Past Performances
Handel’s Messiah
Saturday, December 7 - Sunday, December 8, 2024Berliner Philharmoniker
Sunday, November 24, 2024Berliner Philharmoniker with
Benjamin Beilman, violin
Tyshawn Sorey Trio
Live from Blue LLama Jazz Club
Escher Quartet
Sunday, November 10, 2024Silkroad Ensemble with
Rhiannon Giddens
American Railroad
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan
13 TONGUES
Ulysses
Elevator Repair Service
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Friday, October 18, 2024Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano
Thursday, October 10 - Thursday, October 17, 2024For Families
Jazzy Ash & The Leaping Lizards
Kittel & Co.
with special guest artist Nic Gareiss
Fight Night
Ontroerend Goed
House of Jit
Saturday, September 21, 2024Las Guaracheras
Thursday, September 19, 2024Dave Sharp Worlds Quartet
Saturday, September 14, 2024Beautiful Noise
Friday, September 13, 2024Contra Dance at the Freighthouse
Thursday, September 12, 2024UMS Live Session:
Isidore String Quartet
Orchestra of the Americas
with Yo-Yo Ma and Kayhan Kalhor
Dis Aint No Joke:
Album Release Show
Regenerate! Orchestra
Saturday, April 27 - Sunday, April 28, 2024Shigeto Live Ensemble
Friday, April 26, 2024Joe Reilly
Earth Day Performance + Family Activity
The Philadelphia Orchestra
in two different programs
Dancing Through México
with El Ballet Folklórico Estudiantil
Takács Quartet
Friday, April 12, 2024In Collaboration with iFFY
Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lodger:
A Story of the London Fog
Featuring Little Bang Theory
Y2Gay: Drag Show at the Freighthouse
Saturday, April 6, 2024Hub New Music:
10th Anniversary Show
Swing Dance Night
Thursday, April 4, 2024Samara Joy
Wednesday, March 27, 2024Canceled Event:
Batsheva Dance Company
MOMO
Weather Bird
Sullivan Fortner, piano
Ambrose Akinmusire, trumpet
Orchestre de Paris
Thursday, March 14, 2024Isidore String Quartet
Sunday, March 10, 2024Igor Levit, piano
Friday, March 8, 2024Martha Graham Dance Company
Janet Eilber, artistic director
James Ehnes, violin
Andrew Armstrong, piano
Nkeiru Okoye’s
When the Caged Bird Sings
Emanuel Ax, piano
Leonidas Kavakos, violin
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
Revised Date:
Mariachi Herencia de México
featuring La Marisoul
LaTasha Barnes’
The Jazz Continuum
Hélène Grimaud, piano
Thursday, January 18, 2024Film with Live Orchestra
The Godfather Live
Grand Rapids Symphony
Two Pianos: Who Could Ask for Anything More?
Michael Feinstein and Jean-Yves Thibaudet
Holidays in Hawai’i
Jake Shimabukuro, ukulele
Handel’s Messiah
Saturday, December 2 - Sunday, December 3, 2023Maxim Vengerov, violin
Polina Osetinskaya, piano
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
The Javaad Alipoor Company
Are We Dreaming the Same Dream?
Akropolis Reed Quintet
Pascal Le Boeuf, piano / composer
Christian Euman, drums
DakhaBrakha
Friday, November 3, 2023Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería
Friday, October 27, 2023DruidO’Casey:
Juno and the Paycock
DruidO’Casey:
The Shadow of a Gunman
DruidO’Casey:
The Plough and the Stars
Manual Cinema presents
Leonardo!
A Wonderful Show About a Terrible Monster
Jerusalem Quartet
Inon Barnatan, piano
Inon Barnatan:
Rachmaninoff Reflections
West African Dance at the Freighthouse
Saturday, September 30, 2023LIGHTNING:
A One-of-a-Kind Drag Show Extravaganza
Renée Fleming, soprano
Inon Barnatan, piano
Square Dance at the Freighthouse
Tuesday, September 26, 2023Sonic Contributions:
Honoring the Past, Present, and Future of the African American Community in Ypsilanti, MI
Shakti: 50th Anniversary Tour
Feat. John McLaughlin, Zakir Hussain, & Shankar Mahadevan
with very special guest Béla Fleck
Yoga at the Freighthouse
Tuesday, September 12 - Tuesday, September 19, 2023Snarky Puppy
Sunday, September 10, 2023National Theatre Live in HD
Othello
John E. Lawrence & The Power Band
Saturday, April 29, 2023Reconnecting Currents: A Healing at the Huron
with Marsae Lynette
The Regenerate! Orchestra
grow / thaw
Kaleigh Wilder Trio:
The Story Cuts Across What the Map Cuts Up
Audra McDonald
Sunday, April 23, 2023Come Together: An Evening of Community and Song
Saturday, April 22, 2023Julius Eastman’s Femenine
Wild Up
Cécile McLorin Salvant
Friday, April 14, 2023National Theatre Live in HD
The Crucible
Chineke! Orchestra
Saturday, March 25, 2023Canceled:
Farida and the Iraqi Maqam Ensemble
Daniel Hope, violin
with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra
Step Afrika!
Sunday, March 12, 2023Maria Schneider Orchestra
Saturday, March 11, 2023National Theatre Live in HD
The Seagull
Ballet Preljocaj
Swan Lake
Brno Philharmonic
Friday, February 10, 2023Joshua Bell, violin
Peter Dugan, piano
Your Sexts Are Shit: Older Better Letters
Rachel Mars
No Safety Net 3.0 Student Closing Party
featuring Cece June and the Calista Quartet
Our Carnal Hearts
Rachel Mars
Talking Trash
An Interactive Discussion Inspired by The Plastic Bag Store
25th Anniversary Tour
Sphinx Symphony Orchestra
EXIGENCE Vocal Ensemble
Aaron Diehl Trio: Mirrors
Friday, January 27, 2023Penny Stamps Speaker Series
Tania El Khoury:
Cultural Exchange Rate – A Case Study
Cultural Exchange Rate
Tania El Khoury
The Plastic Bag Store
Family Art Making Activity
Are we not drawn onward to new erA
Ontroerend Goed
Takács Quartet with
Jeremy Denk, piano
Limited Availability!
Robin Frohardt
The Plastic Bag Store
salt:dispersed
Selina Thompson
Penny Stamps Speaker Series
Robin Frohardt:
The Magic of the Mundane
Béla Fleck My Bluegrass Heart
and Punch Brothers
Itzhak Perlman and Friends
Saturday, December 10, 2022Handel’s Messiah
Saturday, December 3 - Sunday, December 4, 2022Berliner Philharmoniker
in two different programs
Aida Cuevas
with Mariachi Aztlán
45 Aniversario: Yo Creo Que Es Tiempo
No Safety Net Prologue:
What Does the Sand Say?
A.W.E. Society and Kaleigh Wilder
Danish String Quartet: Doppelgänger
Friday, October 28, 2022The Rite of Spring /
common ground[s]
Pina Bausch / Germaine Acogny & Malou Airaudo, choreographers
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Wednesday, October 19, 2022Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
Sunday, October 16, 2022Wynton Marsalis’s All Rise
Friday, October 14, 2022Sir András Schiff, piano
Friday, October 7, 2022Tunde Olaniran: Everything is a Portal
Friday, October 7 - Saturday, October 8, 2022Emerson String Quartet
The Farewell Tour
This Is America: Johnny Gandelsman & Kinan Azmeh
Friday, September 23, 2022Sold Out!
Trevor Noah: Back to Abnormal
Ash Arder: Solar Juke
Saturday, September 3, 2022UMS Choral Union presents Summer Sings:
Johannes Brahms
Ein deutsches Requiem
Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello &
Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano
UMS Live Session:
Imani Winds & Catalyst Quartet
ash arder rock garden
UMS/U-M Flint Artist in Residence
Redman | Mehldau | McBride | Blade
A MoodSwing Reunion
EDEN
Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano
Maxim Emelyanychev, conductor
il Pomo d’Oro
سهرة
Sahra: An Evening of Performance in Detroit
Family Performance
SW!NG OUT
Directed by Caleb Teicher
SW!NG OUT
Directed by Caleb Teicher
Benjamin Grosvenor, piano
Sunday, March 27, 2022Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower
Friday, March 25 - Sunday, March 27, 2022Treats for the Trail
An Octavia E. Butler Week Event
Parable Path A2Ypsi:
The Infinite Detail of This Place & Time
Virago and The A.W.E. Society
with special guest Apaixonar
National Arab Orchestra
with Abeer Nehme
Digital Presentation:
Sermon
Davóne Tines & The Philadelphia Orchestra
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Friday, March 11 - Saturday, March 12, 2022UMS Live Session:
Nicholas Phan, tenor
with Martin Katz, piano, and the Calista Quartet
Fiddler on the Roof in Concert
featuring the orchestrations of John Williams
Layl (Night)
A Performance by Ali Chahrour
UMS Live Session:
Jlin
Ballet Folklórico de México de Amalia Hernández
Sunday, February 6, 2022Canceled Event:
Sphinx Symphony Orchestra
with EXIGENCE
Imani Winds with the Catalyst Quartet
Saturday, January 29, 2022Requiem: Fire in the Air of the Earth
A.I.M by Kyle Abraham
Handel’s Messiah
UMS Choral Union
Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra
Takács Quartet with
Julien Labro, bandoneón
Big Band Holidays
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
(Digital) School Day Performance for Grades K-12 and Families:
Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán
A Celebration of Day of the Dead From Tequila, Mexico
Digital Artist Residency:
Spektral Quartet x Tarek Yamani
New Season Opener!
Jonas Kaufmann in Recital
You Can Dance — Outside!
Haleem “Stringz” Rasul (Detroit Jit)
(Digital) School Day Performance for and Grades K-3 and Families:
Acrobuffos
Air Play
Premiere Screening:
The Making of “The Four Journeys”
Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble
You Can Dance — Outside!
Heather Mitchell (West African and AfroBeat)
BLISS
Presented by Michigan Opera Theatre
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
You Can Dance — Outside!
Shantese Robinson (Fearless Jazz Hip-Hop Fusion)
Looking Forward to Fall 2021:
A Conversation with UMS President Matthew VanBesien and Dr. Preeti Malani
You Can Dance — Outside!
Celia Benvenutti (Katherine Dunham Technique)
Taylor Mac’s
Whitman in the Woods.
Penny Stamps Speaker Series
Zanele Muholi: Bathini
Considering Matthew Shepard
Conspirare | A Company of Voices
Penny Stamps Speaker Series
Mx. Justin Vivian Bond: Tango Backwards and in High Heels
Dancing with a City: A Conversation on Dance in Detroit
Wednesday, June 16, 2021They, Themself and Schmerm
Written and Performed by Becca Blackwell
They Still Want to Kill Us
Daniel Bernard Roumain, composer
J’Nai Bridges, mezzo-soprano
Yoram Savion, filmmaker
UMS Live Session: Tunde Olaniran
Friday, April 30 - Monday, May 10, 2021Jazz at Lincoln Center’s
Swing University: Jazz in Detroit
Jazz in Detroit Today
Canceled: Itzhak Perlman, violin
Rohan de Silva, piano
Canceled:
Jerusalem Quartet with
Pinchas Zukerman, violin and
Amanda Forsyth, cello
Canceled:
Frankenstein: How to Make a Monster
Battersea Arts Centre Beatbox Academy
Canceled: Paul Lewis, piano
Thursday, April 22, 2021Jazz at Lincoln Center’s
Swing University: Jazz in Detroit
Experimental Sounds, Artist-Directed Action, and New Talents
Canceled: Cécile McLorin Salvant and Kurt Elling
Saturday, April 17, 2021Ancient Future Fire
Sidewalk Art Installation ft. Sacramento Knoxx
Canceled: Russian Renaissance
Thursday, April 15, 2021Mapping without Boundaries:
A Collaboration between Yo-Yo Ma and the University of Michigan
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s
Swing University: Jazz in Detroit
BeBop and Hard Bop
Penny Stamps Speaker Series
Ken Fischer and Wynton Marsalis: Everybody In, Nobody Out
Sir András Schiff, piano
(UMS Digital Presentation)
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s
Swing University: Jazz in Detroit
Early Jazz through the Swing Era
Canceled: Joshua Bell, violin
Peter Dugan, piano
Arab Women in Music: The Works of Asmahan and Umm Kulthum
National Arab Orchestra
(UMS Digital Presentation)
Canceled: Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de México
Thursday, March 18, 2021Canceled: Sir András Schiff, piano
Saturday, March 13, 2021Playing with Fire
Jeannette Sorrell and the Mysteries of Conducting
Featuring Apollo’s Fire and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra
(UMS Digital Presentation)
Some Old Black Man
(UMS Digital Presentation)
Canceled: South Pacific in Concert
Saturday, February 20 - Sunday, February 21, 2021Canceled: James Ehnes, violin
Orion Weiss, piano
James Ehnes, violin, and
Orion Weiss, piano
(UMS Digital Presentation)
Canceled: Mariinsky Orchestra
Saturday, February 13, 2021Virtual Masterclass with James Ehnes, violin
Friday, February 12, 2021Grow Glow Go: The Sankofa of Black Dance
In Dialogue with Cleo Parker Robinson and Neil Barclay
Sphinx Virtuosi Artists In Conversation
Monday, February 8, 2021Canceled: An Evening with Sheila Jordan
Saturday, February 6, 2021Sphinx Virtuosi: This is America
(UMS Digital Presentation)
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)
Canceled: The Four Journeys
Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s
Swing University: New York and the Big Bands (Part 3)
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s
Swing University: Chicago and the Spread of Jazz (Part 2)
Sheku Kanneh-Mason &
Isata Kanneh-Mason
(UMS Digital Presentation)
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s
Swing University: New Orleans and the Birth of Jazz (Part 1)
Manidoo-Giizisoons
(Little Spirit Moon)
Takács Quartet
(UMS Digital Presentation)
Canceled Event:
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
Lisa Batiashvili, violin
Gautier Capuçon, cello
School Day Performance for Grades K-12:
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Let Freedom Swing
Messiah Mixtape
(UMS Digital Presentation)
Canceled: Handel’s Messiah
Saturday, December 5 - Sunday, December 6, 2020Canceled:
Latin Big Band Holidays
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Rubén Blades
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Septet with Wynton Marsalis:
The Democracy! Suite
(UMS Digital Presentation)
Canceled: Farida and the Iraqi Maqam Ensemble
Sunday, November 22, 2020Digital Artist Residency
Tarek & Spektral: On Both Sides of the Quarter-Tone
A happy-hour listening party
Digital Artist Residency
Spektral & Tarek: The Many Faces of the String Quartet
A happy-hour listening party
Canceled: Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan
Tuesday, November 17, 2020Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan Dance-on-Camera
(UMS Digital Presentation)
POP BREAKDOWN
A conversation on sonic, visual and cultural transgressions in pop music
Digital Artist Residency
Chamber Music Forum with Members of the Spektral Quartet
“What a String Quartet Could Be”
A Virtual Grand Night for Singing
Thursday, October 29, 2020Virtual World Premiere
Voters’ Broadcast by Lisa Bielawa
U-M DEI Summit
Arts+Social Change: Building an Anti-Racist World through the Arts
Canceled: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Thursday, October 22, 2020A Conversation with Trevor Noah
Tuesday, October 20 - Friday, October 30, 2020A Conversation with Kira Thurman
Saturday, October 17 - Saturday, October 24, 2020From the Brooklyn Academy of Music
That Kindness: Nurses in Their Own Words
Canceled: Béla Fleck’s My Bluegrass Heart
Wednesday, September 30, 2020Digital Artist Residency Kickoff:
Part 2
Digital Artist Residency Kickoff:
Part 1
Virtual Book Launch: Ken Fischer’s Everybody In, Nobody Out
Tuesday, September 22, 2020Behind the Scenes: Q&A with UMS President Matthew VanBesien
Wednesday, September 16, 2020Canceled: Paul Taylor Dance Company
Friday, September 11 - Saturday, September 12, 2020Paul Taylor: Celebrate the Dancemaker
(UMS Digital Presentation)
Virtual Event: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra’s 100th Birthday Celebration
Saturday, September 5 - Thursday, September 10, 20202020/21 Season Updates: A Conversation with UMS President Matthew VanBesien
Tuesday, July 7, 2020Rose (UMS Digital Presentation)
a true story and song
ink (Streaming)
Camille A. Brown & Dancers
The Encounter (Streaming)
Complicité / Simon McBurney
Canceled:
Chineke! Orchestra
UMS 101: Classical Music
Chineke! Orchestra
Canceled:
Emerson String Quartet
Canceled:
American Ballet Theatre
Swan Lake
Canceled:
National Theatre Live in HD:
One Man, Two Guvnors
Canceled:
TRIVENI
Zakir Hussain, tabla
Kala Ramnath, violin
Dr. Jayanthi Kumaresh, veena
Canceled:
Apollo’s Fire and Chorus
J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion
Canceled:
Benjamin Grosvenor, piano
Canceled:
Tunde Olaniran Research Residency
Live Studio Session with the UMS Choral Union
Canceled:
Sir James Galway with
Lady Jeanne Galway, flutes
Canceled:
Tunde Olaniran at The Blind Pig
Canceled:
Sunday, March 22, 2020New York Philharmonic String Quartet with Anne-Marie McDermott, piano
Canceled:
National Theatre Live in HD:
Present Laughter
Canceled:
Tunde Olaniran Research Residency
Dance Workshop with Tunde Olaniran and Emma Davis
You Can Dance:
ANTHEM
Canceled:
Tunde Olaniran Research Residency
Sculpture Demonstration with Terra Lockhart
Canceled:
ANTHEM
A Dance for Four Women by Milka Djordjevich
Canceled:
Hélène Grimaud, piano
Canceled:
Tarek Yamani Trio
UMS 101: Jazz
Tarek Yamani Trio
HD Broadcast: The Stratford Festival
Shakespeare’s Coriolanus
Emanuel Ax, piano
Leonidas Kavakos, violin
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
West-Eastern Divan Ensemble
with Michael Barenboim, music director and violin
HD Broadcast:
Bolshoi Ballet
Giselle
You Can Dance:
Dorrance Dance
Dorrance Dance: Myelination
Friday, February 21 - Saturday, February 22, 2020Budapest Festival Orchestra
Thursday, February 20, 2020Angélique Kidjo’s
Remain in Light
Pop-Up Performance:
Mariachi Nuevo Santander
Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán
Friday, February 14, 2020UMS 101: Mariachi
Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan
A History of American Tap Dance:
Origins and Artistry of a True American Art Form
No Safety Net:
Girl Talk: Race, Comedy, and Feminism Now
Cécile McLorin Salvant and
Aaron Diehl, piano
White Feminist
Monday, February 3 - Sunday, February 9, 2020No Safety Net:
Reality Now: A Discussion with Reality Winner’s Mother
No Safety Net Panel Discussion:
Reality Winner, Russian Election Meddling, and The Future of America
Is This A Room: Reality Winner Verbatim Transcription
Half Straddle
Minnesota Orchestra
Saturday, January 25, 2020Canceled Event:
No Safety Net Active Bystander Training
No Safety Net Workshop:
How to Become an Internet Troll
As Far As My Fingertips Take Me
Friday, January 24 - Sunday, February 9, 2020The Believers Are But Brothers
Wednesday, January 22 - Sunday, January 26, 2020National Theatre Live in HD:
All My Sons
Penny Stamps Speaker Series:
Oskar Eustis in Conversation
No Safety Net Student Kick-Off Party
Thursday, January 16, 2020Martin Katz & Friends
What’s in a Song: Hugo Wolf’s Complete Mörike Songs
National Theatre Live in HD:
Fleabag
Taylor Mac’s Holiday Sauce
Saturday, December 14 - Sunday, December 15, 2019Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello
Tuesday, December 10, 2019Handel’s Messiah
Saturday, December 7 - Sunday, December 8, 2019Reading Art Across The Curriculum: Observe. Infer. Inquire.
Tuesday, December 3, 2019Big Band Holidays
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
Keeping it Jazzy: A Family Holiday Jazz Experience
Sunday, December 1, 2019National Theatre Live in HD:
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Stew & The Negro Problem
Notes of a Native Song
Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal
with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Joyce DiDonato
OM Preludes
Wednesday, November 20, 2019From Native Son to Native Song:
A Conversation with Stew & The Negro Problem
Vivaldi’s Four Seasons /
Max Richter’s Vivaldi Recomposed
Pre-Performance Talk: Recomposing The Four Seasons
Creative License: How to Quote Nature (and Vivaldi)
Teac Damsa
Loch na hEala (Swan Lake)
My Latinx Is…
Wednesday, November 13, 2019Secret Show: Caleb Teicher & Company
Thursday, November 7, 2019John Cameron Mitchell
The Origin of Love Tour
UMS 101: Theater/Cabaret
John Cameron Mitchell
Penny Stamps Speaker Series: John Cameron Mitchell
Friday, November 1, 2019You Can Dance
feat. Sankai Juku
Sankai Juku
Meguri: Teeming Sea, Tranquil Land
Zauberland (Magic Land)
An Encounter with Schumann’s Dichterliebe
Chick Corea Trilogy
with Christian McBride and Brian Blade
Denis Matsuev, piano
Friday, October 18, 2019Isango Ensemble
A Man of Good Hope
Preshow Talk:
“Black Opera in South Africa” with Naomi Andre
Isango Ensemble
The Magic Flute
National Theatre Live in HD:
The Lehman Trilogy
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Friday, October 11, 2019UMS 101: Dance
Grupo Corpo
Grupo Corpo
Bach & Gira
You Can Dance
(Brazilian Movement)
National Theatre Live in HD:
All About Eve
Amadeus Live
Film with Live Orchestra
Snarky Puppy
with special guest Alina Engibaryan
Summer Sings 2019:
Mozart Requiem, K. 626
Summer Sings 2019:
Haydn Mass in C Major (“Paukenmesse”)
Summer Sings 2019:
Duruflé Requiem, Op. 9
K-12 Teacher Appreciation Party
Thursday, May 30, 2019National Theatre, Live in HD:
Allelujah!
You Can Dance: Martha Graham Dance Company
Saturday, April 27, 2019Two Different Programs
Martha Graham Dance Company
Paul Lewis, piano
Replacing Murray Perahia
Thursday, April 25, 2019Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour featuring
Cécile McLorin Salvant &
Christian Sands (Music Director)
Cécile McLorin Salvant
UMS 101: Jazz
UMS Ambassadors present
Cabaret 2019: An Evening to Remember
Opera in Concert
Handel’s Semele
Takács Quartet
Anthony McGill, clarinet
Pre-Performance Talk: The Sense of Endings
Sunday, April 7, 2019Julius Caesar Conversation: Peter Holland with director Arthur Nauzyciel
Saturday, April 6, 2019William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
Théâtre National de Bretagne
Arthur Nauzyciel, director
Talk: On Shakespeare’s Roman Trails
Friday, April 5, 2019Omar Offendum Residency:
Work in Progress Showing: Little Syria
La Fresque (The Painting on the Wall)
Ballet Preljocaj
National Theatre, Live in HD:
Antony & Cleopatra
Penny Stamps Speaker Series:
Peter Sellars
Art as Moral Action
Omar Offendum Residency:
Dialogue Reimagining Historic Artifacts & Archives
Duo Recital
Eric Owens, bass-baritone
Lawrence Brownlee, tenor
World Premiere & UMS Co-Commission
Triptych (Eyes of One on Another)
Feat. Bryce Dessner, composer — Kaneza Schaal, director — Roomful of Teeth
Pre-Performance Talk:
Richard Meyer on the Legacy of Robert Mapplethorpe
Eric Owens Master Class
Friday, March 15, 2019Lawrence Brownlee Master Class
Friday, March 15, 2019Penny Stamps Speaker Series:
Bryce Dessner and Korde Arrington Tuttle
Work in Progress: “Dreamers” Workshop
Wednesday, March 13, 2019Two Different Programs
Philharmonia Orchestra
Philharmonia Orchestra
UMS 101: Classical Music
Yo-Yo Ma
Flint Voices: Culture, Community, and Resilience
Special Talk with
Yo-Yo Ma: Culture, Understanding, and Survival
In Plain Air
International Contemporary Ensemble
Las Cafeteras
Wednesday, February 20, 2019Las Cafeteras Artist Talk: Bridging Art, Activism and Community
Monday, February 18, 2019Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem
Saturday, February 16, 2019Past Tense
Carrie Mae Weems, director, writer, video artist
Penny Stamps Speaker Series:
Carrie Mae Weems A History of Violence, Heave.
The Present Effects of The Past: Artistic Responses to Police Brutality
Wednesday, February 13, 2019National Theatre, Live in HD
The Tragedy of King Richard the Second
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Saturday, February 9, 2019Echo in the Valley
Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn
National Theatre, Live in HD:
Hamlet
ink
Camille A. Brown & Dancers
You Can Dance: Camille A Brown & Dancers
Saturday, January 26, 2019Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Friday, January 25, 2019Community Movement Workshop: Camille A. Brown & Dancers
Wednesday, January 23, 2019Lagrime di San Pietro
(Tears of St. Peter)
Los Angeles Master Chorale
The Great Tamer
Conceived – Visualized + Directed by Dimitris Papaioannou
National Theatre, Live in HD:
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Bolshoi Theater, Moscow
Live in HD
The Nutcracker
Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, piano
National Theatre, London Live in HD
The Madness of George III
Charles Lloyd & The Marvels
with special guest Lucinda Williams
Handel’s Messiah
Saturday, December 1 - Sunday, December 2, 2018Big Band Holidays
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
with Wynton Marsalis
An Evening with Audra McDonald
Songs from the American Musical Theater
Danish String Quartet
Thursday, November 15, 2018Jake Shimabukuro, ukulele
Wednesday, November 7, 2018UMS 101: Jake Shimabukuro & the Ukulele
Wednesday, November 7, 2018National Theatre, London
Live in HD
King Lear
Immersion: Exploring the Legacy of Jazz in Detroit
Saturday, November 3, 2018Totalmente Juan Gabriel
Aida Cuevas
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Thursday, November 1, 2018Master Class: Alisa Weilerstein, cello
Wednesday, October 31, 2018National Theatre, London
Live in HD
Frankenstein
A Letter to My Nephew
Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Dance Company
M-Prize 2018 Winner
Aizuri Quartet
My LatinX Is — An Open Mic
Thursday, October 25, 2018Aizuri Quartet Masterclass
Thursday, October 25, 2018Yuja Wang, piano
Martin Grubinger, percussion
Master Class: Yuja Wang, piano, and Martin Grubinger, percussion
Monday, October 22, 2018You Can Dance: Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
Saturday, October 20, 2018Two Different Programs
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
UMS 101: Dance
Secret Show
Thursday, October 18, 2018Omar Offendum: “SyrianamericanA: A Nation-State of Mind”
Thursday, October 18, 2018Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
Friday, October 12, 2018An Evening with Pat Metheny
Wednesday, October 10, 2018Jerusalem Quartet
Pinchas Zukerman, violin
Amanda Forsyth, cello
National Theatre, London
Live in HD
Julie
A Dramatic Reading of
Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman with Alec Baldwin and U-M Theatre & Drama Department
Philadelphia Orchestra
Thursday, September 27, 2018Free Season Opening Event!
50th Anniversary Live Presentation of
Stanley Kubrick’s
2001: A Space Odyssey
2001: A Space Odyssey Community Event:
Tech Takeover on Ingalls Mall
K-12 Season Opening Party
Tuesday, September 11, 2018Summer Sings
Bach Magnificat
Summer Sings
The Music of René Clausen
Summer Sings
Beethoven’s Mass in C
National Theatre Live in HD:
Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
Ovation 2018:
Bet on a Fabulous Time
Emanuel Ax, piano
Sunday, April 22, 2018Cold Blood
Thursday, April 19 - Saturday, April 21, 2018Cold Blood
UMS 101: Dance & Theater
Opera in Concert
Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo
Apollo’s Fire / The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra
Apollo’s Fire: Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo
UMS 101: Classical Music & Opera
Sorrow — A Reimagining of Górecki’s Third Symphony
Colin Stetson
A Tribute to The Jazz Epistles
Abdullah Ibrahim & Ekaya
featuring Freddie Hendrix, trumpet
Artist Interview: Colin Stetson
Friday, April 13, 2018Artemis Quartet
Sunday, April 8, 2018The Music of Chick Corea
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Chick Corea
You Can Dance: Nederlands Dans Theater
Saturday, March 24, 2018Salon Discussion: Lily Baldwin
Saturday, March 24, 2018Nederlands Dans Theater
Friday, March 23 - Saturday, March 24, 2018Bubble Schmeisis
Thursday, March 22 - Sunday, March 25, 2018Moderated Q&A:
Cultural Institutions
in the On-Demand
Economy
Women in the Performing Arts:
Leading Organizations through Changing Times
Tignon: Work-in-Progress Showing
Friday, March 23 - Sunday, March 25, 2018Lily Baldwin: Through You VR Screenings
Tuesday, March 20 - Sunday, March 25, 2018Artist Interview: Jillian Walker with Anita Gonzalez
Tuesday, March 20, 2018Steve Lehman & Sélébéyone
Saturday, March 17, 2018Piedmont Blues:
A Search for Salvation
Path of Miracles
Tenebrae
Elias Quartet
Sunday, March 11, 2018You Can Dance: Company Wang Ramirez
Saturday, March 10, 2018Borderline
Company Wang Ramirez
Immersion: Exploring African- American History in Ypsilanti
Saturday, March 3, 2018Talking About Porgy and Bess:
A Post-Performance Discussion
Opera in Concert
The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess
The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess:
A Symposium
Kaleidoscope: What is Cultural Appropriation?
Friday, February 16, 2018Emmanuel Pahud, flute
Alessio Bax, piano
National Theatre Live in HD:
Stephen Sondheim’s Follies
Joshua Bell, violin
Sam Haywood, piano
American Ballet Theatre Master Class
Saturday, February 10, 2018Romeo and Juliet
American Ballet Theatre
Schubert’s Winterreise
Ian Bostridge, tenor
Julius Drake, piano
Master Class: Ian Bostridge, tenor
Saturday, February 3, 2018Estonian National Symphony Orchestra
Saturday, February 3, 2018Decompress: A closing night celebration of No Safety Net
Saturday, February 3, 2018Lecture and Panel: Gender Identity 101 & Being Transgender in our Community
Saturday, February 3, 20188980: Book of Travelers
Gabriel Kahane, vocalist and composer
Janai Brugger, soprano
Martin Katz, piano
They, Themself, and Schmerm
Wednesday, January 31 - Saturday, February 3, 2018Q&A: Janai Brugger, soprano
Tuesday, February 13, 2018Master Class: Gabriel Kahane
Wednesday, January 31, 2018Livestream Event: FK Alexander
Monday, January 29, 2018FK Alexander: Livestream Viewing Party in Detroit
Monday, January 29, 2018Maxim Vengerov, violin
Roustem Saïtkoulov, piano
M-Prize Winner!
Russian Renaissance
Sensory Friendly Open Rehearsal:
Russian Renaissance
(I Could Go On Singing) Over the Rainbow
Friday, January 26 - Saturday, February 3, 2018Us/Them
BRONKS and Richard Jordan Productions
Moscow’s Vakhtangov Theater
Live in HD:
Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya
Workshop: Introduction to Systemic Racism with ERACCE
Saturday, January 20, 2018Theater Matters: Livestream Viewing Party and Panel in Detroit
Thursday, January 18, 2018Underground Railroad Game
Ars Nova
Haydn Mega-Concert
St. Lawrence String Quartet
Hair & Other Stories
Urban Bush Women
What’s in a Song
Martin Katz, piano and curator
J.S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio
Bach Collegium Japan
Handel’s Messiah
Saturday, December 2 - Sunday, December 3, 2017Bernstein and Bolcom: Celebrating the American Experience
U-M Symphony Band Concert
New York Philharmonic
Bernstein’s Philharmonic: A Centennial Festival
John McLaughlin Farewell US Tour
John McLaughlin & Jimmy Herring
Meeting of the Spirits: Music of Mahavishnu Orchestra
The Knights
Sunday, November 12, 2017Chanticleer
Heart of a Soldier
China NCPA Orchestra
Tuesday, November 7, 2017Bassem Youssef
The Joke Is Mightier than the Sword
Crosscurrents
Zakir Hussain & Dave Holland
20th Anniversary
Sphinx Virtuosi
Daniil Trifonov, piano
Wednesday, October 25, 2017National Theatre Live in HD:
Simon Stone’s Yerma
Written in Water
Ragamala Dance Company
Amir ElSaffar’s
Rivers of Sound Orchestra
L’Etat de siège (State of Siege)
Théâtre de la Ville
Emerson String Quartet
Calidore String Quartet
National Theatre Live in HD:
Tony Kushner’s Angels in America:
Part Two: “Perestroika”
National Theatre Live in HD:
Tony Kushner’s Angels in America:
Part One: “Millennium Approaches”
US Premiere Screening:
Einstein on the Beach
Every Brilliant Thing
Tuesday, September 12 - Sunday, September 17, 2017Season Opening Event!
Butler, Bernstein & The Hot 9