UMBC Piano Day
The UMBC Department of Music invites you to the 2025 Annual UMBC Piano Day This event is FREE and open to all pianists, friends, family, and colleagues.
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Jayme McLellan: Fostering Sustainability in a Career in the Arts
Dance Technology StudioJayme McLellan is a curator, gallery director, artist, and educator. Over the past two decades, she has curated 150 solo, group, and thematic exhibitions of contemporary artists. In this presentation by the Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA), she will share stories about successes and failures in her efforts to help artists carve out their own sustainable paths.
SPARK: Industrial Afterglow
The PealeSPARK VII: Industrial Afterglow, a collaboration between UMBC and Towson University, brings together over twenty artists working across sculpture, installation, sound, photography, video, textiles, and ecological documentation to explore what lingers in the wake of industrial and technological systems.
View Full Event Details and Register for SPARK: Industrial Afterglow, Thursday, November 6, 2025
Abeo Quartet
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallThe Shriver Hall Concert Series presents the Baltimore debut of the Abeo Quartet in a program featuring works by Johannes Brahms, Felix Mendelssohn and Adolphus Hailstork.
View Full Event Details and Register for Abeo Quartet, Saturday, November 8, 2025
Fall 2025 Prospective Theatre Student Visit Day
Join us on campus to experience life a UMBC Theatre Major! Our Prospective Student Days usually sell out, so be sure to claim your spot early.
Inscape Chamber Orchestra: Echoes of Paradise
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallJourney beyond the earthly realm with Inscape Chamber Orchestra as they explore musical visions of the divine. This extraordinary concert weaves together three masters whose works touch the very essence of the sacred and sublime — Gustav Mahler, J.S. Bach, and Arvo Pärt.
Ousseina Alidou: Ecological Thoughts in Sahel West African Women’s Literary and Cultural Narratives
University Center BallroomIn the 47th Annual W. E. B. Du Bois Distinguished Lecture, Ousseina Alidou examines life and being human in West African Sahel women’s ecological thoughts as articulated in their literary and cultural narratives. Alidou’s aim is to expand our understanding of Sahelian women’s enduring contributions to ethical engagement with environmental concerns and preservation, climate change, vulnerability, migration, gender equity, and resilience.
Eric Millikin: Mecha/Magical Marine Materials
216 Performing Arts and Humanities BuildingThe Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts presents a talk by visual artist Eric Millikin. An assistant professor of visual arts, Millikin was awarded the 2024 CIRCA-IMET Artist-in-Residence Fellowship, during which he worked on Mecha/Magical Marine Materials, an ongoing series of wearable electronic and robotic sculptures based on marine biology for performances with live-coded ambient sound and spiraling video projections. The work is based in part on the work of IMET Assistant Professor Allison Tracy as well as on Edgar Allan Poe’s tales of sea-faring science and the supernatural, including depictions of necromancers creating mechanical sea monsters.
First Works Concert
Dance CubeThe Department of Dance presents the annual First Works Concert, featuring new works by dance majors.
View Full Event Details and Register for First Works Concert, Friday, November 14, 2025
UMBC Wind Ensemble: Fire
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallWhat could possibly bring together the intricate melodies of Indian raga, the driving beats of techno, the infectious groove of New Orleans brass band music, the drama of powerful Western Classical works, and the innovative jazz influences of Charles Mingus? The answer, brought to life by the UMBC Wind Ensemble, is fire — in all its primal power and rich symbolism. This program will feature the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's OrchKids Brass Band (Jared Perry, director), internationally renowned tabla artist Neelamjit Dhillon, the UMBC Percussion Ensemble (Dustin Donahue. director), and UMBC's String Chamber Orchestra (Philip Mann, director). The Wind Ensemble is directed by Brian Kaufman.
View Full Event Details and Register for UMBC Wind Ensemble: Fire, Sunday, November 16, 2025
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins: Dark Times: The Uses and Abuses of History in an Authoritarian Era
Albin O. Kuhn Library GalleryUntil recently, the history profession has expressed skepticism about using history to understand contemporary events. At the same time, many historians have excelled at using historical comparisons to illuminate the current order of things. The annual Robert K. Webb Lecture, part of the Fall 2025 Humanities Forum, explains the origins of the recent turn to the present in the professional study of history, while looking at its promises and perils for the field.
UMBC Chamber Players
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallThe Department of Music presents the UMBC Chamber Players under the direction of Airi Yoshioka.
View Full Event Details and Register for UMBC Chamber Players, Wednesday, November 19, 2025
UMBC Gamelan Ensemble
The Music BoxThe Department of Music presents the UMBC Gamelan Ensemble under the direction of Michelle Purdy. The ensemble performs on a central Javanese gamelan (a gong-chime orchestra of Indonesia), and also on a Balinese gamelan angklung (one of many types of gong-chime orchestras from the island of Bali, Indonesia).
View Full Event Details and Register for UMBC Gamelan Ensemble, Friday, November 21, 2025
U.S. Army Field Band Saxophone Quartet
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallThe United States Army Field Band Saxophone Quartet performs a program of works by Chick Corea and Marc Mellits alongside works by UMBC student composers Jean Nguyen and Alexander Edwards.
UMBC Jazz in Concert
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallThe 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.
View Full Event Details and Register for UMBC Jazz in Concert, Saturday, November 22, 2025