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5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Join us for the grand finale of UMBC’s 2025 Guitar Fest, a one-of-a-kind concert presenting guitar artistry across eras, geographies, and traditions. Featuring works ranging from J. S. Bach to Pat Metheny, this concert brings guitarist Felipe Garibaldi performing highlights of the classical and popular repertoires, along with original compositions. He is later joined by jazz guitarist Tom Lagana and classical guitarist Andres Palacios, creating an extraordinary fusion of guitar worlds, promising an unforgettable evening of music.

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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Melissa Hyatt Foss: Rewilding Sound and Form

A person wearing a dark outfit holds a clay mask over their face.

April 2, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Melissa Hyatt Foss: Rewilding Sound and Form

The Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA) presents artist Melissa Hyatt Foss, an instrument-maker, musician, composer-performer, researcher, and teaching artist who develops artistic and educational projects that explore pre-Colonial sound artifacts of the Americas and their applications in contemporary art and music. Foss is the Maryland Traditions Artist-in-Residence at UMBC where she shared her tradition and practice with Linehan Artist Scholars students and is guiding them to develop teaching materials that will enable public school teachers to introduce the practice, history, and cultural significance of clay instrument making to their students.

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3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

David Russell, classical guitar

April 6, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

David Russell, classical guitar

The Baltimore Classical Guitar Society presents classical guitarist David Russell, who is world renowned for his superb musicianship and inspired artistry, having earned the highest praise from audiences and critics alike. Russell appears regularly at prestigious halls in main cities such as New York, London, Tokyo, Los Angeles, Madrid, Toronto, and Rome. Russell received a Grammy award for his CD “Aire Latino” in the category of best instrumental soloist in classical music.

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2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Inscape Chamber Orchestra

A group of musicians pose, some holding instruments

April 13, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Inscape Chamber Orchestra

Inscape, praised by The New York Times as "brilliant," performs a program featuring works by Steven Stucky's Ad Parnassum, Joan Tower's Into the Night, and other works. Originally commissioned by the group Eighth Blackbird, Tower says Into the Night commemorates the treasured final months she and her late husband had together.

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7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

UMBC Wind Ensemble

Rob Flax, a white man wearing a suit, poses behind a chess board while holding a blue violin.

April 17, 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

UMBC Wind Ensemble

The Department of Music presents the UMBC Wind Ensemble under the direction of Brian Kaufman in Love Notes, a program of music inspired by love. The event will feature critically acclaimed multi-instrumentalist improviser Rob Flax and the UMBC String Chamber Orchestra directed by Philip Mann.

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4:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Ruckus

An ensemble of musicians performs on a concert stage.

April 18, 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Ruckus

The Department of Music presents RUCKUS, the contemporary music ensemble in residence at UMBC, in a program of works by Pierre Boulez, Julius Eastman, Salina Fisher, Alexandra Gardner, Elainie Lillios, Emma O'Halloran, and Vicki Ray.

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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Celebrating Charles Ives at 150 — Joel Sachs pre-concert talk

Seated at a grand piano, and viewed from the perspective of the strings, a person with glasses and a light blue shirt raises their left hand, as if about to play.

April 23, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Celebrating Charles Ives at 150 — Joel Sachs pre-concert talk

In conjunction with a concert on Wednesday evening, April 23 — Celebrating Charles Ives at 150 — pianist Joel Sachs will give an informal talk about Ives (1874–1954) and his remarkable creative output.

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Celebrating Charles Ives at 150 — Joel Sachs, pianist

April 23, 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Celebrating Charles Ives at 150 — Joel Sachs, pianist

Pianist Joel Sachs performs masterworks by Charles Ives, one of America’s greatest composers and one of the greatest modernists of the early 20th century. His rarely heard Piano Sonata No. 1 will be preceded by “The Alcotts” and “Thoreau,” the third and fourth movements of his more famous second Sonata, “Concord, Mass., 1840-1860,” a tribute to the literary giants of that little town. Taken together, these compositions offer an unforgettable view of Ives’s unique vision of music that is both universal and deeply American.

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3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

UMBC Collegium Musicum

A group of five musicians perform on string instruments and a harpsichord

April 25, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

UMBC Collegium Musicum

The Department of Music presents the UMBC Collegium Musicum under the direction of Lindsay Johnson. The Collegium Musicum explores and performs vocal and instrumental music from Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods, sampling musical repertoires created between 800 and 1750.

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7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

The U.S. Army Blues and All That Jazz!

A group of musicians perform on wind instruments.

April 26, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

The U.S. Army Blues and All That Jazz!

The U.S. Army Blues, a component of the United States Army Band “Pershing’s Own,” will perform a free concert at UMBC in honor of Jazz Appreciation Month. This special event will feature the 2023 Collegiate and High School solo competition winners from the Army Blues Young Artist Competition, alongside Naptown Jazz Kids, the premier jazz organization for young people in Annapolis.

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3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Juan Sebastián Delgado, cello, and Kristhyan Benitez, piano

Two photos are side by side. On the left, a person plays a cello; on the right in a black and white photo a person plays the piano.

April 27, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Juan Sebastián Delgado, cello, and Kristhyan Benitez, piano

Cellist Juan Sebastián Delgado teams up with pianist Kristhyan Benitez in a program of original music for cello and piano from Latin America, featuring works by Astor Piazzolla, Mario Lavista, Francisco Mignone, Carlos Chavez, and Manuel Ponce. First-prize winner at the 2008 Latin-American Cello Festival, Delgado is active in the creation and dissemination of new works that explore the cello in innovative ways. Grammy award winning pianist Kristhyan Benitez is exciting audiences worldwide with his vivid and passionate concerts, presenting both Classical and Latin American repertoire with depth, passion and charisma.

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4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

AI and Artistic Practice: Sam Pluta, Brea Souders, and Eryk Salvaggio

Four square black and white photos of people. The one top left, a person bent over a table, is viewed from a longer distance, while the other three are head shots.

April 28, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

AI and Artistic Practice: Sam Pluta, Brea Souders, and Eryk Salvaggio

In a discussion presented by the Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA), composer and sound artist Sam Pluta, visual artist Brea Souders, and video artist and writer Eryk Salvaggio each use and interact with AI in their artistic practice. They will introduce us to their work, reflecting on their experiences, doubts, and breakthroughs creating works using these technologies. This will be followed by a discussion moderated by UMBC assistant professor of art Eric Millikin.