12/1 Thursday 8pm Five College Early Music Collegium
Robert Eisenstein, director
Christmas Music from Spain's Golden Age
Marvelous motets by Morales, Victoria and Guerrero, including Victoria's O Magnum Mysterium, instrumental music performed on viols and Renaissance Winds, and lively Christmas villancicos for all. The sonorous splendor of late 16th-century Spain!
8pm at the Bezanson Recital Hall No Charge
12/2 Friday 8pm Bowker Auditorium University Dancers
Paul Dennis, director
Merce Cunningham's minEvent; Camille Brown's New Second Line, inspired by Hurricane Katrina, celebrating the spirit & culture of New Orleans; Billbob Brown's Rotator, dynamic video projections & live dance; Adrienne Hawkins' Pictures at an Exhibition (Mussorgsky music); Thomas Vacanti's ballet premiere Sostenuto & Allegro, set to the music of Kurt Weill
$3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $12 General public 413-545-2511 or Buy Tickets Online
12/3 Saturday 2pm Bowker Auditorium University Dancers
Paul Dennis, director
Merce Cunningham's minEvent; Camille Brown's New Second Line, inspired by Hurricane Katrina, celebrating the spirit & culture of New Orleans; Billbob Brown's Rotator, dynamic video projections & live dance; Adrienne Hawkins' Pictures at an Exhibition (Mussorgsky music); Thomas Vacanti's ballet premiere Sostenuto & Allegro, set to the music of Kurt Weill
$3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $12 General public 413-545-2511 or Buy Tickets Online
12/3 Saturday 8pm Bowker Auditorium University Dancers
Paul Dennis, director
Merce Cunningham's minEvent; Camille Brown's New Second Line, inspired by Hurricane Katrina, celebrating the spirit & culture of New Orleans; Billbob Brown's Rotator, dynamic video projections & live dance; Adrienne Hawkins' Pictures at an Exhibition (Mussorgsky music); Thomas Vacanti's ballet premiere Sostenuto & Allegro, set to the music of Kurt Weill
$3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $12 General public 413-545-2511 or Buy Tickets Online
12/3 Saturday 4pm Fine Arts Center Concert Hall
Wind Ensemble
James Patrick Miller, conductor
Fredric T. Cohen, oboe
Lutoslawski: Fanfare for Louisville, Szigeti: For Fred, Concerto for Oboe and Wind Ensemble, Stravinsky: Octet for Wind Instruments, Copland: Emblems
$3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 General public 413-545-2511 or Buy Tickets Online
Free Admission for Auditioning Students and Families!
12/4 Sunday 3pm Recital Choir, Women's Choir & University Chorale
Tony Thornton, Director of Choral Activities
Stephen Paparo, conductor University Chorale
Marius Bahnean, Joshua Harper & HyunKyung Jang, graduate conductors
Includes F.J. Haydn: Little Organ Mass; Z. Randall Stroope: Arise My Love, My Fair One, and Come Away, arrangements of Take Me to the Water and Hey, Ho the Morning Dew & many others
3pm First Congregational Church, 165 Main St., Amherst
This event is free of charge.
Chorale conductor Stephen Paparo
12/5 Monday 8pm Bezanson Recital Hall Vocal Jazz Ensemble
Catherine Jensen-Hole, director
Featuring arrangements by Jensen-Hole & graduate student Jon Gardner, including Jensen-Hole's Stillness of the Sea with lyrics by student Kyle Hanlon
$3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 General public 413-545-2511 or Buy Tickets Online
12/6 Tuesday 7:30pm String Quartets in Concert
An evening of fine chamber music including music by Dvorak, Schumann, Brahms, Ravel, Beethoven, Debussy, and Prokofiev.
7:30pm at the Bezanson Recital Hall No Charge
12/7 Wednesday 8pm Fine Arts Center Concert Hall Percussion Ensemble & Symphony Band
Ayano Kataoka & James Patrick Miller, conductors
PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE REPERTOIRE:
Steve Reich: Sextet for percussion and keyboards, Richard Trythall: Bolero for four percussionists, Mauricio Kagel: Excerpts from Rrrrrr...
SYMPHONY BAND REPERTOIRE:
William Schuman: Chester Overture, J.S. Bach: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme BWV 645, Frank Ticheli: Fortress, Norman Dello Joio: Variants on a Medieval Tune
$3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 General public 413-545-2511 or Buy Tickets Online
12/8 Thursday 8pm Bowker Auditorium
Chapel Jazz Ensemble
Felipe Salles & Thomas Giampietro, directors
Special Guests: Randy Brecker, trumpet & Jazz Ensemble I, Jeffrey W. Holmes, director
$3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 General public 413-545-2511 or Buy Tickets Online
Randy Brecker, photo by Merri Cyr
12/9 Friday Student Composers' Concert
Hear them before they become famous!
7:30pm at the Bezanson Recital Hall No Charge
11/30 Wednesday 8:15pm Bezanson Recital Hall
AVANTI PLUS: Great Serenades Wind Chamber Music
Avanti Wind Quintet faculty performers Christopher Krueger, flute; Fredric T. Cohen, oboe; Michael Sussman, clarinet; Laura Klock, horn & Stephen Walt, bassoon are joined by select students for an evening of wind Serenades by Mozart and Strauss
$3 UMass students; $5 other students, seniors & children; $10 general public Box Office 413-545-2511 or Buy Tickets Online
Nov. 28 Monday 10am-12noon Bezanson Recital Hall
Violin Master Class
Kevin Lawrence, guest violinist
International performer & violin professor/chair of the String Department at the North Carolina School of the Arts
Chorale conductor Stephen Paparo 
Randy Brecker, photo by Merri Cyr 
