2020-2021 Season
Virtual Event: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra’s 100th Birthday Celebration
Saturday, September 5 - Thursday, September 10, 2020Canceled: Paul Taylor Dance Company
Friday, September 11 - Saturday, September 12, 2020Paul Taylor: Celebrate the Dancemaker
(UMS Digital Presentation)
Behind 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
Canceled: Béla Fleck’s My Bluegrass Heart
Wednesday, September 30, 2020Digital Artist Residency Kickoff:
Part 2
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, 2020Canceled: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Thursday, October 22, 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”
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
Tuesday, November 17, 2020Digital 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
Sunday, November 22, 2020Jazz 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
Saturday, December 5 - Sunday, December 6, 2020Messiah 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
Wednesday, January 27 - Sunday, January 31, 2021Jazz 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
Saturday, February 6, 2021Sphinx 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, 2021Canceled: Mariinsky Orchestra
Saturday, February 13, 2021Canceled: James Ehnes, violin
Orion Weiss, piano
James Ehnes, violin, and
Orion Weiss, piano
(UMS Digital Presentation)
Canceled: South Pacific in Concert
Saturday, February 20 - Sunday, February 21, 2021Some 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
Saturday, March 13, 2021Canceled: Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de México
Thursday, March 18, 2021Arab 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
Thursday, April 15, 2021Mapping without Boundaries:
A Collaboration between Yo-Yo Ma and the University of Michigan
Canceled: Cécile McLorin Salvant and Kurt Elling
Saturday, April 17, 2021Ancient 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
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
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s
Swing University: Jazz in Detroit
Jazz in Detroit Today
UMS Live Session: Tunde Olaniran
Friday, April 30 - Monday, May 10, 2021They 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
Wednesday, June 16, 2021Penny 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
Saturday, January 29, 2022Canceled Event:
Sphinx Symphony Orchestra
with EXIGENCE
Ballet Folklórico de México de Amalia Hernández
Sunday, February 6, 2022UMS 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
Friday, March 11 - Saturday, March 12, 2022Digital 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
Friday, March 25 - Sunday, March 27, 2022Benjamin Grosvenor, piano
Sunday, March 27, 2022SW!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
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
Saturday, September 3, 2022Sold Out!
Trevor Noah: Back to Abnormal
This Is America: Johnny Gandelsman & Kinan Azmeh
Friday, September 23, 2022Emerson String Quartet
The Farewell Tour
Sir András Schiff, piano
Friday, October 7, 2022Tunde Olaniran: Everything is a Portal
Friday, October 7 - Saturday, October 8, 2022Wynton Marsalis’s All Rise
Friday, October 14, 2022Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
Sunday, October 16, 2022City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Wednesday, October 19, 2022The Rite of Spring /
common ground[s]
Pina Bausch / Germaine Acogny & Malou Airaudo, choreographers
Danish String Quartet: Doppelgänger
Friday, October 28, 2022No 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
Saturday, December 3 - Sunday, December 4, 2022Itzhak Perlman and Friends
Saturday, December 10, 2022Béla 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
Friday, January 27, 202325th 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
Friday, February 10, 2023Ballet Preljocaj
Swan Lake
National Theatre Live in HD
The Seagull
Maria Schneider Orchestra
Saturday, March 11, 2023Step Afrika!
Sunday, March 12, 2023Daniel Hope, violin
with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra
Canceled:
Farida and the Iraqi Maqam Ensemble
Chineke! Orchestra
Saturday, March 25, 2023National Theatre Live in HD
The Crucible
Cécile McLorin Salvant
Friday, April 14, 2023Julius Eastman’s Femenine
Wild Up
Come Together: An Evening of Community and Song
Saturday, April 22, 2023Audra McDonald
Sunday, April 23, 2023Kaleigh 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
Saturday, April 29, 2023National Theatre Live in HD
Othello
Snarky Puppy
Sunday, September 10, 2023Yoga at the Freighthouse
Tuesday, September 12 - Tuesday, September 19, 2023Shakti: 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
Tuesday, September 26, 2023Renée Fleming, soprano
Inon Barnatan, piano
LIGHTNING:
A One-of-a-Kind Drag Show Extravaganza
West African Dance at the Freighthouse
Saturday, September 30, 2023Inon 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
Friday, October 27, 2023DakhaBrakha
Friday, November 3, 2023Are 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
Saturday, December 2 - Sunday, December 3, 2023Holidays 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
Thursday, January 18, 2024LaTasha 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
Friday, March 8, 2024Isidore String Quartet
Sunday, March 10, 2024Orchestre de Paris
Thursday, March 14, 2024Weather Bird
Sullivan Fortner, piano
Ambrose Akinmusire, trumpet
Canceled Event:
Batsheva Dance Company
MOMO
Samara Joy
Wednesday, March 27, 2024Swing Dance Night
Thursday, April 4, 2024Hub New Music:
10th Anniversary Show
Y2Gay: Drag Show at the Freighthouse
Saturday, April 6, 2024In Collaboration with iFFY
Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lodger:
A Story of the London Fog
Featuring Little Bang Theory
Takács Quartet
Friday, April 12, 2024Dancing Through México
with El Ballet Folklórico Estudiantil
The Philadelphia Orchestra
in two different programs
Joe Reilly
Earth Day Performance + Family Activity
Shigeto Live Ensemble
Friday, April 26, 2024Regenerate! Orchestra
Saturday, April 27 - Sunday, April 28, 2024Dis 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
Thursday, September 12, 2024Beautiful Noise
Friday, September 13, 2024Dave Sharp Worlds Quartet
Saturday, September 14, 2024Las Guaracheras
Thursday, September 19, 2024House of Jit
Saturday, September 21, 2024Fight Night
Ontroerend Goed
Kittel & Co.
with special guest artist Nic Gareiss
For Families
Jazzy Ash & The Leaping Lizards
Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano
Thursday, October 10 - Thursday, October 17, 2024London Philharmonic Orchestra
Friday, October 18, 2024Ulysses
Elevator Repair Service
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan
13 TONGUES
Silkroad Ensemble with
Rhiannon Giddens
American Railroad
Escher Quartet
Sunday, November 10, 2024Tyshawn Sorey Trio
Live from Blue LLama Jazz Club
Berliner Philharmoniker with
Benjamin Beilman, violin
Berliner Philharmoniker
Sunday, November 24, 2024Handel’s Messiah
Saturday, December 7 - Sunday, December 8, 2024Ariel Quartet with
Alisa Weilerstein, cello
folk•lore
KINGS ReJOYCE!
Joyce DiDonato and Kings Return
Etienne Charles: Earth Tones
Friday, January 17 - Saturday, January 18, 2025Caroline Shaw and Gabriel Kahane
Thursday, January 23, 2025Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
Saturday, February 1, 2025Nate — 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
Wednesday, February 19, 2025Branford Marsalis Chamber Project
Friday, February 21, 2025Third Coast Percussion
and Zakir Hussain
La Santa Cecilia
with Sonia De Los Santos
Rosamunde String Quartet
Wednesday, March 12, 2025Shamel 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
Wednesday, April 23, 2025Takács Quartet
Thursday, April 24, 2025