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String Chamber Ensembles
Bezanson Recital Hall, Bromery Center for the Arts, UMass
7:30 pm
Featuring music by Ravel, Mozart, Brahms, Beethoven, Chopin, Ginastera & Coleridge-Taylor
Free & open to the public
Wind Ensemble and Symphony Band - Concert II
Frederick Tillis Performance Hall, UMass
7:30 pm
Matthew Westgate and Lindsay Bronnenkant, conductors
Luis Alberto Castro, guest conductor
With guests Longmeadow High School Wind Ensemble, Arthur Thovmasian, conductor
Includes music by Gershwin, Prokofiev, Grainger, Vaughan Williams & much more!
String Chamber Ensembles, Part 2
Bezanson Hall, Free
6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
Featuring music by Ravel, Haydn, Telemann, and Beethoven
Chapel Jazz and Jazz Lab Ensembles
Bowker Auditorium
7:30 pm
Felipe Salles, Cameron Chandler & Keenan Asbridge, directors
Featuring new Jazz Lab Ensemble vocalist Héloïse Goncalves
Winds & Brass Chamber Concert II
Bezanson Recital Hall, FREE
7:30 pm
Joshua Michal, faculty coordinator
Concert will also be streamed via YouTube =>
Bandwidth Faculty Ensemble
Bezanson Recital Hall, FREE
3:00 pm
Music by Charles Loeffler, György Ligeti, Franz Doppler & Annika Socolofsky
Holiday Card to Amherst: Choral Ensembles
Frederick Tillis Performance Hall, UMass
7:30 pm
UMass Chamber Choir, Chorale & Conductors' Chorus
Lindsay Pope and Stephen Paparo, conductors
Our choirs perform the annual program of seasonal favorites to help ring in the holidays, including audience sing-along. Music by Britten, Esmail, Rutter, Macdonald & many more!
Vocal Jazz Ensemble
Bezanson Recital Hall, Bromery Center for the Arts, UMass
1:00 pm
Catherine Jensen-Hole, director
Original contemporary music by vocalist Aubrey Johnson; the a capella jazz gospel sound of Take 6; jazz standards with a twist and arrangements of music from Brazil and Cuba.
Winds & Brass Chamber Concert III
Bezanson Recital Hall, FREE
7:30 pm
Midnight Messiah
Bezanson Hall, Free
11:59 pm to 1:00 am
Gilbert Wermeling, graduate conductor
Performing parts of Handel's Messiah, concluding with the Hallelujah Chorus.
Accepting donations of canned or dried food for the Amherst Survival Center.
Guest Artist Concert: Ghost Ensemble
Bezanson Recital Hall, FREE
7:30 pm
Featuring the world premiere of ensemble director and Amherst local Ben Richter’s Rewild alongside recent works by ensemble oboist Sky Macklay, UMass professor Miriam Piilonen, and the late iconic experimental composer Pauline Oliveros.
Honor Band
Frederick C. Tillis Performance Hall, FREE
(All day)
UMass Opera
Bowker Auditorium
3:00 pm
A staged performance of beloved arias and ensembles from operas by Mozart, Puccini, Verdi and other composers.
Tickets available starting in late December/early January at fineartscenter.com
UMass Symphony Orchestra & Jazz Ensemble I
Bowker Auditorium
7:30 pm
Tickets available starting in late December/early January at fineartscenter.com
Wind Ensemble and Symphony Band
Frederick C. Tillis Performance Hall
7:30 pm
Tickets available starting in late December/early January at fineartscenter.com
