The Department of Music presents the UMBC Jazz Small Groups, directed by Matt Belzer and Tom Lagana. Recent performances have featured music by Victor Feldman, Charlie Parker, Bill Evans, Clare Fischer, Wayne Shorter, and Gil Evans.

Join us as pianist Grigorios Zamparas performs masterworks spanning the Romantic and Impressionist eras. The program features Franz Liszt’s 1849 dramatic “Dante Sonata,” a formidable piece inspired by the Divine Comedy, Ludwig van Beethoven’s 1804 “Waldstein” Sonata, known for its grand scope and technical brilliance, and selections from Maurice Ravel’s Miroirs, a vivid five-movement suite written in 1904–05 and dedicated to his contemporaries in the Parisian artistic circle.

The Department of Music presents the Walt Weiskopf Quartet, featuring Walt Weiskopf, saxophone, Harry Appelman, piano, Amy Shook, bass, and Steve Fidyk, drums. Their program will include music by Cole Porter, Wells & Segal, and contemporary original jazz works by Weiskopf.

The Department of Music presents the UMBC Chamber Players under the direction of Airi Yoshioka. Students in the UMBC Chamber Players perform a wide variety of instrumental chamber works, ranging from Baroque, Classical, Romantic to contemporary repertoire. This concert will also feature the premiere of student works.

The Department of Music presents UMBC Wind Ensemble under the direction of Walter Harley, with clarinet soloist Natalie Groom. The program features an eclectic mix of wind band classics and engaging new works, including Nathan Daughtrey’s Twitch for clarinet and band.

The Department of Music presents the UMBC New Music Ensemble under the direction of Lisa Cella in a performance of Frederic Rzewski’s Attica and other works.

The Department of Music presents the UMBC Jazz in Concert, featuring the UMBC Jazz Ensemble and small groups, directed by Matthew Belzer, Tom Baldwin, and Tom Lagana.

The UMBC Camerata and guest artists under the direction of Lulu Mwangi present a CELEBRATION of Music, Country, and Humanity.

The 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).

Join the Department of Music as we lift our voices for the very first time in one of history’s greatest expressions of equality, freedom, and community—Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, “Ode to Joy!” A UMBC campus premiere, this historic collaboration of the University Symphony Orchestra, Camerata, Jubilee Singers, String Chamber Orchestra, guest artists, faculty, and UMBC alumni will resonate in Linehan Concert Hall with generations of UMBC artists under the baton of Philip Mann.