2020-2021 Season

Virtual Event: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra’s 100th Birthday Celebration

Canceled: Paul Taylor Dance Company

Paul Taylor: Celebrate the Dancemaker
(UMS Digital Presentation)

Behind the Scenes: Q&A with UMS President Matthew VanBesien

Virtual Book Launch: Ken Fischer’s Everybody In, Nobody Out

Digital Artist Residency Kickoff:
Part 1

Canceled: Béla Fleck’s My Bluegrass Heart

Digital Artist Residency Kickoff:
Part 2

From the Brooklyn Academy of Music
That Kindness: Nurses in Their Own Words

A Conversation with Kira Thurman

A Conversation with Trevor Noah

Canceled: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

U-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

Digital Artist Residency
Chamber Music Forum with Members of the Spektral Quartet
“What a String Quartet Could Be”

Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan Dance-on-Camera
(UMS Digital Presentation)

POP BREAKDOWN
A conversation on sonic, visual and cultural transgressions in pop music

Canceled: Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan

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

Canceled: Farida and the Iraqi Maqam Ensemble

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Septet with Wynton Marsalis:
The Democracy! Suite
(UMS Digital Presentation)

Canceled:
Latin Big Band Holidays
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Rubén Blades

Canceled: Handel’s Messiah

Messiah Mixtape
(UMS Digital Presentation)

School Day Performance for Grades K-12:
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Let Freedom Swing

Canceled Event:
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
Lisa Batiashvili, violin
Gautier Capuçon, cello

Takács Quartet
(UMS Digital Presentation)

Manidoo-Giizisoons
(Little Spirit Moon)

Jazz at Lincoln Center’s
Swing University: New Orleans and the Birth of Jazz (Part 1)

Sheku Kanneh-Mason &
Isata Kanneh-Mason
(UMS Digital Presentation)

Jazz at Lincoln Center’s
Swing University: Chicago and the Spread of Jazz (Part 2)

Jazz at Lincoln Center’s
Swing University: New York and the Big Bands (Part 3)

Canceled: The Four Journeys
Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble

Canceled: Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation

Jazz at Lincoln Center’s
Swing University: Detroit Before Motown (Part 4)

Sphinx Virtuosi: This is America
(UMS Digital Presentation)

Canceled: An Evening with Sheila Jordan

Sphinx Virtuosi Artists In Conversation

Grow Glow Go: The Sankofa of Black Dance
In Dialogue with Cleo Parker Robinson and Neil Barclay

Virtual Masterclass with James Ehnes, violin

Canceled: Mariinsky Orchestra

Canceled: James Ehnes, violin
Orion Weiss, piano

James Ehnes, violin, and
Orion Weiss, piano
(UMS Digital Presentation)

Canceled: South Pacific in Concert

Some Old Black Man
(UMS Digital Presentation)

Playing with Fire
Jeannette Sorrell and the Mysteries of Conducting
Featuring Apollo’s Fire and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra
(UMS Digital Presentation)

Canceled: Sir András Schiff, piano

Canceled: Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de México

Arab Women in Music: The Works of Asmahan and Umm Kulthum
National Arab Orchestra
(UMS Digital Presentation)

Canceled: Joshua Bell, violin
Peter Dugan, piano

Jazz at Lincoln Center’s
Swing University: Jazz in Detroit
Early Jazz through the Swing Era

Sir András Schiff, piano
(UMS Digital Presentation)

Penny Stamps Speaker Series
Ken Fischer and Wynton Marsalis: Everybody In, Nobody Out

Jazz at Lincoln Center’s
Swing University: Jazz in Detroit
BeBop and Hard Bop

Canceled: Russian Renaissance

Mapping without Boundaries:
A Collaboration between Yo-Yo Ma and the University of Michigan

Canceled: Cécile McLorin Salvant and Kurt Elling

Ancient Future Fire
Sidewalk Art Installation ft. Sacramento Knoxx

Jazz at Lincoln Center’s
Swing University: Jazz in Detroit
Experimental Sounds, Artist-Directed Action, and New Talents

Canceled: Paul Lewis, piano

Canceled:
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

Jazz at Lincoln Center’s
Swing University: Jazz in Detroit
Jazz in Detroit Today

UMS Live Session: Tunde Olaniran

They Still Want to Kill Us
Daniel Bernard Roumain, composer
J’Nai Bridges, mezzo-soprano
Yoram Savion, filmmaker

They, Themself and Schmerm
Written and Performed by Becca Blackwell

Dancing with a City: A Conversation on Dance in Detroit

Penny Stamps Speaker Series
Mx. Justin Vivian Bond: Tango Backwards and in High Heels

Considering Matthew Shepard
Conspirare | A Company of Voices

Penny Stamps Speaker Series
Zanele Muholi: Bathini

Taylor Mac’s
Whitman in the Woods.

You Can Dance — Outside!
Celia Benvenutti (Katherine Dunham Technique)

Looking Forward to Fall 2021:
A Conversation with UMS President Matthew VanBesien and Dr. Preeti Malani

You Can Dance — Outside!
Shantese Robinson (Fearless Jazz Hip-Hop Fusion)

JAM3A
Presented by the Arab American National Museum

A Travel Guide for Talking Hearts
Public event with Yo-Yo Ma, Michigan artists, and U-M students

BLISS
Presented by Michigan Opera Theatre

You Can Dance — Outside!
Heather Mitchell (West African and AfroBeat)

Premiere Screening:
The Making of “The Four Journeys”
Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble

(Digital) School Day Performance for and Grades K-3 and Families:
Acrobuffos
Air Play

You Can Dance — Outside!
Haleem “Stringz” Rasul (Detroit Jit)

New Season Opener!
Jonas Kaufmann in Recital

Digital Artist Residency:
Spektral Quartet x Tarek Yamani

(Digital) School Day Performance for Grades K-12 and Families:
Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán
A Celebration of Day of the Dead From Tequila, Mexico

Big Band Holidays
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis

Takács Quartet with
Julien Labro, bandoneón

Handel’s Messiah
UMS Choral Union
Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra

Requiem: Fire in the Air of the Earth
A.I.M by Kyle Abraham

Imani Winds with the Catalyst Quartet

Canceled Event:
Sphinx Symphony Orchestra
with EXIGENCE

Ballet Folklórico de México de Amalia Hernández

UMS Live Session:
Jlin

Layl (Night)
A Performance by Ali Chahrour

Fiddler on the Roof in Concert
featuring the orchestrations of John Williams

UMS Live Session:
Nicholas Phan, tenor
with Martin Katz, piano, and the Calista Quartet

The Philadelphia Orchestra

Digital Presentation:
Sermon
Davóne Tines & The Philadelphia Orchestra

National Arab Orchestra
with Abeer Nehme

Parable Path A2Ypsi:
The Infinite Detail of This Place & Time
Virago and The A.W.E. Society
with special guest Apaixonar

Treats for the Trail
An Octavia E. Butler Week Event

Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower

Benjamin Grosvenor, piano

SW!NG OUT
Directed by Caleb Teicher

Family Performance
SW!NG OUT
Directed by Caleb Teicher

سهرة
Sahra: An Evening of Performance in Detroit

EDEN
Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano
Maxim Emelyanychev, conductor
il Pomo d’Oro

Redman | Mehldau | McBride | Blade
A MoodSwing Reunion

HOME

ash arder rock garden
UMS/U-M Flint Artist in Residence

Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello &
Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano

UMS Live Session:
Imani Winds & Catalyst Quartet

UMS Choral Union presents Summer Sings:
Johannes Brahms
Ein deutsches Requiem

Ash Arder: Solar Juke

Sold Out!
Trevor Noah: Back to Abnormal

This Is America: Johnny Gandelsman & Kinan Azmeh

Emerson String Quartet
The Farewell Tour

Sir András Schiff, piano

Tunde Olaniran: Everything is a Portal

Wynton Marsalis’s All Rise

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

The Rite of Spring /
common ground[s]
Pina Bausch / Germaine Acogny & Malou Airaudo, choreographers

Danish String Quartet: Doppelgänger

No Safety Net Prologue:
What Does the Sand Say?
A.W.E. Society and Kaleigh Wilder

Aida Cuevas
with Mariachi Aztlán
45 Aniversario: Yo Creo Que Es Tiempo

Berliner Philharmoniker
in two different programs

Handel’s Messiah

Itzhak Perlman and Friends

Béla Fleck My Bluegrass Heart
and Punch Brothers

Penny Stamps Speaker Series
Robin Frohardt:
The Magic of the Mundane

Limited Availability!
Robin Frohardt
The Plastic Bag Store

salt:dispersed
Selina Thompson

Takács Quartet with
Jeremy Denk, piano

Are we not drawn onward to new erA
Ontroerend Goed

The Plastic Bag Store
Family Art Making Activity

Cultural Exchange Rate
Tania El Khoury

Penny Stamps Speaker Series
Tania El Khoury:
Cultural Exchange Rate – A Case Study

Aaron Diehl Trio: Mirrors

25th Anniversary Tour
Sphinx Symphony Orchestra
EXIGENCE Vocal Ensemble

Talking Trash
An Interactive Discussion Inspired by The Plastic Bag Store

Our Carnal Hearts
Rachel Mars

Your Sexts Are Shit: Older Better Letters
Rachel Mars

No Safety Net 3.0 Student Closing Party
featuring Cece June and the Calista Quartet

Joshua Bell, violin
Peter Dugan, piano

Brno Philharmonic

Ballet Preljocaj
Swan Lake

National Theatre Live in HD
The Seagull

Maria Schneider Orchestra

Step Afrika!

Daniel Hope, violin
with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra

Canceled:
Farida and the Iraqi Maqam Ensemble

Chineke! Orchestra

National Theatre Live in HD
The Crucible

Cécile McLorin Salvant

Julius Eastman’s Femenine
Wild Up

Come Together: An Evening of Community and Song

Audra McDonald

Kaleigh Wilder Trio:
The Story Cuts Across What the Map Cuts Up

The Regenerate! Orchestra
grow / thaw

Reconnecting Currents: A Healing at the Huron
with Marsae Lynette

John E. Lawrence & The Power Band

National Theatre Live in HD
Othello

Snarky Puppy

Yoga at the Freighthouse

Shakti: 50th Anniversary Tour
Feat. John McLaughlin, Zakir Hussain, & Shankar Mahadevan
with very special guest Béla Fleck

Sonic Contributions:
Honoring the Past, Present, and Future of the African American Community in Ypsilanti, MI

Square Dance at the Freighthouse

Renée Fleming, soprano
Inon Barnatan, piano

LIGHTNING:
A One-of-a-Kind Drag Show Extravaganza

West African Dance at the Freighthouse

Inon Barnatan:
Rachmaninoff Reflections

Jerusalem Quartet
Inon Barnatan, piano

Manual Cinema presents
Leonardo!
A Wonderful Show About a Terrible Monster

DruidO’Casey:
The Plough and the Stars

DruidO’Casey:
The Shadow of a Gunman

DruidO’Casey:
Juno and the Paycock

Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería

DakhaBrakha

Are We Dreaming the Same Dream?
Akropolis Reed Quintet
Pascal Le Boeuf, piano / composer
Christian Euman, drums

Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
The Javaad Alipoor Company

Maxim Vengerov, violin
Polina Osetinskaya, piano

Handel’s Messiah

Holidays in Hawai’i
Jake Shimabukuro, ukulele

Two Pianos: Who Could Ask for Anything More?
Michael Feinstein and Jean-Yves Thibaudet

Film with Live Orchestra
The Godfather Live
Grand Rapids Symphony

Hélène Grimaud, piano

LaTasha Barnes’
The Jazz Continuum

Revised Date:
Mariachi Herencia de México
featuring La Marisoul

Emanuel Ax, piano
Leonidas Kavakos, violin
Yo-Yo Ma, cello

Nkeiru Okoye’s
When the Caged Bird Sings

James Ehnes, violin
Andrew Armstrong, piano

Martha Graham Dance Company
Janet Eilber, artistic director

Igor Levit, piano

Isidore String Quartet

Orchestre de Paris

Weather Bird
Sullivan Fortner, piano
Ambrose Akinmusire, trumpet

Canceled Event:
Batsheva Dance Company
MOMO

Samara Joy

Hub New Music:
10th Anniversary Show

Y2Gay: Drag Show at the Freighthouse

In Collaboration with iFFY
Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lodger:
A Story of the London Fog
Featuring Little Bang Theory

Takács Quartet

Dancing Through México
with El Ballet Folklórico Estudiantil

The Philadelphia Orchestra
in two different programs

Joe Reilly
Earth Day Performance + Family Activity

Shigeto Live Ensemble

Regenerate! Orchestra

Dis Aint No Joke:
Album Release Show

Orchestra of the Americas
with Yo-Yo Ma and Kayhan Kalhor

UMS Live Session:
Isidore String Quartet

Contra Dance at the Freighthouse

Beautiful Noise

Dave Sharp Worlds Quartet

Las Guaracheras

House of Jit

Fight Night
Ontroerend Goed

Kittel & Co.
with special guest artist Nic Gareiss

For Families
Jazzy Ash & The Leaping Lizards

Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Ulysses
Elevator Repair Service

Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan
13 TONGUES

Silkroad Ensemble with
Rhiannon Giddens
American Railroad

Escher Quartet

Tyshawn Sorey Trio
Live from Blue LLama Jazz Club

Berliner Philharmoniker with
Benjamin Beilman, violin

Berliner Philharmoniker

Handel’s Messiah

Ariel Quartet with
Alisa Weilerstein, cello
Folk•lore

KINGS ReJOYCE!
Joyce DiDonato and Kings Return

Etienne Charles: Earth Tones

Caroline Shaw and Gabriel Kahane

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis

Nate — A One Man Show
Written by and starring Natalie Palamides

Seong-Jin Cho, piano
Complete solo piano works of Ravel

asses.masses
Created by Patrick Blenkarn and Milton Lim

Branford Marsalis Quartet

Branford Marsalis Chamber Project

Third Coast Percussion
and Zakir Hussain

La Santa Cecilia
with Sonia De Los Santos

Rosamunde String Quartet

Shamel Pitts | TRIBE
BLACK HOLE: Trilogy and Triathlon

Film with Live Music
Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky

Peeping Tom
TRIPTYCH

Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin
Lambert Orkis, piano

Marcel, Rami, and Sary Khalife:
Legacy

Les Arts Florissants
Vivaldi’s Four Seasons at 300

Kurt Elling Celebrates Weather Report
featuring Peter Erskine

Yunchan Lim, piano

Takács Quartet