Class / Instruction:American Brass Quintet Entrepreneurship Class
2026-02-21 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Detroit) | Earl V. Moore Building - Hankinson Rehearsal Hall
The Department of Chamber Music is pleased to present a class on entrepreneurship by the internationally acclaimed American Brass Quintet as part of its Guest Artist Mentor Residency. Free and open to the public.

ABOUT THE GUEST ENSEMBLE

Tiago Linck, trumpet
Brandon Ridenour, trumpet
Eric Reed, horn
Hillary Simms, trombone
John D. Rojak, bass trombone

The American Brass Quintet is internationally recognized as one of the premier chamber music ensembles of our time. “The most distinguished” of brass quintets (*American Record Guide*), the group has earned its stellar reputation through its celebrated performances, genre-defining commissioned works, and ongoing commitment to the education of generations of musicians. Since its founding in 1960, the American Brass Quintet has performed on five continents, made nearly 60 recordings, and premiered more than 150 contemporary works for brass.

https://www.americanbrassquintet.org

Class / Instruction:American Brass Quintet Master Class
2026-02-21 15:00 - 16:30 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
The Department of Chamber Music is pleased to present a master class by the internationally acclaimed American Brass Quintet as part of its Guest Artist Mentor Residency. Free and open to the public.

ABOUT THE GUEST ENSEMBLE

Tiago Linck, trumpet
Brandon Ridenour, trumpet
Eric Reed, horn
Hillary Simms, trombone
John D. Rojak, bass trombone

The American Brass Quintet is internationally recognized as one of the premier chamber music ensembles of our time. “The most distinguished” of brass quintets (*American Record Guide*), the group has earned its stellar reputation through its celebrated performances, genre-defining commissioned works, and ongoing commitment to the education of generations of musicians. Since its founding in 1960, the American Brass Quintet has performed on five continents, made nearly 60 recordings, and premiered more than 150 contemporary works for brass.

https://www.americanbrassquintet.org

Performance:Bassoon Studio Recital
2026-02-21 17:00 - 18:30 | Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium
Professor of Bassoon Jeffrey Lyman and the members of the University of Michigan Bassoon Studio will present a program of solo and ensemble works on Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 5:00 pm in Stamps Auditorium. New music from Italy by David Fontanesi and Alberto Schiavo will begin the program, followed by Alain Bernaud's wild showpiece *Hallucinations* for bassoon and piano. The rest of the program will feature bassoon quartets and quintets by Amy Beth Kirsten, Astor Piazzolla, and a new quartet by Wynton Marsalis titled *4 Bassoons Talking*.

Performance:Brooke Studebaker, voice
2026-02-21 17:30 - 18:30 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
Undergraduate student Brooke Studebaker, soprano, performs a final senior recital.

Performance:Ayunia Saputro, piano
2026-02-21 17:30 - 18:30 | Stearns Building - Cady Room
Ayunia Saputro, DMA candidate in piano pedagogy & performance, presents a dissertation lecture recital.

Performance:The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade
2026-02-21 20:00 - 22:00, 2026-02-22 14:00 - 16:00 | Power Center for the Performing Arts
Based on a true story, *Marat/Sade* is a shocking and relevant work about human suffering, class struggle, and mental illness as depicted in the play itself and the play-within-a-play. Winner of a 1966 Tony Award, Marat/Sade has riveted audiences for generations.

Content Advisory: This play contains depictions of violence, murder, mental illness, and incarceration.
Recommended Ages: 16+

Written by Peter Weiss
English version by Geoffrey Skelton
Verse adaptation by Adrian Mitchell
Directed by Malcolm Tulip

*Buying Tickets
Flex Series ticket packages available beginning June 10; Single tickets available beginning August 4.*

Performance:Catherine Goode, voice
2026-02-21 20:00 - 21:30 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
DMA candidate in voice performance Catherine Goode, soprano, presents a dissertation lecture recital.

Performance:American Brass Quintet
2026-02-21 20:00 - 21:30 | Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium
The Department of Chamber Music is pleased to present a guest recital by the internationally acclaimed American Brass Quintet as part of its Guest Artist Mentor Residency. Free and open to the public.

ABOUT THE GUEST ENSEMBLE

Tiago Linck, trumpet
Brandon Ridenour, trumpet
Eric Reed, horn
Hillary Simms, trombone
John D. Rojak, bass trombone

The American Brass Quintet is internationally recognized as one of the premier chamber music ensembles of our time. “The most distinguished” of brass quintets (*American Record Guide*), the group has earned its stellar reputation through its celebrated performances, genre-defining commissioned works, and ongoing commitment to the education of generations of musicians. Since its founding in 1960, the American Brass Quintet has performed on five continents, made nearly 60 recordings, and premiered more than 150 contemporary works for brass.

https://www.americanbrassquintet.org

Performance:Orchestral Conducting Recital: Studio of Kenneth Kiesler
2026-02-21 20:30 - 21:30 | Earl V. Moore Building - Hankinson Rehearsal Hall
Masters and doctoral students of Kenneth Kiesler lead this concert featuring two great works of the 20th Century: Stravinsky's *Dumbarton Oaks*, his take on Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, and Copland's Ballet for Martha, *Appalachian Spring*, in its original suite for 13 players. The concert also includes Classical Era masterpiece, the Symphony No. 104, "London."

PROGRAM
Copland, *Appalachian Spring* (Suite for 13 Players)
Stravinsky, *Dumbarton Oaks Concerto*
Haydn, Symphony No. 104, "London"

Class / Instruction:Sunny Wilkinson Vocal Jazz Master Class
2026-02-22 15:00 - 17:00, 2026-03-22 15:00 - 17:00 | Stearns Building - Cady Room
Acclaimed Jazz Vocalist Sunny Wilkinson presents a vocal jazz master class; free and open to the public.

Sunny Wilkinson has taken her place in that elite group of jazz vocalists who have stretched the boundaries and found themselves “one of a kind.”

Sunny has sung with music icons such as The Count Basie Orchestra, Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass, Clark Terry, Mark Murphy, Milt Hinton, Curtis Fuller and many more. She has recorded four CDs as leader and numerous guest appearances. “Into the Light,” her newest CD, is all about family – not just Wilkinson’s immediate family, but her extended musical family as well.

This master class is generously supported by the Don Chisholm Jazz Master Class Series Fund.

Performance:[Cancelled] Dorian Hall, voice
2026-02-22 15:00 - 16:00 | Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium
This performance has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Performance:Michigan Chamber Players
2026-02-22 16:00 - 17:30 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
The Michigan Chamber Players present three pieces of chamber music from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: *Les Citations* by Henri Dutilleux, the Clarinet Trio by Johannes Brahms, and Gabriel Fauré’s Piano Quartet No. 1. Faculty and staff performers include Nancy Ambrose King, Nicholas Walker, Douglas Perkins, Joseph Gascho, Daniel Gilbert, Amir Eldan, Ana Maria Otamendi, Fabiola Kim, Matt Albert, Leo Singer, and Elena Lacheva.

Performance:Solomia Soroka, violin & Arthur Greene, piano
2026-02-22 19:00 - 20:30 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
Violinist Solomia Soroka and her husband Arthur Greene, professor of piano, will present a program titled Lost American Sonatas. A highlight is a major and magnificent sonata by Rosseter Cole, who graduated from Ann Arbor High School in 1884 and from the University of Michigan in 1888. He is buried in Ann Arbor’s Forest Hill Cemetery.

Performance:Isabella Ashtari, harp
2026-02-22 19:30 - 21:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre
Undergraduate student Isabella Ashtari performs a junior recital.

With guest perfomers Maydine Bellot, cello; Brandon Ma, viola; Anoush Rophael, violin; and Nathalie Tsimhoni, violin.

Performance:Tieran Holmes, flute & piccolo
2026-02-22 20:00 - 21:30 | Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium
Undergraduate student Tieran Holmes performs a final senior recital.

Performance:Kathy Beck, carillon
2026-02-23 12:00 - 12:30, 2026-04-13 12:00 - 12:30, 2026-04-20 12:00 - 12:30 | Burton Memorial Tower
Kathy Beck performs on the Charles Baird Carillon, an instrument of 53 bronze bells located inside the Burton Memorial Tower. The largest bell, which strikes the hour, weighs 12 tons, while the smallest bell, 4½ octaves above, weighs just 15 pounds.

Thirty-minute recitals are performed on the Charles Baird Carillon at noon every weekday that classes are in session, followed by visitor Q&A with the carillonist. The bell chamber may be accessed via a combination of elevator and stairs. Take the elevator to the highest floor possible (floor 8), and then climb two flights of stairs (39 steps) to the bell chamber (floor 10). Hearing protection earmuffs are provided for visitors. Be prepared to walk on ice and snow in the bell chamber during winter. Built in 1936, the Charles Baird Carillon is not ADA accessible. Visitors with mobility concerns are invited to visit the Lurie Carillon.

Performance:Tiffany Ng, carillon
2026-02-23 13:20 - 13:50, 2026-03-16 13:20 - 13:50, 2026-03-23 13:20 - 13:50, 2026-03-30 13:20 - 13:50, 2026-04-06 13:20 - 13:50, 2026-04-13 13:20 - 13:50, 2026-04-20 13:20 - 13:50 | Lurie Ann & Robert H. Tower
University Carillonist Tiffany Ng performs on the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Carillon, an instrument of 60 bells with the lowest bell (bourdon) weighing 6 tons.

Thirty-minute recitals are performed on the Lurie Carillon every weekday that classes are in session. During these recitals, visitors may take the elevator to level 2 to view the largest bells, or to level 3 to see the carillonist performing. (Visitors subject to acrophobia are recommended to visit level 2 only.) An optional spiral stairway between levels 2 and 3 allows for up-close views of some of the largest bells.

Class / Instruction:Martin Schmeding Organ Master Class
2026-02-23 18:00 - 20:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - Blanche Anderson Moore Recital Hall
Martin Schmeding of the European Organ Academy at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig teaches students in the Department of Organ on our Fisk Organ. Free and open to the public.

ABOUT THE GUEST ARTIST

“Breathtakingly virtuosic and full of genuine life” (The Organ/GB). “Martin Schmeding’s playing is superlatively good – good enough to allow you to forget there is someone working the instrument” (MusicWeb International)

As Professor for Organ and Artistic Director of the European Organ Academy at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig, MARTIN SCHMEDING holds one of the most prestigious posts in the organists' world. In addition, he is Guest Professor at the Royal Conservatoire of Music Birmingham and since 2024 Professor of Organ at the Royal College of Music London.

As a student, Schmeding won many prizes in major international competitions. For his numerous CD recordings, among them the complete works of Max Reger, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Johannes Brahms, he was awarded the European music prize ECHO Classic as “Soloist of the Year” (2010) and the Prize of the German Record Critics 2009, 2017 and 2020. In 2017 he was named “Professor of the Year” out of 2500 nominated German university teachers.

Born in 1975 in Minden, Westphalia, Schmeding studied in Hanover, Amsterdam and Dusseldorf. Through his teachers Ulrich Bremsteller, Lajos Rovatkay, Dr. Hans van Nieuwkoop, Jacques van Oortmerssen and Jean Boyer he is part of the important German organ tradition of Karl Straube, Guenther Ramin and Helmut Walcha, as well as of the French tradition and the Dutch historical organ movement.

Between 1999 and 2004, Schmeding filled two of the most important posts for church musicians in Germany. In 1999, he was appointed Music Director at the Neander Church in Dusseldorf. As titular organist at the Kreuzkirche in Dresden, a place with a more than 700-year-old tradition of church music, Schmeding worked from 2002 until 2004. After teaching in Hannover, Leipzig, Weimar, and Dresden, he worked as organ professor at the University of Music in Freiburg from 2004-2015 as the successor of Prof. Zsigmond Szathmáry, where he was also the chair of the church-music and organ department.

Schmeding is an active recitalist in important venues and in international festivals, a jury member for international competitions (Bach-Wettbewerb Leipzig, Bach competition Boston, Pachelbel Competition Nuremberg, Silbermann Competition Freiberg, International Organ Competition St Albans) and publisher of articles and music editions to complete his musical profile.

In 2021 he finished his PhD in musicology with a dissertation on Wolfgang Rihm’s early and organ works (summa cum laude).

Performance:Meghan Wysocki & Joe Antrim, carillon
2026-02-24 12:00 - 12:30, 2026-03-10 12:00 - 12:30, 2026-03-24 12:00 - 12:30, 2026-04-07 12:00 - 12:30, 2026-04-21 12:00 - 12:30 | Burton Memorial Tower
Meghan Wysocki & Joe Antrim perform on the Charles Baird Carillon, an instrument of 53 bronze bells located inside the Burton Memorial Tower. The largest bell, which strikes the hour, weighs 12 tons, while the smallest bell, 4½ octaves above, weighs just 15 pounds.

Thirty-minute recitals are performed on the Charles Baird Carillon at noon every weekday that classes are in session, followed by visitor Q&A with the carillonist. The bell chamber may be accessed via a combination of elevator and stairs. Take the elevator to the highest floor possible (floor 8), and then climb two flights of stairs (39 steps) to the bell chamber (floor 10). Hearing protection earmuffs are provided for visitors. Be prepared to walk on ice and snow in the bell chamber during winter. Built in 1936, the Charles Baird Carillon is not ADA accessible. Visitors with mobility concerns are invited to visit the Lurie Carillon.

Performance:Adam Lenhart, carillon
2026-02-24 13:20 - 13:50, 2026-03-10 13:20 - 13:50, 2026-03-17 13:20 - 13:50, 2026-03-24 13:20 - 13:50, 2026-03-31 13:20 - 13:50, 2026-04-07 13:20 - 13:50, 2026-04-14 13:20 - 13:50, 2026-04-21 13:20 - 13:50 | Lurie Ann & Robert H. Tower
Graduate student Adam Lenhart performs on the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Carillon, an instrument of 60 bells with the lowest bell (bourdon) weighing 6 tons.

Thirty-minute recitals are performed on the Lurie Carillon every weekday that classes are in session. During these recitals, visitors may take the elevator to level 2 to view the largest bells, or to level 3 to see the carillonist performing. (Visitors subject to acrophobia are recommended to visit level 2 only.) An optional spiral stairway between levels 2 and 3 allows for up-close views of some of the largest bells.

Lecture / Discussion:Hua'er: Mountain Songs of Gansu, China
2026-02-24 19:30 - 21:00 | Stearns Building - Cady Room
In advance of her concerts at the Keene Theater and U-M Hospital, Dr. Haiqiong Deng will deliver a lecture exploring music, ritual, and community in northwestern China.

Part of the Virginia Martin Howard Lecture Series

Presented by the Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments

Performance:Austin Zhu & Adam Lenhart, carillon
2026-02-25 12:00 - 12:30, 2026-03-11 12:00 - 12:30, 2026-03-25 12:00 - 12:30, 2026-04-08 12:00 - 12:30 | Burton Memorial Tower
Graduate students Austin Zhu & Adam Lenhart perform on the Charles Baird Carillon, an instrument of 53 bronze bells located inside the Burton Memorial Tower. The largest bell, which strikes the hour, weighs 12 tons, while the smallest bell, 4½ octaves above, weighs just 15 pounds.

Thirty-minute recitals are performed on the Charles Baird Carillon at noon every weekday that classes are in session, followed by visitor Q&A with the carillonist. The bell chamber may be accessed via a combination of elevator and stairs. Take the elevator to the highest floor possible (floor 8), and then climb two flights of stairs (39 steps) to the bell chamber (floor 10). Hearing protection earmuffs are provided for visitors. Be prepared to walk on ice and snow in the bell chamber during winter. Built in 1936, the Charles Baird Carillon is not ADA accessible. Visitors with mobility concerns are invited to visit the Lurie Carillon.

Performance:Eva Albalghiti, carillon
2026-02-25 13:20 - 13:50, 2026-03-11 13:20 - 13:50, 2026-03-18 13:20 - 13:50, 2026-03-25 13:20 - 13:50, 2026-04-01 13:20 - 13:50, 2026-04-08 13:20 - 13:50, 2026-04-15 13:20 - 13:50 | Lurie Ann & Robert H. Tower
Eva Albalghiti performs on the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Carillon, an instrument of 60 bells with the lowest bell (bourdon) weighing 6 tons.

Thirty-minute recitals are performed on the Lurie Carillon every weekday that classes are in session. During these recitals, visitors may take the elevator to level 2 to view the largest bells, or to level 3 to see the carillonist performing. (Visitors subject to acrophobia are recommended to visit level 2 only.) An optional spiral stairway between levels 2 and 3 allows for up-close views of some of the largest bells.

Lecture / Discussion:Pre-Concert Lecture: University Symphony Orchestra
2026-02-25 19:15 - 19:45 | Hill Auditorium - Lower Level Lobby
This lecture begins at 7:15 pm before the 8:00 pm USO performance.

Performance:Music from Many Mountains
2026-02-25 19:30 - 21:00 | East Quadrangle - Keene Theater
A program of traditional, newly composed, and improvised music featuring renowned special guest Haiqiong Deng, with collaborative European and Asian stringed instruments. Free and open to the public; presented by the Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments.

Haiqiong Deng, *zheng* and *qin*;
Xiaodong Wei, *erhu*;
Joseph Gascho, harpsichord; and
Timothy McAllister, saxophone
with colleagues and students from the University of Michigan

Pre-Concert Talk and Demo at 6:45 pm

Performance:University Symphony Orchestra
2026-02-25 20:00 - 22:00 | Hill Auditorium
The USO strives for and attains the highest level of excellence as a symphony orchestra. Led by the Director of Orchestras, the USO has performed on GRAMMY Award-winning and GRAMMY-nominated albums and is committed to performing the greatest works in the symphonic repertoire from the Classical, Romantic, and Modern eras, with concerts in historic Hill Auditorium. The USO frequently commissions new works, performs with celebrated guest soloists, and is one of the ensembles that accompanies the SMTD Concerto Competition winners.

Kenneth Kiesler, conductor

Performance:Tiffany Ng, carillon
2026-02-26 12:00 - 12:30, 2026-02-27 12:00 - 12:30, 2026-03-09 12:00 - 12:30, 2026-03-12 12:00 - 12:30, 2026-03-13 12:00 - 12:30, 2026-03-16 12:00 - 12:30, 2026-03-19 12:00 - 12:30, 2026-03-23 12:00 - 12:30 and 6 more dates | Burton Memorial Tower
University Carillonist Tiffany Ng performs on the Charles Baird Carillon, an instrument of 53 bronze bells located inside the Burton Memorial Tower. The largest bell, which strikes the hour, weighs 12 tons, while the smallest bell, 4½ octaves above, weighs just 15 pounds.

Thirty-minute recitals are performed on the Charles Baird Carillon at noon every weekday that classes are in session, followed by visitor Q&A with the carillonist. The bell chamber may be accessed via a combination of elevator and stairs. Take the elevator to the highest floor possible (floor 8), and then climb two flights of stairs (39 steps) to the bell chamber (floor 10). Hearing protection earmuffs are provided for visitors. Be prepared to walk on ice and snow in the bell chamber during winter. Built in 1936, the Charles Baird Carillon is not ADA accessible. Visitors with mobility concerns are invited to visit the Lurie Carillon.

Performance:Music from Many Mountains
2026-02-26 12:00 - 13:30 | Off Campus Location
A program of traditional, newly composed, and improvised music featuring renowned special guest Haiqiong Deng, with collaborative European and Asian stringed instruments. Free and open to the public; presented by the Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments.

Haiqiong Deng, *zheng* and *qin*;
Xiaodong Wei, *erhu*;
Joseph Gascho, harpsichord; and
Timothy McAllister, saxophone
with colleagues and students from the University of Michigan

Performance:Division Street Pipes
2026-02-26 12:15 - 12:45 | Off Campus Location
Join us for a 30-minute organ recital performed by Nicholas Welch, master's degree student in sacred music.

Division Street Pipes concerts features talented students and faculty of the U-M Organ Department on Thursdays at 12:15pm on the Richards-Fowkes organ at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church. These 30-minute performances are free and open to the public, and audience members are invited to enjoy their lunch while listening.

The series is co-sponsored by the University of Michigan Organ Department and St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in an effort to bring organ music to local audiences while connecting U-M organ students with the wider community. Concerts offer attendees the opportunity to hear the versatility of the pipe organ beyond a worship setting. The Winter 2026 concert series begins on January 15 and it will continue weekly through April 16 (with the exception of April 2).

Performance:Jessi Grieser, carillon
2026-02-26 13:20 - 13:50, 2026-03-26 13:20 - 13:50 | Lurie Ann & Robert H. Tower
LSA faculty member Jessi Grieser performs on the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Carillon, an instrument of 60 bells with the lowest bell (bourdon) weighing 6 tons.

Thirty-minute recitals are performed on the Lurie Carillon every weekday that classes are in session. During these recitals, visitors may take the elevator to level 2 to view the largest bells, or to level 3 to see the carillonist performing. (Visitors subject to acrophobia are recommended to visit level 2 only.) An optional spiral stairway between levels 2 and 3 allows for up-close views of some of the largest bells.

Lecture / Discussion:Carrigan Lecture in Music Theory: Professor Olivia Lucas
2026-02-26 16:30 - 18:30 | Earl V. Moore Building - Watkins Lecture Hall
The Department of Music Theory hosts a presentation by guest scholar Olivia R. Lucas as part of the Carrigan Lecture Series in Music Theory. Free and open to the public.

ABSTRACT

What does it mean to love a song that expresses the brutality of intimate partner violence? And further, what does it mean to analyze such a song—to discover its deep structure?

In this paper, I examine the experience of listening to and analyzing the music of the experimental musician Lingua Ignota. Taking her project name from Hildegard von Bingen’s mystical constructed language, her music explores the intersections of Christianity, trauma, and intimate partner abuse. Sonically, her music traverses deconstructed elements of metal and noise music, vocal techniques that range from extended screams to classical mezzo-soprano, and extensively researched references to Catholic, Pentecostal, Mennonite, and Western art musical traditions. The resulting complexly layered musical texts deploy the subjectivity of Christian faith as a metaphor for intimate partner abuse. I trace how the timbral, textual, and vocal-expressive layers of Lingua Ignota’s music shape deeply uncomfortable sonic experiences in which a victim’s struggle to make her abuser love her is given the apocalyptic scale of a sinner struggling to avoid eternal hellfire. Building on recent work in critical music theory, I use these uncomfortable emotional experiences to explore moments when analytical writing seems to fail.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

OLIVIA R. LUCAS is an Associate Professor of Music Theory at Louisiana State University. Her work on metal music has been published in *Music Theory Online*, *Popular Music*, *The Journal of Sonic Studies*, and several edited volumes. Her article “Performing Analysis, Performing Metal” won the 2023 SMT Emerging Scholar (Article) award. She also co-edited the volume *Teaching Difficult Topics: Reflections from the Undergraduate Music Classroom* (University of Michigan Press, 2024). In her free time she enjoys dancing with her Mardi Gras Krewe, the Ogden Park Coven.

Lecture / Discussion:Lauren Chipman: “Designing your Career”
2026-02-26 16:45 - 18:30 | Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium
Lauren Chipman, CEO of Chipman Design Architecture and award-winning Violist, leads a discussion and workshop with SMTD students that explores the professional potential of their creativity and talent.

Free and open to the public. Event sponsored by EXCEL – the Excellence in Entrepreneurship, Career Empowerment & Leadership (EXCEL) Lab is SMTD’s home base for performing arts entrepreneurship, leadership, and career services.

SPEAKER BIO

LAUREN CHIPMAN, a true multi-disciplinary designer and performing artist, brings a distinct sense of creative leadership to her position as Chief Executive Officer at Chipman Design Architecture. Prior to her work at Chipman, Lauren performed professionally as a string instrumentalist with a resume that includes recording for television, film, and top Billboard artists.

Today, Lauren is proud to be part of the third generation to carry on her family’s legacy. Lauren’s unconventional background and innate sense of innovation allow her to bring a fresh perspective to the impact of hospitality, retail, and restaurant spaces. Despite helming a well-established firm that supports national clients like Chick-fil-A, Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams, Ulta Beauty, Marriott, Peet’s Coffee and CVS, Lauren’s entrepreneurial vision often goes beyond traditional industry approaches. From pioneering integration of new technology in the conceptual design process to almost exclusively recruiting multi-hyphenate talent, Lauren directs the company with the future in mind.

A holistic leader, Lauren leverages her own experience as an industry outsider to cultivate a unique, forward-thinking environment composed of a team with diverse backgrounds. She pushes the firm to not only solve for present design challenges, but also develop foresight into cultural and behavioral changes. This high level of adaptable strategy allows the firm to keep clients ahead of the curve, and nimble in response industry shifts. Lauren has spoken at numerous conferences, including Globalshop, Google Zeitgeist, design:retail Forum, MUFES, MUFSO and Bitac Luxury. A Professional Affiliate of the AIA, Lauren also holds memberships in such industry organizations as NOMA and RDI and was recently recognized with vmsd’s “40 under 40 award.”

Performance:Meghan Wysocki, carillon
2026-02-26 18:00 - 19:00 | Burton Memorial Tower
Undergraduate student Meghan Wysocki performs a recital on the Charles Baird Carillon, an instrument of 53 bronze bells located inside the Burton Memorial Tower.

The largest bell, which strikes the hour, weighs 12 tons, while the smallest bell, 4½ octaves above, weighs just 15 pounds.

Performance:Amanda Raymond, piano
2026-02-26 19:30 - 21:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
DMA candidate in collaborative piano Amanda Raymond performs a dissertation recital.

Performance:Jazz Lab Ensemble
2026-02-26 20:00 - 22:00, 2026-04-16 20:00 - 22:00 | Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Rackham Auditorium
Designed to rehearse, perform, and examine the repertoire of the jazz big band, the Jazz Lab Ensemble explores classic, historically significant repertoire as well as new arrangements and/or compositions. This is also a class that is intended to develop the necessary skills of section lead playing, rehearsal techniques, jazz phrasing and styles. A wide selection of materials is used to attain these goals including the music of classic big bands such as the Thad Jones Orchestra, Count Basie Orchestra, Dizzy Gillespie Band, Oliver Nelson, Duke Pearson and Duke Ellington Orchestra.

Dennis Wilson, conductor

Performance:Saxophone Studio Recital
2026-02-26 20:00 - 21:30 | Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium
Saxophone students of Professor Timothy McAllister perform a recital.

Performance:Martin Schmeding, organ
2026-02-26 20:00 - 21:00 | Hill Auditorium
The Department of Organ hosts a recital by guest artist Martin Schmeding. Free and open to the public.

ABOUT THE GUEST ARTIST

“Breathtakingly virtuosic and full of genuine life” (The Organ/GB). “Martin Schmeding’s playing is superlatively good – good enough to allow you to forget there is someone working the instrument” (MusicWeb International)

As Professor for Organ and Artistic Director of the European Organ Academy at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig, MARTIN SCHMEDING holds one of the most prestigious posts in the organists' world. In addition, he is Guest Professor at the Royal Conservatoire of Music Birmingham and since 2024 Professor of Organ at the Royal College of Music London.

As a student, Schmeding won many prizes in major international competitions. For his numerous CD recordings, among them the complete works of Max Reger, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Johannes Brahms, he was awarded the European music prize ECHO Classic as “Soloist of the Year” (2010) and the Prize of the German Record Critics 2009, 2017 and 2020. In 2017 he was named “Professor of the Year” out of 2500 nominated German university teachers.

Born in 1975 in Minden, Westphalia, Schmeding studied in Hanover, Amsterdam and Dusseldorf. Through his teachers Ulrich Bremsteller, Lajos Rovatkay, Dr. Hans van Nieuwkoop, Jacques van Oortmerssen and Jean Boyer he is part of the important German organ tradition of Karl Straube, Guenther Ramin and Helmut Walcha, as well as of the French tradition and the Dutch historical organ movement.

Between 1999 and 2004, Schmeding filled two of the most important posts for church musicians in Germany. In 1999, he was appointed Music Director at the Neander Church in Dusseldorf. As titular organist at the Kreuzkirche in Dresden, a place with a more than 700-year-old tradition of church music, Schmeding worked from 2002 until 2004. After teaching in Hannover, Leipzig, Weimar, and Dresden, he worked as organ professor at the University of Music in Freiburg from 2004-2015 as the successor of Prof. Zsigmond Szathmáry, where he was also the chair of the church-music and organ department.

Schmeding is an active recitalist in important venues and in international festivals, a jury member for international competitions (Bach-Wettbewerb Leipzig, Bach competition Boston, Pachelbel Competition Nuremberg, Silbermann Competition Freiberg, International Organ Competition St Albans) and publisher of articles and music editions to complete his musical profile.

In 2021 he finished his PhD in musicology with a dissertation on Wolfgang Rihm’s early and organ works (summa cum laude).

Performance:Lon Mitchell, carillon
2026-02-27 13:20 - 13:50, 2026-03-27 13:20 - 13:50, 2026-04-10 13:20 - 13:50 | Lurie Ann & Robert H. Tower
Lon Mitchell performs on the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Carillon, an instrument of 60 bells with the lowest bell (bourdon) weighing 6 tons.

Thirty-minute recitals are performed on the Lurie Carillon every weekday that classes are in session. During these recitals, visitors may take the elevator to level 2 to view the largest bells, or to level 3 to see the carillonist performing. (Visitors subject to acrophobia are recommended to visit level 2 only.) An optional spiral stairway between levels 2 and 3 allows for up-close views of some of the largest bells.

Performance:Frances B. Furlong Scholarship Recital: Kevin Ludwig, voice
2026-02-27 17:30 - 18:30 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
Undergraduate student Kevin Ludwig performs a recital.

The Frances B. Furlong Scholarship and annual recital event were established by Ann (BS '57) and Charles Hutchins (BSE '57) in memory of music teacher Frances Furlong (1894-1997). The scholarship provides support for outstanding music students in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance.

Performance:DMA Piano Concerto Concert
2026-02-27 19:30 - 21:30 | Hill Auditorium
Students pursuing the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree in Piano Performance / Pedagogy will perform piano concertos in collaboration with the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra.

This partnership is sponsored by the School of Music, Theatre & Dance with generous support from the Dr. Naomi J. Oliphant Endowed Music Fund established by alumna Naomi Oliphant (DMA ’82, piano).

PROGRAM

*Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini*, Rachmaninoff
Rong Sui, soloist

Piano Concerto No. 1, Tchaikovsky
Shuaizhi Wang, soloist

Performance:Rachel Zephir, band conducting
2026-02-27 20:00 - 21:30 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
DMA candidate in band/wind conducting Rachel Zephir performs a recital.

Performance:DMA Piano Concerto Concert
2026-02-28 19:30 - 21:30 | Hill Auditorium
Students pursuing the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree in Piano Performance / Pedagogy will perform piano concertos in collaboration with the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra.

This partnership is sponsored by the School of Music, Theatre & Dance with generous support from the Dr. Naomi J. Oliphant Endowed Music Fund established by alumna Naomi Oliphant (DMA ’82, piano).

PROGRAM

Piano Concerto No. 2, Rachmaninoff
Mira Walker, soloist

Piano Concerto No. 3, Rachmaninoff
John Solari, soloist

Performance:Division Street Pipes
2026-03-05 12:15 - 12:45 | Off Campus Location
Join us for a 30-minute organ recital performed by undergraduate student Latimer Rogland.

Division Street Pipes concerts features talented students and faculty of the U-M Organ Department on Thursdays at 12:15pm on the Richards-Fowkes organ at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church. These 30-minute performances are free and open to the public, and audience members are invited to enjoy their lunch while listening.

The series is co-sponsored by the University of Michigan Organ Department and St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in an effort to bring organ music to local audiences while connecting U-M organ students with the wider community. Concerts offer attendees the opportunity to hear the versatility of the pipe organ beyond a worship setting. The Winter 2026 concert series begins on January 15 and it will continue weekly through April 16 (with the exception of April 2).

Performance:Tiffany Ng & Sarah Penrose, carillon
2026-03-09 13:20 - 13:50 | Lurie Ann & Robert H. Tower
Tiffany Ng & Sarah Penrose perform on the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Carillon, an instrument of 60 bells with the lowest bell (bourdon) weighing 6 tons.

Thirty-minute recitals are performed on the Lurie Carillon every weekday that classes are in session. During these recitals, visitors may take the elevator to level 2 to view the largest bells, or to level 3 to see the carillonist performing. (Visitors subject to acrophobia are recommended to visit level 2 only.) An optional spiral stairway between levels 2 and 3 allows for up-close views of some of the largest bells.

Performance:María Fernanda Castillo, flute
2026-03-09 19:30 - 21:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
Dynamic Venezuelan flutist María Fernanda Castillo (University of Tennessee-Knoxville) joins forces with SMTD Faculty Joe Gascho, Amy Porter, and Ana María Otamendi, guest artist Christopher Turbessi, and SMTD students Alan Cook and Jordan Smith in an evening of Latin American music. Works by Andrés Eloy Rodríguez, Miguel del Águila, José Elizondo, and Domenico Zipoli.

Performance:Jisun Lee, violin
2026-03-09 20:00 - 21:30 | Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium
Graduate student Jisun Lee performs a specialist's degree recital.

Performance:Jingbo Zong, piano
2026-03-10 19:30 - 21:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
Graduate student Jingbo Zong performs a final master's degree recital.

Performance:Akropolis Reed Quintet
2026-03-10 20:00 - 21:30 | Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium
As the first ensemble to be given the Paul Boylan Award by the SMTD Alumni Board, Akropolis Reed Quintet will perform a recital at 8:00 pm on Tuesday, March 10, 2026 in Stamps Auditorium. The program will include the world premiere of a new work by SMTD student composer and soprano, Mikeila McQueston, who will also perform with Akropolis on her new composition. Additional works programmed will include Derrick Skye's *A Soulful Nexus*, commissioned by Akropolis with support of the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Fund, and a feature on the quintet's forthcoming 7th album.

ABOUT THE ENSEMBLE

Akropolis Reed Quintet is:
Timothy Gocklin (BM ’12, oboe)
Kari Landry (BM ’13, MM ’13, clarinet)
Matt Landry (BM ’10, saxophone)
Andrew Koeppe (attended ’12, clarinet)
Ryan Reynolds (BM ’12, MM ’14, bassoon)

Founded in 2009, the Grammy Award-winning Akropolis Reed Quintet is “a sonically daring ensemble who specializes in performing new works with charisma and integrity” (*BBC Music Magazine*). Comprising five reed players and entrepreneurs unbounded by limits or categorization, Akropolis has graced the Classical Billboard charts with each of their last three albums, including the #2 spot in April 2024, and has won seven national chamber music prizes, including the 2014 Fischoff Gold Medal. Having premiered and commissioned more than 200 works by living artists and composers, they are pioneers and champions of a new genre of classical music – the reed quintet.

Composed of the same five members that brought about its founding over 15 years ago at the University of Michigan, Akropolis delivers 120 concerts and educational events worldwide each year at luminary series including Tanglewood, Bravo! Vail, University Musical Society, Chamber Music Northwest, and more. Akropolis became the first ever Grammy-winning reed quintet with their 2024 album *Are We Dreaming the Same Dream?*, in collaboration with Pascal Le Boeuf and drummer Christian Euman, taking home Best Instrumental Composition for the track “Strands” at the 67th Grammy Awards held in February 2025.

Utilizing their “sheer musical imagination” (*Gramophone*), the quintet is also known for powerful collaborations with youth and others within its Southeast Michigan community. Certified as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, Akropolis runs a Detroit-based summer festival called Together We Sound; holds annual, school-year-long music composition residencies at Cass Tech, Martin Luther King Jr., and Detroit School of Arts high schools; and produces the 10-day Chamber Music Institute focused on artist training and mentorship in Petoskey, Michigan.

Performance:Division Street Pipes
2026-03-12 12:15 - 12:45 | Off Campus Location
Join us for a 30-minute organ recital performed by Oliver Steissberg, master's degree student in sacred music.

Division Street Pipes concerts features talented students and faculty of the U-M Organ Department on Thursdays at 12:15pm on the Richards-Fowkes organ at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church. These 30-minute performances are free and open to the public, and audience members are invited to enjoy their lunch while listening.

The series is co-sponsored by the University of Michigan Organ Department and St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in an effort to bring organ music to local audiences while connecting U-M organ students with the wider community. Concerts offer attendees the opportunity to hear the versatility of the pipe organ beyond a worship setting. The Winter 2026 concert series begins on January 15 and it will continue weekly through April 16 (with the exception of April 2).

Performance:Tiffany Ng & Joe Antrim, carillon
2026-03-12 13:20 - 13:50, 2026-04-02 13:20 - 13:50 | Lurie Ann & Robert H. Tower
Tiffany Ng & Joe Antrim perform on the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Carillon, an instrument of 60 bells with the lowest bell (bourdon) weighing 6 tons.

Thirty-minute recitals are performed on the Lurie Carillon every weekday that classes are in session. During these recitals, visitors may take the elevator to level 2 to view the largest bells, or to level 3 to see the carillonist performing. (Visitors subject to acrophobia are recommended to visit level 2 only.) An optional spiral stairway between levels 2 and 3 allows for up-close views of some of the largest bells.

Lecture / Discussion:Pre-Concert Lecture: Symphony Band
2026-03-12 19:15 - 19:45 | Hill Auditorium - Lower Level Lobby
This lecture begins at 7:15 pm before the 8:00 pm Symphony Band performance.

Performance:BFA Directing First Year Showcase
2026-03-12 19:30 - 21:00 | Walgreen Drama Center - Newman Studio
The Freshman Directing Showcase is back! See what the first year directors and actors are up to!
Back for the first time in three years, this event is produced by first year performance majors from the Department of Theatre & Drama.

Each member of the '29 BFA directing cohort will present a 10-15 minute performance piece (90 minutes total) featuring first year actors. This event will feature work directed by Khwahish Choudhary, Noor Choudhury, Kourtlyn Eaddy, Elby Schader, and Adèle Vincent.

Performance:Caleb Frailey, violin
2026-03-12 19:30 - 21:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
Undergraduate student Caleb Frailey performs a final senior recital.

Performance:Symphony Band
2026-03-12 20:00 - 22:00 | Hill Auditorium
Song and dance takes center stage as the Symphony Band presents a whirlwind concert of diverse grooves. Jazz influences permeate several pieces of the program, including Leonard Bernstein's famous *Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs* for jazz band, piano and clarinet soloist. Originally written for Benny Goodman, this performance features faculty members Daniel Gilbert and Ellen Rowe, who has also arranged a special version of *My Funny Valentine* for this concert. The brilliant young American composer Jesse Montgomery will also be on hand for the consortium premiere of her *Coincident Dances*, co-commissioned by the University of Michigan Symphony Band through the support of the H. Robert Reynolds Commissioning Fund.

Jason Fettig, conductor
Kristina LaMarca, student conductor
Ellen Rowe, piano
Daniel Gilbert, clarinet

PROGRAM
*Solitary Dancer*, Warren Benson
*j'ai 'ete au Bal*, Donald Grantham
*My Funny Valentine*, Rogers and Hart / arr. Ellen Rowe
*Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs*, Leonard Bernstein
*Coincident Dances*, Jesse Montgomery
*Dance Suite* (1923), Béla Bartók/ trans. R. Mark Rogers

Performance:Adam Lenhart & Sarah Penrose, carillon
2026-03-13 13:20 - 13:50 | Lurie Ann & Robert H. Tower
Adam Lenhart & Sarah Penrose perform on the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Carillon, an instrument of 60 bells with the lowest bell (bourdon) weighing 6 tons.

Thirty-minute recitals are performed on the Lurie Carillon every weekday that classes are in session. During these recitals, visitors may take the elevator to level 2 to view the largest bells, or to level 3 to see the carillonist performing. (Visitors subject to acrophobia are recommended to visit level 2 only.) An optional spiral stairway between levels 2 and 3 allows for up-close views of some of the largest bells.

Performance:Jiyeon Lee, piano
2026-03-13 17:30 - 18:30 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
Graduate student Jiyeon Lee performs a final master's degree recital.

Performance:Fawn
2026-03-13 20:00 - 21:00, 2026-03-14 20:00 - 21:00, 2026-03-15 18:00 - 19:00 | Off Campus Location
Associate Professor of Dance Charli Brissey directs and performs in this hour-long show created through interrelated experiments in dance, writing, video, and sound. The choreography includes the design of an original surround sound score which will be experienced “in the round” by audience members, as well as lighting by Design and Production faculty Jess Fialko.

While the word “fawn” is most commonly used to refer to a baby deer, another meaning of the word describes a trauma response in which someone tries to appease a threat and/or ensure survival through flattery or cringing. The word “fawn” is also commonly confused with “faun,” a human-animal deity and the protagonist of Nijinsky’s famously controversial ballet “Afternoon of a Faun.” This performance weaves these various etymological and mythological lineages of “fawn” and “faun” into an inherently queer dreamscape that asks questions about grief, survival, desire, power, and vulnerability in a precarious ecosystem. The performance blends methods and practices from both autofiction and science fiction, weaving the artists’ lived experiences with speculative experiments in how to hold immense contradictions and overwhelming emotional states in one body.

Age Recommendation: 12+
Tickets Required (free and donation)

https://www.charliisananimal.com/

*This performance is made possible through generous support from the University of Michigan Arts Research: Incubation and Acceleration Grant (ARIA), the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG), the Research, Catalyst, and Innovation Program (RCI), and the Department of Dance.*

Performance:Nicholas Oclassen, jazz trombone
2026-03-13 20:00 - 21:30 | Stearns Building - Cady Room
Undergraduate student Nicholas Oclassen performs a recital.

Performance:Natalie Feldpausch, chamber oboe
2026-03-14 15:00 - 16:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
Graduate student Natalie Feldpausch, oboe, performs in a chamber music recital.

Performance:Diego Patiño, double bass
2026-03-14 15:00 - 16:00 | Stearns Building - Cady Room
Undergraduate student Diego Patiño performs a final senior recital.

Performance:Allison Park, clarinet
2026-03-14 17:30 - 18:30 | Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium
Undergraduate student Allison Park performs a final senior recital.

Performance:Kevin Payne, jazz percussion
2026-03-14 20:00 - 21:30 | Stearns Building - Cady Room
Undergraduate student Kevin Payne performs a final senior recital.

Performance:Jake Nowell, French horn
2026-03-15 12:30 - 13:30 | Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium
Undergraduate student Jake Nowell performs a final senior recital.

Performance:Telegraph Quartet
2026-03-15 16:00 - 18:00 | Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium
Known for their technical prowess and appreciation for the history behind the music, the Telegraph Quartet brings fluid synchronicity and refined artistry to a program that showcases the work of two contemporary American composers, Kenji Bunch (b. 1973) and George Rochberg (1918 – 2005).

The ensemble will perform Kenji Bunch’s String Quartet No. 5, *Music for a Shared Space*, and George Rochberg’s String Quartet No. 3. Bunch’s fifth string quartet encrypts beautiful lines from the second movement of W.A. Mozart’s divertimenti, which pulse throughout the work, culminating in a joyous, rocking final anthem. Rochberg’s String Quartet No. 3 was born of profound loss and a longing for meaning. Rochberg breaks from strict modernism and rebuilds his musical world using memory, woven into something newly vulnerable. The resulting quartet feels like a raw confession of grief and slow recovery of beauty.

Of these two works, the Telegraph Quartet says:

“Despite being written 50 years apart, both the Rochberg and the Bunch share a kinship as art that finds its voice and power by embodying the styles of others as their own. Rochberg's String Quartet No. 3 marked a turning point for this composer, who released himself from only composing in a dissonant, academically acceptable 20th-century style. Instead, he allowed himself what was then the heresy of speaking fluently in the musical language of past composers like Mahler and late Beethoven, juxtaposing those with his former thorny modernist dialect. Similarly, Kenji Bunch's *Music for a Shared Space* accomplishes something very similar; between Afro-funk grooves and rhythm and blues versions of Mozart divertimenti, we find Bunch moving fluently from one popular style to the next and sweetly mixing that music with those of the past, continuing this opening of styles, cultural and chronological, that Rochberg dared to break open during his time.”

ABOUT TELEGRAPH QUARTET
Erin Chin & Joseph Maile, violins
Pei-Ling Lin, viola
Jeremiah Shaw, cello

The TELEGRAPH QUARTET formed in 2013 with an equal passion for standard and contemporary chamber music repertoire. Described by the *San Francisco Chronicle* as “…an incredibly valuable addition to the cultural landscape” and “powerfully adept… with a combination of brilliance and subtlety,” the Telegraph Quartet was awarded the prestigious 2016 Walter W. Naumburg Chamber Music Award and the Grand Prize at the 2014 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition. The quartet is currently the quartet-in-residence at the University of Michigan.

The quartet has performed in New York City’s Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, San Francisco’s Herbst Theatre, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s *Chamber Masters Series*, and at festivals including the Chautauqua Institute, Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, and the Emilia Romagna Festival. They have collaborated with pianists Leon Fleisher and Simone Dinnerstein; cellists Norman Fischer and Bonnie Hampton; violinist Ian Swensen; and the St. Lawrence Quartet and Henschel Quartett. A fervent champion of 20th- and 21st-century repertoire, the Telegraph Quartet has premiered works by Osvaldo Golijov, John Harbison, Robert Sirota, and Richard Festinger.

In 2023, the Telegraph Quartet released *20th Century Vantage Points: Divergent Paths*, the first in a trilogy of recordings on Azica Records exploring the string quartets of the first half of the 20th century – an era of music that the group has felt especially called to perform since its formation. *Divergent Paths*features two works that (to the best of the quartet’s knowledge) have never been recorded on the same album before: Maurice Ravel’s String Quartet in F Major and Arnold Schoenberg’s String Quartet no. 1 in D minor, op. 7. The quartet’s new album, *20th Century Vantage Points: Edge of the Storm* is out now on Azica Records.

www.telegraphquartet.com

Performance:Michigan Youth Symphonic Band / Philharmonia Orchestra / Symphony Orchestra Spring Performance
2026-03-15 16:30 - 19:30 | Hill Auditorium
Join us for the spring performance of the Michigan Youth Symphonic Band, the Michigan Youth Philharmonia Orchestra, and the Michigan Youth Symphony Orchestra. These ensembles are part of the Michigan Youth Ensembles (MYE) program, which brings together exceptional high school students for weekly rehearsals at SMTD. MYE Students, who are selected by audition, have the opportunity to engage in a stimulating environment, while learning from U-M conductors, applied faculty, and graduate students.

Michigan Youth Symphonic Band (MYSB)
Courtney Snyder, conductor

Michigan Youth Philharmonia Orchestra (MYPO)
Michael Hopkins, conductor

Michigan Youth Symphony Orchestra (MYSO)
Jayce Ogren, conductor

PROGRAM (MYSB)
*Love and Nature*, Gala Flagello
*Chorale and Alleluia*, Howard Hanson
*Angels in Architecture*, Frank Ticheli
*Mothership*, Mason Bates

PROGRAM (MYPO)
*Acropolis (City of Bows)*, Michael Hopkins
*Fugue* (from "L'estro Armonico"), A. Vivaldi & J.S. Bach / arr. Bob Lipton
*Contemplation*, Elena Roussanova Lucas
*A Little Stream (Xiao He Tang Shui)*, arr. Albert Wang
Symphony No. 9 in C - *Allegro Molto*, F.J. Haydn, arr. Sandra Dackow

PROGRAM (MYSO)
Prelude from Concerto Gross #1, Ernest Bloch
*Dream Elegy*, Jonathan Bailey Holland
Violin Concerto No. 1 - 1st movement, Max Bruch
Symphony No. 1, Gustav Mahler

Performance:Janna Peña, piano
2026-03-15 16:30 - 17:30 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
DMA student Janna Peña performs a pre-candidate recital.

Performance:Felix Guggenheim, violin
2026-03-15 17:00 - 18:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre
Undergraduate student Felix Guggenheim performs a junior recital.

Performance:John Ellis, piano
2026-03-15 19:00 - 20:30 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
Professor of Piano John Ellis will perform a recital including *Ma plus belle histoire d'amour* by Monique Serf/arr. Michel Block, *Novelette* no. 1 by Poulenc, *Ballade* no. 4 in F minor, Op. 52 by Chopin, *Prélude, Choral et Fugue* by Franck, and *Fantasy* in C, Op. 17 by Schumann.

FACULTY BIO
https://smtd.umich.edu/profiles/john-ellis/

Performance:Alan Cook, flute
2026-03-15 19:30 - 21:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre
Graduate student Alan Cook performs a recital.

Performance:Michael Baker, chamber euphonium
2026-03-15 20:00 - 21:30 | Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium
Graduate student Michael Baker, euphonium, performs in a chamber music recital.

Performance:Jessi Grieser, carillon
2026-03-17 12:00 - 12:30, 2026-04-16 12:00 - 12:30 | Burton Memorial Tower
LSA faculty member Jessi Grieser performs on the Charles Baird Carillon, an instrument of 53 bronze bells located inside the Burton Memorial Tower. The largest bell, which strikes the hour, weighs 12 tons, while the smallest bell, 4½ octaves above, weighs just 15 pounds.

Thirty-minute recitals are performed on the Charles Baird Carillon at noon every weekday that classes are in session, followed by visitor Q&A with the carillonist. The bell chamber may be accessed via a combination of elevator and stairs. Take the elevator to the highest floor possible (floor 8), and then climb two flights of stairs (39 steps) to the bell chamber (floor 10). Hearing protection earmuffs are provided for visitors. Be prepared to walk on ice and snow in the bell chamber during winter. Built in 1936, the Charles Baird Carillon is not ADA accessible. Visitors with mobility concerns are invited to visit the Lurie Carillon.

Performance:Stearns Collection Lunchtime Concert Series
2026-03-17 12:00 - 13:00 | Off Campus Location
Join us for this month's free lunchtime concert at NCRC. In celebration of St. Patrick's Day, local musicians offer a set of traditional Irish dance tunes for the season including jigs, reels, polkas, and more! In addition, members of the SMTD Baroque Orchestra will perform on historical instruments.

Featured performers:
Marty Somberg, fiddle; Hannah Harris, fiddle; Alberto “Bear" Whitmer, guitar; John Driscoll, flute; Tristan Pruss, Irish *uilleann* pipes, tin whistle, and *bodhrán*; Evan Chambers, fiddle

Feel free to bring your lunch or buy it in the NCRC cafe. Paid visitor parking is available across the street with the AMP parking app.

Performance:Violin Studio Evening of Encores
2026-03-17 18:30 - 20:00 | Off Campus Location
Back by popular demand!

Encores offer a chance to delight, surprise, and dazzle our audiences – sometimes playful and intimate, other times bold and virtuosic. In this off-campus performance at the beautiful Temple Beth Emeth, nineteen violinists from the studio of Danielle Belen join with pianists Naki Kripfgans and Bogum Park in a fast-paced evening of short works from the repertoire.

Lecture / Discussion:Pre-Concert Lecture: Concert Band
2026-03-17 19:15 - 19:45 | Hill Auditorium - Lower Level Lobby
This lecture begins at 7:15 pm before the 8:00 pm Concert Band performance.

Performance:Concert Band
2026-03-17 20:00 - 22:00 | Hill Auditorium
Courtney Snyder, conductor
John Mange, student conductor (Reed)
Rachel Zephir, student conductor (Pierson)

PROGRAM
*Easy Tiger*, Griffin Candey
*Variations on the Porazzi Theme of Wagner*, Alfred Reed
*We Are Made of Star Stuff*, Brooke Pierson
*Flourishes and Meditations on a Renaissance Theme*, Michael Gandolfi
Second Suite in F, Gustav Holst

Performance:Adam Lenhart, carillon
2026-03-18 12:00 - 12:30, 2026-04-01 12:00 - 12:30, 2026-04-15 12:00 - 12:30 | Burton Memorial Tower
Graduate student Adam Lenhart performs on the Charles Baird Carillon, an instrument of 53 bronze bells located inside the Burton Memorial Tower. The largest bell, which strikes the hour, weighs 12 tons, while the smallest bell, 4½ octaves above, weighs just 15 pounds.

Thirty-minute recitals are performed on the Charles Baird Carillon at noon every weekday that classes are in session, followed by visitor Q&A with the carillonist. The bell chamber may be accessed via a combination of elevator and stairs. Take the elevator to the highest floor possible (floor 8), and then climb two flights of stairs (39 steps) to the bell chamber (floor 10). Hearing protection earmuffs are provided for visitors. Be prepared to walk on ice and snow in the bell chamber during winter. Built in 1936, the Charles Baird Carillon is not ADA accessible. Visitors with mobility concerns are invited to visit the Lurie Carillon.

Performance:Division Street Pipes
2026-03-19 12:15 - 12:45 | Off Campus Location
Join us for a 30-minute organ recital performed by doctoral student Chanmi Kim.

Division Street Pipes concerts features talented students and faculty of the U-M Organ Department on Thursdays at 12:15pm on the Richards-Fowkes organ at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church. These 30-minute performances are free and open to the public, and audience members are invited to enjoy their lunch while listening.

The series is co-sponsored by the University of Michigan Organ Department and St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in an effort to bring organ music to local audiences while connecting U-M organ students with the wider community. Concerts offer attendees the opportunity to hear the versatility of the pipe organ beyond a worship setting. The Winter 2026 concert series begins on January 15 and it will continue weekly through April 16 (with the exception of April 2).

Performance:Meghan Wysocki & Joe Antrim, carillon
2026-03-19 13:20 - 13:50, 2026-04-09 13:20 - 13:50, 2026-04-16 13:20 - 13:50 | Lurie Ann & Robert H. Tower
Meghan Wysocki & Joe Antrim perform on the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Carillon, an instrument of 60 bells with the lowest bell (bourdon) weighing 6 tons.

Thirty-minute recitals are performed on the Lurie Carillon every weekday that classes are in session. During these recitals, visitors may take the elevator to level 2 to view the largest bells, or to level 3 to see the carillonist performing. (Visitors subject to acrophobia are recommended to visit level 2 only.) An optional spiral stairway between levels 2 and 3 allows for up-close views of some of the largest bells.

Performance:Voices & Visions: The Arts, Democracy, and Race
2026-03-19 18:00 - 20:00 | Michigan Union - Rogel Ballroom
Voices & Visions: The Arts, Democracy, and Race will bring together the U-M community for an evening of civic dialogue and the performing arts. The evening will include special performances from SMTD Students and The Mosaic Youth Theater of Detroit, dialogue in small groups, and free dinner for all participants.

This event is in partnership with The SMTD Student Success Office, U-M Dearborn, U-M Flint, The Arts Initiative, USA at 250, The SMTD EXCEL Lab, and The Program on Intergroup Relations.This project was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan and the U.S. at 250 Grant Program.

Performance:This Dance is About Leslie Cheung - Dance MFA Thesis Performance by Tim Tsang
2026-03-19 19:30 - 20:30, 2026-03-20 19:30 - 20:30 | Dance Building - Dance Performance Studio Theatre
The Department of Dance presents a performance created by Tim Tsang, candidate for the Master of Fine Arts in Dance.

Blending contemporary dance, live performance, and concert spectacle, this event will unfold as a concert-meets-dance experience, featuring ensemble choreography, live vocals, spoken reflection, and cinematic lighting by collaborator David Goodman-Edberg.

The performance invites audiences into a shared emotional landscape – one shaped by ambition, grief, resilience, and connection. Drawing on Hong Kong cultural icon Leslie Cheung’s concerts, films, and public persona, the performance traces a journey from glamour to intimacy through Cheung’s legacy. It examines pressure, visibility, and the search for care. At its core, *This Dance Is About Leslie Cheung* is not only about legacy, but about how legacy, identity, and inspiration is carried forward.

Rather than offering a biography of Leslie Cheung, the concert stages an encounter with his legacy. Cheung appears as an influence, a fantasy, and a point of departure – someone whose artistry opened doors while also revealing the emotional cost of visibility. The performance traces how admiration can slip into imitation, how confidence can fracture under pressure, and how failure might become a pathway toward care.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Created by choreographer and Dance MFA candidate Timothy Tsang, *This Dance Is About Leslie Cheung* reflects Tsang’s ongoing inquiry into how performance carries memory, pressure, and care. Tsang is a queer Chinese American dance artist whose work bridges movement, cultural memory, and embodied research. Shaped by a transnational upbringing between Shanghai and Chicago, his choreography often moves between different cultural contexts – asking how bodies navigate identity, visibility, and belonging.

Performance:Creative Arts Orchestra
2026-03-19 20:00 - 22:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - Hankinson Rehearsal Hall
This is a unique, largely improvisation-based group that invites interaction with other performance fields such as dance, theatre, and music technology.

Marcus Elliot, director

Performance:Trombone Studio Recital
2026-03-19 20:00 - 21:30, 2026-03-26 20:00 - 21:30 | Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre
Trombone students of Professor David Jackson perform a recital.

Performance:Student Composer Concert Series
2026-03-19 20:00 - 21:30 | Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium
Presented by the Department of Composition, the Student Composer Concert Series features new works written by University of Michigan undergraduate and graduate students.

Performance:Austin Zhu, carillon
2026-03-20 12:00 - 12:30 | Burton Memorial Tower
Economics graduate student Austin Zhu performs on the Charles Baird Carillon, an instrument of 53 bronze bells located inside the Burton Memorial Tower. The largest bell, which strikes the hour, weighs 12 tons, while the smallest bell, 4½ octaves above, weighs just 15 pounds.

Thirty-minute recitals are performed on the Charles Baird Carillon at noon every weekday that classes are in session, followed by visitor Q&A with the carillonist. The bell chamber may be accessed via a combination of elevator and stairs. Take the elevator to the highest floor possible (floor 8), and then climb two flights of stairs (39 steps) to the bell chamber (floor 10). Hearing protection earmuffs are provided for visitors. Be prepared to walk on ice and snow in the bell chamber during winter. Built in 1936, the Charles Baird Carillon is not ADA accessible. Visitors with mobility concerns are invited to visit the Lurie Carillon.

Performance:Jenna Moon, carillon
2026-03-20 13:20 - 13:50 | Lurie Ann & Robert H. Tower
SMTD doctoral alumna Jenna Moon performs on the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Carillon, an instrument of 60 bells with the lowest bell (bourdon) weighing 6 tons.

Thirty-minute recitals are performed on the Lurie Carillon every weekday that classes are in session. During these recitals, visitors may take the elevator to level 2 to view the largest bells, or to level 3 to see the carillonist performing. (Visitors subject to acrophobia are recommended to visit level 2 only.) An optional spiral stairway between levels 2 and 3 allows for up-close views of some of the largest bells.

Lecture / Discussion:Christopher Kendall Alumni Award Talk and Gathering with recipient Jessica Bonenfant (MFA ’13, dance)
2026-03-20 14:00 - 16:00 | Dance Building
Jessica Bonenfant, who earned her MFA in Dance at U-M in 2013, is the founder and director of Greywood Arts in County Cork, Ireland. She will talk about her career, which spans community engagement, performance, arts administration, creative projects, roles in academia, and more.

Bonenfant's path illuminates how a career in arts can be built, and exists as a counterweight to the persistent push of the expectations to be a gig artist with a company contract. This may be of particular interest for our students and others interested in entrepreneurship.

This event will be held in The Berg Studio (Studio 2) in the Dance Building.

Performance:Harp Studio Recital
2026-03-21 17:30 - 19:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - Watkins Lecture Hall
Harp students of Professor Joan Holland perform a recital.

Performance:Student Choreography Showcase
2026-03-21 19:00 - 20:30 | Dance Building - Dance Performance Studio Theatre
This production features work created by students outside of curricular requirements and is entirely created and produced by students within the Department of Dance.

Often highlighted by multidisciplinary explorations, collaborations, fragments of class exercises expanded into fuller dances, and more, the concert is led by the Dance Student Assembly (DSA) intradepartmental group.

Performance:Student Composer Concert Series
2026-03-21 20:00 - 22:00, 2026-04-21 19:00 - 22:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - Hankinson Rehearsal Hall

Performance:Michigan Youth Jazz Orchestra
2026-03-22 14:00 - 15:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre
The Michigan Youth Jazz Orchestra (MYJO) provides advanced experience performing a variety of big band repertoire in venues throughout Southeast Michigan. The Michigan Youth Jazz Orchestra is open by audition to all high-school aged instrumentalists interested in jazz and/or improvisation.

Conductor/ Faculty Director Dennis Wilson

Performance:An Evening of Soundtracks and Scores
2026-03-22 15:00 - 16:00 | Burton Memorial Tower
Members of the Carillon Guild at the University of Michigan perform sweeping scores and soundtracks from a variety of popular films, television shows, and musicals on the 53-bell Charles Baird Carillon. The carillon will be open to visitors.

The bell chamber may be accessed via a combination of elevator and stairs. Take the elevator to the highest floor possible (floor 8), and then climb two flights of stairs (39 steps) to the bell chamber (floor 10). Earplugs are available from the carillonist upon request. Built in 1936, the Charles Baird Carillon is not ADA accessible.

Performance:Michigan Youth Chamber Singers
2026-03-22 16:00 - 17:30 | Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium
The Michigan Youth Chamber Singers (MYCS) is a select SATB choir composed of outstanding vocalists from across the region. Students interact with U-M SMTD faculty and graduate students to perform challenging standard chamber choir repertoire. MYCS is open to advanced high-school aged singers as part of the Michigan Youth Ensembles program.

Matthew Abernathy, conductor

PROGRAM
*Don Pasquale* "Servants Chorus," Donizetti
*How Can I Keep from Singing*, Gwyneth Walker
*Fyer, Fyer*, Thomas Morley
*I Dream A World*, Rosephanye Powell

Performance:Andy Milne, jazz piano
2026-03-22 19:00 - 20:30 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
Andy Milne, associate professor in the Department of Jazz & Contemporary Improvisation, performs a recital.

FACULTY BIO:
https://smtd.umich.edu/profiles/andy-milne/

Performance:Michigan Youth Trombone Ensemble / Michigan Youth Percussion Ensemble Spring Performance
2026-03-22 20:00 - 21:30 | Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre
The MYTE and MYPE are part of the Michigan Youth Ensembles (MYE) program, which brings together exceptional high school students for weekly rehearsals at SMTD. MYE Students, who are selected by audition, have the opportunity to engage in a stimulating environment, while learning from U-M conductors, applied faculty, and graduate students.

Michigan Youth Trombone Ensemble (MYTE)
Faculty Director David Jackson

Michigan Youth Percussion Ensemble (MYPE)
Doug Perkins & Ian Antonio, co-directors

PROGRAM includes:
*Percussion Suite*, Johanna Beyer
*Bacchanale*, Hohannes
*Toccata*, Carlos Chavez

Performance:Korean Art Song: The Enduring Voice of a Culture
2026-03-23 19:30 - 21:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
Guest soprano Dr. Moonsook Park, co-editor of two seminal collections of Korean art songs for English speakers, and Voice & Opera faculty pianist Dr. Matthew Thompson present a lecture recital of Korean art song.

Discover the richness of Korean art songs through poetry, language, and cultural memory. Enjoy a 30-minute insightful lecture followed by a 40-minute live performance of 12 songs, organized by poetic and thematic sections.

This event is part of the Korean Performing Arts Initiative and is co-sponsored by the SMTD Voice & Opera department, the Nam Center for Korean Studies, and the Arts Initiative.

Lecture / Discussion:Nam Center Colloquium Series | The Efficacy of Using Singing as a Learning Tool in Foreign Language Acquisition
2026-03-24 16:00 - 17:30 | Weiser Hall - Room 555
Please note: This lecture will be held in person and virtually on Zoom. The webinar is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Once you've registered, joining information will be sent to your email. Register for the Zoom webinar at: https://myumi.ch/G2NdP

This lecture builds on Park's Fulbright U.S. Scholar project (2024–2025, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany), which investigates the role of singing as a pedagogical tool in foreign language acquisition. The project demonstrates how combining Korean lyric songs (가곡) with culturally significant works such as Arirang and popular songs from the 1970s, valued for their simple yet artistic character, creates powerful opportunities for both language learning and cultural engagement.

Singing activates multiple cognitive processes—memory, auditory discrimination, and articulatory precision—that support vocabulary retention, pronunciation, and prosodic fluency. Through guided sing-along activities, participants will experience firsthand how these repertoires enable learners, particularly non-Korean speakers, to internalize language patterns in a memorable and embodied way.

Beyond linguistic development, the juxtaposition of lyric, folk, and popular song traditions illuminates Korea’s diverse musical and cultural landscape. This interdisciplinary approach—linking vocal pedagogy, musicology, and linguistics—underscores the efficacy of song as both a dynamic tool for foreign language acquisition and a meaningful pathway to intercultural understanding.

A native of Korea, Moon-Sook Park, soprano, has performed internationally across Europe, Asia, and the United States, including her U.S. debut recital at Carnegie Hall in 2001. Her repertoire encompasses German Liederkunst, art songs, chamber, and experimental music, and she has been honored with the K.A.A.D. Award and the prestigious Bayreuth Wagner Stipend Award for the rising scholar-artist in Germany. Park is currently Associate Professor of Voice at the University of Arkansas and was recently awarded a Fulbright U.S. Scholar fellowship (2024–2025, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany). Her scholarship includes co-authoring volumes of Korean Art Song Anthologies and interdisciplinary research on 15th-century Korean court music by Sejong the Great using AI technology and classical vocal interpretation.

*Accommodation: If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at ncks.info@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.*

Lecture / Discussion:Pre-Concert Lecture: Orchestra & Choir Collaborative Concert
2026-03-25 19:15 - 19:45 | Hill Auditorium - Lower Level Lobby
This lecture begins at 7:15 pm before the 8:00 pm performance featuring the Chamber Choir, University Choir, Orpheus Singers and the University Symphony Orchestra.

Performance:Orchestra & Choir Collaborative Concert
2026-03-25 20:00 - 22:00 | Hill Auditorium
The University of Michigan's Chamber Choir, University Choir, and Orpheus Singers join with the University Symphony Orchestra for a collaborative concert.

PROGRAM
*Requiem*, Verdi
*Event Horizon*, Ozie Cargile

Performance:Division Street Pipes
2026-03-26 12:15 - 12:45, 2026-04-16 12:15 - 12:45 | Off Campus Location
Join us for a 30-minute organ recital (Performer TBA).

Division Street Pipes concerts features talented students and faculty of the U-M Organ Department on Thursdays at 12:15pm on the Richards-Fowkes organ at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church. These 30-minute performances are free and open to the public, and audience members are invited to enjoy their lunch while listening.

The series is co-sponsored by the University of Michigan Organ Department and St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in an effort to bring organ music to local audiences while connecting U-M organ students with the wider community. Concerts offer attendees the opportunity to hear the versatility of the pipe organ beyond a worship setting. The Winter 2026 concert series begins on January 15 and it will continue weekly through April 16 (with the exception of April 2).

Class / Instruction:Blair Salter Voice & Piano Master Class
2026-03-26 14:30 - 16:30 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
Join us for an afternoon with guest artist Dr. Blair Salter, Head of Music at the Los Angeles Opera. Free and open to the public with generous support from the Sally Fleming Master Class Fund.

Dr. BLAIR SALTER is currently Head Coach for the LA Opera Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program and a member of the music staff at Wolf Trap Opera. An alumna of the University of Michigan, Dr. Salter will offer a master class with SMTD voice and collaborative piano students.

Program to be announced.

Lecture / Discussion:Emily Wilbourne, "Impersonation and the Voice”
2026-03-26 16:30 - 19:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - Watkins Lecture Hall
The Department of Musicology hosts a talk by guest scholar Emily Wilbourne (CUNY Queen’s college and Graduate Center); free and open to the public.

Wilbourne describes her presentation:

"In Western culture, the voice plays an overdetermined role in the literal and metaphorical representation of personhood. We find our voice, raise our voice, recognize each other by the sounds of our voices, and – through the democratic process – we hear the voice of the people. In this paper, I am interested in voices that are misrecognized or misheard: voices that through illness, medical treatment, or training, confound expectations in ways that foreground the sonic materiality of the voice and its relationship to cultural expectations."

Performance:Semele
2026-03-26 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-03-27 20:00 - 22:00, 2026-03-28 20:00 - 22:00, 2026-03-29 14:00 - 16:00 | Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
The forbidden passion between Semele, a woman, and Jupiter, the king of the gods, attracts the attention and unbridled jealousy of Jupiter’s wife, Juno. Handel’s score combines elements of opera, oratorio, and musical drama in a sensuous score, considered some of his finest work.

Content Advisory: This opera depicts mythological adultery and death.
Recommended Ages: 16+

Composed by George Frideric Handel
Libretto after William Congreve
Directed by Stephanie Havey
Conducted by Brian Garman

*Buying Tickets
Flex Series ticket packages available beginning June 10; Single tickets available beginning August 4.*

Performance:University of Michigan Jazz Showcase
2026-03-26 20:00 - 22:00 | Off Campus Location
This annual showcase features students and faculty from the Department of Jazz & Contemporary Improvisation at SMTD, along with a prominent guest artist.

This year’s special guest is guitarist Jonathan Kreisberg. Kreisberg has been steadily building his name as one of the most compelling composer/performers in Jazz. Combining timeless melodicism with forward thinking lines and textures, his style and approach has created a strong following of fans around the world. He frequently tours worldwide and has now recorded ten albums as a leader.

Tickets will be available at the door and at the Michigan Union Ticket Office.

Lecture / Discussion:“Why did you live? Is it all a terrible joke?”: A Mahler Talk by Joseph Horowitz
2026-03-27 10:30 - 12:30 | Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre
Join the University Symphony Orchestra for a program with guest artist and author Joseph Horowitz, generously sponsored by the Sally Fleming Master Class Fund. Free and open to the public.

Gustav Mahler once said: “Why did you live? Why did you suffer? Is it all a terrible joke? We have to solve these questions in some way if we are to continue living. Anyone whose life has heard this call must give an answer.”

Among Mahler’s nine symphonies, the Sixth – known as “The Tragic” – furnishes the darkest record of his inner life. After conducting the dress rehearsal for the premiere, in 1904, he paced up and down, sobbing, wringing his hands, unable to control himself. At the concert itself, he was so afraid of the demons he had unleashed that he conducted badly. He subsequently conducted his Sixth Symphony only two times. According to his wife Alma: “No other work flowed so directly from his heart. We both cried at the time; we felt so deeply what this music meant, what it forebodingly told us.” Mahler himself felt he possessed a power to intuit the future.

What happens in Mahler’s Sixth? What is the “dark omen” of the finale, with its three hammer blows of fate? And why should it matter to us – more than ever – today?

Mahler also said: “Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.” His disciples revered him; one – the conductor Oskar Fried – called him “pure in a superhuman way”

Joseph Horowitz’s Mahler talk – with copious audio and video clips – will explore Mahler’s Sixth Symphony in the context of Mahler’s life and times. Then he’ll be joined by conductor Kenneth Kiesler to ask: What can we learn today from Mahler the conductor?

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

JOSEPH HOROWITZ is an award-winning author, concert producer, film-maker, and broadcaster. He is one of the most prominent and widely published writers on topics in American music. As an orchestral administrator and advisor, he has been a pioneering force in the development of thematic programming and new concert formats. Horowitz’s most recent books include a novel, *The Marriage: The Mahlers in New York*, about which Clive Paget wrote in *Musical America*: “With his unparalleled knowledge of fin-de-siècle classical music in America, Joseph Horowitz [has] brought us closer to Mahler and his wife Alma than any other author I have read. . . . At times, your heart breaks for them both. . . . In Gustav and Alma Mahler, Horowitz has created two of classical music’s most convincing fictional portraits.” Another Horowitz book, *Dvorak’s Prophecy and the Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music*, tells a story that “must be heard if classical music is to contribute to the national discussion on racial justice” (according to Mark Clague of the University of Michigan). A former *New York Times* music critic, and Executive Director of the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra, Horowitz works as an artistic consultant for orchestras throughout the US, and also regularly produces 50-minute “More than Music” documentaries for National Public Radio.

Performance:Megan Yip, cello
2026-03-28 12:30 - 13:30 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
Megan Yip, SMTD doctoral alum and lecturer in the Department of Strings, performs a recital.

Performance:Kalliopi Katsiris, flute
2026-03-28 17:30 - 18:30 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
Graduate student Kalliopi Katsiris performs a final master's degree recital.

Performance:Small Jazz Ensembles
2026-03-29 19:00 - 21:00, 2026-03-30 19:00 - 21:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre
Student ensembles perform from the Small Jazz Ensembles program, coached by Professors Andy Milne, Robert Hurst, Marion Hayden and Nate Winn. The groups range in size from duos to sextets, performing original and standard repertoire.

Performance:Percussion Ensemble
2026-03-29 19:00 - 21:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - Hankinson Rehearsal Hall
The University of Michigan Percussion Ensemble is an ensemble known for bold artistry and innovation through their performances and project. The ensemble has collaborated with composers such as Michael Gordon, John Luther Adams, Emma O'Halloran, Tristan Perich, Susanna Hancock, Finola Merivale, Robert Maggio, Ted Babcock, Lesley Flanigan, Shruthi Rajeskhar, Jason Treuting, and Ivan Trevino.

Recent recordings with Cantaloupe Records include the Grammy nominated *Sila: The Breath of the World* and *An Atlas of Deep Time* by John Luther Adams, as well as *Field of Vision* by Michael Gordon. The ensemble has performed at Caramoor Festival, Mass MoCA, Bang on a Can's Long Play Festival, and recently premiered Michael Gordon’s *Forest of Metal Objects* at The Met Cloisters in New York, collaborating with director Paul Lazar, choreographer Annie-B Parson, and artist Todd Colby.

Lecture / Discussion:Pre-Concert Lecture: University Philharmonia Orchestra
2026-03-30 19:15 - 19:45, 2026-04-20 19:15 - 19:45 | Hill Auditorium - Lower Level Lobby
This lecture begins at 7:15 pm before the 8:00 pm UPO performance.

Performance:University Philharmonia Orchestra
2026-03-30 20:00 - 22:00 | Hill Auditorium
Jayce Ogren, conductor
Andrew Norman, composer

PROGRAM
*Idyll*, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Symphony No. 104, *London*, Haydn
*Sustain*, Andrew Norman

Performance:Julie Zhu, carillon
2026-03-31 12:00 - 12:30, 2026-04-14 12:00 - 12:30 | Burton Memorial Tower
Assistant Professor of Performing Arts Technology Julie Zhu performs on the Charles Baird Carillon, an instrument of 53 bronze bells located inside the Burton Memorial Tower. The largest bell, which strikes the hour, weighs 12 tons, while the smallest bell, 4½ octaves above, weighs just 15 pounds.

Thirty-minute recitals are performed on the Charles Baird Carillon at noon every weekday that classes are in session, followed by visitor Q&A with the carillonist. The bell chamber may be accessed via a combination of elevator and stairs. Take the elevator to the highest floor possible (floor 8), and then climb two flights of stairs (39 steps) to the bell chamber (floor 10). Hearing protection earmuffs are provided for visitors. Be prepared to walk on ice and snow in the bell chamber during winter. Built in 1936, the Charles Baird Carillon is not ADA accessible. Visitors with mobility concerns are invited to visit the Lurie Carillon.

Performance:Contemporary Directions Ensemble
2026-03-31 20:00 - 22:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre
Jayce Ogren, conductor

PROGRAM
*For Ashley*, Andrew Norman
*Farnsworth: Four Portraits of a House*, Andrew Norman
*Try*, Andrew Norman
*The Companion Guide to Rome*, Andrew Norman

Performance:Voice & Opera Studio Recital
2026-04-01 16:30 - 18:30 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
Students from the Department of Voice & Opera perform a recital.

Performance:Uncle Vanya
2026-04-02 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-04-03 20:00 - 22:00, 2026-04-04 20:00 - 22:00, 2026-04-05 14:00 - 16:00, 2026-04-09 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-04-10 20:00 - 22:00, 2026-04-11 20:00 - 22:00, 2026-04-12 14:00 - 16:00 | Walgreen Drama Center - Arthur Miller Theatre
Chekhov’s tragicomedy about a dysfunctional family and the country property they share has been a perennial favorite since it premiered in 1899 in Moscow. Schmidt’s translation highlights the humor in the conflict between two brothers – the one who left for the city, and the one who remained.

Content Advisory: This play contains a reference to suicide and gun violence.
Recommended Ages: 15+

Written by Anton Chekhov
Translation by Paul Schmidt
Directed by Dan Cantor

*April 5 is Easter Sunday

*Buying Tickets
Flex Series ticket packages available beginning June 10; Single tickets available beginning August 4.*

Performance:Oboe Studio Recital
2026-04-02 20:00 - 21:30 | Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium
Students from the studio of Nancy Ambrose King perform in recital with Sandy Huang, piano.

Performance:Vinson Lam, carillon
2026-04-03 12:00 - 12:30, 2026-04-17 12:00 - 12:30 | Burton Memorial Tower
Vinson Lam performs on the Charles Baird Carillon, an instrument of 53 bronze bells located inside the Burton Memorial Tower. The largest bell, which strikes the hour, weighs 12 tons, while the smallest bell, 4½ octaves above, weighs just 15 pounds.

Thirty-minute recitals are performed on the Charles Baird Carillon at noon every weekday that classes are in session, followed by visitor Q&A with the carillonist. The bell chamber may be accessed via a combination of elevator and stairs. Take the elevator to the highest floor possible (floor 8), and then climb two flights of stairs (39 steps) to the bell chamber (floor 10). Hearing protection earmuffs are provided for visitors. Be prepared to walk on ice and snow in the bell chamber during winter. Built in 1936, the Charles Baird Carillon is not ADA accessible. Visitors with mobility concerns are invited to visit the Lurie Carillon.

Performance:Jenna Moon & Sarah Penrose, carillon
2026-04-03 13:20 - 13:50 | Lurie Ann & Robert H. Tower
Jenna Moon (SMTD doctoral alumna) & Sarah Penrose perform on the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Carillon, an instrument of 60 bells with the lowest bell (bourdon) weighing 6 tons.

Thirty-minute recitals are performed on the Lurie Carillon every weekday that classes are in session. During these recitals, visitors may take the elevator to level 2 to view the largest bells, or to level 3 to see the carillonist performing. (Visitors subject to acrophobia are recommended to visit level 2 only.) An optional spiral stairway between levels 2 and 3 allows for up-close views of some of the largest bells.

Performance:Briggs Chamber Music Competition
2026-04-04 12:00 - 18:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
The Briggs Competition is made possible by support from the Dale & Nancy Briggs Chamber Music Endowed Enrichment Fund and is named in honor of its benefactors. The fund was established in 2004 and endowed in 2006, to support program and/or scholarship needs in chamber music.

The annual competition was launched in 2014, with guest judges selecting winners from groups representing the breadth of SMTD’s chamber music offerings.

Groups perform mini-recitals of 25 minutes, showcasing the breadth of their work throughout the year. Prizes are given to the top three groups, plus honorable mentions and a Michigan Prize for the best performance of a piece written by a Michigan composer.

*Noon to 6:00 pm Timing Tentative. Exact timing of this event will be updated closer to the competition date.*

There will be a reception and winners' announcement in Kevreson Hall after the final performances.

Performance:Women's Glee Club Spring Concert
2026-04-04 20:00 - 22:00 | Hill Auditorium
The beloved student organization continues years of tradition with their annual concerts in the fall and spring.

*Not available as part of the Flex Series package.*

Conducted by Julie Skadsem

Recommended Ages: 3+

*Buying Tickets
Single tickets available beginning August 4.*

Performance:Harold Haugh Award Recital: Danielle Belen, violin
2026-04-05 20:00 - 21:30 | Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium
Danielle Belen, professor in the Department of Strings, is the recipient of the 2025 Harold Haugh Award for excellence in studio teaching. This award is named in honor of Haugh, former professor of music and leading oratorio soloist. Belen has an extraordinary record of student success and in the spirit of this award, her musical program will celebrate the shared joy of artistry, performance, and pedagogy. Free and open to the public.

FACULTY BIO

Professor of Violin at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance in Ann Arbor, DANIELLE BELEN is already making a name for herself as a seasoned pedagogue with a strong studio of young artists. Her students have won major prizes in national and international competitions including the Menuhin, Stulberg and Klein competitions, as well as being accepted into major conservatories and universities. Alumni from her studio play in symphonies across the country, including the Colorado, Cincinnati, Detroit and San Francisco Symphonies, the LA Opera and San Francisco Ballet Orchestras, and internationally in Norway and Finland.

Winner of the 2008 Sphinx Competition, Ms. Belen has appeared as a soloist with the Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Nashville and San Francisco Symphonies, the Boston Pops, and the Florida and Cleveland Orchestras. Zachary Lewis from the Cleveland *Plain Dealer* wrote "Violinist Danielle Belen... captivated every ear with an assured, impassioned performance of Ravel's 'Tzigane,' knocking off the daunting showpiece as if it were a trifle."

Ms. Belen released her debut Naxos recording of works by living composer Lawrence Dillon in 2009 to much acclaim. Soon after, she commissioned "Multiplicity", a piece by Dillon for six virtuoso violins which she premiered along with her students.

A graduate of the USC Thornton School of Music and the Colburn Conservatory in Los Angeles, Ms. Belen joined the faculty of the Colburn School in 2008. In addition to maintaining her own violin studio, she was the teaching assistant to renowned pedagogue Robert Lipsett. During that time, Ms. Belen also served as the Director of the Ed and Mari Chamber Music Institute at the Colburn School of Performing Arts.

In 2010, Ms. Belen founded Center Stage Strings, a summer camp and performance festival for gifted young musicians in central California. After gaining national attention, CSS moved to the campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor as part of MPulse, a summer program at the School of Music, Theatre & Dance. As the Artistic Director and head of the violin faculty, she has attracted students and seasoned artists from around the world. Lynn Harrell, James Ehnes, Arnold Steinhardt, Sarah Chang, William Hagen, Rohan de Silva and Stefan Jackiw have joined to perform in support of the program.

As the winner of the 2014 Sphinx Medal of Excellence, Ms. Belen performed for Justice Sonia Sotomayor and her guests at the Supreme Court in Washington DC, where she was awarded a $50,000 career grant. In turn, she used that money towards a matching campaign for Center Stage Strings, doubling the amount into $100,000 for student scholarships.

Her passion for pedagogy can be seen in her vibrant and unique teaching style, made accessible through a host of videos available to the public through her YouTube Channel and Social Media. Ms. Belen plays on a violin made in Mantua, Italy by Stefano Scarampella.

Performance:Tiffany Ng & Kathy Beck, carillon
2026-04-06 12:00 - 12:30 | Burton Memorial Tower
Tiffany Ng & Kathy Beck perform on the Charles Baird Carillon, an instrument of 53 bronze bells located inside the Burton Memorial Tower. The largest bell, which strikes the hour, weighs 12 tons, while the smallest bell, 4½ octaves above, weighs just 15 pounds.

Thirty-minute recitals are performed on the Charles Baird Carillon at noon every weekday that classes are in session, followed by visitor Q&A with the carillonist. The bell chamber may be accessed via a combination of elevator and stairs. Take the elevator to the highest floor possible (floor 8), and then climb two flights of stairs (39 steps) to the bell chamber (floor 10). Hearing protection earmuffs are provided for visitors. Be prepared to walk on ice and snow in the bell chamber during winter. Built in 1936, the Charles Baird Carillon is not ADA accessible. Visitors with mobility concerns are invited to visit the Lurie Carillon.

Performance:A Celebration of the Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments
2026-04-06 19:30 - 21:30 | Hill Auditorium
Please join us for the Stearns Collection's annual end of the year performance. Dozens of U-M students and faculty will perform on a wide variety of instruments from the Stearns Collection, including Indonesian Gamelan, Chinese Orchestra, European Baroque Orchestra, our recently-restored original Moog synthesizer, Cristofori piano, 19th century brass instruments, and more!

About the William P. Malm Stearns Collection Concert Series and Instrument Preservation Fund

This concert series and fund is named in honor of the late William P. Malm, University of Michigan Professor Emeritus of Music and past Director of the Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments. Professor Malm’s illustrious career is marked by his leading role in the early establishment of a highly ranked graduate program in ethnomusicology at the University of Michigan that continues to train generations of distinguished scholars. He is recognized internationally for nurturing and raising the stature of the Stearns Collection, among the most diverse and extraordinary holdings of musical instruments on a university campus.

Performance:Arts Chorale
2026-04-07 20:00 - 22:00 | Hill Auditorium
The Arts Chorale is the official choir of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. It provides a fun and enriching environment for students who enjoy singing. A mixed choir that is open to any U-M student, the Arts Chorale is a musical and social group that has existed at the University for over 60 years. Although affiliated with SMTD, most members are not music majors.

PROGRAM
*I Was Glad*, Hurd
*Regina Coeli*, Lotti
*Hark I Hear the Harps Eternal*, arr. Parker
*Dorchester Canticles*, O'Regan, Tarik
*Lass dich nur nichts nicht dauren, Op. 30*, Brahms
*Precious Lord, Take My Hand*, arr. Ringwald
*Tambur*, Bardos
*Strike it up, Tabor*, Weelkes
*If you can walk, you can dance*, Alexander
*Lift Every Voice and Sing*, Carter

Performance:Voice & Opera Studio Recital
2026-04-08 16:30 - 18:30 | Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium

Performance:Dance BFA Concert
2026-04-08 19:30 - 21:00, 2026-04-09 19:30 - 21:00, 2026-04-10 19:30 - 21:00, 2026-04-11 19:30 - 21:00 | Dance Building - Dance Performance Studio Theatre
Senior Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Dance majors present a joint concert of their choreography at the conclusion of their studies in the dance program. Tickets are free, available one hour before the performance.

Performance:Concert Band
2026-04-08 20:00 - 22:00 | Hill Auditorium
Courtney Snyder, conductor
Jennifer Hepp, student conductor (Bach)

PROGRAM
*Festive Overture*, Dmitri Shostakovich, arr. Hunsberger
*My Jesus, Oh What Anguish*, Johann Sebastian Bach, arr. Reed
*Anahita*, Roshanne Etezady
*Piece of Mind*, Dana Wilson
*Danzon No. 2*, Arturo Marquez, arr. Nickel

Performance:Division Street Pipes
2026-04-09 12:15 - 12:45 | Off Campus Location
Join us for a 30-minute organ recital performed by undergraduate student Ben Sidoti.

Division Street Pipes concerts features talented students and faculty of the U-M Organ Department on Thursdays at 12:15pm on the Richards-Fowkes organ at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church. These 30-minute performances are free and open to the public, and audience members are invited to enjoy their lunch while listening.

The series is co-sponsored by the University of Michigan Organ Department and St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in an effort to bring organ music to local audiences while connecting U-M organ students with the wider community. Concerts offer attendees the opportunity to hear the versatility of the pipe organ beyond a worship setting. The Winter 2026 concert series begins on January 15 and it will continue weekly through April 16 (with the exception of April 2).

Performance:Jazz Ensemble
2026-04-09 20:00 - 22:00 | Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Rackham Auditorium
The University of Michigan Jazz Ensemble is the most competitive of the University’s jazz ensembles. Open by audition only, most seats are filled by majors within the Department of Jazz and Contemporary Improvisation. The ensemble meets twice a week for two hours, performs several times a semester on campus and off.

Ellen Rowe, conductor

Performance:Meghan Wysocki, carillon
2026-04-10 18:00 - 19:00 | Burton Memorial Tower
Undergraduate student Meghan Wysocki performs a senior recital on the Charles Baird Carillon.

Performance:Symphony Band
2026-04-10 19:30 - 21:30 | Hill Auditorium
The University of Michigan Symphony Band closes its season with a very special performance in conjunction with the North Central Division Conference of the College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA). Collegiate musicians and teachers from across the Midwest will be in attendance for a concert that includes the talents and music of several U-M faculty members. New music from Composition professors Evan Chambers and Kristin Kuster will be joined by the consortium premiere of a brand new symphony by the lauded Mexican composer Arturo Marquez. All three pieces were made possible by the support of the H. Robert Reynolds Commissioning Fund.

Jason Fettig, conductor

PROGRAM
TBA, Kristin Kuster
*Sanctuary*, Frank Ticheli
*Kairos*, Evan Chambers
Chorale Prelude: "Wir Glauben all' in einen Gott," Johan Sebastian Bach/ Leopold Stokowski
Concerto for String Quartet and Wind Ensemble, Erwin Schulhoff
*Passacaglia (homage on B-A-C-H)*, Ron Nelson

Performance:Chamber Opera: "Working for the Macbeths"
2026-04-10 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-04-11 19:30 - 21:30 | Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre
The Department of Voice & Opera presents the comic opera "Working for the Macbeths" (2023) with music by Johanny Navarro and libretto by Marcus Yi.

Conductor: Jayce Ogren with the Contemporary Directions Ensemble
Stage Director: Chía Patiño
Assistant Conductor: Michael Roest
Coaches/Pianists: Timothy Cheek, Andrea Morokutti

Sung in English

Performance:Men's Glee Club Spring Concert
2026-04-11 20:00 - 22:00 | Hill Auditorium
The fan-favorite student organization continues years of tradition with their annual concerts in the fall and spring.

*Not available as part of the Flex Series package.*

Conducted by Matthew Abernathy

Recommended Ages: 3+

*Buying Tickets
Single tickets available beginning August 4.*

Performance:Orpheus Singers
2026-04-12 19:00 - 21:00 | Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium
The Orpheus Singers present Eric Whitacre’s *The Sacred Veil* – a powerful contemporary work exploring love, grief, and the beauty of human connection through Whitacre’s signature choral sound.

A seminar-style choir directed by Eugene Rogers and conducted by members of the graduate choral conducting studio.

Performance:Chamber Music Recital
2026-04-12 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-04-19 16:30 - 18:00, 2026-04-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
Students perform a chamber music recital, presented by the Department of Chamber Music.

Performance:Campus Orchestras
2026-04-13 20:00 - 22:00 | Hill Auditorium
The University of Michigan Campus Orchestras are made up of two main orchestras: Campus Symphony Orchestra (CSO) and Campus Philharmonia Orchestra (CPO). Both groups are comprised of non-music major students, faculty members, staff, and alumni of the University of Michigan.

The Campus Orchestras are conducted by Graduate Student Conductors at the School of Music, Theatre and Dance. Some of the past Campus Orchestras conductors are now assistant conductors or music directors in professional orchestras around the country.

Performance:Campus Band Chamber Concert
2026-04-13 20:00 - 22:00 | Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Rackham Auditorium
Small chamber ensembles comprised of wind and percussion players present a performance. Campus Band Chamber Winds is a course offered in the winter semester with weekly rehearsals and coaching by Campus Band conductor RIchard Frey.

Performance:Graduate Dance Performance Concert
2026-04-13 20:00 - 21:15 | Dance Building - Dance Performance Studio Theatre
Master of Fine Arts in Dance candidates present and perform dance works generated during their first year in the program.

Performance:Chamber Music Recital
2026-04-13 20:00 - 21:30, 2026-04-14 19:30 - 21:30 | Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium

Lecture / Discussion:Pre-Concert Lecture: University Symphony Orchestra
2026-04-16 19:00 - 19:45 | Hill Auditorium - Lower Level Lobby
This lecture begins at 7:00 pm before the 8:00 pm USO performance. Guest artist Joseph Horowitz will speak about Gustav Mahler.

Performance:Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812
2026-04-16 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-04-17 20:00 - 22:00, 2026-04-18 20:00 - 22:00, 2026-04-19 14:00 - 16:00 | Power Center for the Performing Arts
From the celebrated composer Dave Malloy comes an electropop opera based on a scandalous 70-page slice of Leo Tolstoy’s *War and Peace*. Beloved by audiences, *The Great Comet* was nominated for 12 Tony Awards when it premiered on Broadway – the most nominations for the season.

*Content Advisory: This production contains gunshots, the use of alcohol, and mild adult themes. Recommended Ages: 14+*

Written by Dave Malloy, adapted from *War and Peace* by Leo Tolstoy
Directed by Jessica Bogart
Music direction by Jason DeBord
Choreographed by Ron De Jesús

*Buying Tickets
Flex Series ticket packages available beginning June 10; Single tickets available beginning August 4.*

Performance:University Symphony Orchestra
2026-04-16 20:00 - 22:00 | Hill Auditorium
Kenneth Kiesler, conductor

PROGRAM
Symphony No. 6, Mahler

Performance:Jenna Moon & Austin Zhu, carillon
2026-04-17 13:20 - 13:50 | Lurie Ann & Robert H. Tower
Jenna Moon (SMTD doctoral alumna) & graduate student Austin Zhu perform on the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Carillon, an instrument of 60 bells with the lowest bell (bourdon) weighing 6 tons.

Thirty-minute recitals are performed on the Lurie Carillon every weekday that classes are in session. During these recitals, visitors may take the elevator to level 2 to view the largest bells, or to level 3 to see the carillonist performing. (Visitors subject to acrophobia are recommended to visit level 2 only.) An optional spiral stairway between levels 2 and 3 allows for up-close views of some of the largest bells.

Performance:First Year Dance Company
2026-04-17 16:00 - 18:00 | Dance Building - Dance Performance Studio Theatre
This group, composed of first year and transfer students in the Department of Dance, performs repertoire from invited guest artists, dance faculty, and selected student choreographers. They embark on an annual regional tour and present their show to a variety of audiences.

Performance:String Showcase
2026-04-17 17:00 - 18:30 | Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre
A monthly performance series featuring our outstanding SMTD string students as soloists and in chamber music ensembles. These young artists are selected by the faculty to perform at this prestigious event.

Performance:Computer Music Showcase
2026-04-17 19:00 - 20:30 | Earl V. Moore Building - Chip Davis Technology Studio
The Department of Performing Arts Technology (PAT) presents a performance featuring works by PAT 202 artists.

Performance:Campus Orchestra String Ensemble
2026-04-18 19:00 - 21:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - Hankinson Rehearsal Hall
The Campus String Ensemble is comprised of non-music major students, faculty members, staff, and alumni of the University of Michigan.

PROGRAM
*Impromptu*, Sibelius
*Three Pieces in Old Style*, Gorecki
Andante and Scherzo, Scriabin
*Romance*, Finzi
*St. Paul's Suite*, Mvt. 3 and 4, Holst
*Ancient Airs and Dances Suite* No.3, Mvt 3 and 4, Respighi
*Adoration*, Price arr. Elaine Fine
Orchestral Suite No. 3, Air, J.S. Bach

Performance:Campus & University Bands
2026-04-19 15:00 - 17:00 | Hill Auditorium
Primarily for non-music majors who desire a concert band experience, the University and Campus Bands are open to the entire U-M community and offer a great opportunity to enjoy an immersive musical experience and to learn from SMTD’s renowned faculty. The University Band is the most advanced non-music-major band and placement is by audition. Campus Band is open to any student with experience.

University Band: John Pasquale, conductor
David Kim, student conductor

Campus Band: Richard Frey, conductor

PROGRAM (University Band)
*Lincolnshire Posy*, Percy Grainger, ed. Frederick Fennell
*Niagara Falls*, Michael Daugherty
*Fields of Gold*, Julie Giroux
*Un Cafecito*, Dennis Llinás

PROGRAM (Campus Band)
*Suite of Old American Dances*, Robert Russell Bennett
*Suite Dreams*, Steven Bryant
*Give Us This Day* (short symphony), David Maslanka
*Peaches and Cream*, John Philip Sousa
*Castle House Rag*, James Reese Europe
*Halcyon Hearts*, Katahj Copley
*Awakenings*, Kimberly Archer
*Sunchaser*, Carol Brittin Chambers
*Variations on a Korean Folk Song*, John Barnes Chance
*Peacemaker*, Karl L. King/arr. James Swearingen

Performance:World Voice Day Vocal Concert
2026-04-19 16:00 - 18:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre
"Empower Your Voice" - Join us for a vocal performance celebrating World Voice Day!

Presented by the Michigan Medicine Vocal Health Center and the Department of Voice & Opera at the U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance.

Performance:Czech Vocal Literature Class Recital
2026-04-20 11:30 - 12:50 | Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre
Singers and pianists from Prof. Timothy Cheek's Czech Vocal Literature class perform folksongs and art songs in the original Czech, with English supertitles, by a wide variety of Czech composers, including Dvořák, Smetana, Janáček, Kaprálová, and others.

Performance:Voice & Opera Studio Recital
2026-04-20 19:30 - 21:30 | Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre

Performance:University Philharmonia Orchestra
2026-04-20 20:00 - 22:00 | Hill Auditorium
Jayce Ogren, conductor
Lauren Troutman, saxophone (Waignein) - 2025 Concerto Competition winner

PROGRAM
*La Oración del Torero*, Joaquín Turina
*Rhapsody for Alto Saxophone*, André Waignein
Symphony No. 5, Prokofiev

Ceremony / Service:SMTD Commencement Ceremony
2026-05-01 14:00 - 16:30 | Hill Auditorium
The SMTD Commencement ceremony will take place on Friday, May 1, 2026 at 2:00pm at Hill Auditorium. The event will be livestreamed.

Tickets *ARE REQUIRED* for the SMTD Commencement ceremony at Hill Auditorium. The SMTD ceremony is not open to the public; it is only open to graduating students, their family and registered guests, and students/ faculty/ staff from SMTD. Tickets will be required for entry to Hill Auditorium for anyone over the age of two.

Seating accommodations are available for guests with wheelchairs or those unable to use stairs. Closed captioning will also be present on stage throughout the ceremony.

Doors will open to guests *one* hour prior to the start of the ceremony.

Performance:Musical Theatre Senior Showcase
2026-05-03 16:00 - 18:00, 2026-05-03 19:30 - 21:30 | Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
The annual Musical Theatre Senior Showcase is an unforgettable revue of performances by the graduating class of the Department of Musical Theatre.

*Not available as part of the Flex Series package. Student tickets are not available for this performance.*

Recommended Ages: 8+

*Buying Tickets
Single tickets available beginning August 4.*
