We’re excited to share our 2016-17 season with you! Explore the season in more detail on our site and watch our announcement video:

Flip through our brochure:

Which performances are you most excited to see? Share in the comments below.

Our programming director Michael Kondziolka celebrated his 25th anniversary with UMS during our 2013-2014 season, and we celebrated with cake at our season announcement party.

This post is a part of a series of playlists curated by UMS staff, artists, and community. Check out more music here.

Now that we’ve announced our 2014-2015 season, it’s time to get more closely acquainted with its sounds. Listen along with our Spotify playlist featuring artists on our next season.

We can’t wait for this season to begin.

This year, we are challenging the boundaries of convention while honoring tradition. We’re taking you on a remarkable journey that is sure to enlighten, inspire, transport, and transform. Welcome to the 2014-2015 UMS Season.

Each UMS season is designed to take you on a journey. A geographical journey throughout the world. A journey of genre, expanding definitions and dimensions. A journey inward, created to inspire selfreflection. Come witness all that we have to offer.

Find out more about who’s coming, watch our season announcement video:

For chapters of this video focusing on each series, check out our YouTube channel.

Check out our 2014-2015 season brochure:

We’ve also got the complete 2014-2015 season listing with details about each event on our website.

Which performances are you excited about? Tell us in the comments below.

Our 2013-2014 season announcement video highlights some of next season’s incredible performers. Take a look at the season brochure here.

Photo taken at our silent dance party during our season announcement event at the Michigan League on Friday, April 12. Our UMS student committee & U-M student volunteers danced to a playlist featuring artists on our 2013-2014 season. That’s UMS president Ken Fischer joining the fun.

What’s a silent dance party? It’s a dance party at which everyone listens to the same thing through headphones while dancing, so although the party appears silent to onlookers, the dancers are all dancing to the same thing. Here’s what our dancers were listening to:

See the full 2013-2014 season announcement video and more.

Surprising. Invigorating. Disruptive. Inspiring. Captivating.

These are just a few of the words we heard when asking audiences for their impressions immediately following performances this past season. This instant reaction gets to the heart of what it means to be present: to be there, in person, interacting with some of the best performers in the world in the extraordinary transaction between artist and audience.

And our 2013-2014 season’s performances will go even one step beyond. Some traditional. Some outside the lines. All designed to move you. But only if you choose to be present.

Watch our season announcement video:

Check out our 2013-2014 season brochure:

We’ve also got the complete 2013-2014 season listing with details about each event on our website.

What performances are you excited about? Tell us in the comments below.

Need the 2013-2014 season announcement video by chapter?

Choral Union

Chamber Arts

Jazz

Global Music

Theater

Dance

And more