Past Performances

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

They, 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

Jazz 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

Jazz at Lincoln Center’s
Swing University: Jazz in Detroit
Experimental Sounds, Artist-Directed Action, and New Talents

Canceled: Cécile McLorin Salvant and Kurt Elling

Ancient Future Fire
Sidewalk Art Installation ft. Sacramento Knoxx

Canceled: Russian Renaissance

Mapping 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

Canceled: Sir András Schiff, piano

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)

Canceled: South Pacific in Concert

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

Canceled: James Ehnes, violin
Orion Weiss, piano

Canceled: Mariinsky Orchestra

Virtual Masterclass with James Ehnes, violin

Grow Glow Go: The Sankofa of Black Dance
In Dialogue with Cleo Parker Robinson and Neil Barclay

Sphinx Virtuosi Artists In Conversation

Canceled: An Evening with Sheila Jordan

Sphinx Virtuosi: This is America
(UMS Digital Presentation)

Canceled: Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation

Jazz 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

Canceled:
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

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

Canceled: Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan

Canceled: Berliner Philharmoniker

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

Virtual 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

A Conversation with Trevor Noah

A Conversation with Kira Thurman

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

Digital Artist Residency Kickoff:
Part 2

Canceled: Béla Fleck’s My Bluegrass Heart

Digital Artist Residency Kickoff:
Part 1

Virtual Book Launch: Ken Fischer’s Everybody In, Nobody Out

Behind the Scenes: Q&A with UMS President Matthew VanBesien

Paul Taylor: Celebrate the Dancemaker
(UMS Digital Presentation)

Canceled: Paul Taylor Dance Company

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

2020/21 Season Updates: A Conversation with UMS President Matthew VanBesien

Rose (UMS Digital Presentation)
a true story and song

ink (Streaming)
Camille A. Brown & Dancers

The Encounter (Streaming)
Complicité / Simon McBurney

UMS 101: Classical Music
Chineke! Orchestra

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:
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:
National Theatre Live in HD:
Present Laughter

Canceled:
Tunde Olaniran Research Residency
Dance Workshop with Tunde Olaniran and Emma Davis

Canceled:

New York Philharmonic String Quartet with Anne-Marie McDermott, piano

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

Budapest Festival Orchestra

Angélique Kidjo’s
Remain in Light

Pop-Up Performance:
Mariachi Nuevo Santander

UMS 101: Mariachi
Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan

Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán

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

No 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

No Safety Net Workshop:
How to Become an Internet Troll

Canceled Event:
No Safety Net Active Bystander Training

As Far As My Fingertips Take Me

The Believers Are But Brothers

National Theatre Live in HD:
All My Sons

No Safety Net Student Kick-Off Party

Penny Stamps Speaker Series:
Oskar Eustis in Conversation

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

Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello

Handel’s Messiah

Reading Art Across The Curriculum: Observe. Infer. Inquire.

Big Band Holidays
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis

Keeping it Jazzy: A Family Holiday Jazz Experience

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

OM Preludes

From Native Son to Native Song:
A Conversation with Stew & The Negro Problem

Pre-Performance Talk: Recomposing The Four Seasons
Creative License: How to Quote Nature (and Vivaldi)

Vivaldi’s Four Seasons /
Max Richter’s Vivaldi Recomposed

Teac Damsa
Loch na hEala (Swan Lake)

My Latinx Is…

Secret Show: Caleb Teicher & Company

John Cameron Mitchell
The Origin of Love Tour

UMS 101: Theater/Cabaret
John Cameron Mitchell

Penny Stamps Speaker Series: John Cameron Mitchell

yMusic

You 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

Isango Ensemble
A Man of Good Hope

Denis Matsuev, piano

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

UMS 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

National Theatre, Live in HD:
Allelujah!

You Can Dance: Martha Graham Dance Company

Two Different Programs
Martha Graham Dance Company

Paul Lewis, piano

Replacing Murray Perahia

Cécile McLorin Salvant
UMS 101: Jazz

Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour featuring
Cécile McLorin Salvant &
Christian Sands (Music Director)

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

Julius Caesar Conversation: Peter Holland with director Arthur Nauzyciel

William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
Théâtre National de Bretagne
Arthur Nauzyciel, director

Talk: On Shakespeare’s Roman Trails

Omar Offendum Residency:
Work in Progress Showing: Little Syria

La Fresque (The Painting on the Wall)
Ballet Preljocaj

National Theatre, Live in HD:
Antony & Cleopatra

Omar Offendum Residency:
Dialogue Reimagining Historic Artifacts & Archives

Penny Stamps Speaker Series:
Peter Sellars
Art as Moral Action

Duo Recital
Eric Owens, bass-baritone
Lawrence Brownlee, tenor

Pre-Performance Talk:
Richard Meyer on the Legacy of Robert Mapplethorpe

Eric Owens Master Class

Lawrence Brownlee Master Class

World Premiere & UMS Co-Commission
Triptych (Eyes of One on Another)
Feat. Bryce Dessner, composer — Kaneza Schaal, director — Roomful of Teeth

Penny Stamps Speaker Series:
Bryce Dessner and Korde Arrington Tuttle

Work in Progress: “Dreamers” Workshop

Two 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

Las Cafeteras Artist Talk: Bridging Art, Activism and Community

Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem

Past 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

National Theatre, Live in HD
The Tragedy of King Richard the Second

Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

Echo in the Valley
Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn

National Theatre, Live in HD:
Hamlet

You Can Dance: Camille A Brown & Dancers

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Camille A. Brown & Dancers

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Community Movement Workshop: Camille A. Brown & Dancers

Lagrime 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

Big Band Holidays
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
with Wynton Marsalis

An Evening with Audra McDonald
Songs from the American Musical Theater

Danish String Quartet

UMS 101: Jake Shimabukuro & the Ukulele

Jake Shimabukuro, ukulele

National Theatre, London
Live in HD
King Lear

Immersion: Exploring the Legacy of Jazz in Detroit

Totalmente Juan Gabriel
Aida Cuevas

Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

Master Class: Alisa Weilerstein, cello

National 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

Aizuri Quartet Masterclass

Yuja Wang, piano
Martin Grubinger, percussion

Master Class: Yuja Wang, piano, and Martin Grubinger, percussion

You Can Dance: Hubbard Street Dance Chicago

Two Different Programs
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
UMS 101: Dance

Secret Show

Omar Offendum: “SyrianamericanA: A Nation-State of Mind”

Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique

An Evening with Pat Metheny

Jerusalem Quartet
Pinchas Zukerman, violin
Amanda Forsyth, cello

Victors for the Arts Gala
An intimate evening on the stage of Hill Auditorium

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

Free 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

Summer 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

Cold Blood
UMS 101: Dance & Theater

Cold Blood

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

Artist Interview: Colin Stetson

A Tribute to The Jazz Epistles
Abdullah Ibrahim & Ekaya
featuring Freddie Hendrix, trumpet

Artemis Quartet

The Music of Chick Corea
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Chick Corea

Salon Discussion: Lily Baldwin

You Can Dance: Nederlands Dans Theater

Moderated Q&A:
Cultural Institutions
in the On-Demand
Economy

Women in the Performing Arts:
Leading Organizations through Changing Times

Nederlands Dans Theater

Bubble Schmeisis

Tignon: Work-in-Progress Showing

Lily Baldwin: Through You VR Screenings

Artist Interview: Jillian Walker with Anita Gonzalez

Steve Lehman & Sélébéyone

Piedmont Blues:
A Search for Salvation

Path of Miracles
Tenebrae

Elias Quartet

You Can Dance: Company Wang Ramirez

Borderline
Company Wang Ramirez

Immersion: Exploring African- American History in Ypsilanti

Talking 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?

Emmanuel Pahud, flute
Alessio Bax, piano

National Theatre Live in HD:
Stephen Sondheim’s Follies

Medical Community Dinner

Joshua Bell, violin
Sam Haywood, piano

American Ballet Theatre Master Class

Romeo and Juliet
American Ballet Theatre

American Ballet Theatre:
An Opening Night Gala

Master Class: Ian Bostridge, tenor

Schubert’s Winterreise
Ian Bostridge, tenor
Julius Drake, piano

Estonian National Symphony Orchestra

Decompress: A closing night celebration of No Safety Net

Lecture and Panel: Gender Identity 101 & Being Transgender in our Community

8980: Book of Travelers
Gabriel Kahane, vocalist and composer

They, Themself, and Schmerm

Q&A: Janai Brugger, soprano

Master Class: Gabriel Kahane

Janai Brugger, soprano
Martin Katz, piano

Livestream Event: FK Alexander

FK Alexander: Livestream Viewing Party in Detroit

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

Us/Them
BRONKS and Richard Jordan Productions

Moscow’s Vakhtangov Theater
Live in HD:
Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya

Workshop: Introduction to Systemic Racism with ERACCE

Theater Matters: Livestream Viewing Party and Panel in Detroit

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

Bernstein 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

Chanticleer
Heart of a Soldier

China NCPA Orchestra

Bassem Youssef
The Joke Is Mightier than the Sword

Crosscurrents
Zakir Hussain & Dave Holland

20th Anniversary
Sphinx Virtuosi

Daniil Trifonov, piano

National 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

Season Opening Event!
Butler, Bernstein & The Hot 9