Pianist Harry Appelman and his jazz trio, featuring drummer Eric Kennedy and bassist Jeff Reed, will perform original compositions and their takes on jazz standards and songs from the Great American Songbook.

The Gibbs Street Duo, featuring cellist Hilary Glen and pianist Sun Min Kim, was formed in June 2020 with the intent to seek out, explore, and introduce music of historically marginalized composers to the musical canon. Their program will feature works by Gabriela Lena Frank, Alice Hong, Ching Chu Hu, Rob Smith, and Dora Pejačević.

Trombonist Patrick Crossland and pianist Thomas Moore present a program of contemporary works by John Cage, Thomas DeLio, Alvin Lucier, and Christian Wolff.

Ghost Ensemble fosters groundbreaking music that blurs borders of genre, style, and scene, expanding perceptual horizons through shared immersive experience. Their program, Inspirit, features new works commissioned for Ghost Ensemble’s 2022 season from Sky Macklay, Miya Masaoka, and Ben Richter.

The colorful, varied creative voice of composer-pianist and UMBC faculty member Daniel Pesca is explored in this program of solo and chamber works. The event features the world premiere of Pesca’s Feldman Sonnets, a song cycle setting texts by acclaimed poet Irving Feldman. Among the performers are UMBC music faculty members Lisa Cella (flute), Gita Ladd (cello), and Airi Yoshioka (viola); UMBC alumnus Derrick Miller (tenor); and special guests Danielle Cho (cello), Sarah Frisof (flute), and Dieter Hennings (guitar), as well as performances by Daniel Pesca.

The Department of Music presents the UMBC Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Philip Mann, with works by Valerie Coleman, Georges Bizet, Sergei Rachmaninoff, George Gershwin, and Arcangelo Corelli, and featuring the winners of the UMBC Symphony Concerto Competition, Nicole Johnson and Dave Warshaw.