Happening @ Michigan

Carrigan Lecture Series in Music Theory: Lori A. Burns, University of Ottawa

“Dynamic Multimodality in Extreme Metal Performance Video: Dark Tranquillity’s ‘Uniformity’, Directed by Patric Ullaeus”

This paper examines the dynamic integration of words, music, and images in the extreme metal performance video of Dark Tranquillity’s...

Masters Recital: Kaitlin Jones, flute

PROGRAM: Bach - Sonata in G Major, Wq. 133 (”Hamburger”); Kuster - Perpetual Afternoon; Rota - Trio for Flute, Violin, and Piano;...

Senior Recital: Allison Taylor, violin

PROGRAM: Mercer & Carmichael - Skylark; Ravel - Tzigane; Sibelius - Violin Concerto in D Minor, op. 47; Paganini - Caprice no. 9; Coslow -...

Creative Arts Orchestra

Mark Kirschenmann, director The Creative Arts Orchestra is a large ensemble that plays contemporary, creative improvisations.

Masters Recital: Bryce McClendon, countertenor

PROGRAM: Sullivan - Orpheus with his lute; Gurney - Orpheus; Vaughan Williams - Orpheus with his lute; Hall - selections from O Mistress...

Guest Master Class: Yousif Sheronick, percussion and chamber musician

Hailed by The New York Times for his “dazzling improvisations” and his “wizardry on a range of humble frame drums,” Yousif Sheronick...

Piano Chamber Music at Bloomfield Township Public Library

This will be the third installment of chamber music concerts at Bloomfield Township Public Library. Our piano chamber music students will be...

Masters Recital: Amber Wang, viola

PROGRAM: Biber - Passacaglia; Prokofiev - Six Pieces from the Ballet “Romeo and Juliet;” Franck - Sonata; Piazzolla - Libertango.

Faculty Recital: Matthew Bengtson, fortepiano, with period strings

Chamber music for fortepiano with period strings. Music of CPE Bach, Haydn, and Mozart. Prof. Bengtson will be joined by Christina Adams and...

Guest Recital: Saajtak

saajtak is a Detroit based art-rock band, its members drawing on years of experience performing free jazz, improvisation, electronic music,...

Masters Recital: Colleen Bernstein, percussion

PROGRAM: Burritt - The Fragile Corridor; Graham - Interface; Hurel - Loops II; Ptaszynska - Spider; Fisher - Komorebi; LaBozzetta - Do Your...

Student Recital: Taylor Adams & Maitri White, sopranos; Jaime Sharp, mezzo-soprano

PROGRAM: Spiritual - Ride on King Jesus; Spiritual - Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child; Spiritual - He’s Got the Whole World in His...

Masters Recital: Taylor Isberg, clarinet

PROGRAM: Williams - “Viktor’s Tale” from The Terminal; Tailleferre - Arabesque; Poulenc - Sonata for Clarinet and Piano; Weber -...

Final Dissertation Recital: Kristen DiNinno, mezzo-soprano

PROGRAM: Brahms - Zigeunerlieder; de Falla - Siete canciones populares españolas; Mahler - Rückert-Lieder; Bizet - selections from Carmen.

Music in the Stacks

SMTD Faculty performers include Freda Herseth, mezzo-soprano, Carmen Pelton, soprano, and Joseph Gascho, harpsichord....

Senior Recital: Andrew Schafer, baritone

PROGRAM: Brahms - Der Gang zum Liebchen; Lerchengesang; Die Trauernde; Auf dem Kirchhofe; Rorem - Five Songs to Poems of Walt Whitman;...

Performing Arts Technology Showcase

An annual showcase of new compositions, live performances, research, and sound art by students in the Department of Performing Arts...

Artist Panel

Artists from previous Prison Creative Arts Project exhibitions share their stories and answer questions about life as a prison artist in...

Michigan Youth Jazz Orchestra

Join the Michigan Youth Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Dennis Wilson as they perform an afternoon of a variety of big band...

Senior Recital: Sarah Catherine Straw, violin

PROGRAM: Bach - Ciaccona from Partita no. 2 in D Minor; Beach - Romance, op. 23; Khachaturian - Violin Cocnerto in D Minor; Daigle - You...

Senior Recital: Laurel Wellman, oboe

PROGRAM: Dutilleux - Sonate pour Hautbois et Piano; Aho - Solo IX for oboe; Agrell - Blues for D.D.; Handel - Sonata no. 1 in B-flat Major,...

Surrendurance: Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing, Volume 11, Ann Arbor Reading

Hear selections from the 11th edition of the Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing, read by family and friends of contributing...

Masters Recital: Danielle Gonzalez, percussion

PROGRAM: Lash - C; Yi - Sound of the Five; Mazzoli - A Thousand Tongues; Lizée - White Label Experiment; Wolfe - Dark Full Ride.

Masters Recital: ShunFu Chang, piano

PROGRAM: Bach - Prelude and Fugue in A-flat Major, BWV 886; Beethoven - Piano Sonata no. 28 in A Major, op. 101; Rachmaninov -...

Masters Recital: Jiayi Zheng, violin

PROGRAM: Ysaÿe - Sonata for Solo Violin, op. 27, no. 2; Zwilich - Romance; Bartók - Violin Concerto no. 2; Mozart - Violin Sonata no. 24...

Masters Recital: Emma Koponen, piano

PROGRAM: Bach - Prelude and Fugue in A Major, BWV 888; Sibelius - Impromptu, op. 5, no. 1; Palmgren - May Night, op. 27, no. 4; Melartin -...

Guest Recital/Masterclass: David Binder, trombone *RESCHEDULED FROM 3/11*

This performance was originally scheduled for Monday, March 11....

Beyond the Boom Gate: Orana Arts in Australian Prisons

Macquarie Correctional Centre, based in Wellington New South Wales (NSW), is Australia’s first pilot of a new model of imprisonment,...

Senior Recital: Charles Lilley, saxophones

PROGRAM: Etezady - Streetlegal; Zwilich - Quintet for Alto Saxophone and String Quartet; Albright - Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano;...

Masters Recital: Rachel Yu Chen, piano

PROGRAM: Bach - Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 903; Haydn - Sonata in A-flat Major, Hob. XVI: 46; Chopin - Etude in A Minor,...

Influence of Biblical Cantillations on Art Music in the 20th and 21st Centuries

Jascha Nemtsov, pianist and musicologist

The oldest part of Jewish music culture is the ritualized presentation of texts from the Hebrew Bible (tanakh) organized through a complex...

Brown Bag Recital Series: Stephanie Nofar-Kelly, Sacred Heart Major Seminary

Stephanie Nofar-Kelly, director of liturgical music of Sacred Heart Major Seminary performs.

University Symphony Orchestra & University Philharmonia Orchestra

Kenneth Kiesler, conductor...

Carrigan Lecture Series in Music Theory: Jonathan De Souza, Western University

“Musical Form, Emotion, and Institution; or, Why Are Rondos Happy?”

*This event has been rescheduled from 1/31*...

Keynote: “Beyond Solidarity: Dignity, Power, and the Politics of Knowledge Production,” Alan Gómez

“Beyond Solidarity” traces a genealogy of rebel care work. Without imposing a future, what political, cultural and social questions...

Second Dissertation Recital: Mi-Eun Kim, piano

PROGRAM: Beethoven - Piano Sonata no. 1 in F Minor, op. 2, no.1; Beethoven - Andante favori in F Major, WoO 57; Beethoven - Piano Sonata no....

Jazz Lab Ensemble

Dennis Wilson, director...

MAKING: a workshop with Corey Smith

A workshop in curiosity, in new forms of making. We'll think about bodies, about research, about ways to blend theater, text, music, &...

Department of Performing Arts Technology Seminar: Onyx Ashanti

Since being introduced on the world stage by way of a fortuitous TED talk he did in 2011 titled “This is Beatjazz,” Mississippi native...

Musicology Distinguished Lecture Series: Prof. Benjamin Piekut, Cornell University

“Continuous Projects, Altered Daily”

The title of this talk alludes to process-based works of the late 1960s by sculptor Robert Morris and choreographer Yvonne Rainer. They were...

Senior Recital: Jahbreil Campbell, tenor

PROGRAM: Campbell - Tired; Wright & Forrest - “Stranger in Paradise” from Kismet; Brel - Ne me quitte pas; Dylan - Knockin’ on...