BOSOMA DANCE COMPANY in Residence Directors: UMass Alumni Katherine Hooper & Irada Djelassi
Friday at UMass Totman Studio 13 No charge
*Workshop: Starting a Non-Profit Organization, 12:15-1:45pm *Masterclass: Modern dance technique, 2-3:30pm *Space is limited, to reserve a spot: 413 545 6064
Oct. 2 & 3 Fri & Sat 8pm
BOSOMA DANCE COMPANY in Residence Directors: UMass Alumni Katherine Hooper & Irada Djelassi
BoSoma Dance Performance Hampshire College, Main Dance Studio, 8pm
$7 Students, seniors/$15 General public Ticket Reservations: 413 559 5889 beginning 9/20
Oct. 2 & 3 Fri & Sat 8pm
BOSOMA DANCE COMPANY in Residence Directors: UMass Alumni Katherine Hooper & Irada Djelassi
BoSoma Dance Performance Hampshire College, Main Dance Studio, 8pm
$7 Students, seniors/$15 General public Ticket Reservations: 413 559 5889 beginning 9/20
Oct. 4 Sunday
EMERITUS PROFESSOR IN CONCERT
Nigel Coxe, piano
Bartok: Improvisations, Op. 20, Haydn: Sonata #48, Schubert: Four Impromptus, D. 899 & two works by Liszt: Legend #1, St. Francis of Assisi’s Sermon to the Birds and Liebestraum, Nocturne III
4pm Bezanson Recital Hall $3 UMass Amherst students/ $5 Other students, seniors, children/$10 General public Box Office 413-545-2511 or www.umasstix.com
Oct. 6 Tuesday
JAZZ ENSEMBLE I/CHAPEL JAZZ ENSEMBLE
Jeffrey W. Holmes, Paul Lieberman & Steven Sonntag, directors
Music by Chick Corea, Fred Sturm, Neal Hefti, Wayne Shorter, Dizzy Gillespie, Mercer Ellington, Tom Wolf, Bob Mintzer & UMass grad students Alex Lee-Clark & Marek Novotny
8pm Bowker Auditorium $3 UMass Amherst students/ $5 Other students, seniors & children/$10 General public Box Office 413-545-2511 or www.umasstix.com
Oct. 8 Thursday
UNIVERSITY ORCHESTRA
Lanfranco Marcelletti, Jr., director
Amy Johnson, soprano (UMass Amherst Professor of Voice)
Jonathan Brennand & Matthew Bertuzzi, conducting fellows
Haydn: Symphony No. 103 “Drumroll”, Wagner: Prelude to Act III from Lohengrin plus arias from Die Walkure & Tannhauser, Tchaikovsky: Dances from The Nutcracker & Letter scene from Eugene Onegin
8pm Fine Arts Center Concert Hall $3-UMass Amherst students/ $5-Other students, seniors & children/$10-General public Box Office 413-545-2511 or www.umasstix.com
Bring yourselves, your partners, friends & children
2:30pm: Career panel with students & Alumni Board members in Bezanson Recital Hall
4:00pm: Mini-Concert in Bezanson Recital Hall by faculty, State of the Department by Chair Jeff Cox and a tribute to Helen Perry, long-time secretary, friend of students and alumni, who died in 2008
5:15pm: Three-course dinner at the University Club with faculty
8:00pm: Multiband Pops concert
Cost: $35 per person, guests are very welcome To register: 413 545 2511, ask for Music Alumni Reunion or go to www.umasstix.com Deadline: October 9
Hotel Space is very limited, several hotels are already booked. A block of rooms is on hold for Music Alumni at the Hampton Inn in Hadley until September 17. For reservations call 413 586 4851 or go to www.hadley.hamptoninn.com and use the Group Code: RMD.
Oct. 16 Friday 8pm Fine Arts Center Concert Hall
35th ANNUAL MULTIBAND POPS CONCERT Jeffrey W. Holmes, producer
Ensembles: Chamber Choir, Chapel Jazz, Horn Choir, Jazz Ensemble I, Mass Marimba Band, Minuteman Marching Band, Percussion Ensemble, Saxophone Quartet, Symphony Band, UMass Dancers, UMass Marimba Ensembles, University Orchestra, Vocal Jazz & Wind Ensemble
Directors: Paul Dennis, Catherine Jensen-Hole, Thomas Hannum, Jeffrey W. Holmes, Ayano Kataoka, Laura Klock, Lynn Klock, Paul Lieberman, Lanfranco Marcelletti, Jr., James Patrick Miller, George N. Parks, Steven Sonntag & Tony Thornton
$15-Students, seniors, children, groups of 10 or more alumni/$20-General public Box Office 413-545-2511 or Direct online ticketing General online ticketing website: www.umasstix.com
Eric Berlin, trumpet; Elizabeth Chang, violin; Fredric T. Cohen, oboe; Christopher Krueger, flute; Kathryn Lockwood, viola; Astrid Schween, cello; Nadine Shank, piano; Michael Sussman, clarinet & Stephen Walt, bassoon
Mozart: Serenade in Eb, Shostakovich: Festive Overture (transcr. Hunsberger), Sousa: The Washington Post March, Eric Whitacre: October plus works by Husa, Persichetti, Rimsky-Korsakov, Clifton Williams & Gabriel Musella
8pm Fine Arts Center Concert Hall$3-UMass Amherst students/ $5-Other students, seniors, children/ $10-General public Box Office 413-545-2511 or www.umasstix.com
James Patrick Miller
Oct. 27 Tuesday
GRADUATE JAZZ QUINTET & THE JAZZ COLLECTIVE
A free jazz concert featuring UMass Amherst faculty and jazz majors
8pm Bezanson Recital HallNo charge
Friday, October 2
CELLO/PIANO/PERCUSSION CONCERT
Performers: UMass Amherst Professor Ayano Kataoka, percussion, with guests Judith Gordon, piano & Kivie Cahn-Lipman, cello (Smith College faculty members)
Featuring music by William Duckworth, Osvaldo Golijov, John Cage, Iannis Xenakis, Paul Lansky, Alfred Schnittke & Lou Harrison
6:30pm Bezanson Recital Hall
$3 UMass Amherst students; $5 other students, seniors & children under 18; $10 general public Box Office 413-545-2511 or http://www.umasstix.com
Ayano Kataoka
Oct. 8Thursday
MUSIC THEORY LECTURE SERIES
Speaker: Music professor and Elliott Carter scholar Jason Hooper
A Transformational Approach to Harmony and Voice Leading in Elliott Carter’s Recent Music
1:10pmBezanson Recital HallNo charge
Oct. 29 Thursday ANCORA PRESENTS: A NEW MUSIC CONCERT
Ancora is Music Faculty members Fredric T. Cohen, oboe & English horn; Lynn Klock, saxophones; Norman Bolter, trombone & Salvatore Macchia, contrabass
Norman Bolter: Around the Pond & Between Waking and Sleeping (Premieres), Robert Stern: Deploration, Salvatore Macchia: Gridot & Lassus In Memoriam, Hsueh-Yung Shen: Over Heaven and Earth
Amy Johnson, soprano 
Minuteman Marching Band 
Young Mozart
James Patrick Miller 
Ayano Kataoka 
Norman Bolter 