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SUMMARY:Mary Ellen Mark: Ward 81
DESCRIPTION:The Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents Mary Ellen Mark: Ward 81\, a photography exhibition on display from January 26 through May 22. \nIn 1976\, American photographer Mary Ellen Mark and sociologist Karen Folger Jacobs spent thirty-six days living in the Oregon State Hospital\, where they photographed the residents of Ward 81\, the hospital’s all-female\, high-security psychiatric unit. Their unprecedented access allowed them to create a deeply nuanced portrayal of women navigating psychiatric care in the mid-1970s. Mary Ellen Mark: Ward 81 brings together Mark’s photographs\, Jacobs’s newly uncovered audio recordings\, and rare archival materials\, offering an intimate and expanded view of this landmark documentary project. \nAn opening reception and curatorial tour will be held on Thursday\, February 12\, at 5 p.m. \nA public program featuring Kaitlin Booher (William and Sarah Ross Soter Associate Curator of Photography\, Columbus Museum of Art) and Holly Avella (assistant professor of media studies and data analytics\, UMBC) will be held on Thursday\, April 2\, at 5 p.m. \nRead the review by Jack Livingston in BmoreArt\nRead the review by Rona Kobell in The Banner \n\nVisitor Information \nAdmission is free. For driving directions and parking information\, please visit here. \nLibrary Gallery hours:\nMonday\, Tuesday\, Wednesday\, Friday: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.\nThursday: 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.\nSaturday and Sunday: 12 p.m. – 5 p.m. \n\nImage: Mary Ellen Mark\, [Laurie in the Bathtub\, Ward 81\, Oregon State Hospital\, Salem\, Oregon\, USA]\, 1976. © Mary Ellen Mark\, courtesy of The Mary Ellen Mark Foundation. \n 
URL:https://options.umbc.edu/event/mary-ellen-mark-ward-81/
LOCATION:Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
CATEGORIES:All Events,Arts and Culture,Visual Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260306T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260306T213000
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SUMMARY:UMBC Faculty Jazz Ensemble
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Music presents the UMBC Jazz Faculty Ensemble\, featuring saxophonist Matt Belzer\, bassist Tom Baldwin\, and drummer Mark Merella. They will be joined by UMBC student Leo Hickman on mandolin. The ensemble will perform modern interpretations of classic and recent jazz compositions. \n\n$15 general admission\, $10 seniors\, $5 students. Please visit here to reserve seats. \n\nLinehan Concert Hall\, located in the Performing Arts and Humanities Building\, is easy to visit\, with plenty of free parking. Please visit here for directions and parking information. \n 
URL:https://options.umbc.edu/event/umbc-faculty-jazz-ensemble/
LOCATION:Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall\, Catonsville\, MD\, 21250\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,Arts and Culture,Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260307T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260307T153000
DTSTAMP:20260223T215820Z
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SUMMARY:Maryland All State Senior Jazz Band
DESCRIPTION:The Maryland Music Educators Association presents the All State Senior Jazz Band. Students from across the state will be selected to participate in this concert by audition\, and students from multiple county schools will be represented. \n\nTickets for this event are sold through the Maryland Music Educators Association. Please visit here for additional information. \n\nLinehan Concert Hall\, located in the Performing Arts and Humanities Building\, is easy to visit\, with plenty of free parking. Please visit here for directions and parking information. \n 
URL:https://options.umbc.edu/event/maryland-all-state-senior-jazz-band/
LOCATION:Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall\, Catonsville\, MD\, 21250\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,Arts and Culture,Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260307T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260307T213000
DTSTAMP:20260206T173657Z
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SUMMARY:Susie Ibarra: Rhythm in Nature
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Innovation\, Research\, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA) presents Filipinx-American composer\, percussionist\, and sound artist Susie Ibarra\, who will present her groundbreaking work at UMBC in a concert\, spatial audio installation\, and workshop. Ibarra’s interdisciplinary practice focuses on strengthening connections to the natural environment and advocating for stewardship through sound. Ibarra’s work calls upon Asian percussive traditions\, jazz sensibilities\, as well as on her extensive study in a wide range of interests\, including improvisation\, sonic mapping\, and artistic intervention for societal transformation. The concert will include performances by UMBC music students and faculty. \n\nSusie Ibarra creates immersive experiences through sound to invite people to connect to their natural and built environments. Her Pulitzer Prize winning work Sky Islands is a musical call to action\, highlighting the endangered rainforests of her home region of Luzon\, Philippines\, with the aim of connecting people to our fragile and beautiful ecosystems and to draw awareness to changing climate and global community practices. Sky Islands was commissioned by the Asia Society in 2022 and had its world premiere in 2024\, with additional support from the Fromm Music Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Art Grant. Ibarra works to support Indigenous and traditional music cultures\, including Musika Katatube from the Philippines and leads several ensembles\, including Talking Gong Trio with Claire Chase and Alex Peh. She has recorded over forty albums and has performed around the world\, including at the 2012 Olympics in London\, as part of the 2013 Sharjah Biennial\, and at Carnegie Hall. Ibarra has received numerous awards and fellowships\, including a Creative Capital Artist Award (2025)\, Callie’s Studio Residency in Berlin (2025)\, DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program Fellowship (2024-25)\, the Charles Ives Fellowship (2024) with the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Music Fellowship (2022)\, a United States Artists Fellowship (2019)\, a Doris Duke United States Artist Fellow in Music (2019)\, the National Geographic Explorers Storyteller Award (2020)\, and a TED Senior Fellowship (2014). Ibarra is the founder of Susie Ibarra Studio and\, with artist-musician and engineer Jake Landau\, co-founded the label and publisher Habitat Sounds. Her book Rhythm in Nature: An Ecology of Rhythm was published by Habitat Sounds in 2024. She is a Yamaha\, Zildjian\, and Vic Firth Drum Artist. \n\nA spatial audio installation will open at 6:30\, followed by a concert at 7:30. \nAdmission is free\, but tickets are required. Please visit here to reserve seats. \n\nLinehan Concert Hall is easy to visit\, with plenty of free parking. Please visit here for directions and parking information. \n\nPhoto by Rajesh Kumar Singh. \n\n\nThis event is funded in part by the Arts+ Initiative and the College of Arts\, Humanities\, and Social Sciences\, with additional support from the Global Asias Initiative. \n 
URL:https://options.umbc.edu/event/susie-ibarra-rhythm-in-nature/
LOCATION:Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall\, Catonsville\, MD\, 21250\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,Arts and Culture,Music
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SUMMARY:Sérgio and Odair Assad\, classical guitar — Farewell Tour
DESCRIPTION:The Baltimore Classical Guitar Society presents Brazilian-born brothers Sérgio and Odair Assad\, who have created a new standard of guitar innovation\, ingenuity\, and expression. Their exceptional artistry and uncanny ensemble-playing rooted in a family rich in Brazilian musical tradition and studies under guitarist/lutenist Monina Távora\, a disciple of Andrés Segovia. Their virtuosity has inspired a wide range of composers to write for them\, including Astor Piazzolla\, Terry Riley\, Radamés Gnattali\, Marlos Nobre\, Nikita Koshkin\, Roland Dyens\, Jorge Morel\, Edino Krieger\, and Francisco Mignone. Sérgio Assad has expanded their repertoire by composing works for the duo\, as well as for various musical partners\, both in recital and with symphony orchestra. \nThey have worked extensively with renowned artists such as Gidon Kremer\, Dawn Upshaw\, Turtle Island String Quartet\, Yo-Yo Ma\, and Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg. Odair is based in Brussels\, where he teaches at Ecole Supérieure des Arts\, while Sérgio resides in Chicago. The brothers launched their international career after winning the 1979 Young Artists Competition in Bratislava. Their diverse repertoire spans folk\, jazz\, Latin\, and classical transcriptions of Bach\, Rameau\, Scarlatti\, Gershwin\, Ginastera\, and Debussy. Sérgio premiered his concerto Phases with the Seattle Symphony\, and they have performed with major orchestras worldwide. Highlights include a 2004 multi-generational Assad family tour\, soundtrack features\, collaborations with Paquito D’Rivera\, Romero Lubambo\, Yo-Yo Ma\, and recordings on Nonesuch and GHA that earned Latin Grammy awards. In 2015\, they received the Guitar Foundation of America’s Lifetime Achievement Award. In the 2025–2026 season\, Sérgio and Odair Assad will celebrate their 60th anniversary as a duo. Their concert in Baltimore is part of their Farewell Tour. \n\nTickets are $45 and $50 and are available through the Baltimore Classical Guitar Society. \n\nLinehan Concert Hall\, located in the Performing Arts and Humanities Building\, is easy to visit\, with plenty of free parking. Please visit here for directions and parking information. \n 
URL:https://options.umbc.edu/event/sergio-and-odair-assad-classical-guitar-farewell-tour/
LOCATION:Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall\, Catonsville\, MD\, 21250\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,Arts and Culture,Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260309T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260309T203000
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SUMMARY:Humanities Forum — Hanna Pickard
DESCRIPTION:Evelyn Barker Memorial Lecture with Hanna Pickard\nWhat Would You Do Alone in a Cage with Nothing but Cocaine? A Philosophy of Addiction\nThis event\, rescheduled from February 23\, is part of the Spring 2026 Humanities Forum \nAddiction science is at an impasse. Rates of addiction remain high. Translational results from decades of research conducted within the dominant brain disease paradigm are shockingly meager. Meanwhile\, theories of addiction multiply and compete\, fomenting disagreement about something as apparently simple as how addiction should be defined. Ultimately the cost of this impasse is borne by people with addiction themselves. Drawing on philosophy together with sources ranging from the history of the science of animal models to the voices of people who live with addiction\, Hanna Pickard presents a new paradigm that shifts our gaze away from a broken brain and onto the psychology and humanity of people who struggle with drugs. \nHanna Pickard is Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Bioethics and Krieger-Eisenhower Professor at Johns Hopkins University. \n\nAdmission is free\, but reservations are encouraged. A reception will follow. \n\nThe Evelyn Barker Memorial Lecture is presented by the Department of Philosophy and the Center for Ethics and Values\, and is co-sponsored by Dresher Center for the Humanities\, the Center for Public Health Research\, and the Human Context of Science & Technology Program. \n 
URL:https://options.umbc.edu/event/humanities-forum-hanna-pickard-what-would-you-do-alone-in-a-cage-with-nothing-but-cocaine-a-philosophy-of-addiction/
LOCATION:Fine Arts Recital Hall\, MD
CATEGORIES:All Events,Arts and Culture,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260311T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260311T213000
DTSTAMP:20260206T173521Z
CREATED:20260128T163848Z
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SUMMARY:Ruckus
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Music presents RUCKUS\, the faculty new music ensemble at UMBC\, in a concert that highlights the work of pivotal American composer George Lewis. Working with Lewis in residence at UMBC\, RUCKUS explores the striking breadth of his work from the elegiac intensity of Signifying Riffs to the haunting\, ecstatic sound world of Hexis. Flutist Lisa Cella presents the world premiere of Lewis’s Dark Matter for solo bass flute and live electronics. Two raucous\, virtuosic works by Viet Cuong and David Lang complete an eclectic portrait of American music in the 21st century: \n\nGeorge Lewis — Hexis\nGeorge Lewis — Dark Matter\nGeorge Lewis — Signifying Riffs\nDavid Lang — these broken wings\nViet Cuong — Fine Lines\n\nWith a mission to champion new and innovative works\, RUCKUS is dedicated to supporting innovative artists and early-career composers through commissions and collaboration. RUCKUS works directly with students working toward the Certificate in American Contemporary Music\, often performing alongside these students and mentoring their creative work. Each year\, the ensemble co-hosts the Livewire Festival\, bringing guest artists and other ensembles from around the world to Baltimore for a weekend of cutting-edge contemporary music. \nRUCKUS features Lisa Cella\, flute; Airi Yoshioka\, violin; Juan Sebastián Delgado\, cello; Liana Harron\, piano; Dustin Donahue\, percussion; and Philip Mann\, conductor. \n\n$15 general admission\, $10 seniors\, $5 students. Please visit here to reserve seats. \n\nLinehan Concert Hall\, located in the Performing Arts and Humanities Building\, is easy to visit\, with plenty of free parking. Please visit here for directions and parking information. \n\n\nThis event is supported in part by the Arts+ initiative. \n  \n 
URL:https://options.umbc.edu/event/ruckus-2/
LOCATION:Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall\, Catonsville\, MD\, 21250\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,Arts and Culture,Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260324T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260324T183000
DTSTAMP:20260126T191705Z
CREATED:20260126T191617Z
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SUMMARY:Zoë Charlton: Third Watch
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Innovation\, Research\, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA) presents artist Zoë Charlton\, who will speak about the process behind creating Third Watch\, her new public art work featuring illuminated sculptures depicting three pregnant female figures\, inspired by African traditions. The three figures installed at the top of the North Avenue Market in Baltimore watch over the neighborhood and are meant to invoke a sense of peace\, protection\, and light\, qualities that the community hopes to embrace as it moves forward after years of struggle. Third Watch was made possible through a commission from the Inviting Light Initiative funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies to help revitalize the Station North Arts and Entertainment District. Charlton will be joined by Adam Nelson and Peter Karis from Paradise Labs\, the team that she worked with to fabricate the work. \n\nAdmission is free\, but attendees are encouraged to RSVP in advance. \n\nZoë Charlton builds a visual language of assembly through drawing\, collage\, installation\, and animation as ways to bring fragments of history into conversation. Her work explores how identity\, place\, and material culture converge in the figure\, where personal inheritance and memory meet. Across large-scale graphite drawings and layered paper constructions\, she maps the relationship between body and landscape\, inheritance and visibility. Each work becomes a kind of ledger as an account of how objects and histories carry us\, how the past lingers in gesture and surface. Charlton is a Professor of Art and Director of the School of Art at George Mason University\, where she cultivates a culture of care\, inquiry\, and shared leadership within the arts in higher education. From 2003 to 2022\, Charlton taught full-time at American University in Washington\, D.C.\, where she earned tenure in 2009\, chaired the Department of Art (2015–2018)\, and became the first Black American tenured Full Professor in the department. Charlton’s practice extends beyond the studio into collective forms of making and leading. She co-founded ‘sindikit (2016–2022)\, an artist initiative that investigated intersections of art\, gender\, sexuality\, race\, and their economies\, and co-launched as a founding member\, Kindred CRAFT (Kindred Creative Residence + Agro-ForesT) (2022–23)\, a BIPOC and LGBTQIA+–led arts and ecology collective in Vermont. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is held in public collections including The Phillips Collection\, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art\, the Baltimore Museum of Art\, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. A recipient of Pollock-Krasner and Rubys Grants\, she has also served in public arts leadership roles\, holding two terms on the Maryland State Arts Council (2017–2023) and the Washington Project for the Arts (2018-2025)\, and currently sits on the board of Threewalls\, and serves as a trustee at The Phillips Collection. \n\nParadise Labs is a team of makers\, creators\, and problem-solvers specializing in museum\, zoo\, aquarium exhibit design\, as well as medical simulation assemblies and limited run manufacturing. With decades of experience\, they craft immersive exhibits that inspire curiosity\, spark wonder\, and connect people with the natural world. Whether it’s building larger-than-life sculptures\, crafting intricate habitats\, or designing hands-on interactive experiences\, Paradise Labs believe in the power of storytelling through design. \n\nImage: Zoë Charlton\, Third Watch\, photo by Side A Photography. \n 
URL:https://options.umbc.edu/event/zoe-charlton-third-watch/
LOCATION:Fine Arts Recital Hall\, MD
CATEGORIES:All Events,Arts and Culture,Visual Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260325T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260325T213000
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SUMMARY:Huang-Miyamoto Duo — CANCELED
DESCRIPTION:Please note that this event has been canceled. We hope to reschedule at a future date. \nExplore the rarely heard F-A-E Sonata — the collaborative work of Robert Schumann\, Johannes Brahms\, and Albert Dietrich — as well as Schumann’s epic Violin Sonata No. 2 in this concert by the Huang-Miyamoto Duo\, featuring violinist Wanchi Huang and pianist Peter Miyamoto. The concert will also include a new work for solo violin\, to be announced. \nIn 1853\, three composer friends — the established Robert Schumann\, and the younger Johannes Brahms and Albert Dietrich — combined their talents to write the F-A-E Sonata\, a four movement work for violin and piano they dedicated as a gift to violinist Joseph Joachim. The first movement\, by Dietrich and sonata form\, is followed by a short intermezzo by Schumann\, a scherzo by Brahms\, and a final fourth movement by Schumann. \n\nWanchi Huang made her solo debut at the age of 14 with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Catherine Comet. She has enjoyed a career as an active performer in chamber music\, solo recitals\, and as a soloist with regional orchestras throughout North America and Asia\, at venues including Kennedy Center\, Carnegie Hall\, Lincoln Center\, Curtis on Tour and numerous music festivals. She is currently professor of violin at James Madison University School of Music. \nPianist Peter Miyamoto has enjoyed a brilliant international career\, performing to great acclaim in recital and as soloist in Canada\, England\, France\, Germany\, Greece\, Italy\, Poland\, Russia\, Serbia\, Switzerland\, China and Japan\, and in major US cities such as Boston\, Chicago\, Dallas\, Indianapolis\, Los Angeles\, Miami\, New York\, Philadelphia\, San Francisco and Washington D.C. In 1990\, Miyamoto was named the first Gilmore Young Artist. He won numerous other competitions\, including the American Pianist Association National Fellowship Competition\, the D’Angelo Competition\, the San Francisco Symphony Competition and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Competition\, and was a top-prize winner in the National Chopin Piano Competition. \n\n$15 general admission\, $10 seniors\, $5 students. Ticket availability will be announced. \n\nLinehan Concert Hall\, located in the Performing Arts and Humanities Building\, is easy to visit\, with plenty of free parking. Please visit here for directions and parking information. \n 
URL:https://options.umbc.edu/event/huang-miyamoto-duo/
LOCATION:Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall\, Catonsville\, MD\, 21250\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,Arts and Culture,Music
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SUMMARY:Humanities Forum — Jessica Hernandez: Growing Papaya Trees: Nurturing Indigenous Roots During Climate Displacement
DESCRIPTION:Humanities Forum Lecture with Jessica Hernandez\nGrowing Papaya Trees: Nurturing Indigenous Roots During Climate Displacement\nThis event is part of the Spring 2026 Humanities Forum \nIndigenous scholar\, scientist\, and community advocate\, Jessica Hernandez (Binnizá/Zapotec and Maya Ch’orti’)\, discusses Growing Papaya Trees: Nurturing Indigenous Roots During Climate Displacement. She offers readers an Indigenous\, Global-South lens on the climate crisis\, delivering a compelling and urgent exploration of its causes—and its costs. Hernandez shares how the impacts of colonial climate catastrophe—from warming oceans to forced displacement of settler ontologies—can only be addressed at the root if we reorient toward Indigenous science and follow the lead of Indigenous peoples and communities. \n\nAdmission is free. \n\nThe Humanities Forum is presented by the Dresher Center for the Humanities. This lecture is co-sponsored by the Center for Social Science Scholarship; the Department of Emergency and Disaster Health Systems; and the Department of Geography and Environmental Systems. \n 
URL:https://options.umbc.edu/event/humanities-forum-jessica-hernandez-growing-papaya-trees-nurturing-indigenous-roots-during-climate-displacement/
LOCATION:Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
CATEGORIES:All Events,Arts and Culture,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260328T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260328T213000
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SUMMARY:Anderson & Roe Piano Duo with Wordsmith\, piano and spoken word
DESCRIPTION:In a Chamber Music Maryland first\, Anderson & Roe Piano Duo\, hailed as “the most dynamic duo of this generation\,” joins forces with acclaimed Baltimore rapper and poet Wordsmith for an electrifying fusion of classical virtuosity and hip-hop storytelling. Created exclusively for Chamber Music Maryland\, this groundbreaking collaboration explores themes of light\, unity\, and transcendence\, culminating in a world premiere that redefines the concert experience. Wordsmith’s original poetry and performance are woven throughout\, adding a fresh narrative voice to works like the evocative Nocturne on Neptune and new music developed in real time. \nThis concert is more than a performance—it’s a bold reimagining of what classical music can be in 2026. \nThe program: \n\nProkofiev: Symphony No. 1 in D major\, Op. 25\, “Classical” (arranged for two pianos)\nHolst\, arr. by (Anderson & Roe / Wordsmith): Nocturne on Neptune\nBizet\, arr. by (Anderson & Roe): Carmen Fantasy for Two Pianos\nLeonard Cohen\, arr. by (Anderson & Roe): Hallelujah Variations\nWordsmith / Anderson & Roe: World Premiere to be announced\nThe Beatles\, arr. by (Anderson & Roe): Let It Be\n\n\nTickets for this event are sold through Chamber Music Maryland. Please visit their site for additional information. \n\nLinehan Concert Hall\, located in the Performing Arts and Humanities Building\, is easy to visit\, with plenty of free parking. Please visit here for directions and parking information. \n 
URL:https://options.umbc.edu/event/anderson-roe-piano-duo-with-wordsmith-piano-and-spoken-word/
LOCATION:Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall\, Catonsville\, MD\, 21250\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,Arts and Culture,Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260329T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260329T170000
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SUMMARY:Yang Gao\, piano
DESCRIPTION:The UMBC Piano Studio presents Yang Gao in a program of works by Leoš Janáček\, Isaac Albéniz\, and Fryderyk Chopin: \n\nLeoš Janáček — Piano Sonata 1.X.1905\nIsaac Albéniz — Iberia Book 2: Rondeña\nFryderyk Chopin — Preludes\, Op. 28\n\nChinese-born pianist Yang Gao is praised for performances that blend emotional depth with refined musical insight. He has been described as playing “with exuberance\, graced with a sensitive touch and eloquent articulations.” Zhu Xiao-Mei praised his playing as “delicate and sincere\, with a singing quality that speaks directly to the heart and brings listeners to tears.” \nGao is currently pursuing his doctor of musical arts at the Peabody Conservatory\, where he studies with HieYon Choi. His principal mentors also include Awadagin Pratt and Vladimir Feltsman. Gao currently serves as a piano minor instructor at Peabody Conservatory and chamber music instructor at Homewood Chamber Music Seminar. He is a 2025–2026 InterPlay artist at UMBC. In 2026\, Gao created the Lyra Concert Series as his most recent project. \n\nAdmission is free\, and tickets are not required. \n\nLinehan Concert Hall\, located in the Performing Arts and Humanities Building\, is easy to visit\, with plenty of free parking. Please visit here for directions and parking information. \n 
URL:https://options.umbc.edu/event/yang-gao-piano/
LOCATION:Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall\, Catonsville\, MD\, 21250\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,Arts and Culture,Music
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SUMMARY:UMBC Faculty Wind Quintet
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Music presents the UMBC Faculty Wind Quintet in a program of new works by UMBC student composers as well as La cheminée du roi René by Darius Milhaud\, a staple of the woodwind quintet repertoire. \n\nThe ensemble features Lisa Cella\, flute; Fatma Daglar\, oboe; Natalie Groom\, clarinet; Chandra Cervantes\, horn; and Richard Spittel\, bassoon. \n\nAdmission is free\, and tickets are not required. \n\nLinehan Concert Hall\, located in the Performing Arts and Humanities Building\, is easy to visit\, with plenty of free parking. Please visit here for directions and parking information. \n\n\nThis event is supported in part by the Arts+ initiative. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://options.umbc.edu/event/umbc-faculty-wind-quintet/
LOCATION:Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall\, Catonsville\, MD\, 21250\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,Arts and Culture,Music
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SUMMARY:Warren Milteer\, Jr. — Out of This Strife Will Come Freedom: Free People of Color and the Fight for Equal Rights in the Civil War Era
DESCRIPTION:The Social Sciences Forum presents the annual Low Lecture\, featuring Warren Milteer\, Jr.\, associate professor of history at The George Washington University\, who will speak on Out of This Strife Will Come Freedom: Free People of Color and the Fight for Equal Rights in the Civil War Era. \nAt the outbreak of the Civil War\, the vast majority of the nation’s people of color were enslaved. Yet nearly half a million of these people were free. For the first time\, Warren Eugene Milteer\, Jr. recounts the story of free people of color in the Civil War era United States. He shows how the nation’s growing divide in the years leading up to the war\, the events of the war itself\, and the policies of the postwar period shaped the lives of free people of color living in various regions of the country. His telling also reflects on the ways free people of color used their voices\, military service\, and political acumen to push for a better version the United States. Calling upon their experiences fighting for equal rights in the prewar years\, free people of color took advantage of the disruption created by the war to lobby for the end of discrimination across nation. \n\nWarren Milteer\, Jr. is a historian of the United States with research interests in early America\, the nineteenth-century U.S.\, the U.S. South\, free people of color\, race\, slavery\, and Native America. His publications include two academic books\, Beyond Slavery’s Shadow: Free People of Color in the South (2021) and North Carolina’s Free People of Color\, 1715-1885 (2020)\, the independently published Hertford County\, North Carolina’s Free People of Color and Their Descendants (2016)\, as well as articles in the Journal of Social History and the North Carolina Historical Review.  Milteer was the recipient of the Southern Historical Association’s Charles S. Sydnor Award for the best book in Southern history in 2022\, the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association’s Ragan Old North State Award for nonfiction in 2022\, and the Historical Society of North Carolina’s R. D. W. Connor Award in 2014 and 2016 for the best journal article in the North Carolina Historical Review. \n\nAdmission is free. \n\nThis event is hosted by the Department of History and co-sponsored by the Center for Social Science Scholarship. \n 
URL:https://options.umbc.edu/event/warren-milteer-jr-out-of-this-strife-will-come-freedom-free-people-of-color-and-the-fight-for-equal-rights-in-the-civil-war-era/
LOCATION:Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
CATEGORIES:All Events,Arts and Culture,Social Sciences
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