In June 2025, three UMBC choirs took part in an extraordinary summer performance tour through Europe. In this Choirs Homecoming Concert, the three choirs — the UMBC Camerata, the UMBC Jubilee Singers, and the UMBC Gospel Choir — will perform selections from their European tour, talk about their experiences, present photos and videos from the trip, and thank all the supporters who made this event possible.

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The Department of Music presents the UMBC Jazz Ensemble, directed by Matthew Belzer, in a program of music by Charles Mingus, Quincy Jones, Pat Metheny, Jack DeJohnette, Kenny Wheeler, and Fred Sturm.

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The Department of Music presents the Livewire 15: Blazing Trails new music festival. Through concerts and other events, Livewire celebrates the innovators, the brave, the experimental, the “firsts”: the trail blazers. The festival features music by composer in residence Zosha Di Castri in addition to works by Julius Eastman, Sofia Gubaidulina, Tania León, George Lewis, Joan Tower, Alison Knowles, John Cage, Beyoncé, David Baker, Jennifer Higdon, Myroslav Skoryk, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and others, performed by RUCKUS, Ensemble Bravura, and other noted musicians.

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The Livewire 15:  Blazing Trails new music festival presents RUCKUS, the faculty ensemble in residence at UMBC, in a concert of works by Zosha Di Castri, Sofia Gubaidulina, Tania León, George Lewis, and Joan Tower.

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For the second evening of the Livewire 15 new music festival, the RUCKUS ensemble is joined by UMBC affiliate faculty to present Julius Eastman’s concert-length work, Femenine.

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How often do you get a chance to eat a work of art? RUCKUS presents a lunchtime performance of Alison Knowles’s groundbreaking Fluxus work, Proposition #2: Make a Salad. In a radical turn away from the conventions of classical music, Knowles frames the concert experience around a simple, everyday act. The performers will trade their instruments for whisks, knives, and colanders, and every audience member will be served.

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With characteristic elan and virtuosity, Ensemble Bravura and conductor Philip Mann present a multifaceted and eclectic Livewire 15 festival finale exploring human interconnection, with works by David Baker, Jennifer Higdon, Miroslav Skoryk, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Joan Tower.

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