Chamber Music Maryland presents cellist Nicolas Altstaedt in concert with pianist/composer Fazil Say. Their program will feature Say's masterpiece Four Cities, in addition to works by Benjamin Britten, Samuel Barber, and Johannes Brahms.
The Baltimore Classical Guitar Society presents Gabriel Bianco, who has earned first prize in multiple international competitions in Austria (Vienna), Germany (Koblenz), France (Ile de Ré and Barbezieux), Poland (Tychy) and Portugal (Sernancelhe). His most recent win at the 2008 Guitar Foundation of America Competition has earned him the coveted 50-concert tour in the United States, Mexico, and Canada with additional concerts in China, Colombia, and Brazil. Bianco has already performed in over 30 music festivals across the world, in France, Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Austria, Spain, Italy, Hungary, Romania, Portugal, Slovakia, and Thaïland.
In this lecture, entitled The Importance of Financial Literacy: Lessons From Many Years of Data, Annamaria Lusardi will present data from the Big Three (three questions to measure financial literacy), the Personal Finance Index (twenty-eight questions to measure financial literacy), and new information from the Consumer Expectations Survey from the European Central Bank to document very low levels of financial literacy in the United States and around the world.
The Andrist-Stern-Honigberg Trio, featuring pianist Audrey Andrist, violinist James Stern, and cellist Steven Honigberg, will present a program of works by Rebecca Clarke, Kent Holliday, and Robert Schumann. The trio was described as “a remarkably successful meeting of musical talent ... It’s a performance that is both elegant and emotionally searching” by Fanfare magazine in a review of their 2022 debut recording of Dvorák and Fauré.
The Department of Music presents the second UMBC Create Music Festival, an event that reimagines music education festivals for equity and 21st century music learning, with the collaboration of the BSO OrchKids program, Sister Cities Voices, and two Baltimore area public school large ensembles. Students will work with teaching artists, including Emmy-nominated composer and genre-bending violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain, Chicago-based vocal theater ensemble Artemisia Trio, composer Alysia Lee, and UMBC music faculty and alumnus James Dorsey ’05.