Saturday, April 6th 8:30am- 5:30pm Bezanson Recital Hall & FAC Music Wing
New England high school Big Bands, Combos, & Vocal Jazz Ensembles with adjudications & clinics by guests including vibraphonist Dave Samuels, resident Jazz faculty & music exhibitors
String Quartets, Clarinet Quintet, Piano Trios & Quartets Music by Brahms, Mozart, Smetana, Haydn, Bartok, Borodin & Dvorák
No charge
Low Brass Fest
Tuesday, April 2 (Changed from original April 10 date)
8pm, Fine Arts Center Concert Hall
Laura Klock, Greg Spiridopoulos, & John Bottomley, directors
Music from the Horn, Trombone, & Tuba/Euphonium studios, featuring original & transcribed works from the classical & popular repertoire. In addition to individual choir performances, the sound of the combined forces will fill the Concert Hall with antiphonal brass music of Giovanni Gabrieli.
No Charge
Emerging Choreographers Series
Thursday, April 11th 8pm Dance Studio Theater, Hampshire College
Dance works by UMass emerging choreographers: Tomas Aponte, Kaitlyn Burdick, Sarah Elaz, Nick Galatis, Rachel Lovely, Julia Rahman, Tommy Seibold, Taylor Thistle & Anna Wotring
Exploring the uncharted territory where mind and movement intersect!
Tickets: $5 students, seniors, children; $10 general public Buy Tickets Online
Emerging Choreographers Series
Friday, April 12th 8pm Dance Studio Theater, Hampshire College
Dance works by UMass emerging choreographers: Tomas Aponte, Kaitlyn Burdick, Sarah Elaz, Nick Galatis, Rachel Lovely, Julia Rahman, Tommy Seibold, Taylor Thistle & Anna Wotring
Exploring the uncharted territory where mind and movement intersect!
Tickets: $5 students, seniors, children; $10 general public Buy Tickets Online
Emerging Choreographers' Series
Saturday, April 13th 8pm Dance Studio Theater, Hampshire College
Dance works by UMass emerging choreographers: Tomas Aponte, Kaitlyn Burdick, Sarah Elaz, Nick Galatis, Rachel Lovely, Julia Rahman, Tommy Seibold, Taylor Thistle & Anna Wotring
Exploring the uncharted territory where mind and movement intersect!
Tickets: $5 students, seniors, children; $10 general public Buy Tickets Online
Wind Ensemble
Thursday, April 18th 8pm Fine Arts Center Concert Hall
James Patrick Miller, conductor
Music by Ernst Toch, W.A. Mozart, Carl Maria von Weber, and the Russian composers Khatchaturian, Prokofiev & Shostakovich
Tickets: $3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 general public; free for UMass music majors & minors Buy Tickets Online
Alive With Dance I
Thursday, April 18th 8pm Bowker Auditorium
New works by senior dance majors in collaboration with dancers & musicians. Choreographers: Sonja Brigham, Kate Citron, Kristen Connolly, Blake Fishman, Jeff Gugliotti, Jaxon Hall, Channing Hoover & Anna Sidloski. Works with unique topics ranging from the damsel in distress theory to multiple sclerosis.
New works by senior dance majors in collaboration with dancers & musicians. Choreographers: Sonja Brigham, Kate Citron, Kristen Connolly, Blake Fishman, Jeff Gugliotti, Jaxon Hall, Channing Hoover & Anna Sidloski. Works with unique topics ranging from the damsel in distress theory to multiple sclerosis.
New works by senior dance majors in collaboration with dancers & musicians. Choreographers: Sonja Brigham, Kate Citron, Kristen Connolly, Blake Fishman, Jeff Gugliotti, Jaxon Hall, Channing Hoover & Anna Sidloski. Works with unique topics ranging from the damsel in distress theory to multiple sclerosis.
Friday, April 19th 8pm Fine Arts Center Concert Hall
James Patrick Miller & Ayano Kataoka, conductors
Symphony Band: Works by Claudio Grafulla, David Gillingham, Percy Grainger, Jack Stamp & H. Owen Reed
Percussion Ensemble: Ionisation for 13 percussionists by Edgard Varese & The River of Life by George Crumb Guests: Melissa Ennulat & Liana Gineitis, voices; Megan Cooney, conductor
Tickets: $3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 general public; free for UMass music majors & minors Buy Tickets Online
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30th Annual New England Saxophone Symposium
Saturday, April 20th 9:30am- 6:30pm Bezanson Recital Hall
Lynn Klock, host & recitalist
Featured artists include: Timothy McAllister, Professor of Saxophone, Northwestern University & Dick Oatts, Temple University (jazz), plus College Saxophone Quartets & the U.S. Coast Guard Saxophone Quartet
Open forum with featured artists
Saxophones available to play from leading saxophone manufacturers
FOR VOICES ONLY: A cappella works by Brahms, Whitacre, di Lasso, Palestrina, Finzi, Bruckner, and arrangements of spirituals by Moses Hogan, Warren Martin, and Robert Shaw/Alice Parker
No charge; donations will be accepted to assist in fundraising for the Chamber Choir tour to Munich, Salzburg, Vienna, and Prague in May of 2013
Concert Band
Sunday, April 21st 2pm Fine Arts Center Concert Hall
CONDUCTORS: Professor Timothy Anderson, Director of the Minuteman Marching Band, Professor James Patrick Miller, Megan Cooney, Charles O'Brien and David Morris
MUSIC: A Bernstein Tribute arranged by Clare Grundman; Old Churches by Michael Colgrass; Thus Do You Fare, My Jesus by J.S. Bach; arranged by Alfred Reed; An American Elegy by Frank Ticheli; Mancini! arranged by Stephen Bulla; Men of Ohio by Henry Fillmore; and Sea Songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Tickets: $3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 general public; free for UMass music majors & minors Buy Tickets Online
Chapel Jazz Ensemble
Tuesday, April 23rd 8pm Bowker Auditorium
Felipe Salles & Tom Giampietro, co-directors
Works by: Jeff Coffin/Ryan Middagh, Bob Mintzer, Pat Metheny/Bob Curnow, UMass Graduate Jazz Alum Chris Merz, Felipe Salles, Sherisse Rogers & Antonio Carlos Jobim
Tickets: $3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 general public; free for UMass music majors & minors Buy Tickets Online
Alive With Dance presents "Stripped"
Saturday, April 27th 8pm Kendall Studio Theater, Mt. Holyoke College
New works by senior dance majors Rachel Aylward, Tara Brown, Bridget Cronin, Melissa Frascella, Megan Kelly, Brittney Laquidara, Katie Lovell & Rebecca Steinberg, with topics ranging from psychological disorders to the integration of art forms
Tickets: $5/$10 Online: fac.umass.edu or call 413-545-2511
Alive With Dance Presents "Stripped"
Friday, April 26th 8pm Kendall Studio, Mount Holyoke College
New works by senior dance majors Rachel Aylward, Tara Brown, Bridget Cronin, Melissa Frascella, Megan Kelly, Brittney Laquidara, Katie Lovell & Rebecca Steinberg, with topics ranging from psychological disorders to the integration of art forms
Tickets:$5/$10 Online: fac.umass.edu or call 413-545-2511
Jazz Ensemble I & Studio Orchestra
Friday, April 26th 8pm Bowker Auditorium
Jeffrey W. Holmes, director
Guest singer Sheila Jordan, 2012 National Endowment for the Arts Masters Honoree & vocal jazz icon, will perform & record live with these ensembles featuring new/reworked orchestrations by Holmes & students
Tickets: $3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 general public; free for UMass music majors & minors Buy Tickets Online
Sheila Jordan
University Chorale, Women's Choir, & Recital Choir
Saturday, April 27th 4pm First Congregational Church, 165 Main Street, Amherst
The University Chorale Stephen A. Paparo, conductor HyeseungSeo, pianist Guest artists: Lisa Lehmberg and Lance Lehmberg, steel drums Music by Smith, Rutter, Pottle, Lauridsen, Bloch & McClure
UMass Recital Choir Sarah Bowe, Joshua Harper, Geoffrey Herrmann, Nhung Truong, graduate conductors Music by asia mei: Jacob Dreams of Angels, Samuel Barber: Sure On This Shining Night, Paul Hindemith: La Biche
UMass Womens Choir Sarah Bowe, Geoffrey Herrmann, Nhung Truong, graduate conductors Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams: Linden Lea; Mozart: Alleluia from Exultate Jubilate & Gwyneth Walker: Crossing the Bar
No charge
Marimba Bands & Ensembles
Saturday, April 27th 8pm Bowker Auditorium
Thomas Hannum, director Hear the music from Marimba Ensembles I & II along with Marimba Band I & II. Featuring student arrangements for music from Gershwin, Stevie Wonder, Phil Collins and more!
Tickets: $3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 general public; free for UMass music majors & minors Buy Tickets Online
Vocal Jazz Ensemble
Sunday, April 28th 8pm Bezanson Recital Hall
Cathy Jensen-Hole, director
Spotlight on Jazz Graduate Writing Majors past and present; Arrangements & compositions by Dan Williams, Dominique Gagné, Jared Trace, Jeff Schneider & Micah Maurio
Tickets: $3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 general public; free for UMass music majors & minors Buy Tickets Online
Opera Workshop
Tuesday, April 30th 7:30pm Bowker Auditorium
Amy Johnson, program director; Vernon Hartman, stage director & Nicholas Shaneyfelt, musical preparation
Puccini's Gianni Schicchi & Verdi's La Traviata, Act I
Tickets: $3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 general public; free for UMass music majors & minors Buy Tickets Online
Opera Workshop
Wednesday, May 1st 7:30pm Bowker Auditorium
Amy Johnson, program director; Vernon Hartman, stage director & Nicholas Shaneyfelt, musical preparation
Puccini's Gianni Schicchi & Verdi's La Traviata, Act I
Tickets: $3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 general public; free for UMass music majors & minors Buy Tickets Online
Avanti Plus - Glorious Mozart
THIS CONCERT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO PERFORMER ILLNESS Apologies for any inconvenience
Sunday, April 7th 4pm Bezanson Recital Hall
Faculty/Student Chamber Music
Faculty Voice/Piano Recital
Tuesday, April 16th 8pm Bezanson Recital Hall
Marjorie Melnick, mezzo-soprano & Nadine Shank, piano With guest Ravenna Helson, cello
Schumann: Frauenliebe und Leben, Schoenberg: Cabaret Songs, Brahms: Songs for Alto, Viola & Piano plus music by Leonard Bernstein & Amy Beach
Tickets: $3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 general public; free for UMass music majors & minors Buy Tickets Online
Marjorie Melnick Nadine Shank
Euridice Ensembles
Wednesday, April 17th 8:15pm Bezanson Recital Hall
Robert Eisenstein, director
Henry Purcell: Suite from Fairy Queen Georg Philippe Telemann: Concerto for flute, recorder and orchestra J. S. Bach: 'Triple' Concerto for Flute, Violin and Harpsichord in A minor & Brandenburg Concerto #3
Soloists: Christie Cho and Billy Meyers, violin Anderson Paes, recorder Natalie Talbot, flute Diana Chu and Artur Wysoczanski, harpsichord
No Charge
Five College Early Music Collegium
Tuesday, April 23rd 8pm Abbey Chapel, Mt. Holyoke College
Robert Eisenstein, director
Plain and Fancy: High & Low styles in late 15th Century music Mass movements & motets by Ockeghem, Compère, Basiron & Josquin With Renaissance choir, winds & strings
No charge
Josquin des Prez
26th Annual 2013 "Color In The Cage" Performance Showcase
Saturday, April 27th 2013
2:00pm Curry Hicks Cage Gymnasium
**Doors Open @ 1:30PM/Show Time- 2pm**
Nature of Event- "Color In The Cage" (CITC), [Open to All Five College Students], is an annual performance showcase event produced and directed by Frederick Omega Pye, in his sixth year as Assistant Band Director/Visual Coordinator for the University of Massachusetts Minuteman Marching Band (UMMB). CITC is a valuable training ground and presentation that features our current and future UMMB Fall Guard members and Featured Twirlers, along with our Fall Color Guard Field Staff Candidates. This year, we are excited to debut students from our new Marching Color Guard Techniques Class, guided by Fred, and assisted by Event Founder, David Hautanen. We also offer a performance outlet for UMass, local High Schools, and Collegiate Guards, Dancers, Cheerleaders, Drum Majors, and Baton Twirlers, in a positive non-competitive supportive environment. Rifles, Flags, Sabres, Mace, Dance. & Props, are a major focus, while we strive to develop future Guard and Baton Twirling instructors in this continually growing pageantry arts activity. This will be our second year proudly collecting can goods and donations at the door the day of our production to help support the Amherst Survival Center, our 2013 Event Charity, along with supporting DVDen as one of our premiere 2013 Event Sponsors for the last 5 years.
Tickets are $3.00 for Youth, UMass, and All Five College Students with Student ID, Current UMMB Students are free with one can good, and $5.00 for Adults.
Guest Artist Trumpet Masterclass
Marc Reese, Trumpet, Empire Brass member
Tuesday, April 2, 1:10pm
Bezanson Recital Hall
Free
Quintet Masterclass with Guest Artist
Graduate Brass Quintet with guest artist Marc Reese, trumpet, Empire Brass member
Tuesday, April 2, 12:00pm
Bezanson Recital Hall
Free
Senior Recital
Ross Nelson, violin
Monday, April 1, 7pm
Immanuel Lutheran Church
Free
Junior Recital
Michael Caudill, Jazz Keegan Bass, Jazz
Wednesday, April 3, 8:30pm
Room 44, FAC Music Wing
Free
Junior & Graduate Recital
Christopher Moehringer, trombone Aaron Staluppi, tuba
Friday, April 5, 8pm
Room 44, FAC Music Wing
Free
Graduate Recital
Madeleine Jansen, violin
Tuesday, April 2, 7:30pm
Amherst Unitarian Society
Free
Graduate Recital
Leslie Kahler, clarinet
Saturday, April 6, 7:30pm
Bezanson Recital Hall
Free
Senior Recital
Gwendolyn Coburn, voice
Sunday, April 7, 1pm
Bezanson Recital Hall
Free
Senior Recital
Colleen Peterson, flute
Sunday, April 7, 7:30pm
Bezanson Recital Hall
Free
Senior Recital
David Morris, saxophone
Saturday, April 13, 1pm
Bezanson Recital Hall
Free
Senior Recital
Molly Porter, flute
Saturday, April 13, 4pm
Bezanson Recital Hall
Free
Senior Recital
Taylor Yozwiak, percussion
Saturday, April 13, 7:30pm
Bezanson Recital Hall
Free
Senior Recital
Robert Scott, percussion
Sunday, April 14, 1pm
Bezanson Recital Hall
Free
Masters Recital
Hyeseung Seo, piano
Sunday, April 14, 4pm
Bezanson Recital Hall
Free
Senior Recital
Charles Daole-Wellman, clarinet
Sunday, April 14, 7:30pm
Bezanson Recital Hall
Free
Graduate Recital
Anna Whistler, piano
Friday, April 19, 5:30pm
Bezanson Recital Hall
Free
Graduate Recital
Kevin Martins, horn
Sunday, April 21, 7:30pm
Bezanson Recital Hall
Free
Graduate Recital
Paul Pinard, violin
Monday, April 22, 6pm
Immanuel Lutheran Church 867 N. Pleasant St., Amherst
Free
Senior Recital
Ryan McNeice, Jazz
Monday, April 22, 7:30pm
Reading Room, Campus Center
Free
Junior Recital
Joon Sang Ko, piano Ben Lary, piano
Tuesday, April 23, 8pm
Bezanson Recital Hall
Free
Junior Recital
Andrew Licht, violin
Wednesday, April 24, 6pm
Immanuel Lutheran Church, 867 N. Pleasant St., Amherst
Free
Senior Recital
Christopher Horte, clarinet
Saturday, April 27, 2pm
Immanuel Lutheran Church 867 N. Pleasant St., Amherst
Free
Graduate Recital
Aaron Stewart, saxophone
Saturday, April 27, 7pm
Bezanson Recital Hall
Free
Junior Recital
Benjamin Ferguson, trombone Sarah Raposo, clarinet
Sunday, April 28, 1pm
Bezanson Recital Hall
Free
Senior Recital
Ruth Miyamoto, cello
Sunday, April 28, 4pm
Bezanson Recital Hall
Free
Junior Recital
Gregory Mascherino, violin
Tuesday, April 30, 7:30pm
Bezanson Recital Hall
Free
CELLO MASTER CLASS
April 1 Monday 4:30-6:30pm Bezanson Recital Hall
Nancy Green, guest cellist International performer & recording artist
No charge to observe
Senior Bass Recital
Christopher Sartori, bass
Sunday, April 14, 1:30pm
Campus Center Reading Room
Free
April 24 Wednesday 8:15pm Bezanson Recital Hall
GRADUATE WOODWIND QUINTET
Katherine Dolan, flute; Cassie Loges, oboe; Leslie Kahler, clarinet; Dave Bon-Keen, bassoon & Kevin Martins, horn
Paul Taffanel: Wind Quintet; Malcolm Arnold: Three Shanties for Wind Quintet; Gyorgy Ligeti: Sechs Bagatellen
No charge
Wednesday, April 3 8:15pm Bezanson Recital Hall
GRADUATE RECITAL
Aeri Kim, voice
Free
Junior Recital
Stephen Ostaszewski Jazz Guitar Michael Vuona Drumset
Saturday, April 27, 4:00pm
Bezanson Recital Hall
Free
String Chamber Music Concert
Thursday, April 25th 4:30pm Immanuel Lutheran Church, 867 N. Pleasant St., Amherst
Elizabeth Chang, coordinator
Music by Mozart, Brahms, Faure & others
No charge
Orchestral Excerpt Masterclass
Monday, April 29th 10am-12pm Bezanson Recital Hall
Guest: Kenneth Freed, viola, Minnesota Orchestra
No charge
Convocation and Awards Ceremony
Monday, April 29 5pm Bezanson Recital Hall
Scholarship Award winners and nominees announced. Refreshments will be served.
No Charge
April 21 Sunday 4pm Bezanson Recital Hall
ADVANCED PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE
Ayano Kataoka, faculty coordinator
Guests: Time Travelers Percussion Ensemble (Gwen Burgett, Ian Rosenbaum, Svet Stoyanov & Ayano Kataoka)
Music by Steve Reich: Mallet Quartet; Paul Lansky: Threads; John Fitz Rogers: Once Removed; Alejandro Viñao: Formas Del Viento for flute & percussion & others
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
April 22 Monday 8:30-9:50am Room 36, Fine Arts Center
TIME TRAVELERS PERCUSSION MASTERCLASS
Time Travelers Percussion Ensemble: Gwen Burgett, Ian Rosenbaum, Svet Stoyanov & Ayano Kataoka
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
L to R: Composer Paul Lansky, Ayano Kataoka, Gwen Burgett, Ian Rosenbaum & Svet Stoyanov
April 28 Sunday 10am Bezanson Recital Hall
GUEST TROMBONE RECITAL
Trombone Section of the Capital Wind Symphony: Ken Wolff, principal (UMass alumnus) Angela Guido Corey Sansolo James Martin Susan Goodwin, principal bass (UMass alumna) Frank Gulino, bass
Music by Haydn, Puccini, Strauss, Michael Davis' Trombone Institute of Technology, Mark O'Connor's Appalachia Waltz (arr. Ken Wolff) & a world premiere by Frank Gulino: Visions
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Senior Recital
Lydia Parkington, cello
Saturday, April 27, 5pm
Unitarian Universalist Society, 121 N. Pleasant St., Amherst
Dave Samuels
Timothy McAllister 
Sheila Jordan 
Josquin des Prez
