Sunday, September 29th 12:30pm-3:30pm Bezanson Recital Hall
For high school pianists, their teachers, and parents. Will feature a Masterclass for high school students; Performances by UMass piano faculty, alumni, and current students; Discussion/Q&A about College Auditions with Piano faculty; and intermissions with snacks.
Free
Visiting Alumna Piano Concert
Sunday, September 29th 4pm Bezanson Recital Hall
Yan Yu, piano Featuring music by Prokofiev, Gabriela Lena Frank, & Rachmaninoff
Tickets: Free
Jazz Ensemble I and Chapel Jazz Ensemble
Wednesday, October 2nd 8pm Bowker Auditorium
Directed by Jeffrey W. Holmes & Thomas Giampietro
Tickets, available Aug. 1: $3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 general public; free for UMass music majors & minors 413-545-2511 or https://fac.umass.edu/musicanddance
Faculty Recital Pianist Nadine Shank & Friends from Near & Far
Sunday, October 6th 4pm Bezanson Recital Hall
Nadine Shank & Estela Olevsky, piano; with guests Jean Johnson '96, clarinet; Lois Hicks Wozniak, saxophone; David Nielsen, oboe; and Sarah Swersey, flute Music includes Schubert, Bach, Fernande Decruck, Erwin Schulhoff, and Leonard Bernstein
Tickets, available Aug. 1: $3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 general public; free for UMass music majors & minors Box Office: 413-545-2511 or https://fac.umass.edu/musicanddance
Trombone Choir
Wednesday, October 9th 8:15pm Bezanson Recital Hall
Directed by Greg Spiridopoulos
Tickets: Free
University Orchestra
Friday, October 11th 8pm Fine Arts Center Concert Hall
Conducted by Brandon Keith Brown, new Director of Orchestral Studies
Tickets, available Aug. 1: $3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 general public; free for UMass music majors & minors 413-545-2511 or https://fac.umass.edu/musicanddance
39th Annual Multiband Pops Concert
Friday, October 18th 8pm Fine Arts Center Concert Hall
Jeffrey W. Holmes, producer/coordinator
Our annual fast-paced showcase concert, featuring: Chamber Choir, Chapel Jazz, Horn Choir, Jazz Ensemble I, Mass Marimbas, Minuteman Marching Band, Percussion Ensemble, Saxophone Quartet, Symphony Band, Trombone Choir, UMass Dancers, Marimba Ensembles, University Orchestra, Vocal Jazz & Wind Ensemble
Tickets, available soon: $15 Students, seniors, children /$20 General public Box Office: 413-545-2511 or https://fac.umass.edu/musicanddance
Chamber Music Ensembles
Sunday, October 20th 7pm Bezanson Recital Hall
Coordinated by Elizabeth Chang Featuring String Quartets & Mixed Ensembles
Tickets: Free
Tuesdays in Bezanson: Faculty Chamber Music
Tuesday, October 20th 8pm Bezanson Recital Hall
Celebrating Music of Francis Poulenc and “Les Six”
Performers to include: Fredric T. Cohen, oboe; Laura Klock, horn; Lynn Klock, saxophone; Christopher Krueger, flute; Nadine Shank, piano; Michael Sussman, clarinet & Stephen Walt, bassoon
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963): Sonata for Oboe & Piano (1962) & Trio for Oboe, Bassoon, & Piano (1926), Darius Milhaud (1892-1974): Scaramouche for Alto Saxophone & Piano (1940), Charles Koechlin (1867-1950): Wind Septet “Caprice sur le retour de mon fils (Yves)” (1937) for Flute, Oboe, English Horn, Clarinet, Alto Saxophone, Bassoon & Horn
Tickets, available Aug. 1: $3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 general public; free for UMass music majors & minors Box Office: 413-545-2511 or https://fac.umass.edu/musicanddance
Wind Ensemble
Thursday, October 24th 8pm Fine Arts Center Concert Hall
James Patrick Miller, conductor
To include- Vincent D’Indy: Chanson et Danse, Leonard Bernstein: Overture to Candide (transcr. Beeler), William Schuman: George Washington Bridge, Frank Ticheli: Postcard, Karel Husa: Concerto for Wind Ensemble
Tickets, available Aug. 1: $3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 general public; free for UMass music majors & minors Box Office: 413-545-2511 or https://fac.umass.edu/musicanddance
