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DTSTAMP:20250806T112932
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260208T140000
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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:classical music
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Rackham Auditorium
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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:classical music
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Rackham Auditorium
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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:classical music
LOCATION:Hill Auditorium
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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:classical music
LOCATION:Hill Auditorium
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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:classical music
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Rackham Auditorium
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DTSTAMP:20260225T095921
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260321T193000
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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:classical music
LOCATION:Hill Auditorium
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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:classical music
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Rackham Auditorium
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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:classical music
LOCATION:Hill Auditorium
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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
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CATEGORIES:classical music
LOCATION:Hill Auditorium
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