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Convergence: A Dance Performance Gallery
Totman Performance Lab
7:30 pm
An artistic presentation of methods and findings from an active clinical trial about the health benefits of dance among adults.
Aston K. McCullough, artistic director
Jazz Faculty Concert
Bezanson Hall, Free
7:30 pm
Jeffrey W. Holmes, piano/trumpet; Felipe Salles, saxophone; Catherine Jensen-Hole, voice; Fumi Tomita, bass; Thomas Giampietro, drums; Bob Ferrier, guitar & Ben Griffin, trombone
37th Annual H.S. Honor Band Concert
Frederick C. Tillis Performance Hall, FREE
7:00 pm
Featuring the top high school bands from around the region, plus the UMass Wind Ensemble & Symphony Band
UMass Opera - Love & Lust: Lost & Found
Bowker Auditorium
3:00 pm
A staged performance of arias, scenes, & ensembles from masterworks by Puccini, Mozart, Handel, & Gluck with Orchestra
Tickets available at fineartscenter.com/musicanddance.
Faculty Concert: Eric Berlin, trumpet & Ludmila Krasin, piano
Bezanson Hall, Free
7:30 pm
With guest BethAyn Curtis, soprano
Includes music by Handel, Daugherty, Peaslee & Turrin
Guest Artist Concert: Tim McAllister, saxophone & Liz Ames, piano
Bezanson Recital Hall
7:30 pm
Part of the year-long celebration of the 40th Anniversary of the New England Saxophone Symposium
Includes music by Jennifer Jolley, Andre Myers, Karalyn Schubring, Zoe Cutler, Vincent Ho & Erwin Schulhoff
Guest Artist Concert: Fred Sienkiewicz, trumpet & Thomas Weaver, piano
Bezanson Hall, Free
7:30 pm
Alexander Arutiunian and His World
Music by the Soviet Armenian composer Arutiunian as well as Aram Khachaturian & others, with commentary by Mr. Sienkiewicz.
Graduate Jazz Composers
Bezanson Recital Hall
7:30 pm
New works for small, medium & large jazz ensembles performed by Graduate Jazz Composers Ensemble and Jazz Ensemble I
Western Mass Flute Festival
Bezanson Recital Hall
(All day)
Cobus du Toit, host
Featuring Catherine Boyack, guest flutist with Steven Beck, pianist
Bandwidth: Faculty/Students Chamber Winds Concert
Bezanson Hall, Free
4:30 pm
Cobus du Toit, flute
Romie de Guise-Langlois, clarinet
Joshua Michal, horn
Rémy Taghavi, bassoon
Plus other faculty and student performers!
Guest Artist Concert: Nicolas Prost, saxophone
Bezanson Recital Hall
7:30 pm
With Sébastien Paindestre, piano
"At the Border of Jazz"
Featuring a new work by Wayne Shorter: Sherwood Sonata
Senior Thesis Dance Projects
Totman Performance Lab
7:30 pm
Senior dance majors present their final choreography projects. Tickets =>
Five College Choral Festival
John M. Greene Hall, Smith College
7:30 pm
Includes UMass Chamber Choir and Chorale
Lindsay Pope and Stephen Paparo, conductors
UMass Symphony Orchestra & Jazz Ensemble I
Bowker Auditorium
7:30 pm
Morihiko Nakahara & Jeffrey W. Holmes, directors
Tickets available at fineartscenter.com/musicanddance
Wind Ensemble and Symphony Band
Frederick C. Tillis Performance Hall
7:30 pm
Matthew Westgate & Lindsay Bronnenkant, conductors
Tickets available at fineartscenter.com/musicanddance
2023 Hip Hop Music Education Festival
UMass Amherst Old Chapel Great Hall
9:00 am to 3:00 pm
With guest clinician, Pete Shungu (Hip hop MC/rapper & professor at Univ. of Illinois Champagne-Urbana)
Online registration is open now! (Registration deadline: March 1)
CLARIconNEcT: Clarinet Day 2023
Bezanson Recital Hall
(All day)
Romie de Guise-Langlois, host Details & registration =>
Featuring guest clarinetist André Moisan with faculty pianist Steven Beck
Faculty Concert: William Hite, tenor & Jamie-Rose Guarrine, soprano
Bezanson Recital Hall
7:30 pm
Featuring Britten's Serenade for Tenor and Horn with Josh Michal, horn and Steven Beck, piano, plus songs set to the poetry of Emily Dickinson with Ian Scarfe, piano and Karl Knapp, cello
Five College Early Music Collegium
Bezanson Recital Hall
7:30 pm
Michael Barrett, director
Mythos: English and Italian madrigals on mythological themes
