UMBC Department of Music

12/02/2023

11/20/2023

Come see UMBC Jazz groups at OCA Mocha in Arbutus!

Join us on Monday for some live jazz music from UMBC's Jazz Groups! 🎶🥁🎹🎷

11/19/2023

Thank you for bringing your beautiful instrument to our hall!

10/27/2023

Tomorrow! Come out and support!

The UMBC Camerata Choir will be performing with the Baltimore Children's Choir in a free concert at the Baltimore Museum of Industry on Saturday, October 28, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm! The event is sponsored by Free Fall Baltimore.

10/26/2023

Join us on Wednesday, November 1st at 4:30 pm in the Skylight Room to meet recently hired tenure-stream faculty, and learn about their research. Percussionist Dustin Donahue, Assistant Professor of Music, will be one of the presenters. A reception will follow the presentations.

10/26/2023

Music education was not James Dorsey's original plan. But when opportunity knocked, Dorsey answered the call to teach.

10/25/2023

Congratulations to James Dorsey '05, music technology & vocal performance, on receiving this year's award for Outstanding Alumni in the Visual & Performing Arts! Dorsey is an artist and National Board-Certified Educator, serving as an elementary vocal/general music teacher in Prince George's County Public Schools. He also currently teaches music education classes at UMBC.

The award will be presented at the 2023 Alumni Awards ceremony on Thursday, October 26, 2023 at 6:30pm in the Linehan Concert Hall. More information about the event can be found here: https://www.alumni.umbc.edu/s/1325/21/interior.aspx?sid=1325&gid=1&pgid=2607 and a livestream can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-1Hd6MDyZk

10/21/2023

Chamber music collective Decoda gave an extraordinary performance last night in Linehan Concert Hall, including a premiere by Co-Artistic Director Brad Balliett!

The ensemble also read and recorded works by student composers and presented an interactive workshop on engaging audiences this morning!

10/21/2023

10/21/2023

Posted • The fabulous Stick&Bow duo wraps up our Livewire 13: Transformation festival today, Saturday, Oct 21!

Join us for that performance at 5 pm and for a student concert at 1 pm today in Linehan Concert Hall!

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10/20/2023

Congratulations to the Ruckus faculty ensemble on an outstanding performance last night, including three world premieres by Linda Dusman, Karena Ingram, and Vittoria Tchotche!

The Livewire 13 festival continues this weekend with performances by Decoda and Stick&Bow along with a concert of student performers and composers!
Full details here: https://umbc.edu/event/livewire-13-transformation/

10/18/2023

Posted • The amazing Duo della Luna take the stage Friday afternoon at UMBC as the third concert in the Livewire festival!

For this performance, the Duo, comprised of soprano Susan Botti, and violinist Airi Yoshioka, will be joined by harpist Jacqueline Pollauf and percussionist Dustin Donahue as guest artists. The program features works by Rahilia Hasanova, Kathryn Blake, Ashkan Behzadi, Susan Botti, Kaija Saariaho, and Wes York.

12 noon, Friday, October 20, Linehan Concert Hall

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10/17/2023

Posted • Roll up! It's time for UMBC's annual Livewire new music festival!

Join us for 6 concerts over 4 days, October 18 through 21 in Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall, just 15 minutes from downtown Baltimore and 25 minutes from I-495.

The Decoda ensemble, shown here, performs on Friday evening. Their appearance is sponsored in part by the Center for Innovation, Research and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA).

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10/17/2023

Posted • Our annual Livewire new music festival kicks off on Wednesday with a free performance by pianist Idith Meshulam Korman!

Over the past ten years, she has taught piano in a correctional facility, and has seen how music can transform lives. Her performance will include a collaboration with poet/creator Reese Todd Basile, who will recite his poetry.

Wednesday, October 18, 1 p.m., Linehan Concert Hall

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10/13/2023

The UMBC Camerata Choir will be performing with the Baltimore Children's Choir in a free concert at the Baltimore Museum of Industry on Saturday, October 28, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm! The event is sponsored by Free Fall Baltimore.

10/13/2023

Linda Dusman's piece Corona Bagatelles for cello and piano (2021) was requested by the Library of Congress for its collection documenting the COVID-19 Pandemic. All emails, sketches, and score versions of the piece will be will be placed in this permanent collection. You can read more about the Library of Congress collection here: https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-21-010/library-of-congress-builds-new-collections-documenting-covid-19-pandemic/2021-03-02/
And you can read more about the piece here: https://music.umbc.edu/post/111815/

Congrats to Dr. Dusman!

As the world marks the one-year anniversary of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the Library of Congress has been collecting materials and documenting this time in history through a variety of initiatives.The Library’s rapid-response collecting since the start of lockdowns and social distancing measur...

10/11/2023

Inscape Chamber Orchestra gave a magnificent performance on Sunday in UMBC's Linehan Concert Hall, and we're delighted to have another review in the Washington Classical Review by Charles T. Downey!

Our next Sunday chamber music concert, on November 5, will feature violinist Fangming Shen and pianist Hsiao-Ying Lin, performing works by Bach, Szymanowski, Ravel, and Beethoven — don't miss!

Soprano Mandy Brown performed Kaija Saariaho’s Quatre Instants with the Inscape Chamber Orchestra Sunday at Linehan Concert Hall. Photo: Jim Williams

10/11/2023

It's time for our annual Livewire new music festival!

Join us next week, October 18 – 21, for six concerts over the span of four days in Linehan Concert Hall for Livewire 13: Transformation.

Wednesday, October 18, 1 p.m.
Pianist Idith Meshulam Korman and poet-creator Reese Todd Basile

Thursday, October 19, 7:30 p.m.
Ruckus, the UMBC faculty new music ensemble

Friday, October 20, 12 p.m.
Duo della Luna

Friday October 20, 7:30 p.m.
Decoda

Saturday, October 21, 1 p.m.
UMBC Student Concert

Saturday, October 21, 5 p.m.
Stick&Bow

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10/04/2023

Whistling Hens was featured in both the International Clarinet Association journal and The International Alliance for Women in Music journal in praise of their debut album, Reacting to the Landscape. Comprised of Natalie Groom, Clarinet (Affiliate Artist of Clarinet at UMBC) and soprano Jennifer Piazza-Pick, (Director of Music & Professor of Music (Voice) at Queens University of Charlotte), they’ve been championing music by women composers since the duo hatched in 2018. Read the full reviews and listen to the album at linktr.ee/whistlinghens

10/04/2023

Announcing Search: Assistant Professor of Choral Conducting and Music Education

The University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) Department of Music invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Choral Conducting and Music Education to begin August 2024. We seek a dynamic artist-educator who will develop a forward-looking, 21st-century vision for UMBC’s Camerata Choir and who will pursue a research agenda in performance and/or music education.

Examples of research may include live performances, recording projects, published scholarship, and community engaged work. Diverse areas of research or creative activity are welcome. In addition to being responsible for the direction of UMBC’s Camerata choir, this individual will coordinate UMBC’s choral music education program, which includes overseeing a music education internship for 1st and 2nd year students. To complete the teaching duties, the individual will teach music education, vocal pedagogy, and/or conducting coursework based on the candidate’s experience, areas of interest, and departmental needs. Recruiting, advising, and service responsibilities will also be assigned based on candidate interests and departmental needs. We welcome applicants with an interest in addressing inequities in and through music education—including through collaboration with historically marginalized communities. The candidate will have the opportunity to build relationships and collaborations through a social justice lens that will meaningfully contribute to UMBC and surrounding communities. Applicants who demonstrate a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion by way of teaching, performing, publishing, or volunteer experiences as well as those with experience employing culturally responsive approaches and/or integrating musical, social-emotional, and social justice learning goals are strongly encouraged to apply. Salary is competitive. Candidates who are members of groups historically underrepresented in the professoriate are especially encouraged to apply.

A master’s degree is required, and the areas of choral conducting or music education is desired. Successful K-12 teaching experience is desired; teaching or mentoring of undergraduate level students and/or professional-level choral conducting experience is also desired. The complete application package must include: a letter of interest that describes the candidate’s qualifications and potential research and/or creative activity agenda in detail, including how their experience has prepared them to teach successfully the university music courses listed above; a current CV; dated links for up to 3 video excerpts totaling no more than 30 minutes of material demonstrating choral conducting skills (if available, we encourage candidates to include video of a rehearsal as one of these videos); a separate statement addressing their capacity to respond in pedagogically productive ways to the learning needs of students from diverse backgrounds and their use of culturally responsive approaches, musical, social-emotional, and/or social justice learning goals with specific examples from their teaching experience; and three reference contacts. Additional materials may be requested later.

Don't meet every single qualification? At UMBC, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles. We would also be happy to address any questions you might have about the application process. For questions, please contact Professor Brian Kaufman, Department of Music: [email protected].

For best consideration, please submit all application materials through Interfolio (http://apply.interfolio.com/131281) by October 30, 2023. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.

Located in the heart of the culturally rich Baltimore-Washington corridor, the Department of Music is a growing, diverse, and supportive community enrolling 160 undergraduate majors. Housed in the University’s striking new Performing Arts and Humanities Building, the music wing includes a 350-seat performance space with superior acoustics, 9-foot Steinway grand pianos, and fully equipped recording and keyboard labs. All tenure-track faculty maintain robust careers in performance, conducting, or composing on the regional and national level, with many having a research focus in contemporary art-music and some with creative activities that include music as a vehicle for civic engagement and social justice. In addition to its undergraduate degrees, the Department offers a post-baccalaureate Certificate in American Contemporary Music. See https://music.umbc.edu/ for more details.

09/29/2023

Congratulations to Dr. Linda Dusman, professor of composition, on being one of the winners of the The International Alliance for Women in Music's 2023 Call for Scores! Her solo bass flute piece Flashpoint will be performed at the LunART festival in Madison, WI this Saturday, September 30th. You can read more about the performance in this blog post: https://www.lunartfestival.org/post/the-value-of-voices-unbound?postId=393d0686-b480-4bff-a849-99fa9ac63f99

09/28/2023

👋 Shriver Hall Concert Series is seeking paid student ushers for our 2023-24 season! If you'd like to help out and be a part of the team working to produce incredible chamber music performances, please visit https://www.shriverconcerts.org/about-us/work-with-us

09/28/2023

Posted • We can't imagine a more relaxing way to spend a Sunday afternoon than listening to Schumann's Dichterliebe and Mahler's Rückert-Lieder. Join us on October 1st at 3 pm in Linehan Concert Hall for a performance by tenor Andrew Sauvageau and pianist Hui-Chuan Chen!

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15 minutes from downtown Baltimore, 25 minutes from I-495, free parking

09/23/2023

Posted • Not everyone has had a musical instrument named after them, but John Philip Sousa has that honor with the sousaphone!

Join us Sunday 9/24 at 7:30 when Maryland Winds presents a salute to "The March King" Sousa in UMBC's Linehan Concert Hall!

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09/23/2023

Posted • Join us Sunday 9/24 for an extraordinary afternoon of keyboard brilliance as Teodora Adzharova and Shirley Yoo present piano duets by Sergei Rachmaninoff and Anton Arensky!

3 pm in Linehan Concert Hall, free parking, 15 minutes from downtown Baltimore!

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