2020-2021 Season

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

Paul Taylor: Celebrate the Dancemaker
(UMS Digital Presentation)

Canceled: Paul Taylor Dance Company

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

Digital Artist Residency Kickoff:
Part 2

Canceled: Béla Fleck’s My Bluegrass Heart

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

A Conversation with Kira Thurman

A Conversation with Trevor Noah

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”

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)

Canceled: The Four Journeys
Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble

Sphinx Virtuosi: This is America
(UMS Digital Presentation)

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

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

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)

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

Sir András Schiff, piano
(UMS Digital Presentation)

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

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

Ancient Future Fire
Sidewalk Art Installation ft. Sacramento Knoxx

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.

Big Band Holidays
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis

Takács Quartet with
Julien Labro, bandoneón

Handel’s Messiah

Requiem: Fire in the Air of the Earth
A.I.M
A new work by Kyle Abraham and Jlin

Imani Winds with the Catalyst Quartet

Sphinx Symphony Orchestra
with EXIGENCE

Ballet Folklórico de México de Amalia Hernández

Layl (Night)
A Performance by Ali Chahrour

Fiddler on the Roof in Concert

The Philadelphia Orchestra

National Arab Orchestra

Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower

Benjamin Grosvenor, piano

Swing Out

سهرة
Sahra: An Evening of Performance in Detroit

EDEN starring Joyce DiDonato

A MoodSwing Reunion
Redman | Mehldau | McBride | Blade

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