Department of Music

The Airi Yoshioka Violin Masterclass has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. Registrants will be notified via email.

The Department of Music is pleased to present its eleventh Livewire Festival, an exploration of today’s music featuring faculty artists as well as leading guest composers and performers.  After a...

Daniel Pesca will co-lead a multi-institutional effort to bring music departments and piano studios from five institutions around the country together to research, perform, record, and teach the...

D'Juan Moreland has been selected as a recipient for the second year in a row of the Black & Latinx Birders Scholarship, a fund dedicated to increase the number of Black birders and Latinx...

Miller explores the racial prejudice composer Joseph Bologne, the Chevalier de Saint-Georges, experienced during his life and in the historical record, arguing that historians and musicians should...

The Department of Music at UMBC seeks an Assistant Professor (full-time, tenure track) in Orchestral Conducting, to begin August 2022. This individual will be responsible for the direction of the...

Linda Dusman's Corona Bagatelles for cello and piano was premiered by the Duo des Alpes as part of the Cello Autumn Festival in Unna, Germany on August 13.   Corona Bagatelles comprises a musical...

In this post Rollins explores Black English composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's life and career through a web of cultural, racial, and socioeconomic factors. To read the full blog post, click here.

Join the UMBC Wind Ensemble All Winds, Brass, and Percussion welcome. The Wind Ensemble meets on Monday nights from 7:10–9:40 in the Linehan Concert Hall of the Performing Arts and Humanities...

So, do you like jazz? There are currently six jazz groups at UMBC, the Jazz Ensemble, four small groups, and the Jazz Guitar Ensemble. The audition is the same for all groups. Non-traditional...