Karena Ingram, Music Composition '16, has been hired as the new Audience Development Manager with the Baltimore Choral Arts Society. Her responsibilities entail overseeing box office operations,...
Posted: February 16, 2017 7:05 PM
Podcast #2 from Dr. Johnson's Music and Wartime Class
Podcast by Lydia Clemens and Howard Ablat. Music was crucial during the brief Spanish-American War as a means of wartime propaganda and promotion, and of soldier recruitment. It also helped...
Posted: February 15, 2017 8:45 AM
Johnny Walker, music performance major, and his orchestra students at Bunker Hill Elementary School performed with Yo-Yo Ma and Joshua Bell. The collaboration was supported through the Turnaround...
Posted: February 9, 2017 9:57 AM
Podcast #1 from Dr. Johnson's Music and Wartime Class
Podcast by David Pan and Dan Zdobinsky. This podcast explores the function, form, purpose, and history of military cadence calls, and reflects on the varied musical influences behind them.
Posted: February 3, 2017 3:01 PM
Dr. Lisa Cella, Associate Department Chair and Professor of Flute, is slated to perform at the 2017 Atlas Intersections Festival on February 26, 2017. The concert will feature her duo inHALE,...
Posted: February 2, 2017 9:27 AM
Conductor E. Michael Richards, professor of music, and the UMBC Symphony have been awarded honorable mention in the college/university division of The American Prize’s Ernst Bacon Memorial Award...
Posted: January 17, 2017 1:50 PM
Our harpsichord is near completion! The keys have just been finished and installed on the instrument. We are so excited and can't wait to have this beauty in our department!
Posted: January 9, 2017 9:08 AM
Matt Belzer, lecturer of saxophone and director of Jazz Studies, will be featured on PBS as a soloist on their program "Smokey Robinson: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song."...
Posted: December 20, 2016 1:42 PM
More progress has been made on our double manual harpsichord! The keys are being finished up and the lid has been made!
Posted: December 9, 2016 1:05 PM
Ms. Jacqueline Pollauf, professor of harp, will be performing at the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York City on Friday December 9, 2016. Ms. Pollauf will be collaborating with...
Posted: December 8, 2016 10:19 AM