2020-2021 Season
Virtual 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)
Canceled: The Four Journeys
Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble
Sphinx Virtuosi: This is America
(UMS Digital Presentation)
Sphinx Virtuosi Artists In Conversation
Monday, February 8, 2021Grow Glow Go: The Sankofa of Black Dance
In Dialogue with Cleo Parker Robinson and Neil Barclay
Virtual Masterclass with James Ehnes, violin
Friday, February 12, 2021James 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
Dancing with a City: A Conversation on Dance in Detroit
Wednesday, April 21, 2021UMS Live Session: Tunde Olaniran
Friday, April 30 - Monday, May 10, 2021