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DTSTAMP:20250813T093809
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T193000
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SUMMARY:Performance:Verdi's Requiem
DESCRIPTION:From the hushed opening of the “Requiem aeternam” to the thunderous cries of the “Dies irae\,” Verdi’s Requiem is one of the most powerful choral masterpieces ever written.\n\nUMS’s 25/26 Season opens with Verdi’s monumental work that fuses the drama of opera with the spiritual depth of sacred music. Written in memory of the Italian poet and novelist Alessandro Manzoni\, it is a profoundly moving reflection that is simultaneously intimate and epic.\n\nThis performance celebrates UMS’s ongoing relationship with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra\, UMS Choral Union\, and DSO music director Jader Bignamini. The concert will only be performed in Ann Arbor and brings together a stellar international cast of soloists: South African soprano Vuvu Mpofu\, American mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke\, Mexican American tenor René Barbera\, and Chinese bass-baritone Shenyang.
UID:137128-21879785@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137128
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Hill Auditorium
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250813T140554
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251002T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251002T210000
SUMMARY:Performance:Nigamon/Tunai
DESCRIPTION:In the heart of a forest of sound\, Canadian artist Émilie Monnet and Colombian artist Waira Nina deliver a poetic manifesto inspired by the bonds of friendship and solidarity.\n\nNigamon / Tunai (the words translate to “song” in the Anishinaabemowin and Inga languages) is an immersive performance ritual rooted in the presence of the natural world and co-exists with the audience\, who are in close proximity to the performers on the Power Center stage.\n\nAt the crossroads of friendship and resistance\, the two women invite us to listen deeply and to understand the knowledge and struggles that link their respective cultures: the depletion and plundering of natural resources that are core to their existence.\n\nInterweaving immersive performance and audio documentary with Indigenous knowledge and voices\, this mesmerizing new theatrical work invites audiences into ritualized listening\, and to feel the sound vibrations emitted by the surrounding water\, stones\, copper\, and tree trunks. Linked by the figure of the turtle\, which is central to both of their origin stories\, the two women form an effective alliance advocating for the protection of water\, land\, stars\, and ancestral knowledge.\n\nLooking for free student tickets? All U-M undergraduate students are eligible to receive a FREE ticket to a UMS performance per academic year through the Bert’s Ticket program (a $20 value)!
UID:137129-21879788@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137129
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Power Center for the Performing Arts
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250813T140554
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251003T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251003T210000
SUMMARY:Performance:Nigamon/Tunai
DESCRIPTION:In the heart of a forest of sound\, Canadian artist Émilie Monnet and Colombian artist Waira Nina deliver a poetic manifesto inspired by the bonds of friendship and solidarity.\n\nNigamon / Tunai (the words translate to “song” in the Anishinaabemowin and Inga languages) is an immersive performance ritual rooted in the presence of the natural world and co-exists with the audience\, who are in close proximity to the performers on the Power Center stage.\n\nAt the crossroads of friendship and resistance\, the two women invite us to listen deeply and to understand the knowledge and struggles that link their respective cultures: the depletion and plundering of natural resources that are core to their existence.\n\nInterweaving immersive performance and audio documentary with Indigenous knowledge and voices\, this mesmerizing new theatrical work invites audiences into ritualized listening\, and to feel the sound vibrations emitted by the surrounding water\, stones\, copper\, and tree trunks. Linked by the figure of the turtle\, which is central to both of their origin stories\, the two women form an effective alliance advocating for the protection of water\, land\, stars\, and ancestral knowledge.\n\nLooking for free student tickets? All U-M undergraduate students are eligible to receive a FREE ticket to a UMS performance per academic year through the Bert’s Ticket program (a $20 value)!
UID:137129-21879789@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137129
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Power Center for the Performing Arts
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20250813T140554
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251004T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251004T160000
SUMMARY:Performance:Nigamon/Tunai
DESCRIPTION:In the heart of a forest of sound\, Canadian artist Émilie Monnet and Colombian artist Waira Nina deliver a poetic manifesto inspired by the bonds of friendship and solidarity.\n\nNigamon / Tunai (the words translate to “song” in the Anishinaabemowin and Inga languages) is an immersive performance ritual rooted in the presence of the natural world and co-exists with the audience\, who are in close proximity to the performers on the Power Center stage.\n\nAt the crossroads of friendship and resistance\, the two women invite us to listen deeply and to understand the knowledge and struggles that link their respective cultures: the depletion and plundering of natural resources that are core to their existence.\n\nInterweaving immersive performance and audio documentary with Indigenous knowledge and voices\, this mesmerizing new theatrical work invites audiences into ritualized listening\, and to feel the sound vibrations emitted by the surrounding water\, stones\, copper\, and tree trunks. Linked by the figure of the turtle\, which is central to both of their origin stories\, the two women form an effective alliance advocating for the protection of water\, land\, stars\, and ancestral knowledge.\n\nLooking for free student tickets? All U-M undergraduate students are eligible to receive a FREE ticket to a UMS performance per academic year through the Bert’s Ticket program (a $20 value)!
UID:137129-21879791@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137129
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Power Center for the Performing Arts
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250813T140554
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251004T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251004T210000
SUMMARY:Performance:Nigamon/Tunai
DESCRIPTION:In the heart of a forest of sound\, Canadian artist Émilie Monnet and Colombian artist Waira Nina deliver a poetic manifesto inspired by the bonds of friendship and solidarity.\n\nNigamon / Tunai (the words translate to “song” in the Anishinaabemowin and Inga languages) is an immersive performance ritual rooted in the presence of the natural world and co-exists with the audience\, who are in close proximity to the performers on the Power Center stage.\n\nAt the crossroads of friendship and resistance\, the two women invite us to listen deeply and to understand the knowledge and struggles that link their respective cultures: the depletion and plundering of natural resources that are core to their existence.\n\nInterweaving immersive performance and audio documentary with Indigenous knowledge and voices\, this mesmerizing new theatrical work invites audiences into ritualized listening\, and to feel the sound vibrations emitted by the surrounding water\, stones\, copper\, and tree trunks. Linked by the figure of the turtle\, which is central to both of their origin stories\, the two women form an effective alliance advocating for the protection of water\, land\, stars\, and ancestral knowledge.\n\nLooking for free student tickets? All U-M undergraduate students are eligible to receive a FREE ticket to a UMS performance per academic year through the Bert’s Ticket program (a $20 value)!
UID:137129-21879790@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137129
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Power Center for the Performing Arts
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250813T140554
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251005T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251005T160000
SUMMARY:Performance:Nigamon/Tunai
DESCRIPTION:In the heart of a forest of sound\, Canadian artist Émilie Monnet and Colombian artist Waira Nina deliver a poetic manifesto inspired by the bonds of friendship and solidarity.\n\nNigamon / Tunai (the words translate to “song” in the Anishinaabemowin and Inga languages) is an immersive performance ritual rooted in the presence of the natural world and co-exists with the audience\, who are in close proximity to the performers on the Power Center stage.\n\nAt the crossroads of friendship and resistance\, the two women invite us to listen deeply and to understand the knowledge and struggles that link their respective cultures: the depletion and plundering of natural resources that are core to their existence.\n\nInterweaving immersive performance and audio documentary with Indigenous knowledge and voices\, this mesmerizing new theatrical work invites audiences into ritualized listening\, and to feel the sound vibrations emitted by the surrounding water\, stones\, copper\, and tree trunks. Linked by the figure of the turtle\, which is central to both of their origin stories\, the two women form an effective alliance advocating for the protection of water\, land\, stars\, and ancestral knowledge.\n\nLooking for free student tickets? All U-M undergraduate students are eligible to receive a FREE ticket to a UMS performance per academic year through the Bert’s Ticket program (a $20 value)!
UID:137129-21879792@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137129
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Power Center for the Performing Arts
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250813T140554
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251007T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251007T210000
SUMMARY:Performance:Nigamon/Tunai
DESCRIPTION:In the heart of a forest of sound\, Canadian artist Émilie Monnet and Colombian artist Waira Nina deliver a poetic manifesto inspired by the bonds of friendship and solidarity.\n\nNigamon / Tunai (the words translate to “song” in the Anishinaabemowin and Inga languages) is an immersive performance ritual rooted in the presence of the natural world and co-exists with the audience\, who are in close proximity to the performers on the Power Center stage.\n\nAt the crossroads of friendship and resistance\, the two women invite us to listen deeply and to understand the knowledge and struggles that link their respective cultures: the depletion and plundering of natural resources that are core to their existence.\n\nInterweaving immersive performance and audio documentary with Indigenous knowledge and voices\, this mesmerizing new theatrical work invites audiences into ritualized listening\, and to feel the sound vibrations emitted by the surrounding water\, stones\, copper\, and tree trunks. Linked by the figure of the turtle\, which is central to both of their origin stories\, the two women form an effective alliance advocating for the protection of water\, land\, stars\, and ancestral knowledge.\n\nLooking for free student tickets? All U-M undergraduate students are eligible to receive a FREE ticket to a UMS performance per academic year through the Bert’s Ticket program (a $20 value)!
UID:137129-21879793@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137129
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Power Center for the Performing Arts
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20250813T140554
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251008T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251008T210000
SUMMARY:Performance:Nigamon/Tunai
DESCRIPTION:In the heart of a forest of sound\, Canadian artist Émilie Monnet and Colombian artist Waira Nina deliver a poetic manifesto inspired by the bonds of friendship and solidarity.\n\nNigamon / Tunai (the words translate to “song” in the Anishinaabemowin and Inga languages) is an immersive performance ritual rooted in the presence of the natural world and co-exists with the audience\, who are in close proximity to the performers on the Power Center stage.\n\nAt the crossroads of friendship and resistance\, the two women invite us to listen deeply and to understand the knowledge and struggles that link their respective cultures: the depletion and plundering of natural resources that are core to their existence.\n\nInterweaving immersive performance and audio documentary with Indigenous knowledge and voices\, this mesmerizing new theatrical work invites audiences into ritualized listening\, and to feel the sound vibrations emitted by the surrounding water\, stones\, copper\, and tree trunks. Linked by the figure of the turtle\, which is central to both of their origin stories\, the two women form an effective alliance advocating for the protection of water\, land\, stars\, and ancestral knowledge.\n\nLooking for free student tickets? All U-M undergraduate students are eligible to receive a FREE ticket to a UMS performance per academic year through the Bert’s Ticket program (a $20 value)!
UID:137129-21879794@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137129
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Power Center for the Performing Arts
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250813T094303
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251010T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251010T213000
SUMMARY:Performance:Makaya McCraven
DESCRIPTION:The prolific Chicago-based drummer\, composer\, and producer Makaya McCraven is a cultural synthesizer with a unique gift for blending past\, present\, and future into jazz-rooted 21st-century folk music. “McCraven has quietly become one of the best arguments for jazz’s vitality\,” says The New York Times. “His ability to wrap his albums in the dark allure of a club show\, the timeless texture of an old Folkways record\, and the sonic layering of a hip-hop producer has turned Mr. McCraven into the most discussed young musician on a Chicago jazz scene teeming with fresh energy.”\n\nBorn in Paris to a Hungarian singer and flutist and an African American expat jazz drummer\, McCraven was influenced by an enticing blend of cultures that helped establish his philosophies around jazz as folk music\, as well as the role of music in building and reflecting communities. He headlined New York’s Winter Jazz Festival in January 2025\, performing in four different configurations over the course of a single week. This performance ties in with a new album release following In These Times\, his phenomenally successful 2022 recording.
UID:137132-21879795@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137132
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250813T140655
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251017T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251017T213000
SUMMARY:Performance:Ballet BC
DESCRIPTION:Ballet BC continues to innovate while combining an awareness of current social injustices and realities.” (LA Dance Chronicle)\n\nLed by French choreographer and Nederlands Dans Theater veteran Medhi Walerski\, Vancouver’s Ballet BC has been a leader in the Canadian contemporary dance scene for nearly 40 years\, pushing the physical and emotional boundaries of the genre with performances that are “visually stunning and emotionally profound.” (PBS)\n\nThe company creates dance at its most essential: visceral\, powerful\, thought-provoking\, and transformative. Their meticulous performances\, unmatched for precision\, innovation\, and inspiring beauty\, will be on display in two different programs for their UMS debut. Each performance features a company of 20 dancers in works by some of today’s leading contemporary dance-theater choreographers.\n\nLooking for free student tickets? All U-M undergraduate students are eligible to receive a FREE ticket to a UMS performance per academic year through the Bert’s Ticket program (a $20 value)!
UID:137133-21879796@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137133
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Power Center for the Performing Arts
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250813T140655
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251018T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251018T213000
SUMMARY:Performance:Ballet BC
DESCRIPTION:Ballet BC continues to innovate while combining an awareness of current social injustices and realities.” (LA Dance Chronicle)\n\nLed by French choreographer and Nederlands Dans Theater veteran Medhi Walerski\, Vancouver’s Ballet BC has been a leader in the Canadian contemporary dance scene for nearly 40 years\, pushing the physical and emotional boundaries of the genre with performances that are “visually stunning and emotionally profound.” (PBS)\n\nThe company creates dance at its most essential: visceral\, powerful\, thought-provoking\, and transformative. Their meticulous performances\, unmatched for precision\, innovation\, and inspiring beauty\, will be on display in two different programs for their UMS debut. Each performance features a company of 20 dancers in works by some of today’s leading contemporary dance-theater choreographers.\n\nLooking for free student tickets? All U-M undergraduate students are eligible to receive a FREE ticket to a UMS performance per academic year through the Bert’s Ticket program (a $20 value)!
UID:137133-21879797@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137133
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Power Center for the Performing Arts
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250813T094508
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251019T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251019T180000
SUMMARY:Performance:Belcea Quartet
DESCRIPTION:For the first time in more than a decade\, the Belcea Quartet performs in Ann Arbor\, opening the Chamber Arts Series with their fifth UMS performance.\n\nTheir program includes Mozart’s String Quartet No. 19\, the last in a series of six sophisticated quartets that he composed over three years (1782-85) and dedicated to Franz Joseph Haydn\, universally recognized as the “father” of the string quartet. Beethoven’s last quartet — and the last major work he completed — closes the program.\n\n“These were gorgeous and stirring performances\,” said the New York Classical Review of Belcea’s 2023 performance at Zankel Hall. “The quartet’s sinewy\, back-lit sound carried so much of the sonic beauty of the music\, and the energy behind the playing was full of style\, feeling\, and expressive depth.”
UID:137134-21879798@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137134
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Rackham Auditorium
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250813T140724
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251024T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251024T213000
SUMMARY:Performance:Philharmonia Orchestra\, London with Víkingur Ólafsson\, piano
DESCRIPTION:“The conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali doubled down in this blast of a performance. What a sound he drew from the Philharmonia — the strings were a blaze of scorching sunlight\, the wood and brass bold and gleaming.” ― The Times\, London\n\nLondon’s Philharmonia Orchestra returns to Hill Auditorium\, with both the exciting young Finnish conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali and Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson making their UMS debuts.\n\nRouvali took over the podium at the Philharmonia in 2021. He’ll conduct Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5\, an emotional rollercoaster that received huge acclaim at its 1937 premiere.\n\nPianist Víkingur Ólafsson has captured public and critical imagination to become one of the most sought-after artists of today\, with recordings that have led to over a billion streams. His recent recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations captured the 2025 Grammy for Best Classical Instrumental Solo and served as the only work he toured in the 23/24 season\; he performed it 90 times across the world. Ólafsson performs Beethoven’s spirited “Emperor” Concerto\, a work that has not been performed at a UMS concert since 2004.\n\nLooking for free student tickets? All U-M undergraduate students are eligible to receive a FREE ticket to a UMS performance per academic year through the Bert’s Ticket program (a $20 value)!
UID:137135-21879799@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137135
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Hill Auditorium
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20250813T094750
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251025T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251025T213000
SUMMARY:Performance:An Evening with Herbie Hancock
DESCRIPTION:One of the most celebrated artists in American history\, the brilliant and always innovative Herbie Hancock returns to Hill Auditorium in a limited tour that promises to bring his signature mix of freewheeling\, thought-provoking\, and mind-expanding jazz and funk. A true icon of modern music\, Hancock has transcended limitations and genres while maintaining his unmistakable voice\, and there are few artists in the music industry who have had more influence on acoustic and electronic jazz and R&B.\n\nBorn in Chicago in 1940\, Hancock was a piano prodigy who performed a Mozart piano concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at age 11\, years before he began playing jazz. After Detroit trumpeter Donald Byrd recognized his talents as a 20-year-old\, he signed with Blue Note Records as a solo artist\; his 1963 album produced the hit “Watermelon Man\,” which marked him as an instant success story. A history-shaping tenure with the Miles Davis Quintet followed\, and he would later herald the birth of jazz fusion. In short\, he has been an integral part of every popular musical movement in the 50+ years since\, leaving an indelible imprint wherever he lands. This performance marks Hancock’s fourth UMS concert appearance since 2000 and his first since April 2015.
UID:137137-21879800@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137137
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Hill Auditorium
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250813T143048
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251026T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251026T180000
SUMMARY:Performance:Imani Winds & Andy Akiho\, steel drum
DESCRIPTION:The Imani Winds have led both a revolution and an evolution of the wind quintet through their dynamic playing\, adventurous programming\, imaginative collaborations\, and engagement endeavors\, which inspire audiences of all ages and backgrounds. This collaboration features composer and percussionist Andy Akiho\, a trailblazing Pulitzer Prize finalist and five-time Grammy-nominated composer whose bold works unravel intricate and unexpected patterns while surpassing preconceived boundaries of Western classical music.\n\nBeLoud\, BeLoved\, BeLonging is a moving work for wind quintet and steel drum inspired by the sounds and protests by immigrants at a Brooklyn detention center over unsanitary conditions and lack of heat. The unforgettable piece was originally workshopped with a group of incarcerated young men at Rikers Island.\n\nLooking for free student tickets? All U-M undergraduate students are eligible to receive a FREE ticket to a UMS performance per academic year through the Bert’s Ticket program (a $20 value)!
UID:137140-21879804@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137140
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Rackham Auditorium
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250813T143119
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251107T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251107T213000
SUMMARY:Performance:An Evening with Boz Scaggs
DESCRIPTION:Step back into the 1970s — a time when FM radio was king and vinyl spun endlessly on turntables\, an era of cool grooves and effortless style\, where rock\, soul\, and jazz blended into something sophisticated yet deeply raw.\n\nFew artists captured that spirit like Boz Scaggs. His 1976 album Silk Degrees wasn’t just a hit — it became part of the decade’s musical fabric. The slick\, sophisticated rhythm of “Lowdown\,” with its irresistible bassline and shimmering keys\, could have been pulsing from the speakers of a muscle car on a long night drive. “Lido Shuffle” carried the reckless abandon of a road trip\, all swagger and momentum\, while ballads like “We’re All Alone” echoed with late-night wistfulness\, the kind that lingers in the air like the last song at a dimly lit bar.\n\nLooking for free student tickets? All U-M undergraduate students are eligible to receive a FREE ticket to a UMS performance per academic year through the Bert’s Ticket program (a $20 value)!\n\nDrawing from his early blues roots and his time with the Steve Miller Band\, Scaggs’s polished yet gritty voice serves as a time machine back to an era that continues to captivate five decades later.
UID:137141-21879806@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137141
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Hill Auditorium
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250806T103706
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251113T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251113T210000
SUMMARY:Performance:Gil Shaham\, violin and Akira Eguchi\, piano
DESCRIPTION:\"In a world full of outstanding violinists\, [Gil] Shaham is one of the few identifiable by sound and style alone.” (The Boston Globe)\n\nGil Shaham is one of the foremost violinists of our time\; his flawless technique\, combined with his inimitable warmth and generosity of spirit\, has solidified his renown as an American master. In 2016\, Shaham performed an evening of solo violin works by J.S. Bach\, filling Hill Auditorium with his magical and luminescent sound. For this return appearance a decade later\, he brings an all-Beethoven program\, part of his year-long exploration of all 10 of Beethoven’s sonatas for piano and violin with his longtime recital partner Akira Eguchi.\n\n“Shaham’s tone is clear and sweet\, and he plays with quiet but unmistakable ardor. There is a seamless flow to his performance\, a sense of propulsion fueled by both thoughtful concentration and a willingness to let the music take flight.” (The Chicago Sun-Times)
UID:137145-21879808@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137145
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Hill Auditorium
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20250806T104223
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251122T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251122T210000
SUMMARY:Performance:Danish String Quartet
DESCRIPTION:One of the world’s most adventurous and versatile chamber ensembles\, the Danish String Quartet returns to Ann Arbor with a unique program that includes works by Stravinsky\, Beethoven\, and film composer and Radiohead founding member Jonny Greenwood. In addition\, they’ll perform arrangements of traditional folk tunes and original compositions that trace musical pathways across the North Sea\, underlining the group’s belief that “folk tunes are not just part of our repertoire\, but an important element of our identity as musicians.”\n\nTheir most recent recording\, Nordic Music\, reflects this decade-long commitment to music inspired by northern folk and traditional sources. “I remain at a loss to explain how these four musicians create such pathos from a simple old folk tune. Their arrangement gives it an almost Beethovenian depth of feeling — sadness and joy turning inescapably into each other.” (The New York Times)
UID:137148-21879812@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137148
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Rackham Auditorium
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20250806T104537
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251130T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251130T180000
SUMMARY:Performance:Béla Fleck & the Flecktones
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the season with an unforgettable Thanksgiving weekend concert featuring GRAMMY-winning quartet Béla Fleck & the Flecktones.\n\nOver the past half-century\, Béla Fleck has exploded the parameters of the banjo\, taking his staggering musicality to inspired blends of bluegrass\, fusion\, folk\, jazz\, classical\, global music\, and more\, earning a reputation as one of our most brilliant instrumentalists. In the late 1980s\, he started the Flecktones\, a quartet of musicians bridging bluegrass and jazz. After a decade-long hiatus\, the group is reuniting for a brief tour that embraces the spirit of the season.\n\nAt the heart of it all is Béla Fleck\, a true master of the banjo who pushes the boundaries of the instrument in dazzling and unexpected ways. With fresh interpretations of festive favorites\, unexpected sonic detours\, and the kind of musical interplay that only happens when world-class artists come together\, their signature magic is sure to start off your holiday season with a bang.
UID:137149-21879813@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137149
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Hill Auditorium
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20250806T104924
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251206T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251206T210000
SUMMARY:Performance:Handel's Messiah
DESCRIPTION:“Comfort ye\, my people.”\n\nThe first words sung in Handel’s Messiah invite us all into a world of hope\, renewal\, and transcendence.\n\nComposed in 1741\, Handel’s timeless masterpiece has enraptured audiences for centuries with its sublime beauty and profound spirituality. From the jubilant “Hallelujah” chorus to its stirring arias and evocative chorales\, Messiah is a celebration of the season’s true meaning: comfort\, hope\, and the promise of joy. Led by conductor Scott Hanoian and brought to life each year by friends and colleagues throughout the community who perform with the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra and the UMS Choral Union\, this musical tradition continues to shine brightly — in fact\, many attendees consider it the official start to the holiday season.
UID:137150-21879814@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137150
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Hill Auditorium
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20250806T104924
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251207T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251207T160000
SUMMARY:Performance:Handel's Messiah
DESCRIPTION:“Comfort ye\, my people.”\n\nThe first words sung in Handel’s Messiah invite us all into a world of hope\, renewal\, and transcendence.\n\nComposed in 1741\, Handel’s timeless masterpiece has enraptured audiences for centuries with its sublime beauty and profound spirituality. From the jubilant “Hallelujah” chorus to its stirring arias and evocative chorales\, Messiah is a celebration of the season’s true meaning: comfort\, hope\, and the promise of joy. Led by conductor Scott Hanoian and brought to life each year by friends and colleagues throughout the community who perform with the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra and the UMS Choral Union\, this musical tradition continues to shine brightly — in fact\, many attendees consider it the official start to the holiday season.
UID:137150-21879815@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137150
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Hill Auditorium
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20250806T105216
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251211T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251211T210000
SUMMARY:Performance:Chamber Orchestra of Europe
DESCRIPTION:Over the course of the next four years\, the omnipresent conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin will conduct the Chamber Orchestra of Europe at Carnegie Hall in an overview of the orchestral works of Johannes Brahms\, including all of his concertos\, overtures\, and symphonies. UMS is proud to present the first of these concert offerings\, which features the first and final works that Brahms composed for orchestra — his Symphony No. 1 and his Double Concerto for Violin\, Cello\, and Orchestra — performed by the 60-member Chamber Orchestra of Europe.\n\nThe COE was originally founded in 1981 by a group of young musicians who were part of the European Community Youth Orchestra\, and its members now pursue parallel careers as principals or section leaders of other prestigious orchestras in Europe. Originally mentored by the esteemed conductors Claudio Abbado and Nikolaus Harnoncourt\, the group now works closely with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and will be joined for this limited tour by violinist Veronika Eberle and cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras\, both making their UMS debuts.
UID:137152-21879816@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137152
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Hill Auditorium
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250806T105742
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260107T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260107T213000
SUMMARY:Performance:Dimanche
DESCRIPTION:Two award-winning Belgian mime and puppetry companies come together for this stunning visual performance combining puppetry\, video\, mime\, and clowning.\n\nSometime in the near future\, it is the end of the world as we know it. In their small city home\, a family is about to spend their Sunday together\, but the walls are shaking\, strong winds and torrential rain rage outside\, and the storm has only just begun. Amidst this climatic chaos\, the protagonists absurdly attempt to maintain a normal family life.\n\nMeanwhile\, somewhere else on the planet\, three traveling wildlife reporters are doing their best to document the apocalypse. With what little equipment they have\, they film three wild animals on the brink of extinction.\n\nBetween dreamlike fiction and stark reality\, Dimanche paints a witty and tender portrait of humanity surprised by the uncontrollable forces of nature\, observing the absurdity of keeping up appearances amidst an ecological collapse. “Meticulous scenes and beautiful theatrical effects create a surreal\, dreamlike world with an eye for detail. Dimanche is a dystopian parable about the climate\, yet a joy to behold.” (De Standaard\, Belgium)
UID:137155-21879819@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137155
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Power Center for the Performing Arts
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20250806T105742
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260108T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260108T213000
SUMMARY:Performance:Dimanche
DESCRIPTION:Two award-winning Belgian mime and puppetry companies come together for this stunning visual performance combining puppetry\, video\, mime\, and clowning.\n\nSometime in the near future\, it is the end of the world as we know it. In their small city home\, a family is about to spend their Sunday together\, but the walls are shaking\, strong winds and torrential rain rage outside\, and the storm has only just begun. Amidst this climatic chaos\, the protagonists absurdly attempt to maintain a normal family life.\n\nMeanwhile\, somewhere else on the planet\, three traveling wildlife reporters are doing their best to document the apocalypse. With what little equipment they have\, they film three wild animals on the brink of extinction.\n\nBetween dreamlike fiction and stark reality\, Dimanche paints a witty and tender portrait of humanity surprised by the uncontrollable forces of nature\, observing the absurdity of keeping up appearances amidst an ecological collapse. “Meticulous scenes and beautiful theatrical effects create a surreal\, dreamlike world with an eye for detail. Dimanche is a dystopian parable about the climate\, yet a joy to behold.” (De Standaard\, Belgium)
UID:137155-21879820@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137155
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Power Center for the Performing Arts
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20250806T105742
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260109T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260109T213000
SUMMARY:Performance:Dimanche
DESCRIPTION:Two award-winning Belgian mime and puppetry companies come together for this stunning visual performance combining puppetry\, video\, mime\, and clowning.\n\nSometime in the near future\, it is the end of the world as we know it. In their small city home\, a family is about to spend their Sunday together\, but the walls are shaking\, strong winds and torrential rain rage outside\, and the storm has only just begun. Amidst this climatic chaos\, the protagonists absurdly attempt to maintain a normal family life.\n\nMeanwhile\, somewhere else on the planet\, three traveling wildlife reporters are doing their best to document the apocalypse. With what little equipment they have\, they film three wild animals on the brink of extinction.\n\nBetween dreamlike fiction and stark reality\, Dimanche paints a witty and tender portrait of humanity surprised by the uncontrollable forces of nature\, observing the absurdity of keeping up appearances amidst an ecological collapse. “Meticulous scenes and beautiful theatrical effects create a surreal\, dreamlike world with an eye for detail. Dimanche is a dystopian parable about the climate\, yet a joy to behold.” (De Standaard\, Belgium)
UID:137155-21879821@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137155
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Power Center for the Performing Arts
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20250806T105742
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260110T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260110T160000
SUMMARY:Performance:Dimanche
DESCRIPTION:Two award-winning Belgian mime and puppetry companies come together for this stunning visual performance combining puppetry\, video\, mime\, and clowning.\n\nSometime in the near future\, it is the end of the world as we know it. In their small city home\, a family is about to spend their Sunday together\, but the walls are shaking\, strong winds and torrential rain rage outside\, and the storm has only just begun. Amidst this climatic chaos\, the protagonists absurdly attempt to maintain a normal family life.\n\nMeanwhile\, somewhere else on the planet\, three traveling wildlife reporters are doing their best to document the apocalypse. With what little equipment they have\, they film three wild animals on the brink of extinction.\n\nBetween dreamlike fiction and stark reality\, Dimanche paints a witty and tender portrait of humanity surprised by the uncontrollable forces of nature\, observing the absurdity of keeping up appearances amidst an ecological collapse. “Meticulous scenes and beautiful theatrical effects create a surreal\, dreamlike world with an eye for detail. Dimanche is a dystopian parable about the climate\, yet a joy to behold.” (De Standaard\, Belgium)
UID:137155-21879823@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137155
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Power Center for the Performing Arts
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20250806T105742
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260110T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260110T213000
SUMMARY:Performance:Dimanche
DESCRIPTION:Two award-winning Belgian mime and puppetry companies come together for this stunning visual performance combining puppetry\, video\, mime\, and clowning.\n\nSometime in the near future\, it is the end of the world as we know it. In their small city home\, a family is about to spend their Sunday together\, but the walls are shaking\, strong winds and torrential rain rage outside\, and the storm has only just begun. Amidst this climatic chaos\, the protagonists absurdly attempt to maintain a normal family life.\n\nMeanwhile\, somewhere else on the planet\, three traveling wildlife reporters are doing their best to document the apocalypse. With what little equipment they have\, they film three wild animals on the brink of extinction.\n\nBetween dreamlike fiction and stark reality\, Dimanche paints a witty and tender portrait of humanity surprised by the uncontrollable forces of nature\, observing the absurdity of keeping up appearances amidst an ecological collapse. “Meticulous scenes and beautiful theatrical effects create a surreal\, dreamlike world with an eye for detail. Dimanche is a dystopian parable about the climate\, yet a joy to behold.” (De Standaard\, Belgium)
UID:137155-21879822@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137155
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Power Center for the Performing Arts
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20250806T105742
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260111T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260111T160000
SUMMARY:Performance:Dimanche
DESCRIPTION:Two award-winning Belgian mime and puppetry companies come together for this stunning visual performance combining puppetry\, video\, mime\, and clowning.\n\nSometime in the near future\, it is the end of the world as we know it. In their small city home\, a family is about to spend their Sunday together\, but the walls are shaking\, strong winds and torrential rain rage outside\, and the storm has only just begun. Amidst this climatic chaos\, the protagonists absurdly attempt to maintain a normal family life.\n\nMeanwhile\, somewhere else on the planet\, three traveling wildlife reporters are doing their best to document the apocalypse. With what little equipment they have\, they film three wild animals on the brink of extinction.\n\nBetween dreamlike fiction and stark reality\, Dimanche paints a witty and tender portrait of humanity surprised by the uncontrollable forces of nature\, observing the absurdity of keeping up appearances amidst an ecological collapse. “Meticulous scenes and beautiful theatrical effects create a surreal\, dreamlike world with an eye for detail. Dimanche is a dystopian parable about the climate\, yet a joy to behold.” (De Standaard\, Belgium)
UID:137155-21879824@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137155
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Power Center for the Performing Arts
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250813T143204
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260116T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260116T213000
SUMMARY:Performance:Martha Graham Dance Company
DESCRIPTION:The Martha Graham Dance Company celebrates its 100th anniversary season with three unique programs.\n\nMartha Graham is recognized as a primal artistic force of the 20th century\, alongside Pablo Picasso\, Virginia Woolf\, Igor Stravinsky\, and Frank Lloyd Wright. She radically expanded the dance vocabulary\, rooting it in social\, psychological\, and sexual ideas\, and forever altering the art form. Her company\, celebrating its 100th season since its 1926 beginnings in a small studio at Carnegie Hall\, exemplifies its founder’s timeless and uniquely American style of dance.\n\nIn addition to her astonishing and groundbreaking choreography\, Graham was known for her collaborations with visual artists whose set designs took her works to a completely different level. For these three different performances\, the company will bring some of its original sets by the Japanese American sculptor Isamu Noguchi\, who partnered with Graham in over 20 works including Appalachian Spring and Cave of the Heart. Together\, their choreography and set design captured the complexity of the uniquely American experience.\n\nLooking for free student tickets? All U-M undergraduate students are eligible to receive a FREE ticket to a UMS performance per academic year through the Bert’s Ticket program (a $20 value)!
UID:137157-21879826@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137157
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Power Center for the Performing Arts
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250813T143204
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260117T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260117T213000
SUMMARY:Performance:Martha Graham Dance Company
DESCRIPTION:The Martha Graham Dance Company celebrates its 100th anniversary season with three unique programs.\n\nMartha Graham is recognized as a primal artistic force of the 20th century\, alongside Pablo Picasso\, Virginia Woolf\, Igor Stravinsky\, and Frank Lloyd Wright. She radically expanded the dance vocabulary\, rooting it in social\, psychological\, and sexual ideas\, and forever altering the art form. Her company\, celebrating its 100th season since its 1926 beginnings in a small studio at Carnegie Hall\, exemplifies its founder’s timeless and uniquely American style of dance.\n\nIn addition to her astonishing and groundbreaking choreography\, Graham was known for her collaborations with visual artists whose set designs took her works to a completely different level. For these three different performances\, the company will bring some of its original sets by the Japanese American sculptor Isamu Noguchi\, who partnered with Graham in over 20 works including Appalachian Spring and Cave of the Heart. Together\, their choreography and set design captured the complexity of the uniquely American experience.\n\nLooking for free student tickets? All U-M undergraduate students are eligible to receive a FREE ticket to a UMS performance per academic year through the Bert’s Ticket program (a $20 value)!
UID:137157-21879827@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137157
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Power Center for the Performing Arts
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20250813T143204
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260118T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260118T160000
SUMMARY:Performance:Martha Graham Dance Company
DESCRIPTION:The Martha Graham Dance Company celebrates its 100th anniversary season with three unique programs.\n\nMartha Graham is recognized as a primal artistic force of the 20th century\, alongside Pablo Picasso\, Virginia Woolf\, Igor Stravinsky\, and Frank Lloyd Wright. She radically expanded the dance vocabulary\, rooting it in social\, psychological\, and sexual ideas\, and forever altering the art form. Her company\, celebrating its 100th season since its 1926 beginnings in a small studio at Carnegie Hall\, exemplifies its founder’s timeless and uniquely American style of dance.\n\nIn addition to her astonishing and groundbreaking choreography\, Graham was known for her collaborations with visual artists whose set designs took her works to a completely different level. For these three different performances\, the company will bring some of its original sets by the Japanese American sculptor Isamu Noguchi\, who partnered with Graham in over 20 works including Appalachian Spring and Cave of the Heart. Together\, their choreography and set design captured the complexity of the uniquely American experience.\n\nLooking for free student tickets? All U-M undergraduate students are eligible to receive a FREE ticket to a UMS performance per academic year through the Bert’s Ticket program (a $20 value)!
UID:137157-21879828@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137157
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Power Center for the Performing Arts
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250806T111715
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260121T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260121T210000
SUMMARY:Performance:Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería
DESCRIPTION:One of the audience favorites from UMS’s 23/24 season was the UMS debut of México’s Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería\, led by the dynamic conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto. The sheer exuberance and palpable joy from the musicians were felt throughout the audience\, which remained on its feet long after the performance ended\, cheering for more.\n\nWe’re delighted to bring the orchestra back to Hill Auditorium\, this time with dynamic trumpet soloist Pacho Flores\, who performs two different works for trumpet and orchestra\, including Paquito D’Rivera’s Latin Grammy Award-winning Venezuelan Concerto. Born in Venezuela and growing up in the country’s famous El Sistema program\, Flores makes his UMS debut in this concert\, which features rarely heard orchestral works by leading composers from the Americas.
UID:137160-21879832@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137160
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Hill Auditorium
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260106T101657
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260129T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260129T220000
SUMMARY:Performance:Julia Keefe Indigenous Big Band
DESCRIPTION:For hundreds of years\, songs have been the vessels for stories\, lessons\, and prayers for the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. One of the newest additions to this world is the Julia Keefe Indigenous Big Band\, which presented its very first concert in 2022\, focusing on reimagined traditional melodies made famous by Indigenous jazz musicians from the past\, like singer Mildred Bailey (Coeur d’Alene) and saxophonist Jim Pepper (Kaw/Mvskoke)\, as well as new works that push the genre forward.\n\nLed by the celebrated vocalist Julia Keefe (Nez Perce)\, this 16-piece ensemble of Native musicians highlights an often overlooked but rich history of Indigenous bands that existed on reservations across the country in the early 20th century\, and it both deepens and challenges our understanding of the “uniquely American” art form known as jazz. The group brings charisma\, passion\, and purpose to every performance\, shining a spotlight on the vibrant tradition of Indigenous improvised music.\n\nLooking for free student tickets? All U-M undergraduate students are eligible to receive a FREE ticket to a UMS performance per academic year through the Bert’s Ticket program (a $20 value)!
UID:137163-21879833@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137163
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260202T173810
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260204T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260204T184500
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Wynton Marsalis in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join Ford School Dean Celeste Watkins-Hayes and Wynton Marsalis in a public conversation reflecting on America at 250\, the role of music in our culture and society\, and the ways that artists help shape our future. Register at ums.org/wynton250  for email reminders.\n\nPresented in partnership with the Ford School of Public Policy.\n\nIn October 2022\, UMS hosted an intensive weeklong residency with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra that included two concerts\, a School Day Performance\, multiple residency activities on and off campus\, and a halftime performance at the Michigan football game. While a February residency precludes an appearance on the 50-yard line\, UMS is thrilled that Wynton and his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra will return for another distinctive UMS residency this year featuring multiple performances and this talk.\n\nThis event will be livestreamed.
UID:142457-21890990@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142457
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Auditorium
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260107T142054
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260205T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260205T173000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:18th Annual Susan B. Meister Lecture in Child Health Policy
DESCRIPTION:Ahead of her February 8 performance\, GRAMMY Award–winning violinist and director of the Edinburgh International Festival Nicola Benedetti will deliver this year’s keynote lecture at the 18th annual Susan B. Meister Lecture in Child Health Policy.\n\nThis lecture is sponsored by the Susan B. Meister Child Health Evaluation and Research Center (CHEAR)—within the Department of Pediatrics. Each year\, CHEAR hosts the Susan B. Meister Lecture in Child Health Policy that highlights speakers from a variety of disciplines to explore important child health topics.\n\nPanelists\nStefan Dohr\, principal horn\, Berliner Philharmoniker \nKatrina Stroud\, master's student in violin performance\, School of Music\, Theatre & Dance\nRenata Rangel\, STMD alumna (percussion)\, and faculty member at Merit School of Music in Chicago
UID:142478-21890999@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142478
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Auditorium
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260127T133459
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260206T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260206T210000
SUMMARY:Performance:Wynton Marsalis's \"The Jungle\"
DESCRIPTION:In October 2022\, UMS hosted an intensive weeklong residency with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra that included two concerts\, a School Day Performance\, multiple residency activities on and off campus\, and a halftime performance at the Michigan football game. While a February residency precludes an appearance on the 50-yard line\, we’re thrilled that Wynton and his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra will return for another distinctive UMS residency this year.\n\nMarsalis’s Symphony No. 4\, “The Jungle\,” was commissioned by the New York Philharmonic and premiered in December 2016\; it has only been performed three times in the US since it was written. The six-movement symphony for jazz band and orchestra takes the dense mosaic of New York City as its inspiration. Marsalis’s masterwork highlights the paradoxes that define New York City\, where wealth and poverty\, grit and romance\, and unlimited growth and stagnation all coexist. But it’s also a meditation on what being human means today — a wide-scale attempt to understand the maelstrom of modern life and remind us all what brings us together.
UID:137165-21879835@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137165
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Hill Auditorium
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20250806T112640
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260207T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260207T210000
SUMMARY:Performance:Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
DESCRIPTION:Step into a world of rhythm and soul as the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra\, led by the iconic trumpeter and cultural ambassador Wynton Marsalis\, brings their unparalleled mastery to Hill Auditorium. The night after they perform Marsalis’s new Symphony No. 5 with the University Symphony Orchestra\, the venerable ensemble takes the stage in a program that honors Duke Ellington.\n\nDuke Ellington found deep inspiration in Africa\, travelling with his orchestra to Dakar\, Senegal in 1966 to perform at the first World Festival of Negro Arts. This trip led him to compose several of his most iconic works\, including Afro-Bossa\, Liberian Suite\, and the Grammy Award-winning Togo Brava Suite. Co-music-directed by JLCO saxophonists Chris Lewis and Alexa Tarantino\, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis celebrates these compositions and the spirit of Duke’s historic trip\, nearly 60 years later.
UID:137166-21879837@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137166
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Hill Auditorium
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20250806T112932
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260208T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260208T160000
SUMMARY:Performance:Nicola Benedetti & Friends
DESCRIPTION:Scottish violinist Nicola Benedetti makes her UMS debut with an ensemble featuring guitar\, accordion\, and cello performing arrangements of popular classical works. As a sought-after and influential musician and the Director of the Edinburgh International Festival\, Benedetti is an unabashed advocate for Western classical music\, popularizing the genre with a new generation and captivating audiences with her sumptuous tone and top-notch playing.\n\n“This is an artist who exudes star quality\,” said The Herald (Scotland). “Her exquisite playing\, combining true virtuosity and a deep musical intelligence\, made this a memorable performance.”
UID:137167-21879838@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137167
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Rackham Auditorium
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250806T113339
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260212T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260212T210000
SUMMARY:Performance:Fauré Piano Quartets
DESCRIPTION:The 23/24 season featured a recital debut by violinist James Ehnes\, who captivated Rackham Auditorium with his insightful commentary and expressive playing. Now Ehnes is joined by pianist Inon Barnatan\, violist Jonathan Vinocour\, and cellist Raphael Bell for a program of Fauré’s two piano quartets. Gabriel Fauré’s youthful first piano quartet\, full of intoxicating melodies\, is paired with his strikingly individual\, impassioned second quartet. Among his best-known chamber works\, Fauré’s piano quartets are exquisitely crafted and ideal vehicles for these four superb artists and musical soulmates.\n\n“The wondrous James Ehnes [is] a thinker of the violin as well as a supreme virtuoso of the instrument…an artist of the first order.” (The Daily Telegraph) Inon Barnatan is admired for his “superior playing\, in which penetrating musicianship\, compelling interpretive insight\, and elegant pianism achieve near perfect equilibrium.” (BBC Music)
UID:137168-21879839@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137168
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Rackham Auditorium
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260105T160008
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260213T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260213T210000
SUMMARY:Performance:Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
DESCRIPTION:The internationally acclaimed Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir\, under the direction of Tõnu Kaljuste\, celebrates the famed Estonian composer Arvo Pärt and the indelible mark he has left on choral singing and classical music over his 90 years. As a composer\, Pärt has changed the course of music — both within and beyond the classical sphere. Profound\, powerful\, and beloved worldwide\, his work transcends time and space\, taking us beyond everyday existence into another realm.\n\nThe EPCC is well-versed in interpreting the spiritual depth and minimalist aesthetic that characterize Pärt’s music\, having often premiered and performed his works under his direction. Renowned for their resplendent sound\, the ensemble was named one of the 10 Best Choirs in the World by BBC Magazine\, as anyone who has attended one of their previous six UMS concerts in Hill Auditorium and St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church can attest.
UID:137169-21879840@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137169
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Hill Auditorium
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20250806T114159
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260215T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260215T180000
SUMMARY:Performance:Terence Blanchard and Ravi Coltrane
DESCRIPTION:The year 1926 saw the birth of two towering figures who reshaped the landscape of 20th-century music: Miles Davis and John Coltrane. In this limited tour\, two of today’s most visionary musicians come together to honor their legacies in a concert that is more than just a centennial tribute\, but a living\, breathing continuation of their spirit.\n\nSaxophonist Ravi Coltrane has spent his career carving out his own voice while remaining deeply attuned to his father’s innovations in an approach that is both reverent and exploratory. Trumpeter Terence Blanchard brings his deep connection to Miles Davis’s legacy through his own groundbreaking work and his deep study of Davis’s fearless artistry. Together\, they lead an ensemble of world-class musicians in a testament to the genre’s endless evolution\, drawing inspiration from classic works while creating something unmistakably new.\n\nThis concert marks Terence Blanchard’s UMS debut and Ravi Coltrane’s second appearance\, following his memorable 2006 performance with his mother\, pianist and harpist Alice Coltrane.
UID:137171-21879842@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137171
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Hill Auditorium
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260209T134104
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260218T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260218T200000
SUMMARY:Film Screening:Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire
DESCRIPTION:Eighty years after his liberation from Buchenwald\, we seek to understand the man behind Elie Wiesel's searing and widely read memoir Night. Told largely through his own words and eloquent voice\, Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire seeks to penetrate to the heart of the known and unknown Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) — his passions\, his conflicts and his legacy as one of the most public survivors of the Holocaust. With unique access to personal archives\, original interviews\, and employing hand-painted animation\, the film illuminates Wiesel’s biography as a survivor\, writer\, teacher and public figure.\n\nAfter the film\, stay for a discussion between one of the film’s producers\, Patti Askwith Kenner\, and Wallenberg Institute director Jeffrey Veidlinger.\n\nCo-presented by the University Musical Society (UMS)\, the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of the University of Michigan\, and the Michigan Theater.
UID:145246-21896924@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145246
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Screening Room
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250813T140802
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260223T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260223T210000
SUMMARY:Performance:Chicago Symphony Orchestra
DESCRIPTION:The Chicago Symphony Orchestra returns to Hill Auditorium for the first time in more than a decade\, under the leadership of Zell Music Director Designate Klaus Mäkelä.\n\nMäkelä made his thrilling UMS debut with Orchestra de Paris in March 2024\, just a few weeks before he was appointed to the Chicago post. He conducts Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7\, a work written in 1812 during the Napoleonic era with Beethoven conducting its premiere at a charity concert for wounded soldiers\, and Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique\, a revolutionary work composed just a few years after Beethoven’s death.\n\nBerlioz composed the work when he was just 27 years old\, creating a dreamlike\, hallucinatory world that mythologizes the fevered dreams of an artist who has poisoned himself with opium in the throes of unrequited love. Inspired by his own obsessive love for the actress Harriet Smithson\, who ultimately became his wife\, Berlioz uses radical orchestration\, bold narrative\, and psychological depth to trace the protagonist’s descent from infatuation into delusion and nightmare in this thrilling and imaginative score.\n\nLooking for free student tickets? All U-M undergraduate students are eligible to receive a FREE ticket to a UMS performance per academic year through the Bert’s Ticket program (a $20 value)!
UID:137173-21879844@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137173
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Hill Auditorium
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260304T112920
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260311T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260311T114500
SUMMARY:Performance:Members of the Karajan Akademie and Berliner Philharmoniker Pop-up Concert
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a free “Health & Wellness” Carte Blanche concert at the Shapiro Library Clark Commons by members of the Karajan Akademie and Berliner Philharmoniker\; Wenzel Fuchs (clarinet\, BPH)\, Rachel Buquet (violin)\, Saki Tozawa (violin)\, Álvaro Castelló Marchena (viola)\, Felix Brunnenkant (cello)\n\nThe Karajan-Akademie of the Berliner Philharmoniker offers some of the world’s most gifted young musicians the opportunity to perfect their skills while studying\, rehearsing\, and regularly performing with the orchestra. This concert is part of a weeklong residency that will include campus engagement and learning activities\, culminating in a UMS mainstage performance featuring SMTD students on Friday\, March 13th. \n\nProgram:\nW.A. Mozart: Klarinettenquintett A-Major KV 581 \nDobrinka Tabakova: “Pirin” (cello solo)
UID:146168-21898614@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146168
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Shapiro Library - Clark Commons
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250806T115900
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T210000
SUMMARY:Performance:Karajan-Akademie of the Berliner Philharmoniker
DESCRIPTION:The Karajan-Akademie of the Berliner Philharmoniker offers some of the world’s most gifted young musicians the opportunity to perfect their skills while studying\, rehearsing\, and regularly performing with the orchestra. Founded in 1972 by conductor Herbert von Karajan\, the Akademie serves as the training ground for the next generation of musicians in the Berliner Philharmoniker and other orchestras around the world.\n\nThis concert\, part of a weeklong residency that will include campus engagement and learning activities\, will feature Akademie scholars alongside two Karajan-Akademie mentors who are principal members of the Berliner Philharmoniker in an evening of mixed chamber music repertoire.
UID:137174-21879845@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137174
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Rackham Auditorium
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260106T101628
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260320T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260320T210000
SUMMARY:Performance:Martin Hayes & the Common Ground Ensemble
DESCRIPTION:\"In the decades to come\, we’ll surely talk of having seen [Martin Hayes] in the way others talk of Miles Davis or Jimi Hendrix or John Coltrane.” (The Irish Times)\n\nLegendary Irish fiddler Martin Hayes leads a wide-ranging concert celebration a few days after St. Patrick’s Day\, featuring an exciting variety of special guests\, traditional sean-nós singing and dancing\, and modern takes on Irish traditions. Regarded as one of the most significant talents to emerge in the world of Irish music\, Hayes has drawn inspiration from many musical genres but remains grounded in the music he grew up with in East County Clare.\n\nHis soulful interpretations of traditional Irish music are recognized the world over for their exquisite musicality and irresistible rhythm. He has a unique ability to place the tradition within a wider contemporary context\, creating a unique and insightful interpretation of Irish music. “This music is\, at its essence\, a direct and simple expression of feeling. The melodies are sometimes deceptively simple but almost always beautiful\, and the rhythm is both understated and entrancing\,” Hayes says. This concert features his new ensemble\, Common Ground\, comprising musicians from different backgrounds whose connections to Irish music are complemented by improvisation\, jazz\, avant-garde\, and contemporary classical music.
UID:137176-21879846@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137176
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Hill Auditorium
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260225T095921
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260321T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260321T210000
SUMMARY:Performance:CANCELLED EVENT: Sheku Kanneh-Mason\, cello and Isata Kanneh-Mason\, piano
DESCRIPTION:Update 2/25/2026: We regret to inform you that the concert featuring Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Isata Kanneh-Mason\, scheduled for Saturday\, March 21 in Hill Auditorium has been canceled.\n\nSheku’s ongoing recovery from a finger injury is taking longer than he had anticipated to heal\, and with huge regret\, he is withdrawing from all of his concerts through the end of May 2026. We plan to invite Sheku and Isata to return to Hill Auditorium once they are touring together again.\n\nSiblings Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Isata Kanneh-Mason bring their extraordinary musical chemistry to a program that bridges Romantic lyricism and 20th-century innovation.\n\nOpening the program is Felix Mendelssohn’s first cello sonata\, a work of luminous interplay that reveals both the cello’s expressive depth and the piano’s crystalline brilliance. Then\, Nadia Boulanger’s striking miniatures demonstrate the full range of the cello’s capabilities\, as do Robert Schumann’s folk-inspired short compositions. The program concludes with the trailblazing composer Rebecca Clarke\, whose rich\, expressive Viola Sonata is presented here in its cello arrangement. Written in 1919 for a competition\, the work tied for first place with a sonata by Ernest Bloch and is admired for its sweeping lyricism\, harmonic richness\, technical brilliance\, and sheer expressive power.
UID:137183-21879889@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137183
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Hill Auditorium
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250813T141028
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260326T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260326T210000
SUMMARY:Performance:Angélique Kidjo
DESCRIPTION:Five-time Grammy Award winner and global phenomenon Angélique Kidjo brings her powerhouse voice\, electrifying stage presence\, and joyous music back to Ann Arbor for the first time since 2020.\n\nNamed one of 2021’s “Most Influential People” by TIME Magazine and one of the “Top 100 Most Inspiring Women in the World” by The Guardian\, Kidjo is one of the greatest artistic forces in international music today\, using her voice to make connections across genre\, generations\, and geopolitical boundaries. Blending West African rhythms with jazz\, pop\, funk\, R&B\, Latin\, and dance music\, Kidjo’s visionary music tells the story of Africa’s past while looking ahead to the future.\n\nHer extraordinarily eclectic four-decade career has featured collaborations with Bono\, Alicia Keys\, John Legend\, Yo-Yo Ma\, Branford Marsalis\, Carlos Santana\, Philip Glass\, Dianne Reeves\, and the Kronos Quartet. “Her music transcends mere danceability and instead possesses you with its rhythm\, leaving you no choice but to move with the groove.” (NPR)\n\nLooking for free student tickets? All U-M undergraduate students are eligible to receive a FREE ticket to a UMS performance per academic year through the Bert’s Ticket program (a $20 value)!
UID:137187-21879891@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137187
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Hill Auditorium
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260209T112608
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260327T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260327T200000
SUMMARY:Performance:GATZ
DESCRIPTION:\"The most remarkable achievement in theater not only of this year\, but also of this decade.” (The New York Times)\n\nOne morning in the shabby office of a mysterious small business\, an employee finds a copy of The Great Gatsby in the clutter on his desk. He starts to read it out loud… and doesn’t stop. At first\, his coworkers hardly notice. But after a series of strange coincidences\, it’s no longer clear whether he’s reading the book or the book is transforming him.\n\nA century after the publication of The Great Gatsby and 20 years after its acclaimed off-Broadway run\, Elevator Repair Service’s GATZ comes to Ann Arbor following its sold-out run at New York’s Public Theater in November 2024. Told over a single 6½-hour production (plus dinner break)\, GATZ is not just a retelling of the Gatsby story\, but an enactment of the novel in which Fitzgerald’s masterpiece is cleverly delivered word for word. This literary tour-de-force by one of American theater’s most exciting and inventive companies is “strangely seductive\, often revelatory\, and altogether ingenious.” (Chicago Sun-Times)\n\nThis performance will take place in four sections with two 15-minute intermissions and a 90-minute dinner break (dinner not included in ticket price) for a total length of approximately eight hours. Information about dinner options will be provided closer to the performances.
UID:137188-21879892@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137188
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Power Center for the Performing Arts
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260209T112608
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260329T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260329T190000
SUMMARY:Performance:GATZ
DESCRIPTION:\"The most remarkable achievement in theater not only of this year\, but also of this decade.” (The New York Times)\n\nOne morning in the shabby office of a mysterious small business\, an employee finds a copy of The Great Gatsby in the clutter on his desk. He starts to read it out loud… and doesn’t stop. At first\, his coworkers hardly notice. But after a series of strange coincidences\, it’s no longer clear whether he’s reading the book or the book is transforming him.\n\nA century after the publication of The Great Gatsby and 20 years after its acclaimed off-Broadway run\, Elevator Repair Service’s GATZ comes to Ann Arbor following its sold-out run at New York’s Public Theater in November 2024. Told over a single 6½-hour production (plus dinner break)\, GATZ is not just a retelling of the Gatsby story\, but an enactment of the novel in which Fitzgerald’s masterpiece is cleverly delivered word for word. This literary tour-de-force by one of American theater’s most exciting and inventive companies is “strangely seductive\, often revelatory\, and altogether ingenious.” (Chicago Sun-Times)\n\nThis performance will take place in four sections with two 15-minute intermissions and a 90-minute dinner break (dinner not included in ticket price) for a total length of approximately eight hours. Information about dinner options will be provided closer to the performances.
UID:137188-21879893@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137188
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Power Center for the Performing Arts
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250806T123726
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260403T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260403T210000
SUMMARY:Performance:Jeremy Nedd
DESCRIPTION:In from rock to rock\, Brooklyn-born\, Basel-based choreographer Jeremy Nedd takes inspiration from a rapper’s copyright infringement lawsuit against a video game company.\n\nNedd delves into the complexities of dance ownership and cultural appropriation in this performance\, which centers on the “Milly Rock\,” a dance move popularized by Brooklyn rapper 2 Milly that became the subject of a legal dispute when it was incorporated into the wildly popular video game Fortnite without acknowledgment. The piece features five talented performers who engage in repetitive iterations of the move\, with variations that explore the hidden poetry inherent in social and viral dances.\n\nWith its focus on a gesture that has moved from smaller communities to mainstream platforms\, the performance highlights issues of cultural exploitation and the dynamics of creative expression in the age of TikTok and internet virality. “What does it mean to have a billion-dollar video game company be able to capitalize off of something that comes from a Black space of creativity?” Nedd asks. He explores the “algorhythm” of viral dances\, asking whether a dance move or gesture can really belong to someone\, and if so\, who really benefits.
UID:137190-21879894@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137190
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Power Center for the Performing Arts
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250806T123726
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260404T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260404T210000
SUMMARY:Performance:Jeremy Nedd
DESCRIPTION:In from rock to rock\, Brooklyn-born\, Basel-based choreographer Jeremy Nedd takes inspiration from a rapper’s copyright infringement lawsuit against a video game company.\n\nNedd delves into the complexities of dance ownership and cultural appropriation in this performance\, which centers on the “Milly Rock\,” a dance move popularized by Brooklyn rapper 2 Milly that became the subject of a legal dispute when it was incorporated into the wildly popular video game Fortnite without acknowledgment. The piece features five talented performers who engage in repetitive iterations of the move\, with variations that explore the hidden poetry inherent in social and viral dances.\n\nWith its focus on a gesture that has moved from smaller communities to mainstream platforms\, the performance highlights issues of cultural exploitation and the dynamics of creative expression in the age of TikTok and internet virality. “What does it mean to have a billion-dollar video game company be able to capitalize off of something that comes from a Black space of creativity?” Nedd asks. He explores the “algorhythm” of viral dances\, asking whether a dance move or gesture can really belong to someone\, and if so\, who really benefits.
UID:137190-21879895@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137190
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Power Center for the Performing Arts
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260318T122931
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260411T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260411T093000
SUMMARY:Performance:Frames and Frequencies
DESCRIPTION:In this collaboration with Independent Film Festival Ypsilanti (iFFY)\, filmmakers who live or work in Washtenaw County will be invited to create a series of short silent films\, all of which will be set to live\, improvised music performed by Resonant Soundscapes\, a dynamic collective of Michigan-based artists that traverses wide-ranging jazz and electronic aesthetics. This hyper-local event brings out the best of Southeast Michigan\, showcasing the incredible talents in our community.
UID:146755-21899589@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146755
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260318T123834
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260414T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260414T213000
SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:Ypsilanti\, it’s time to take the stage! Open Mic Night at the Freighthouse is back\, and we want to hear from you. Singers\, poets\, rappers\, comedians\, and more — bring in your newest work\, dust off an old favorite\, or just come by to support your neighbors and fellow artists. Grab a drink\, settle in\, and see what Ypsi has to offer! Hosted by Ypsilanti’s own Rochelle Clark.
UID:146756-21899594@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146756
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260414T154835
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260414T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260414T213000
SUMMARY:Performance:The Dream of Gerontius: U-M Life Sciences Orchestra & UMS Choral Union
DESCRIPTION:The U-M Life Sciences Orchestra's spring concert will feature the 150-member UMS Choral Union\, and special guest solo vocalists\, performing a stirring oratorio by English composer Edward Elgar.\n\nCalled The Dream of Gerontius\, it's often performed in England but rarely in America\, making this a unique opportunity to hear the work featured in the  movie The Choral starring Ralph Fiennes.\n\nThe performance will begin at 7:30 p.m. with An American Overture by another English composer\, Benjamin Britten.\n\nLSO Music Director Nicholas Bromilow\, who is English\, will conduct the Elgar. Assistant conductor Michael Roest\, who is American\, will conduct the Britten. Both are graduate students in the U-M School of Music\, Theatre & Dance's acclaimed orchestral conducting program. The UMS Choral Union is directed by Scott Hanoian.\n\nSpecial guest solo vocalists on the Elgar will be SMTD alumni and students Tyrese Byrd (Tenor) and Danielle Casós (Mezzo Soprano)\, and Paul Leland Hill (Bass-Baritone).\n\nThe LSO’s musicians include faculty\, staff\, students\, alumni and their family members from across U-M’s medical\, health sciences\, life sciences and engineering community. The LSO is part of Gifts of Art\, which brings the world of art and music to Michigan Medicine\, U-M’s academic medical center. The Choral Union is open to U-M students and adults from U-M and the community by audition\, and is part of UMS.
UID:146842-21899685@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146842
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Hill Auditorium
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260318T124358
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260416T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260416T213000
SUMMARY:Performance:Nidia Góngora
DESCRIPTION:Nidia Góngora brings the soul of Colombia’s Pacific coast to the stage. The singer/songwriter comes from Timbiquí\, influenced both by her mother’s love of traditional music and her father’s love of music from around the world. Her powerful\, earthy\, and luminous voice carries centuries of Afro-Colombian tradition in this dance-floor-ready event performed with marimba and percussion.
UID:146762-21899596@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146762
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250806T124039
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260417T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260417T210000
SUMMARY:Performance:Takács Quartet
DESCRIPTION:The always superlative Takács Quartet performs works by Franz Joseph Haydn and Claude Debussy\, as well as a UMS co-commission by U-M alumna Clarice Assad\, who is working on her second piece for the Quartet.\n\nAssad floats freely across musician idioms\, drawing on an array of sounds from Amazon forest wildlife to operatic arias. “We fell in love with Clarice Assad’s music when we toured her quintet CLASH for the Takács and accordionist Julian Labro\,” said the Quartet\, about the work UMS presented by Assad in 2021. “Clarice’s music inspires interactive spirit and theatrical energy. We feel liberated by her limitless imagination and can’t wait to dive into her new string quartet for us.”
UID:137191-21879896@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137191
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Rackham Auditorium
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250806T124523
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260418T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260418T210000
SUMMARY:Performance:The Complete Philip Glass Piano Etudes
DESCRIPTION:One of the most influential composers of our time\, Philip Glass has had an extraordinary and unprecedented impact on the musical and intellectual life of our age.\n\nGlass has written more than 30 operas\, 14 symphonies\, 13 concertos\, numerous soundtracks to films\, nine string quartets\, a growing body of work for solo piano and organ\, and collaborated with artists ranging from Twyla Tharp to Allen Ginsberg\, Leonard Cohen and David Bowie. He describes himself as a composer of “music with repetitive structures” and says that “If I’m to be remembered for anything\, it will probably be for the piano music\, because people can play it.”\n\nPhilip Glass conceived his collection of etudes as a set of 20 works for solo piano written to improve his own performance technique. His most personal body of work is a self-portrait of a life’s practice\, representing some of the most intimate and inventive music of Glass’s oeuvre. This distinctive concert offering of all 20 of Glass’s etudes features 10 pianists onstage\, each offering a unique musical tribute to this masterful composer.
UID:137192-21879897@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137192
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Hill Auditorium
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260318T125031
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260419T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260419T173000
SUMMARY:Performance:Voce Velata Youth Ensemble
DESCRIPTION:At this free community event\, meet the moment through music by composers Jessie Montgomery\, Florence Price\, Margaret Bonds\, and more. Voce Velata — a local youth-led chamber ensemble — joins professional musicians to explore cultural idioms that are in dialogue with both our past and present.
UID:146763-21899597@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146763
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20250806T124855
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260421T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260421T210000
SUMMARY:Performance:Rhiannon Giddens
DESCRIPTION:“Few artists are so fearless and so ravenous in their exploration.” (Pitchfork)\n\nArtist\, composer\, author\, and educator Rhiannon Giddens has made a singular\, iconic career out of stretching her brand of folk music — with its miles-deep historical roots and contemporary sensibilities — into just about every field imaginable. She has centered her work on lifting up people whose contributions to American musical history have previously been overlooked or erased\, advocating for a more accurate understanding of the country’s musical origins through art.\n\nA founding member of the landmark Black string band Carolina Chocolate Drops and the all-female banjo supergroup Our Native Daughters\, Giddens is as much a curator as a creator\, serving as artistic director of the Silkroad Ensemble\, hosting a podcast that digs deep into opera arias\, publishing two children’s books\, and even performing music for the soundtrack of Red Dead Redemption II\, one of the best-selling video games of all time. Giddens takes the stage with her latest musical explorations for this capstone concert following her residency with the U-M Arts Initiative.
UID:137194-21879898@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137194
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Hill Auditorium
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250806T125119
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260422T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260422T210000
SUMMARY:Performance:Jean-Yves Thibaudet\, piano
DESCRIPTION:Short in length but limitless in imagination\, all 24 of Claude Debussy’s magical preludes for piano are performed by one of their supreme living interpreters\, Jean-Yves Thibaudet.\n\nDebussy opened up a new universe of sound in his two books of exquisitely conceived\, ravishingly colored musical cameos\, and few pianists inhabit that revolutionary universe more fully than Thibaudet. Each of these brief works is painted in subtle shades\, hazy harmonies\, and daring textures\, with inspiration ranging from paintings and travel to Dickens and Peter Pan.\n\nThibaudet has lived with Debussy’s Preludes for his “entire life\,” learning some as a child and recording the full set more than 30 years ago. He closes the 25/26 Choral Union Series with this legendary program in his first solo recital with UMS since 2009.
UID:137195-21879900@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137195
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Hill Auditorium
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260318T130022
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260424T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260424T213000
SUMMARY:Performance:Ian Fink
DESCRIPTION:Detroit-based Ian Finkelstein (aka Ian Fink) has been performing professionally since the age of 14\, when he was a member of Detroit’s Civic Jazz Orchestra. Equally active in Detroit’s house and techno communities\, Fink is a key force in the next generation of jazz innovators and brings together some of Detroit’s finest jazz artists for a small combo performance at the intimate Ypsilanti Freighthouse.
UID:146765-21899599@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146765
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260318T130333
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260425T193000
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SUMMARY:Performance:Beyond This Point: Musician Minus Instrument
DESCRIPTION:What does a musician become without their instrument? Can they use their skills in other ways\, and still make music?\n\nMusician Minus Instrument both breaks and expands what it means to be a musician and a performer. The “instruments” run the gamut from a loose jack cable to an IKEA desk lamp to simple bodies and voices. Beyond This Point\, composed of Chicago-based collaborative percussion/arts trio Adam Rosenblatt\, John Corkill\, and AJ Morrissey straddles the disciplines of music\, theater\, and science through gesture and ingenuity.
UID:146766-21899600@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146766
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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