The Department of Music presents UMBC Jazz in Concert, featuring the Jazz Guitar Ensemble, the Jazz Small Groups, and the Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of Tom Baldwin, Tom Lagana, and Matthew Belzer. Fresh from performances at the Smithsonian and Keystone Korner, the Jazz Ensemble will feature compositions by current students and alumni.
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The Department of Music presents the UMBC Camerata under the direction of Lulu Mwangi. A small choral ensemble consisting of auditioned singers from across the university. Camerata performs a wide variety of works drawn from the expansive choral repertoire: including Renaissance motets and madrigals, folksongs, German part songs, Russian sacred liturgies, American spirituals, and new American concert works.
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The Social Sciences Forum presents the annual Lipitz Lecture, featuring Erle Ellis, who will speak on “How People Make Nature Better: Measuring Progress Toward a World Where People and Nature Thrive Together using the Nature Relationship Index (NRI).”
The Department of Dance presents the annual Spring Dance Showcase, featuring a new faculty ballet work by Brandon Russell, senior capstone choreography by Nyah Brown, Madison Kayser, Katie King, and Kiera Richardson, new choreography by Katie Goralski, and a dance film by Gwyneth Watson.
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The Department of Music presents the UMBC Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Philip Mann in a program featuring works by Johannes Brahms, Felix Mendelssohn, Richard Strauss, William Walton, and UMBC student Jean Nguyen, with student soloists Jocelyn Faison, Veronica Anzola Rojas, and Albert Russell:
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The Department of Music presents the UMBC Improvisation Ensemble under the direction of Patrick Crossland.
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The Department of Music presents the UMBC Percussion Ensemble under the direction of Dustin Donahue. The ensemble will perform Edgard Varèse's Ionisation, Susie Ibarra's These Trees That Speak, and other works.
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The Department of Music presents the UMBC Opera Workshop under the direction of Sammy Huh. The ensemble will perform Act 1 of Mozart's The Magic Flute (K. 620), and Act 4 of Puccini's La bohème.
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The Department of Music presents the Honors Showcase, featuring students selected by audition to present their creative work.
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The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture presents the 2026 Visual Arts Senior Exhibition, on display from May 13 through 22, presenting the broad and dynamic scope of senior undergraduate student work within the Department of Visual Arts.
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The Department of Music presents the UMBC New Music Ensemble under the direction of Juan Sebastián Delgado. The program will feature an improvised piece guided by audience interaction; text-based original works by Oren Franklin, Hannah Worley, Marcia Brown, and Rhaxma Lyons; and John Cage's Story (from Living Room Music) and Variations II (with guest artist Thomas Moore).
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This year marks 30 years of artists graduating from the Intermedia and Digital Arts MFA Program at UMBC. Please join us in celebrating innovative creative research and cutting edge art with a free evening of art, music, food and fun!
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The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture presents an Artist Reception for the 2026 Visual Arts Senior Exhibition, on display from May 13 through 22, presenting the broad and dynamic scope of senior undergraduate student work within the Department of Visual Arts.
Join UMBC’s senior art history students for a showcase highlighting their independent capstone projects, or Creative Art Theses (CAT), that pull at the threads of our visual past to weave new understandings of the present.
The Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture presents the Opening Reception and Artist Panel for Somewhere Over the Rainbow of Row Homes, We Fly, an intergenerational group exhibition organized by curator Angela N. Carroll. The Artist Panel will be moderated by Angela N. Carroll in conversation with with Brianna Faulkner, Jeffrey Kent, Kim Rice, Margaret Rorison, and Shan Wallace.