Introducing the 2019/20 UMS Season
“UMS’s 2019/20 season was conceived with an eye toward the familiar and the disruptive, the traditional and the uncommon, and the emotional and the provocative — sometimes even within a single work or performance.”
— UMS President Matthew VanBesien
Welcome to UMS’s 141st season
Press Resources
View Full Press Release (PDF)
View Chronological List of Events (PDF)
Season Highlights
No Safety Net 2.0 is three-week festival of four provocative theater productions that foster timely conversations around topical social themes.
Yo-Yo Ma returns in a program with Emanuel Ax and Leonidas Kavakos, performing Beethoven Piano Trios.
The season launches with a performance by jazz/funk collective Snarky Puppy.
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra and UMS Choral Union will perform the live film score to a screening of Amadeus.
Starting in 2019/20 and for the next few seasons, UMS is pleased to renew a focus on artists, institutions, and ensembles from the Arab World — including Tania El Khoury’s As Far As My Fingertips Take Me and a performance by the Tarek Yamani Trio.
Two Swan Lakes. American Ballet Theatre returns to the Detroit Opera House in a co-presentation with Michigan Opera Theatre, and Irish dance-theatre company Teaċ Daṁsa makes its UMS debut in an acclaimed contemporary and dark deconstruction of the classic tale.
The biennial UMS Song Remix series returns with a focus on the art of the song in its diverse forms — including a co-commission of Zauberland with international partners.
UMS will present a co-commissioned work by Andrew Norman in a “composer’s evening” with yMusic, also featuring music by contemporary luminaries such as Caroline Shaw, Michigan natives Andrew Norman and Shara Nova (also known as My Brightest Diamond), Missy Mazzoli, and Gabriella Smith.
How to Order Season Tickets
Current season ticketholders can renew their series with priority seating starting Monday, April 15 at 9 am.
Season Tickets go on sale to the general public Monday, April 22 at 9 am. Choose five or more concerts and save when you create your own Series:You package, or select from one of UMS’s 10 fixed series packages, specially curated by genre.
Individual event tickets will go on sale Wednesday, August 7.
