Chanticleer celebrates its 40th season...
The Knights
with Avi Vital, Kinan Azmeh, and Colin Jacobsen
“Few ensembles are as adept at mixing old and new as the dynamic Brooklyn orchestra The Knights,” says the New Yorker, and when Avital...
John McLaughlin & Jimmy Herring
Revisiting Mahavishnu
On this tour, which features the first extended collaboration between two of the world’s foremost improvising artists, guitarist John...
Bernstein's Philharmonic: A Centennial Festival
New York Philharmonic with Jaap van Zweden & Leonard Slatkin
The New York Philharmonic returns for its second major UMS residency, this time with a focus on Leonard Bernstein, the celebrated New York...
Bernstein's Philharmonic: A Centennial Festival
New York Philharmonic with Jaap van Zweden & Leonard Slatkin
The New York Philharmonic returns for its second major UMS residency, this time with a focus on Leonard Bernstein, the celebrated New York...
Bernstein's Philharmonic: A Centennial Festival
New York Philharmonic with Jaap van Zweden & Leonard Slatkin
The New York Philharmonic returns for its second major UMS residency, this time with a focus on Leonard Bernstein, the celebrated New York...
Handel's Messiah
The tradition that connects Handel’s Messiah with the Christmas holiday has nothing to do with the oratorio’s origins. It was originally...
Handel's Messiah
The tradition that connects Handel’s Messiah with the Christmas holiday has nothing to do with the oratorio’s origins. It was originally...
Bach Collegium Japan
Johann Sebastian Bach wrote over 200 church cantatas, and the Bach Collegium Japan is intent on performing every one of them....
What's in a Song
An evening of song curated by Martin Katz
One of the highlights of the 2015-16 UMS season was the opening of the first Song Biennial, in which Martin Katz curated a wonderful evening...
Urban Bush Women
Hair and Other Stories
“The Urban Bush Women are committed, triple-threat performers who dance, sing, and act with a sometimes searing sense of truthfulness.”...
Haydn Mega Concert - St. Lawrence String Quartet
Geoff Nuttall, first violinist with the St. Lawrence String Quartet, is as well known for the insightful commentary he provides about the...
Maxim Vengerov, violin
Universally hailed as one of the world’s finest musicians, Maxim Vengerov made his public debut at age 5 and performed the Mendelssohn...
Janai Brugger, soprano & Martin Katz, piano
Winner of Placido Domingo’s prestigious Operalia competition in 2012 and a true standout in the What’s in a Song event that launched the...
Gabriel Kahane's
Book of Travelers
The morning after the 2016 presidential election, singer-songwriter Gabriel Kahane packed a suitcase and set out, with no cell phone or...
Estonian National Symphony
Neeme Järvi, conductor & Garrick Ohlsson, piano
Former Detroit Symphony Orchestra music director Neeme Järvi returns to Southeast Michigan with the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra....
Schubert's Winterreise
Ian Bostridge, tenor
“Even as a child, I was unnaturally obsessed with love and death,” says celebrated English tenor Ian Bostridge. “So in that sense, I...
Romeo & Juliet
American Ballet Theatre
Kenneth MacMillan’s masterful interpretation of Shakespeare’s enduring romantic tragedy has become one of ABT’s signature...
Romeo & Juliet
American Ballet Theatre
Kenneth MacMillan’s masterful interpretation of Shakespeare’s enduring romantic tragedy has become one of ABT’s signature...
Romeo & Juliet
American Ballet Theatre
Kenneth MacMillan’s masterful interpretation of Shakespeare’s enduring romantic tragedy has become one of ABT’s signature...
Joshua Bell, violin
Joshua Bell enchants audiences with his breathtaking virtuosity and charismatic stage presence....
Romeo & Juliet
American Ballet Theatre
Kenneth MacMillan’s masterful interpretation of Shakespeare’s enduring romantic tragedy has become one of ABT’s signature...
Emmanuel Pahud, flute
A star flutist only comes around once or twice in a generation — and it’s fair to say that this generation’s strongest candidate is...
Opera in Concert
The Gershwin's Porgy and Bess
UMS and the U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance (SMTD) present the U-M Gershwin Initiative’s scholarly edition of this landmark score....
Company Wang Ramirez
Borderline
A couple both onstage and in real life, Sébastien Ramirez, a Frenchman with Spanish parents, and Honji Wang, a German woman with a Korean...
Company Wang Ramirez
Borderline
A couple both onstage and in real life, Sébastien Ramirez, a Frenchman with Spanish parents, and Honji Wang, a German woman with a Korean...
Elias Quartet
After a three-year project exploring all of Beethoven’s string quartets, the Elias Quartet decided to consider how composers after...
Tenebrae
Path of Miracles
Joby Talbot’s Path of Miracles was the first major work commissioned by the professional vocal ensemble Tenebrae, a group that was founded...
PIEDMONT BLUES: A SEARCH FOR SALVATION
Gerald Clayton & The Assembly
Ragtime rhythms, a unique finger-picking guitar style, and understated vocals are the hallmarks of the folk music style found in the...
Steven Lehman & Sélébéyone
Though hip-hop and jazz are clearly no strangers to one another, Sélébéyone takes the conversation between jazz and hip-hop to...
Bubble Schmeisis
Welcome to the steam baths! The word bubbemeises is a Yiddish term meaning “a grandmother’s story” or “an old wives’ tale.”...
Bubble Schmeisis
Welcome to the steam baths! The word bubbemeises is a Yiddish term meaning “a grandmother’s story” or “an old wives’ tale.”...
