2018-2019 Season
Free Season Opening Event!
50th Anniversary Live Presentation of
Stanley Kubrick’s
2001: A Space Odyssey
Philadelphia Orchestra
Thursday, September 27, 2018A Dramatic Reading of
Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman with Alec Baldwin and U-M Theatre & Drama Department
National Theatre, London
Live in HD
Julie
Jerusalem Quartet
Pinchas Zukerman, violin
Amanda Forsyth, cello
An Evening with Pat Metheny
Wednesday, October 10, 2018Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
Friday, October 12, 2018Secret Show
Thursday, October 18, 2018Two Different Programs
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
Yuja Wang, piano
Martin Grubinger, percussion
M-Prize 2018 Winner
Aizuri Quartet
A Letter to My Nephew
Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Dance Company
National Theatre, London
Live in HD
Frankenstein
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Thursday, November 1, 2018Totalmente Juan Gabriel
Aida Cuevas
National Theatre, London
Live in HD
King Lear
Jake Shimabukuro, ukulele
Wednesday, November 7, 2018Danish String Quartet
Thursday, November 15, 2018An Evening with Audra McDonald
Songs from the American Musical Theater
Big Band Holidays
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
with Wynton Marsalis
Handel’s Messiah
Saturday, December 1 - Sunday, December 2, 2018Charles Lloyd & The Marvels
with special guest Lucinda Williams
National Theatre, London Live in HD
The Madness of George III
Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, piano
The Bolshoi Theater, Moscow
Live in HD
The Nutcracker
National Theatre, Live in HD:
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Great Tamer
Conceived – Visualized + Directed by Dimitris Papaioannou
Lagrime di San Pietro
(Tears of St. Peter)
Los Angeles Master Chorale
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Friday, January 25, 2019ink
Camille A. Brown & Dancers
National Theatre, Live in HD:
Hamlet
Echo in the Valley
Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Saturday, February 9, 2019National Theatre, Live in HD
The Tragedy of King Richard the Second
Past Tense
Carrie Mae Weems, director, writer, video artist
Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem
Saturday, February 16, 2019Las Cafeteras
Wednesday, February 20, 2019In Plain Air
International Contemporary Ensemble
Special Talk with
Yo-Yo Ma: Culture, Understanding, and Survival
Two Different Programs
Philharmonia Orchestra
World Premiere & UMS Co-Commission
Triptych (Eyes of One on Another)
Feat. Bryce Dessner, composer — Kaneza Schaal, director — Roomful of Teeth
Duo Recital
Eric Owens, bass-baritone
Lawrence Brownlee, tenor
National Theatre, Live in HD:
Antony & Cleopatra
La Fresque (The Painting on the Wall)
Ballet Preljocaj
William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
Théâtre National de Bretagne
Arthur Nauzyciel, director
Takács Quartet
Anthony McGill, clarinet
Opera in Concert
Handel’s Semele
Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour featuring
Cécile McLorin Salvant &
Christian Sands (Music Director)
Paul Lewis, piano
Replacing Murray Perahia
Thursday, April 25, 2019Two Different Programs
Martha Graham Dance Company
National Theatre, Live in HD:
Allelujah!
Summer Sings 2019:
Duruflé Requiem, Op. 9
Summer Sings 2019:
Haydn Mass in C Major (“Paukenmesse”)
Summer Sings 2019:
Mozart Requiem, K. 626
Snarky Puppy
with special guest Alina Engibaryan
Amadeus Live
Film with Live Orchestra
National Theatre Live in HD:
All About Eve
Grupo Corpo
Bach & Gira
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Friday, October 11, 2019National Theatre Live in HD:
The Lehman Trilogy
Isango Ensemble
The Magic Flute
Isango Ensemble
A Man of Good Hope
Denis Matsuev, piano
Friday, October 18, 2019Chick Corea Trilogy
with Christian McBride and Brian Blade
Zauberland (Magic Land)
An Encounter with Schumann’s Dichterliebe
Sankai Juku
Meguri: Teeming Sea, Tranquil Land
John Cameron Mitchell
The Origin of Love Tour
Secret Show: Caleb Teicher & Company
Thursday, November 7, 2019Teac Damsa
Loch na hEala (Swan Lake)
Vivaldi’s Four Seasons /
Max Richter’s Vivaldi Recomposed
Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal
with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Joyce DiDonato
Stew & The Negro Problem
Notes of a Native Song
National Theatre Live in HD:
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Big Band Holidays
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
Handel’s Messiah
Saturday, December 7 - Sunday, December 8, 2019Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello
Tuesday, December 10, 2019Taylor Mac’s Holiday Sauce
Saturday, December 14 - Sunday, December 15, 2019National Theatre Live in HD:
Fleabag
Martin Katz & Friends
What’s in a Song: Hugo Wolf’s Complete Mörike Songs
National Theatre Live in HD:
All My Sons
The Believers Are But Brothers
Wednesday, January 22 - Sunday, January 26, 2020As Far As My Fingertips Take Me
Friday, January 24 - Sunday, February 9, 2020Minnesota Orchestra
Saturday, January 25, 2020Is This A Room: Reality Winner Verbatim Transcription
Half Straddle
White Feminist
Monday, February 3 - Sunday, February 9, 2020Cécile McLorin Salvant and
Aaron Diehl, piano
Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán
Friday, February 14, 2020Angélique Kidjo’s
Remain in Light
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Thursday, February 20, 2020Dorrance Dance: Myelination
Friday, February 21 - Saturday, February 22, 2020HD Broadcast:
Bolshoi Ballet
Giselle
West-Eastern Divan Ensemble
with Michael Barenboim, music director and violin
Emanuel Ax, piano
Leonidas Kavakos, violin
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
HD Broadcast: The Stratford Festival
Shakespeare’s Coriolanus
Canceled:
Tarek Yamani Trio
Canceled:
Hélène Grimaud, piano
Canceled:
ANTHEM
A Dance for Four Women by Milka Djordjevich
Canceled:
National Theatre Live in HD:
Present Laughter
Canceled:
Sunday, March 22, 2020New York Philharmonic String Quartet with Anne-Marie McDermott, piano
Canceled:
Sir James Galway with
Lady Jeanne Galway, flutes
Canceled:
Tunde Olaniran at The Blind Pig
Canceled:
Tunde Olaniran Research Residency
Live Studio Session with the UMS Choral Union
Canceled:
Benjamin Grosvenor, piano
Canceled:
HOME
Canceled:
Apollo’s Fire and Chorus
J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion
Canceled:
TRIVENI
Zakir Hussain, tabla
Kala Ramnath, violin
Dr. Jayanthi Kumaresh, veena
Canceled:
National Theatre Live in HD:
One Man, Two Guvnors
Canceled:
American Ballet Theatre
Swan Lake
Canceled:
Emerson String Quartet
Canceled:
Chineke! Orchestra
The Encounter (Streaming)
Complicité / Simon McBurney
ink (Streaming)
Camille A. Brown & Dancers
Rose (UMS Digital Presentation)
a true story and song
2020/21 Season Updates: A Conversation with UMS President Matthew VanBesien
Tuesday, July 7, 2020Virtual Event: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra’s 100th Birthday Celebration
Saturday, September 5 - Thursday, September 10, 2020Paul Taylor: Celebrate the Dancemaker
(UMS Digital Presentation)
Canceled: Paul Taylor Dance Company
Friday, September 11 - Saturday, September 12, 2020Behind the Scenes: Q&A with UMS President Matthew VanBesien
Wednesday, September 16, 2020Virtual Book Launch: Ken Fischer’s Everybody In, Nobody Out
Tuesday, September 22, 2020Digital Artist Residency Kickoff:
Part 1
Digital Artist Residency Kickoff:
Part 2
Canceled: Béla Fleck’s My Bluegrass Heart
Wednesday, September 30, 2020Canceled: A MoodSwing Reunion
Redman | Mehldau | McBride | Blade
From the Brooklyn Academy of Music
That Kindness: Nurses in Their Own Words
A Conversation with Kira Thurman
Saturday, October 17 - Saturday, October 24, 2020A Conversation with Trevor Noah
Tuesday, October 20 - Friday, October 30, 2020U-M DEI Summit
Arts+Social Change: Building an Anti-Racist World through the Arts
Virtual World Premiere
Voters’ Broadcast by Lisa Bielawa
A Virtual Grand Night for Singing
Thursday, October 29, 2020Digital Artist Residency
Chamber Music Forum with Members of the Spektral Quartet
“What a String Quartet Could Be”
POP BREAKDOWN
A conversation on sonic, visual and cultural transgressions in pop music
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan Dance-on-Camera
(UMS Digital Presentation)
Digital Artist Residency
Spektral & Tarek: The Many Faces of the String Quartet
A happy-hour listening party
Digital Artist Residency
Tarek & Spektral: On Both Sides of the Quarter-Tone
A happy-hour listening party
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Septet with Wynton Marsalis:
The Democracy! Suite
(UMS Digital Presentation)
Messiah Mixtape
(UMS Digital Presentation)
Takács Quartet
(UMS Digital Presentation)
Manidoo-Giizisoons
(Little Spirit Moon)
Sheku Kanneh-Mason &
Isata Kanneh-Mason
(UMS Digital Presentation)
Some Old Black Man
(UMS Digital Presentation)
Canceled: The Four Journeys
Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble
Canceled: Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation
Wednesday, January 27 - Sunday, January 31, 2021Sphinx Virtuosi: This is America
(UMS Digital Presentation)
Canceled: Imani Winds and Catalyst Quartet
Friday, January 29, 2021Canceled: An Evening with Sheila Jordan
Saturday, February 6, 2021Cleo Parker Robinson in Conversation
(UMS Digital Artist Residency)
Canceled: Swing Out
Caleb Teicher Swing Company
with Eyal Vilner’s Big Band
Canceled: Mariinsky Orchestra
Saturday, February 13, 2021James Ehnes, violin, and
Orion Weiss, piano
(UMS Digital Presentation)
Canceled: James Ehnes, violin
Orion Weiss, piano
Canceled: South Pacific in Concert
Saturday, February 20 - Sunday, February 21, 2021Canceled: Ballet Folklórico de México de Amalia Hernández
Wednesday, February 24, 2021Canceled: Sir András Schiff, piano
Saturday, March 13, 2021Canceled: Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de México
Thursday, March 18, 2021Canceled: National Arab Orchestra
with Abeer Nehme, vocals
Canceled: Joshua Bell, violin
Peter Dugan, piano
Canceled:
سهرة
Sahra: An Evening of Performance in Detroit
Canceled: Russian Renaissance
Thursday, April 15, 2021Canceled: Cécile McLorin Salvant and Kurt Elling
Saturday, April 17, 2021Canceled: Paul Lewis, piano
Thursday, April 22, 2021Canceled:
Frankenstein: How to Make a Monster
Battersea Arts Centre Beatbox Academy
Canceled:
Jerusalem Quartet with
Pinchas Zukerman, violin and
Amanda Forsyth, cello
Canceled: Itzhak Perlman, violin
Rohan de Silva, piano