Past Performances
Mapping without Boundaries:
A Collaboration between Yo-Yo Ma and the University of Michigan
Penny Stamps Speaker Series
Ken Fischer and Wynton Marsalis: Everybody In, Nobody Out
Sir András Schiff, piano
(UMS Digital Presentation)
Arab Women in Music: The Works of Asmahan and Umm Kulthum
National Arab Orchestra
(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)
Some Old Black Man
(UMS Digital Presentation)
James Ehnes, violin, and
Orion Weiss, piano
(UMS Digital Presentation)
Virtual Masterclass with James Ehnes, violin
Friday, February 12Grow Glow Go: The Sankofa of Black Dance
In Dialogue with Cleo Parker Robinson and Neil Barclay
Sphinx Virtuosi Artists In Conversation
Monday, February 8Sphinx Virtuosi: This is America
(UMS Digital Presentation)
Canceled: The Four Journeys
Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble
Sheku Kanneh-Mason &
Isata Kanneh-Mason
(UMS Digital Presentation)
Manidoo-Giizisoons
(Little Spirit Moon)
Takács Quartet
(UMS Digital Presentation)
Messiah Mixtape
(UMS Digital Presentation)
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Septet with Wynton Marsalis:
The Democracy! Suite
(UMS Digital Presentation)
Digital 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
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
Chamber Music Forum with Members of the Spektral Quartet
“What a String Quartet Could Be”
A Virtual Grand Night for Singing
Thursday, October 29Virtual World Premiere
Voters’ Broadcast by Lisa Bielawa
U-M DEI Summit
Arts+Social Change: Building an Anti-Racist World through the Arts
A 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: A MoodSwing Reunion
Redman | Mehldau | McBride | Blade
Digital Artist Residency Kickoff:
Part 2
Canceled: Béla Fleck’s My Bluegrass Heart
Wednesday, September 30Digital Artist Residency Kickoff:
Part 1
Virtual Book Launch: Ken Fischer’s Everybody In, Nobody Out
Tuesday, September 22Behind the Scenes: Q&A with UMS President Matthew VanBesien
Wednesday, September 16Paul Taylor: Celebrate the Dancemaker
(UMS Digital Presentation)
Canceled: Paul Taylor Dance Company
Friday, September 11 - Saturday, September 12, 2020Virtual Event: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra’s 100th Birthday Celebration
Saturday, September 5 - Thursday, September 10, 2020Rose (UMS Digital Presentation)
a true story and song
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Camille A. Brown & Dancers
The Encounter (Streaming)
Complicité / Simon McBurney
Canceled:
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:
HOME
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:
National Theatre Live in HD:
Present Laughter
Canceled:
ANTHEM
A Dance for Four Women by Milka Djordjevich
Canceled:
Hélène Grimaud, piano
Canceled:
Tarek Yamani Trio
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
Dorrance Dance: Myelination
Friday, February 21 - Saturday, February 22, 2020Budapest Festival Orchestra
Thursday, February 20Angélique Kidjo’s
Remain in Light
Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán
Friday, February 14Cécile McLorin Salvant and
Aaron Diehl, piano
White Feminist
Monday, February 3 - Sunday, February 9, 2020Is This A Room: Reality Winner Verbatim Transcription
Half Straddle
Minnesota Orchestra
Saturday, January 25As 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
Martin 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 10Handel’s Messiah
Saturday, December 7 - Sunday, December 8, 2019Big Band Holidays
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
National 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
Vivaldi’s Four Seasons /
Max Richter’s Vivaldi Recomposed
Teac Damsa
Loch na hEala (Swan Lake)
Secret Show: Caleb Teicher & Company
Thursday, November 7John Cameron Mitchell
The Origin of Love Tour
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
Isango Ensemble
A Man of Good Hope
Denis Matsuev, piano
Friday, October 18Isango Ensemble
The Magic Flute
National Theatre Live in HD:
The Lehman Trilogy
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Friday, October 11Grupo Corpo
Bach & Gira
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
National Theatre, Live in HD:
Allelujah!
Two Different Programs
Martha Graham Dance Company
Paul Lewis, piano
Replacing Murray Perahia
Thursday, April 25Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour featuring
Cécile McLorin Salvant &
Christian Sands (Music Director)
Opera in Concert
Handel’s Semele
Takács Quartet
Anthony McGill, clarinet
William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
Théâtre National de Bretagne
Arthur Nauzyciel, director
La Fresque (The Painting on the Wall)
Ballet Preljocaj
National Theatre, Live in HD:
Antony & Cleopatra
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
Two Different Programs
Philharmonia Orchestra
Special Talk with
Yo-Yo Ma: Culture, Understanding, and Survival
In Plain Air
International Contemporary Ensemble
Las Cafeteras
Wednesday, February 20Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem
Saturday, February 16Past Tense
Carrie Mae Weems, director, writer, video artist
National Theatre, Live in HD
The Tragedy of King Richard the Second
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Saturday, February 9Echo in the Valley
Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn
National Theatre, Live in HD:
Hamlet
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Camille A. Brown & Dancers
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Friday, January 25Lagrime 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 15Jake Shimabukuro, ukulele
Wednesday, November 7National Theatre, London
Live in HD
King Lear
Totalmente Juan Gabriel
Aida Cuevas
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Thursday, November 1National Theatre, London
Live in HD
Frankenstein
A Letter to My Nephew
Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Dance Company
M-Prize 2018 Winner
Aizuri Quartet
Yuja Wang, piano
Martin Grubinger, percussion
Two Different Programs
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
Secret Show
Thursday, October 18Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
Friday, October 12An Evening with Pat Metheny
Wednesday, October 10Jerusalem 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 27Free Season Opening Event!
50th Anniversary Live Presentation of
Stanley Kubrick’s
2001: A Space Odyssey
Summer Sings
Bach Magnificat
Summer Sings
The Music of René Clausen
Summer Sings
Beethoven’s Mass in C
Ovation 2018:
Bet on a Fabulous Time
Emanuel Ax, piano
Sunday, April 22Cold Blood
Thursday, April 19 - Saturday, April 21, 2018Opera in Concert
Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo
Apollo’s Fire / The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra
Sorrow — A Reimagining of Górecki’s Third Symphony
Colin Stetson
A Tribute to The Jazz Epistles
Abdullah Ibrahim & Ekaya
featuring Freddie Hendrix, trumpet
Artemis Quartet
Sunday, April 8The Music of Chick Corea
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Chick Corea
Nederlands Dans Theater
Friday, March 23 - Saturday, March 24, 2018Bubble Schmeisis
Thursday, March 22 - Sunday, March 25, 2018Steve Lehman & Sélébéyone
Saturday, March 17Piedmont Blues:
A Search for Salvation
Path of Miracles
Tenebrae
Elias Quartet
Sunday, March 11Borderline
Company Wang Ramirez
Opera in Concert
The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess
Emmanuel Pahud, flute
Alessio Bax, piano
National Theatre Live in HD:
Stephen Sondheim’s Follies
Joshua Bell, violin
Sam Haywood, piano
Romeo and Juliet
American Ballet Theatre
Schubert’s Winterreise
Ian Bostridge, tenor
Julius Drake, piano
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra
Saturday, February 38980: Book of Travelers
Gabriel Kahane, vocalist and composer
They, Themself, and Schmerm
Wednesday, January 31 - Saturday, February 3, 2018Janai Brugger, soprano
Martin Katz, piano
Maxim Vengerov, violin
Roustem Saïtkoulov, piano
Sensory Friendly Open Rehearsal:
Russian Renaissance
M-Prize Winner!
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
Underground 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 12Chanticleer
Heart of a Soldier
China NCPA Orchestra
Tuesday, November 7Bassem Youssef
The Joke Is Mightier than the Sword
Crosscurrents
Zakir Hussain & Dave Holland
20th Anniversary
Sphinx Virtuosi
Daniil Trifonov, piano
Wednesday, October 25National 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