Student Solo Recital at McDaniel College
McDaniel College students perform vocal and instrumental solos of musical selections spanning from classical to contemporary.
McDaniel College students perform vocal and instrumental solos of musical selections spanning from classical to contemporary.
Senior Dance Concert
Friday, November 10 – Saturday, November 11, 8 p.m.
Dance Cube (337 Performing Arts and Humanities Building)
The UMBC Department of Dance presents the Senior Dance Concert, featuring new works that explore the past, present, and future of the human experience through elaborate and exciting movement.
Tickets: $12 general admission, $7 students and seniors. Available online and at the box office.
Praised by the New York Times for his “passion and poetry,” pianist Andrew Tyson is emerging as a distinctive musical voice. He won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in 2011 and received an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2013. He was also a prizewinner at the 2013 Queen Elisabeth International Piano Competition of Belgium, and he won the Terence Judd-Hallé Orchestra Prize at the Leeds International Piano Competition. He graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music and earned his master’s degree at the Juilliard School.
UMBC Humanities Forum
"Nuclear Pain and Humanitarian Photography: Morizumi Takashi, the Gulf Wars, and Fukushima"
Julia Adeney Thomas, Associate Professor of History, University of Notre Dame
Wednesday, November 15, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
Homewood Museum hosts an evening with Broadway author and director Mark Bramble, guest co-curator of the museum’s special exhibition As Precious as Gold: A History of Tea Caddies from the Bramble Collection. Mr. Bramble will discuss the vast collection of antique tea caddies he and his late mother assembled over more than five decades of collecting, the subject of his new publication A Tea Caddy Collection (Schiffer Publishing, 2017).
6pm Book signing, exhibition viewing, and reception at Homewood Museum
7pm Book talk nearby in Remsen Hall, room 1
The Flute Choir and small ensembles formed from the Flute Choir perform under the direction of Linda Kirkpatrick, senior lecturer in music.
Giving Thanks: Amy Beach at 150
Friday, November 17, 4 p.m.
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall
Spanning two centuries of piano trios by women composers, this concert, performed by pianist Sookkyung Cho, cellist Si-Yan Darren Li, and UMBC Professor of Violin Airi Yoshioka, recognizes the 150th birthday of the first prominent American female composer Amy Beach (b. 1867, New Hampshire).
McDaniel College students perform vocal and piano solos of musical selections spanning classical to contemporary.
UMBC Dance students present choreographic work for the first time in this First Works dance concert.
Admission to First Works is free.
Directions and parking information
UMBC is located about 10 minutes south of the Inner Harbor along I-95. For this event, free visitor parking is available in Lot 8, directly adjacent to the Performing Arts and Humanities Building, where the Dance Cube is located on the third floor.
Atlantic Guitar Quartet
Saturday, November 18, 8 p.m.
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall
UMBC presents the Atlantic Guitar Quartet, an ensemble founded in 2010 that is dedicated to the creation and promotion of music by living composers. Through virtuosic performances, innovative programing and collaborations with artists in other media, AGQ seeks to broaden the definition and expand the repertoire of the classical guitar quartet by commissioning new works.
The UMBC Symphony Orchestra performs under the direction of E. Michael Richards.